Delta Green Link to heading
As you wind down the dark roads from the log cabin you take stock of your team. Agent Reynolds is bleeding from a deep gash across his stomach that smells worse than could be good but, you think he will make it. Reinhardt is in the back muttering “She was dead, she was dead, she was dead” over and over and over. Rogers somehow seems to be doing the best despite the thick blood caked across his face. You check in with your FBI handler and let them know it was a false alarm, nothing to see here.
The world is ending and right before calamity the good guys sweep in and save the day. You are those good guys but what does it cost your sanity to see the things you have seen.
Based on Call Of Cthulhu but modern era. Easy to play and lots of cool character building systems. You should hopefully save the world but maybe not make it out alive.
Related Media:
- X-Files
- Stranger Things
- True Detective
Mothership Link to heading
The airlock door opens with a faint hiss and a worrying clunk, if you make it back alive and in one piece you should probably get that looked at. You round the corner and the lights flicker on and off in quick rapid bursts. The screams let you know what to expect as the limbs and torsos of what once the rest of your crew round the corner in front of you.
A crew tries (and often fails) to survive the vast expansive of space and all of the human and inhuman horrors it contains.
Simple system with very little to learn to pickup and play. But your character is very unlikely to change much and will almost certainly be dead.
Related Media:
- Alien franchise
- Underwater
- Event Horizon
Shadowdark Link to heading
The torch light in front of you barely illuminates a set of glowing runes on the floor on the chamber. Your fingers trace the grooves as your try and recall your days in the academy. It dawns on you that these are necromancy just as your final torch begins to sputter in your hands.
A much more streamlined dungeon crawling adventure. Use magic, steel, and wits to delve into mysterious ruins, lost cities, and monster-infested depths. Wondrous treasures and long-forgotten secrets await you! But don’t let your last torch burn out, or you could be swallowed by the Shadowdark.
Related Media:
- Lord of the Rings
- Conan
- The 13th Warrior
Mythic Bastionland Link to heading
The seer gave your brief glimpses of the path you should follow but their riddles were hard to unravel. What was clear was the first sign, a one eye raven sitting on the way stone ahead. Riding hard up the path beyond you saw the knight clad in black. As the knight crested the hill you lowered your lance to meet them.
Rules light roleplaying in a dreamlike world of knights and myths. Crawl hexes, rule a domain, and remember your oath.
Very Arthurian Knights roaming a kingdom, completing quests and meeting weird seers.
Related Media:
- The Green Knight
Slugblaster Link to heading
In the small town of Hillview, teenage hoverboarders sneak into other dimensions to explore, film tricks, go viral, and get away from the problems at home. It’s dangerous. It’s stupid. It’s got parent groups in a panic. And it’s the coolest thing ever. This is Slugblaster. A table-top rpg about teenagehood, giant bugs, circuit-bent rayguns, and trying to be cool.
Related Media:
- Any coming of age film.
- Tony Hawk Pro Skater.
Draw Steel Link to heading
Heroic, Cinematic, Tactical. High fantasy action with complex and interesting classes.
The most “gamey” of all the suggestions. Will require tracking numbers, working together, planning your combat actions carefully. Do you have enough squares to move close to the zombie hulk? Can someone else throw you?
Vaults of Vaarn Link to heading
As you slide down the dark sand into the shadow of the ruined building you hear the sound of the ornithopter overhead. As the hegemony forces start to land you look again at the vial of green liquid in the metal container. Will it kill you? Make you super strong? Flip your organs to the outside of your body? There is one way to find out!
Explore a blue desert under the dying red sun. Lots of cool random tables and crazy exotica to find. Dungeon delving on arrakis.