Micro RPG catalog

A bunch of resources for micro-mini RPG systems.

Most RPG systems published here don’t mention any license or terms of use. I’m putting them here to gather them for archiving purposes, but you may take note that they’re all (c) by their authors, unless mentioned otherwise.

English

• Roll for shoes a simplistic but revolutionary system, by Ben Wray. You roll for every action you need, even if it’s know if you have your shoes on. Built for med-fan, but can be adapted to any settings.
• Techno-Pyschic Samurai A cyberpunk thriller game. Players are street samurais with awesome mind powers in a corrupted city controlled by evil corporations.
• Six word RPG (and variants), by Mark Damon Hughes.
• Micro Dot RPG
• Roll to Dodge (canonical version)
• Roll to Dodge (2008 version)
• Roll to Dodge (2010 version)
• Fortune cookies or Nuclear War – CC-BY-SA - Local copy, if needed
• Microdot Local copy
• Maneki Neko Engine: A Game Design Exercise nicely put micro engine, with attributes being an onomatopoeia or a smiley.
• perpetuallytipsy’s quickie game.
• Super Notecard Adventure roleplaying games that can fit on a 3x5’’ notecard or index card – CC-BY-SA - Local copy, if needed.
• Do Stuff, by Matthew Bannock.
• Fuggit, let’s play, by Ian Toltz.
• 2d6 Quick & Dirty Roleplaying Game, by Chris Garrison – CC-BY-NC-SA (v3.0).
• Tiny Fate, The Tiniest Fate Hack, by Rob Donoghue.
• Advanced Tiny Fate, by the same Rob Donoghue.
• Sideways, by James Wallis.
• d6-lite, by Kevin Oedekoven, and referenced on 1d4chan.
• A Pretty Useless One Paragraph RPG Thing by David Black.
• Another Simple Dice Mechanic RPG System.
• Threepenny Space Opera
• Seulement Un Dé, by /u/Rosario_Di_Spada.
• Alpha 2.0, by /u/Ro_Gan.
• Basic Focus, by Rob Donoghue.
• Unexpected Journeys, by rpg-tinker at blogspot.
• succeed or die, by /u/McDie88.
• All Outta Bubblegum by Michael “Epoch” Sullivan and Jeffrey Grant.
• The Shower Hack by The ChaosGrenade.
• Decypher System by Brent P. Newhall.
• Three by /u/OldEcho.
• Stickynote Quest, by Scott Malthouse.
• Roll your 6, by /u/PebbleThief.
• New Troubles, by Brent Newhall.
• Sketchy D&D, by Éric Nieudan.
• The 4 Coins Oracle, by @CarlosLunaMota.
• New Dawn, by /u/dwemthy.
• Story Adventures!, a 200-word-RPG, by Jamie & Rob Donoghue.
• 1d6 osr ultra-lite + small dungeon, by ramonthe3rd.
• Unknown!, by Chris McDowall (a minimalist variation on Searchers of the Unknown - yes, it’s doable).
• Odd Lite, by Chris McDowall.
• Too Many Hacks, by Andrei Baltakmens.
• The minimald6 game system, Norbert G. Matausch.
• Demigod Dukes in the Dungeons of Doom, by Henri & Nathan, a half-joking half-serious game submitted for the 200-word RPG challenge ‘18. Basically, B/X rules in 7 words, if you don’t include the title.
• Six jobs and a 1d12 system, by jack tremaine. The title tells it all.
• Wolfbreaker, by Chris P. Wolf. As sharp and simple a you can dream of. Possibly compatible with D&D, hackable using the “Raised by Wolves” license. Comes with its very first “hack”: an alternate stat generation procedure.

140c RPGs

• by Felan (and a variant by AsIf)
• by CarpeGuitarrem
• a set of tweets that are a full “D&D-like” game, by Biest
• transcripts of “the trouble with Rose” and “Fatal” by Zircher,
• Character investments, a Dragon Den’s freeform by James Mullen,
• Joe McDaldno’s entry,
• Another story game by JDCorley,
• A LARP complete ruleset, in less than 140c,
• Darkmoon Inc. entry
• qrpg, by Bruno Bord.

Older entries for 140c RPG, a contest initiated by John Mark Hicks:

• by Brent Newhall
• by Allon Mureinik

280RPG

Following Twitter Inc. annoucement to roll out a new 280-character limit for the tweets, the.flattest.cyborg has thrown a challenge: write a RPG in 280 characters or less.

You may search for the #280rpg hashtag.

• A new version of D&D, powered by the emojicalypse, by Éric Nieudan.
• emoji D&D, again by Éric Nieudan.

En français

• Dé pour se chausser traduction en français de “Roll for shoes”, par votre serviteur.
• Keyword RPG, par Philippe Tromeur, alias Soner Du. “A l’époque du premier forum Casus à la fin des années 90, j’avais créé “keyword RPG” qui tenait dans le champ “keywords” d’un post de forum, qui faisait 80 caractères, je crois.”
• Lors d’un épisode de Radio Rôliste de 2013, Orlanth avait exposé un micro-système “à la manière d’Apocalypse World”. L’ironie, c’était qu’il voulait démontrer que ce type de jeu était inintéressant. Et qu’en fait, à la fois ses joueurs et lui, en tant que MJ, se sont éclatés. Le résultat n’a pas vraiment de nom, alors je l’ai appelé “Pure impro Radio-Rôliste”.
• Fais des trucs, traduction en français de “Do stuff”, par votre serviteur.
• :rH-C. “système de jeu simple et rapide, sans feuille de personnage” par Yno, malheureusement “tous droits réservés”.
• Less is More, par Xavier Raoult. “Un jeu de rôle universel « nouvelle vague » complet qui tient sur le dos d’une carte de viste.”.
• Facile d’Utilisation, “un jeu en 1 page [..] adaptable à à peu près tout setting, basé sur FU RPG et (violemment) simplifié”, par Kakita Inigin.
• Réussir ou mourir, traduction en VF de “Succeed or Die” par votre serviteur.
• Système Decypher, Traduction en VF de “Decypher System” de Brent P. Newhall, par votre serviteur.

Le challenge 140c RPG

Plusieurs propositions de jeux qui tiennent en un tweet.

• cinq entrées par John Le Grümph.
• un jeu par Mugen.
• deux propositions par Pak.
• un “story-game” par Brand.
• un autre story-game par Macbesse.
• une transcription de Feng Shui par Yannk.
• deux jeux par Gromka.
• PJ sorciers adolescents par Inigin.
• qrpg, par Bruno Bord.

Other resources

The 200-word RPG Challenge is a game design contest organized by David Schirduan and Marshall Miller about creating roleplaying games in 200 words or less.