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Get your table playing in minutes, not hours.   GATEWAY RPG is a free, modular d20 system designed for zero-prep adventures, sudden one-shots, and seamless intro sessions. Powered by familiar 5E mechanics but stripped of all the bloat, GATEWAY lets you run any genre instantly: from neon-soaked cyberpunk streets to grit-filled noir alleys. What’s Inside? The 42-Page Core Rulebook: A streamlined engine for Players and GMs, available in both English and Spanish (Reglas en Español). The Deluxe Edition: The definitive 102-page PDF compiling the Core Rules, Solo Rules, and Bestiary into one volume. Accessible Formats: All rules are formatted in high-quality, printable PDFs with options for both white and book-textured backgrounds. Ready-to-Play Content: Jump straight into the action with Pre-generated Characters and One-Shot Adventure Modules spanning multiple genres. The Player’s Toolkit: Includes printable and form-fillable Character Sheets, a 1-page Quick Reference sheet, and a dedicated d20 Oracle for Solo Play. Starter Bestiary: A multi-genre supplement featuring 25 adversaries across 11 settings, from High Fantasy and Space Opera to Cthulhu-style Horror. Universal Compatibility: Use the Advanced Play Variant for long campaigns or easily port your characters into D&D, Pathfinder, or Star Wars d20. Homebrew & Variant Rules Supplement: Level up your game with 20+ pages of optional mechanics. Features include "Spark of Heroism" (Inspiration), Pushing for Success (Partial Success), and Genre Modifiers for high-tension Survival or Cosmic Horror play. Pocket-Sized Character Sheets: Compact sheets designed for portability and efficiency. Solo Play Quickstart Zine: A portable, zine-style guide for quick, on-the-go solo adventures.

Trophy is a collection of collaborative storytelling games about doomed and desperate treasure-hunters entering a haunted forest that doesn’t want them there. The games explore the physical, mental, and emotional descent of the treasure-hunters as they move deeper and deeper into the forest, encountering ancient ruins, terrible monstrosities, and the greatest horror of all: themselves. Games rooted in Trophy are built around characters willing to push their luck. The character are often desperate, with something driving them to continue against all odds. The system itself encourages risk taking, so if your game isn’t about risks or characters who push themselves, then Trophy might not be the best foundation. Trophy is also about decline. Characters tend to degrade over time, or have some precious resource that they’re gradually losing (or a negative resource that they’re gaining). If your game is about characters becoming more and more powerful, then you might want to try a different system. There are two versions of the game: Trophy Dark and Trophy Gold. Trophy Dark is designed for single session play, while Trophy Gold is designed for longer campaigns.

Vagabond // Pulp Fantasy RPG is a d20-based OSR fantasy game designed by Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds - an ENnie Award-winning designer previously known for third-party D&D 5e class content - and published through his own studio, Land of the Blind. It funded its development on Kickstarter in 2023, with a print run funded via Gamefound in 2024, and fans have taken to calling it "the Pathfinder of the OSR": an attempt to bring modern character-build depth to old-school-inspired dungeon crawling without losing the rulings-over-rules, low-prep philosophy that defines games like Knave, Cairn, and Into the Odd, several of which are explicitly credited as influences. Description Playing Vagabond means playing pulp-flavored fantasy adventurers - the kind of setting where a Goblin Gunslinger might delve a mummy's tomb alongside a Dwarf Witch hunting Excalibur - built specifically to keep GM prep and mental overhead low while still giving players a genuinely deep character-building toolkit. It's explicitly compatible with B/X-derived monsters, classic TSR modules, and Old School Essentials adventures, so existing OSR content drops in with little to no conversion. All rolls are player-facing, meaning players roll rather than the GM rolling against them, and creature stat blocks include a built-in "Action Gambit" describing exactly what a monster does in combat, aiming to strip improvised tactical decisions away from the GM entirely.

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At First Sight is a role-playing game where most of the action takes place in The Breach, a city founded after a magical cataclysm known as The War. The city is dominated by five great mages whose towers rise around a massive rift of darkness created by the power of The Prophet, who is said to hold the fate of the city in his hands. The strange and esoteric city we live in is divided into five districts, each hosting one of the towers where the great mages reside, and which give their names to the schools of magic that shape its inhabitants. Description The city is in decline, magic is spiraling out of control, bringing plagues and magical monstrosities. The five great mages haven’t been seen for a long time, and people are starting to take the law into their own hands, fighting for control of the city’s various zones. For this reason, many mages are beginning to form small gangs in their hideouts, competing for power and respect while dealing with plagues and monstrosities.  The goal of most of these gangs is to find The Prophet, as whoever discovers him will decide the city's fate. All this while avoiding The Affliction of The Breach, a "disease" caused by prolonged exposure to the massive rift dividing the city. This affliction generates strange memories in the protagonists, driving them mad or robbing them of control over their magic, turning them into new monstrosities wandering the city's streets. At First Sight is a highly narrative game with intense, exaggerated action, where players manage one of these mage gangs struggling to survive in this cursed city known as The Breach.

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