#ttrpgs for palestine

[ostermad-blog]

There's a kickass 72-hour stream of folks playing tabletop roleplaying games to raise money for MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians), and it's live right the fuck now!

They've a fantastic lineup of games over the next couple of days, and my game, MONSTER GUTS is on the schedule! There might even be some free keys to it as a donation incentive!

Head right here to go to their Twitch stream and catch these phenomenal games and help raise money for a really vital cause!

[psycheros]

It's probably been promoted on here before, but there is a TTRPGs For Palestine bundle on itch.io that starts at $10. It has 643 items that include 5e add ons, Thirsty Sword Lesbian character add ons (so many), GMless games, GMfull games, PNG packs, stuff to create characters/worlds/enemies, and a ton more. Their proceeds are going to Medical Aid for Palestinians, and they are 84% of the way there. As of June 22, the bundle will last 8 more days.

[djregular]

Jes The Human organized this fundraiser with over 160 TTRPG submissions to benefit the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, open through April 30th. I'm in there with my Paragon playset SHOOT THE GIFT, so you can get it, along with all the other games for a donation of $15 or more. Cop it, then tell your friends!

TTRPGs for Palestine Charity Bundle via Tiltify

[lugibriousbrew]

My game is in this bundle! Support a good cause!

[synthasytrpg]

Synthasy 0.5 upcoming and free supplements!

Hi everyone! No new updates on the TTRPGS for Palestine (though more help getting to the $10k mark would be appreciated), but Synthasy 0.5 is set to be released by the end of the month! With it, I'll be releasing the Paladin, a martial holy half-caster with the ability to bless allies, invoke divine authority on opponents, and smite evildoers!

I hope to speak more of the contents of the update later on, but as of right now, I'll keep my promises to what is finished. Also, I'll be releasing the Synthasy character sheet and GM trackers as free supplements on the Itch page, starting... now! So feel free to go check it out!

Synthasy Itch page: https://synthasytrpg.itch.io/

TTRPGS for Palestine page: https://tiltify.com/@jesthehuman/ttrpgs-for-palestine

[hyphenartist]

Two playtests in and Middletown's got good bones! Folks are having fun, which is always a relief. There's some tweaking to do vis a vis PC abilities, and I've got a lot to learn about adventure design, but it's all very achievable. That said, I think my production timeline needs to stretch a bit.

I started this project to have it done in time for /jesthehuman's TTRPGs for Palestine bundle. I got to cheat a little while they wrestled with itch, but now that they're running it via tiltify (still accepting submissions, at time of writing), I don't see Middletown making it out the door in time. I've already submitted Loss of Signal and No Sacrifice Without Blood, but this current project will need to wait.

I've got a two week break coming up. Lotta time to polish mechanics and get a preliminary layout together. Things line up right, we may still see Middletown debut with the Itch version of the bundle. Fingers crossed!

[thecoppercompendium]

TTRPGs for Palestine – what I’m excited about

Image by Jes the Human (the amazing organiser of the bundle), used with permission

Earlier this month I made a post about the TTRPGs for Palestine itch.io bundle, saying I would make a proper post after I got back from the con I was attending. Well, it’s been a week since that con, and I’m back to make the proper post I promised!

Here’s the plan: I’m going to spend several hours going through as many games as I can in the bundle and picking out some that intrigue me (I wish I could talk about more but I am one mere human). Brace yourself, this is going to be a long post, in fact, multiple long posts.

I’m going through the bundle alphabetically – there’s a lot of games, so it’ll be a while before I reach the far end of the alphabet. One day I’ll reach Z…

Jump below the cut for the games, or go buy the bundle and come back after!

199X: SHUTDOWN by Thursday Garreau

The game is described on the itch page as “a retro-throwback cyberpunk microgame” and sees players as troubleshooters in an enclosed corporate city, lorded over by a mad AI. The flavour seems really interesting and I can’t wait to dig into its dystopian hellscape.

Find 199X: SHUTDOWN here.

5 Second Rule by Lucky Newt Games

This one sounds hilarious and a fantastic thinking-outside-the-box type game. The core concept is you play a superhero – with a catch. Your powers are limited to or by 5 seconds. You and a team of similarly-limited heroes must work together to make it through the training facility. This sounds like an absolute ball to play, cannot wait to grab some friends to give it a try.

Find 5 Second Rule here.

A Cold Wind and a Dark Sky by various authors

Not sure what kind of thing you want to play? A Cold Wind and a Dark Sky is a game anthology from a host of authors, featuring 31 entries created for #Promptober and the Minimalist TTRPG Jam. With how inventive the authors and prompts are, you’re sure to find a gem in here.

Find A Cold Wind and a Dark Sky here.

A Matter of Time by L Watson

Reading through the page for A Matter of Time sets a definite tone. There’s a playthrough excerpt, followed by a short passage before the page continues. I knew I’d be interested in this one before I made it halfway down the page. I’ll let the passage speak for itself:

There's something behind you in the mirror. Echoed footsteps just a bit too slow to be your own. Your fully charged phone dies as you go to take a photo. For every hasty justification and reassurance, something here is wrong. There's an animal instinct inside you on high alert, goosebumps trailed across your skin. Do you believe in ghosts? Are you sure?

I’m a sucker for horror, and this seems right up my alley. It’s designed as a two-player game, so I’ll be working out which of my friends would be most onboard with being scared shitless.

Find a Matter of Time here.

A Stitch in Time by Poorna Mazumdar and Armaan Babu

The itch page for this game is brief but what there is definitely caught my interest. It’s another two-player game, with players taking on the roles of chrono-stellar cartographers. The mechanic that caught my interest in particular was using letters to restore forgotten places. I’m always up for imaginative mechanics, and this fits the bill! Looking forward to digging in properly!

Find a Stitch in Time here.

ABOMINATIONS by Elliot Davis

Once again, I feel like the page sells the concept better than I ever could, so let’s start with a quote:

You are a Scientist. They tried to tell you to stop playing God. You replied, “Who’s playing?” and spliced in another gene.

In this GM-less game players embody the aforementioned scientists, splicing together their own abominations, then pitting your creation against others. I particular like the gene system included – it uses letter tiles, as in Bananagrams or Scrabble. Overall, this looks exactly my level of chaotic and I suspect I know some folks who this would be perfect for.

Find ABOMINATIONS here.

That’s all for now, folks! I’ll be back with some more from the bundle later!

[iraprince]

there are still five days left to get OVER 600+ GAMES for a donation of $10 or more to the TTRPGs for Palestine bundle! we are at $153k of the overall goal of $200k and i know we can make it! proceeds from the bundle will be going to Medical Aid for Palestinians, and you can read more at the bundle page. thank you for checking it out, sending it to friends who would be interested, and boosting this!!

[probablyasocialecologist]

Two ongoing digital games bundles are offering more than 200 tabletop RPGs (among video games, soundtracks, books and other goodies) in order to raise money in support of the Palestine Children’s Relief Funds. The Palestinian Relief Bundle is being hosted on Itch.io, while the separate TTRPGs for Palestine Charity Bundle is taking place on Tiltify. For $8, the Palestinian Relief Bundle is offering nearly 400 total items, 103 of which are tabletop RPG systems, supplements and adventures. Mapmaking game Ex Novo is joined by the paranormal gunslinging satire FIST: Ultra Edition, along with Takuma Okada’s celebrated solo journaling game Alone on a Journey. Weird and dirty iconoclast game about money, the mind and everything else, Greed by Gormenghast is also on this list and is well worth a look. And if you’d rather keep it cosy and introspective, Cassi Mothwin’s Clean Spirit will get the whole group taking care of their domestic homes. The TTRPGs for Palestine Charity Bundle focuses solely on analogue games, providing nearly 200 tabletop games for $15. A full spreadsheet of the included titles can be viewed here and includes Nevyn Holme’s Gun&Slinger, where one player embodies an occult cowboy while the second plays their sentient, magical gun. Wendi Yu’s Here, There, Be Monsters! approaches monster hunting media from the other side of the camera with a decidedly queer lens and unapologetic politics. Makapatag’s Gubat Banwa is a lush and dynamic collision of wuxia media, fiercely romantic and tragic melodrama all set against the backdrop and folklore of The Philippines.

[titanrpg]

TTRPGs for Palestine via Tiltify is now live! Get a bunch of my games and MUCH more for just a $15 donation.

Link: https://tiltify.com/@jesthehuman/ttrpgs-for-palestine

[theresattrpgforthat]

hi! have you seen the TTRPGS for Palestine bundle yet? and do you have any recommendations from it

https://tiltify.com/@jesthehuman/ttrpgs-for-palestine

THEME: TTRPGS for Palestine

The TTRPGs for Palestine Bundle is going from April 12 to May 7, so there's not much time left to get it, but here's some recommendations of some really awesome games that you can find in it.

Gubat Banwa, by makapatag.

GUBAT BANWA is a Martial Arts Tactics and War Drama Tabletop RPG where you play as martial artists poised to change the world: Kadungganan: the cavalry, the wandering swordsmen, the tide turners, the knights-errant, the ones to call in darkest night in a world inspired and centering Southeast Asian folklore.

Witness, grand warriors, honorable gallants that trudge and toil under kings and haloes. Witness, KADUNGGANAN, that refulgent name. That blasted name: WITNESS NOW. The end of days is upon us: and the new world MUST BE BORN. Bear your blades, incant your magicks. Cut open your tomorrow from the womb of violence. Inscribe your name upon the very akasha of this world. 

Gubat Banwa is designed for fans of 4th edition D&D, with in-depth character abilities that make you feel both unique and powerful, in a colourful and flavourful world full of vibrant cultures and clashing conflicts. The game uses an action economy with different action options carrying different weights, which also reminds me quite a bit of Lancer. If you want a game that pushes you to strategize with your friends and weigh your advancement options carefully, you want Gubat Banwa.

Gun & Slinger, by Nevyn Holmes.

GUN&SLINGER is an RPG geared for short, episodic sessions about a weapon and a wanderer. A Maestro and two players (Gun and Slinger) set out into a dead planet mutated by a god's forgotten child and hunt strange bounties, investigate the world and unlock hidden powers. During play, they seek to learn the nature of what’s hunting the Slinger, figure out why the Gun is sentient and discover how the world died.

This game is specifically for three players, using the rules of Go Fish as a resolution system. Gun & Slinger is all about using your resources to the best of their ability, and your resources might exist on your character sheet, but they also exist as cards in your hand.

What really intrigues me is the lore that’s baked into your character sheets. One of you is a wanderer in a twisted world, tempted by strange powers that guarantee to change you into a monster. One of you is a sentient magical gun, borne by that wanderer and designed to deliver death and pain.

Gun & Slinger has expansions included, allowing you to instead play as a wanderer possessed by a demon, a mech and a pilot fused as one, or someone who bears a cursed sword. I think the fact that it requires a small table and the fact that the characters’ lives are tied together makes this a high-stakes, terribly intimate game.

Apocalypse Frame, by Binary Star Games.

In a ruined and terraformed world where most of humanity is under the yoke of a brutal regime, the former workers of a once-remote factory - now known as The Collective - have risen up to create a future of freedom from oppression. You are an Ace - a highly skilled pilot referred from a Division in The Collective and assigned a humanoid combat vehicle known as a Frame. You and your Strike Team of fellow Aces must take on The Collective’s greatest threats, ensure its survival, and carve a path for its continued success.

Apocalypse Frame takes mechs and fits them into the LUMEN system, which centres competency as well as fast but effective rounds of combat. The game includes a variety of different threats, allowing you to tailor your campaign to your group’s tastes, and the tailoring doesn’t stop there. You choose both a division that your character belongs to, and then one of three mechs within that division, allowing players to share similar fighting styles but differ in weapons. You can also modify your basic frame, adding general modular systems alongside systems and armaments that can come with your mech, making character creation and progression exciting for folks who love tweaking and tailoring to their heart’s content.

If you’re a fan of Armored Core or Battletech, you’ll want to check out Apocalypse Frame.

Here, There Be Monsters!, by wendi yu.

No matter what they tell you, there’s still weirdness and wonder everywhere. You just have to know where to look. At the edges and cracks of ‘normal’ life we exist, we persist, and we resist: the monsters, the magicians, the anomalies, the freaks, and the outcasts. We gather in the shadows, trying our best to live our lives in a world that, when it doesn’t exactly fear or hate us, doesn't even believe in our existence.

here, there, be monsters! is a rules-lite response to monster-hunting media from the monsters' point of view. It's both a love letter and a middle finger to stuff like Hellboy (and the BPRD), the SCP Foundation, the Men in Black, the World of Darkness games and the Urban Fantasy genre in general. It is an explicitly queer, antifascist and anti-capitalist game about the monstrous and the weird, in any flavor you want, not as something to be feared, but to be cherished and protected.

Here, There, Be Monsters is a love-letter to anyone who has been made to feel monstrous, as well as an homage to media such as Hellboy, the SCP Foundation, and Men in Black. It’s urban fantasy meets organized power structures, and as the monsters, you’re here to burn those structures down.

This game uses descriptive tags to slap onto your characters to represent what they can do. You can choose from a number of different monster character backgrounds to give you guidance towards, and there’s plenty of monsters both in the base game and in the game jam wendi ran back in 2022. If you want a game of power, anti-capitalism, and punching up, this is the game for you.

Pale Dot, by Devin Nelson.

Pale Dot is a collaborative storytelling game for 2-5 players about a crew of non-human cosmonauts leaving their planet to explore a strange solar system, finding threads to unravel the unknown along the way. It is fantastical, surreal, and perhaps very unlike humanity’s own ventures in space exploration. Though one thing is universal: leaving home is terrifying, dangerous, humbling, and a catalyst for changing one’s perspective. 

Pale Dot is a GM-less game where players work together to create an alien setting and subsequently envelop it in cosmic mystery, embodying cosmonauts called Dustlings, as well as one of 5 different settings. During their journey they will be able to travel to 24 different locations within their solar system, each with several prompts for improvisational scenes. Each player will also have to manage the integrity of their cosmonaut and their shared ship while avoiding space's many perils.

The cover for Pale Dot gripped me the first time I saw it; a tiny creature in an astronaut suit, looking up in fear at something in the sky, as vegetation blooms inside their helmet. You play as the Dustlings, non-human but sentient species exploring the Cosmos, a strange, horrifying and wonderful universe that changes those who venture into it.

Mechanically, Pale Dot uses a GM-less structure similar to Dream Askew, but there feels to be a much bigger emphasis on the setting your cosmonauts explore, rather than the cosmonauts themselves. Your characters are assembled traits, drives and equipment, almost all of which can be expended to cause or solve problems. Each player is also responsible for at least one setting element, such as The Cosmic Wilderness, The Wondrous Endeavour, or The Omnipresent Danger. As you visit locations, different elements will be prompted to influence the scene, while your cosmonauts try to navigate the scene and try to finish the mission. If you want a game that is collaborative and evocative, I definitely recommend Pale Dot.

Fractal Romance, by Ostrichmonkey Games.

A never ending abstract landscape of rhythm and soft glamour. Wander the halls, rooms, and chambers. Encounter strange Denizens and get to know them better; befriend them, fall in love, just chill. Try and fill out your own blurred edges. Fractal Romance is a tabletop role playing hangout. You will pick up a character to play and explore the Fractal Palace, generating its infinite sprawl and the Denizens that inhabit it, as you play.

Fractal Romance is all about searching; for something you need, something you want, or even for who you are. It feels rather surreal, perhaps like a dream dimension that you are moving through. The game uses a deck of cards to generate rooms, as well as the denizens of this gigantic, dream-like palace. This game uses rather simplistic playbooks, each asking you to choose three descriptive words, and then uses cards to fuel your character’s actions: you have things you can always do, things that cost a card to do, and things that you must do in order to draw another card.

If what you want out of a game is a chill time with friends, moving from one vibe to another, and generating emotional stories for your characters, you might want to check out Fractal Romance.

Himbos of Myth and Mettle, by huge boar.

You are big. Big arms, big tits, big thighs, big brai- you're big where it matters. In addition to a heaving, throbbing body, glistening lightly with a thin sheen of pleasantly fragrant perspirant, you have one singular unifying trait  - come hell or high water, you are going to help.

Himbos of Myth & Mettle is a high fantasy, high camp role playing game of epic proportions (of body), for 2-5 players, one of whom will act as Game Guide.  The rules center around a simple roll under mechanic and prioritize narrative flair and cinematic descriptions. Himbos is inspired by many classic fantasy properties (and could be considered OSR adjacent) , but leans towards a more garish, salacious and queer (gay or odd, pick your fighter) style of play. It is designed with comedy and flamboyance in mind, but is not without it deeper and darker touches. It's definitely not grimdark, but there will probably be blood. Think classic fantasy pulp in style, but contemporary sensibilities, modern rules-lite mechanics, and a player philosophy centred in helping, kindness and being fucking hot.

I’ve heard rave reviews for Himbos, and I think the idea of leading an entire group of well-meaning but possibly over-ambitious adventurers is a great set-up for a game full of laughs. Himbos is very much designed for a light-hearted evening of fun, flirting, and fucking up (but in the best way).

Other Games from the Bundle I've Recommended:

Space Taxi, and Creation Myths, by GothHoblin.

Caltrop Core, by Titanomachy.

Souvenirs, by Rémi Töötätä.

Thunder in Our Hearts, by Marn. S.

Eldritch Courts of Some Repute, by AlanofAllTrades.

[toadlett]

It's a year today since I got the keys for my flat! I feel so incredibly lucky to be able to be a homeowner, so I want to mark the occasion by giving to people who are without the safety and comfort a home should provide.

Shop Link

My itch store has digital copies of all my books (for half the price of print copies) including several that are now out of print. It is also the only place to get the special digital versions of my goblin zines, which have loads of art and writing you can't get elsewhere!

I hope you'll consider getting some of my silly little books to help an important cause, this felt like the best way to mark the aniversary of getting a home of my own, as I don't have much money to give hopefully donating my shop income will help boost the difference it makes!

[djregular]

The itch.io edition of the TTRPGs for Palestine bundle is live! Over 640 games (including my Young Adult dystopia pulp fiction meets Hip Hop game SHOOT THE GIFT) benefiting Medical Aid For Palestinians.

Tap in and tell a friend, but ALSO please do what yo can in other ways if you're able. The donation page has links to several other resources that you should check out; I've personally made donations in the form of eSims For Gaza and families listed in the Operation Olive Branch database.

From the river, to the sea.

[christiansorrell]

Massive TTRPG Bundle: Games for Gaza

Games for Gaza, an Itch megabundle raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians, is now live! It features 256 games from 140 creators, including over 190 TTRPGs and 40 video games (and more)! Just a $10 USD minimum!

Check it out HERE!

A Sunless Space, my micro-TTRPG inspired by Andor, is included as are loads more thematically appropriate games of pushing back against the endless encroach of empire.

Other TTRPG highlights (for me): Beam Saber, i'm sorry did you say street magic, The Ground Itself, Anamesis, Monster Care Squad, Cybermetal 2012, and Apocalypse Frame. These are just the bigger/more well known ones, but there's so much variety and lots I'm excited to dig into!

The bundle will be available for a little under two weeks and all proceeds are going directly to Medical Aid for Palestinians. It's been great to have a very, very small part in this and do something, anything, in the face of such reckless hate. Go get it if you can, spread the word, and do whatever you can in your sphere of the influence to aid the cause.

Once again, you can find the bundle HERE.

[ava-du-mortain]

I've joined a TTRPG charity stream for Palestinian Relief!~Organized thru coordination with Dungeons & Desis.

We'll be playing Quasar Tales from the Endless Void! And we are live!

Come join us <3 https://www.twitch.tv/arcanewhiskers

[synthasytrpg]

TTRPGs for Palestine!

Come check out the TTRPGS for Palestine charity bundle! Not only is it for a good cause, but Synthasy 0.4 is in it alongside 159 other ttrpgs at a super low cost. Let's roll for humanity!