Welcome to the RPG section of 1KM1KT. Here you’ll find member submissions of tabletop pen and paper role-playing games. All of the RPGs available in this section are free for download and are generally in .pdf format. If you’re interested in submitting your own RPG for publication, please visit our submissions page for details or send it to us using our contact form.
Ever played a roleplaying game where only thieves can pick locks, or where rapiers do the same type of damage as clubs? Or where each character has hundreds of different skills, or you have to buy twenty rulebooks to play? FEAR RPG was born out of frustration with games that are so simplistic that any realism is lost, or so complex that they become unplayable. It has been designed from scratch to be realistic yet flexible. It’s a free and complete paper-and-pencil RPG that can be adapted to any fantasy world you care to use. Hopefully there’s enough depth to satisfy experienced roleplayers (e.g. simultaneous second-by-second combat) and enough explanation to give novices a chance too. Comments please via www.fearrpg.net. Thanks.
A game that never was… I got two pages into making notes for a fast and simple RPG I was going to release but felt that I had gone into too much detail. I dropped it in favour of my much simpler SKETCH system.
I’ve now dug it out, added some more notes and done a bit of fleshing out, and I’m presenting it to the RPG community to see what they think. It was desgined as a simple and fast game, but I also wanted a sense of advancement in the characters so I added a basic experience and career system. It was based around generic fantasy. Have a look, see what you think, and get back to me if you think it’s worth delving into some more. With the vast amount of fantasy-based RPGs out there, some of which are trying to recapture the ‘golden age’ of dungeon-bash RPGs, I felt it wasn’t worth adding yet another one to the long growing list
This game is a head-on crash into a world on the verge of collapse. Players take the roles of survivors fighting to save everything they have ever loved or villains hell-bent on bringing the Earth to its knees. There are no dice, there are no cards. Each character has a reserve of points they can allocate to the tasks they want to undertake but they better spend them wisely because when a volcano erupts in the middle of their neighborhood, they’re going to need all the points they can get just to escape with their lives. It’s short and sweet and was created in under 10 hours by an elementary school kid with passion for catastrophes.
Just when the people needed a hero the most, a mysterious figure appeared. The iron fist of oppression is beginning to tremble with fear and frustration and the downtrodden citizens are lifting their heads for the first time in years. They are looking up to see if they can catch a glimpse of that masked marvel that has changed everything, given them hope and allowed them to dream again. They may never know the truth about the phantom stranger. They may never find out about the dedicated team of concerned citizens who have banned together to create a mythic icon greater than themselves. You will play the part of one of those brave souls. You will don the disguise when the time is right and do what you do best. United, you and your trusty team of talented nobodies will rock the foundations of a cruel and corrupt society and you will do it with one mask!
Magic Pants vs. Power Squid! is a 24 hour rpg for Rob Lang’s contest. It is a simple low level supers rpg where gear and motivation are as important as stats. The right pants can save the world!
Did you ever wonder why superheroes wear their underwear on the outside? Are they in too much of a hurry to dress properly? Or maybe they’re confident enough to be flashy? The truth is that their underwear is the secret of their power. A mysterious individual, known only as Keeton, has discovered how to make what he calls Magic Pants. They give the wearer powers beyond what normal people could achieve otherwise. He has also learned how to make masks, capes, and shoes, but every super hero needs Magic Pants. He gives these items to a select few willing to take up the fight against evil and those who try to tear down society. In this game, you are one of those lucky few.
Tunnel Wars is a simple, easy to play game about subterranean combat in magic pants made of copper.
In Tunnel Wars, you play as either a dwarf or a goblin on opposite sides of the decades long Copper War.
It isn’t a serious game by any measure of the word “serious,” and this was a first attempt at a 24 hour RPG, but it’s probably playable.
A game about goblins and dwarves running around in magic pants made of copper fighting a war
No, really, that’s actually what the game is about
The Penguin Harlequinade is a fast-paced comic role-playing game based on Commedia dell’Arte, an ancient Italian style of masked comedy theatre. The game focusses on ludicrous plans, ridiculous plots and very silly action. If you don’t mind playing a character with the mental attributes of a brain-damaged ant high on caffeine, you’ll really enjoy this unique game.
First, a disclaimer. There are no penguins in this game. Or at least, we have run many sessions of it in multiple tournaments, and there are yet to be any penguins.
The source of the name was as follows: we were going to a tournament in Wellington called KapCon. We needed a name for this new system we’d come up with, and we were stumped. Eventually one or other of us came up with “The Penguin Harlequinade” because there are penguins in Dunedin (where we’re from) and not in Wellington; and because the system was designed as a Commedia Dell’Arte system and the Commedia was called a Harlequinade in England.
If you really want to play a game with penguins in it, look out for The Penguin Masquerade, a forthcoming game which we have yet to write. Its premise is simple – you’re a penguin, just keep it under your hat…
A free, diceless, fast paced Role Playing Game
Where you are the movie STARS and the WRITER-DIRECTOR
Of the many Adventure B-Movies of Oblivion
Movies that never were, but that you would have loved to see.
Enjoy them during college, your coffee break, when you can’t sleep on the phone, while you’re on the bus, or just when there’s nothing on TV.
This is a little RPG I came up with while I was suffering a bout of insomnia. It is an attempt to create a fun, simple arena-style combat game that is supposed to be a 1/2 day diversion while the DM makes an adventure. This has been slightly playtested, but if you think values should be changed or some rules should be modified, PLEASE contact me at illiriks@gmail.com as I really want to improve this game.
Appliance Adventures is a narrative role playing game where the players take on the role of intelligent kitchen appliances. The game emphasizes teamwork and exploration over combat.
This is arguably a playable game, but it doesn’t look very good. There is much missing from this first draft: graphics, fit & finish, a fleshed-out sample adventure, and a Narrator’s section.
The world of Appliance Adventures is very similar to our own world, advanced fifteen years into the future. Science has made great strides in the field of simulated intelligence. True artificial intelligence beyond the level of simple animals has evaded researchers to this point, but futurists and pundits (ever a reliable source) think that it is right around the corner.
