#micro-rpg

[corsairesix]

Why Necromancy Doesn't Exist is a fantasy Micro-RPG about magic, taxonomy, and petty academic disagreements. If you like making arguments for the sake of making arguments, compiling evidence to support a clearly ridiculous claim, or having in-depth discussions about fake things that don't matter -- well, that's what this game is about.

Why Necromancy Doesn't Exist will always be free, but if you enjoy it, check out my other games.

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[merelyroleplayers]

Now playing in the (recording) Studio

It’s only going to take one song to get everyone to stand up and take notice, and then your career will open wide in front of you. You all work so perfectly together. How hard can it be?

This season, we're playing a selection of individual micro-roleplaying games from The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book, edited by James D'Amato!

Follow us on your usual podcast app - search Merely Roleplayers or head to www.merelyroleplayers.com

CREDITS

FACILITATOR: Matt Boothman

STARRING:

- On vocals, Matt Boothman as Skinny Steve

- On lead guitar, Strat as Jimmy Danger

- On the keys, Ellie Pitkin as Pixie Dust

- On rhythm guitar, Josh Yard as Sludge

- On the bass, Natalie Winter as Spacy Stacy

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Wonders by Alex Flanigan, published in The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book, edited by James D’Amato

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst, inspired by Horse Elevator

SEASON PLANNED BY: Strat

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

[kripovno]

Do you enjoy walks but it's kind of tough to do them? Well, same.

I would even say that's relatable enough that I would make an entire 12-word micro-rpg, based in the exploration and playful discovery of your real-life surroundings, with the help of a simple paper plane.

If you enjoyed one of my former games, SELF-CARE OR DARE! (and If you didn't, feel free to check it out!), this one could provide you with another playful coping mechanism for a mundane but valuable portion of your life. And If it doesn't, well, also great. Maybe you would just dig to spice up another walk in the park or through your apartment! Living room! Garage! Whatever space has a gravity field to throw this thing!

Give it a look over here! It's PWYW down to 0$ and comes with a free, printable digital poster of the cover Illustration in the sizes A4 and A3!

This game was made as a Jam entry to W.H. Arthur's and Rook and Role's 12-word Jam on itch.io, as an interpretation of one of the optional themes (cartography! more or less!). It was incredibly fun to create, illustrate and layout this game, after this specific idea came to me through a conversation with my girlfriend (@carecrowgames who made and ACTUAL cartography entry, a 12-word game engine to make 12-word games! check it out over here).

I hope it brings you joy, If you have any opinons or comments on this game feel free to share them with me in my asks or on any other social media platform you can find me on. ALSO, If you happen to print one of the posters, I would love to see it!

[cuyguy]

I made a free micro-RPG

You can download my first micro-RPG on my partner’s Patreon page!

Double-O is a secret agent themed game with casino card mechanics.

The logo was designed by the awesome @ophexis

[macguffinandco]

MURDER AT MIST TREE MANOR 🔎

Our latest microsetting features an idyllic trip to a remote country house that’s definitely, for certain, going to contain absolutely no murders oh god oh no is that a body on the floor

quick please help us solve this fiasco by running to the patreon

[symberzite]

SKELLINGTON RPG: FIGHT IN AN UNDEAD ARMY, MAKE PUNS, PLAY A TROMBONE

A microRPG I cooked up on lunch break at work based on an old wint tweet. Honestly I like the system and wouldn't mind doing more one shot stuff with it.

[dungeonofthedragon]

Looking for a low-prep game for a one-shot? Do you love the spooky and the supernatural? Give Super Unnatural a try!

You and your pals have been hired to investigate strange occurrences in a famously haunted apartment complex. Are visiting witches to blame, or cantankerous ghosts? Did rent hikes get the poltergeist in apartment 14 in a tizzy? Well, it's up to you to find out!

Grab it for $1 today:

[brellytime]

Help!! 💦💦 I didn't know the rat prince boss was so tough. I'm all out of potions!!

Extra: my partner picking me up when im done

[polyhedralmice]

Sometimes you just need to make something cute. This solo ttrpg requires you to find out exactly 2 things- what kind of rock did you find, and how cool is it? Yes you can make an entry into your field journal, but no one’s going to make you do that if you don’t want to. Let’s be real here, this is all about the coolness of the rocks.

This was game 4 of 10 for the Shit of Get Off the Pot game jam.

[giantfoodgames]

Howdy! Got a few minutes and a handful of coins? You have all it takes to play Scraps, the penny powered RPG. Two-to-five Players and a storyteller toss coins to decide the fates of our world-weary heroes in the grim fantasy setting of Aurix. Get the PDF for free and see more games on the Giant Food Games itch page:

The flames must always burn- oh tender

[autumn-in-july]

hi so I kinda sorta wrote a game! It’s called Out On The Porch, and it’s about gossiping with your friends and that trope of old people sitting out on their porches watching the world go by (ik that’s incredibly specific but also I love it so…). 

Here’s the description, copied straight over from itch: 

Out On The Porch is a rain-soaked, occasionally introspective micro-rpg, which you can play using a single d6. 

In theory it’s a game about conversations and the people we have them with, about the social rituals hidden in our everyday lives, and that one trope where your first introduction to an elderly character involves them sitting in a rocking chair on their porch, gazing into the middle distance. 

In reality, it’s just about getting the chance to gossip with your friends when you’ve got a spare moment or two. Oh, and tea. It’s about tea. 

If that sounds like something you’d be interested in checking out, it’s available for free on itch (here's the link)! This is my first foray into making anything like this, so any feedback is very much welcome! Any reblogs will result in me blowing you a kiss <3 muah

[corsairesix]

The title of Why Necromancy Doesn't Exist comes from the memoir Why Fish Don't Exist, which includes lots of taxonomy and cladistics. I was a bookseller at the same time this book was popular, so the name stuck with me

The title of the book is based on the argument that, cladistically, "fish" is not an actual category. A salmon is more closely related to a camel than a hagfish. Why Necrromancy Doesn't Exist was based on a worldbuilding exercise I did that argued something similar about magic

In the exercise I wrote about how necromancy isn't actually an inherent school of magic, it's a trade. A dozen different schools of magic, just applied to dead bodies. It was fun to write, so I made a game out of it

I've always been interested in taxonomy (not just of animals, but as a subject), especially when it's heated and personally or politically motivated. I love odd results like the Catholic church classifying capybaras as fish. If you also enjoy this stuff, check out this game

[bmpmp3]

thank god for indie devs making like tiny little maximum 10 megabyte freeware games on itchio keeping the art of filesize optimization alive. ASSET REUSE FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mikami1992]

I had an epiphany….

Today, while browsing Facebook, I saw a comic about a couple of female RPG adventurers who are attacked by a shower of arrows… one has normal armor and the other has micro bikini armor, the first one takes critical damage and the second one practically no damage…

and I asked myself why it is like that…

and my conclusion…

A conspiracy between the Blacksmiths and the Wizards!!

I mean, at first the armor is full body for men and women, but as they improve two things happen…

in men it becomes more elaborate and ornate

and in women it becomes smaller until they reach the micro bikini armor…

my epiphany… the Blacksmiths and the Wizards reached a consensus to do this with the women's armor.

Possibly the high-ranking magic armors have to have some pieces that allow them to hold the support enchantments they have…

I think those specific pieces are the ornaments on the men's armor and the women's micro bikini armor…

Most likely these enchanted pieces have to be made with a more expensive/specific material, with a more arduous/careful process so that they serve as an anchor for the enchantments that the wizards will later put on them.

The conspiracy itself is that Blacksmiths and Wizards refuse to make high-level female full armor, but instead they make ones with the minimum of materials since it allows them to save a lot of money on materials and time and also allows them to see a woman practically naked all the time.

I mean, whoever decided this and also followed the tradition are some first-class perverts.

The best solution is for adventurous women to use it as the underwear they are and put a blouse and pants on top of it.

[neothgames]

Ever wanted to just argue with your friends over something irrelevant? Spoils of War is a micro-rpg entirely on a business card that encourages you to do just that. Inspired by Book 1 of the Iliad, argue over how much share of the loot you should have. All you need to play are some coins and 2 D8s, D10s, and D12s.

Check it out here!

This was submitted as part of the First annual Micro-RPG Business Card Edition! Currently hosted on itch, check it out and other entries here.

[macguffinandco]

"Ah, you're new to the garden, so this might be normal for you but, in my day, we didn't have any of this overgrowth. Why, you could stand on one end of the lawn and see all the way t'other! And the bird feeders - oh! Stacked with all kinds of seeds, they were, and suet balls big as a hedgehog! What's that? Well, no, maybe not as big as Spike, he's always been a big lad. But as big as you could ever ask for. And the sunflowers - three times as tall as Esmerelda, if they were an inch! Those were the days. You barely knew the Caretakers but, believe you me, it's been a long, hard summer without them. The birds can hope they'll be back for the winter but me? I think we have to fend for ourselves…"

It's new micro-setting time on the MacGuffin & Co. Patreon! In Gnome Man's Land, you're the frogs, birds and garden gnomes of a once idyllic land, fallen into disrepair after the disappearance of the Caretakers. Now, their rubbish son Jeremy has turned up, and he's got plans for the garden...