Wasterwalkers

Step into the irradiated shoes of the last survivors in a world gone mad! Wastewalkers is a rules-bright, post-apocalyptic tabletop RPG where you and your fellow scavengers carve out a living in the ruins of civilization. Will you rise from the ashes or become another casualty of this broken world?

↳ Do you know about TTRPGs ?! Great! Here’s the nifty core mechanic that’ll reel you right in: You roll that trusty d20 and add little modifier and try to beat a target set by the GM—easy peasy lemon squeezy! But wait, here's the twist! The GM reveals a handful of cards from the deck, and every time a black card pops up, the target score takes a little bump of +2! If you roll like a champ and succeed, you can pocket a card for later—giving exciting bonuses down the line! But you must always favor picking a red card over a black one! So, if you start stashing those cards away, watch out—the deck fills up with even more black cards, making your life tougher with each roll!

• Easy as pie rules! Our TOUGH, FAST, SMART, and HUMAN attributes are simpler to grasp than hot-wiring a Chaser!
• Print-and-play pamphlet! Just run off a copy for each survivor, and you're ready to explore the Wasteland faster than you can say "nuclear winter"!
• Solo play options! When your fellow wanderers are busy fighting off Blighted, our handy-dandy Solo Oracle keeps the adventure rolling!
• Mix-and-match with your favorite OSR beasties! Slap some radioactive paint on 'em, and they're ready for the Wasteland

So grab your shabby weapons, power up your engines, and get ready to ride into a world of danger and opportunity! Will you become a legend of the wastes or just another sun-bleached skeleton? We play to find out.

Wastewalkers is hotter than a radioactive burgers! I haven't had this much fun since I found that two-headed goat in my backyard!
— Some rando

Finally, a game that lets me use my scraps as actual currency! Wastewalkers is the bee's knees... if bees were still a thing.
— Some other weird rando

Who needs pre-war fancies when you've got Wastewalkers? It's more addictive than Blighted blood, and twice as explosive!
— A fun bloke

It's the real atomic deal!
— A cool guy

This game was designed for the Songs and Sagas Game Jam.

This work is based on Songs and Sagas, product of Fari RPGs (https://farirpgs.com/), developed and authored by René-Pier Deshaies-Gélinas. This product is licensed under the ORC License available online at various locations including www.azoralaw.com/orclicense. All warranties are disclaimed as set forth therein.

Dice font from Dicier, by Speak the Sky, licensed under CC BY 4.0 

Songs and Sagas

CLASSIC OSR, REIMAGINED

ACTION PACKED • ACCESSIBLE • PLAYER DRIVEN • SOLO-FRIENDLY

The end was near, our time nearly up. But before the spill of blood, luminous doorways emerged amidst the vast sea. Guided by gods and spirits, our ancestors sailed through these radiant gates, into the unknown. Many perished, but some managed to survive and settle. Time passed. Now some of us are called to venture forth, to map these strange new lands. And one day, all shall hear the echoes of our destinies fulfilled as they ring out in songs and sagas.

Carve your Legend

Songs and Sagas is a condensed OSR inspired tabletop role-playing game of axes, runes, spirits and legends. In this game, all players work together to unveil the story of fierce warriors striving to forge a new life in the midst of an unforgiving alien wilderness.

Features

This game offers:

Familiar rules, with a new twist. The mechanics are easy to grasp, feel familiar, and can be expanded upon in the blink of an eye.

Condensed and accessible format. Available in a print-at-home pamphlet format, simply prepare one copy per player and you'll have everything you need to explore the treacherous northern lands and honor the gods.

Solo-friendly rules. While sailing through ice and rocks, you are never truly alone, for a Vanori watches over you. Using the included solo mechanics, you can experience all that Songs and Sagas has to offer even if you are the only player at the table.

High compatibility with OSR. Use the bestiary you're used to and easily convert creatures and monsters, giving them a new meaning.

Based on games you love. This game takes inspiration from games such as Mork Borg, Mausritter, Into the Odd, Knave, Charge, Firelights and Breathless to create a new and unique system that is ready for battle and glory.

Fully open licensed. You are free to use any content from Songs and Sagas to create your own game, "Carried in Songs and Sagas", as long as you respect the scriptures and will of the spirits.

Open Licensed

Songs and Sagas was designed to be accessible, and easily hackable. As such, its text is licensed under the ORC license allowing you to design and publish your own games "Carried in Songs and Sagas".

To celebrate the release of Songs and Sagas, we are also launching the Songs and Sagas Game Jam, inviting all game designers to create something using the Songs and Sagas system or design a supplement for the original game.

Press-kit Assets

You may use the following high-resolution assets when covering the game on your site, blog, channel, etc.

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Wastewalkers Google Docs Template

Don't Start With a Blank Page

Designing a TTRPG is hard work, and sometimes you just don't know where to start when opening a brand-new document.

With the Wastewalkers Game Jam going on, I decided to create this template use with Google Docs in the hope of helping new designers as much as possible in getting started with their project!

Wastewalkers Trifold Canva Template

Don't Start With a Blank Page

Designing a TTRPG is hard work, and sometimes you just don't know where to start when opening a brand-new document.

With the Wastewalkers Game Jam going on, I decided to create this template use with the free Canva web application in the hope of helping new designers as much as possible in getting started with their project!

Wastewalkers Portrait Canva Template

Don't Start With a Blank Page

Designing a TTRPG is hard work, and sometimes you just don't know where to start when opening a brand-new document.

With the Wastewalkers Game Jam going on, I decided to create this template use with the free Canva web application in the hope of helping new designers as much as possible in getting started with their project!

Tales of the Burned Stones (PDF)

Dark-Fantasy TTRPG

Mount Baram groaned and shattered, birthing unfathomable tunnels spiraling deep into the unknown. From the abyss, shadows emerged. Countless hordes of monstrous fire-spitting creatures laid waste to all in their path, reducing to ashes the realm that lay at the foot of the mountain. The remaining kingdoms now stand as mere shadows of their past selves. You are one of the remnants. The Sisters of the Eclipse found your lifeless body, and brought you back. Waking up among the debris of the cataclysm, changed and indebted, you have turned to scouring the endless pits for the treasures and stories buried deep within. Commoners plead for your help in finding missing heritage and mementos while guilds offer rewards for locating lost wealth and gold. Even queens require your services and task you with finding rare folktale artifacts like the Burned Stones of old. Despite everything, you press on. The past is lost, the future uncertain, but your skills remain. The past is lost, the future uncertain, but your skills remain.

Tales of the Burned Stones is a free and solo-friendly dark-fantasy role-playing game of journeying and dungeon delving. In this game inspired by Diablo, The Witcher, and The Warded Man, players assume the roles of raiders and treasure hunters who are brave and foolish enough to delve into the derelict kingdom, located next to the demonic-controlled lands of Mount Baram, in search of stories, mementos, wealth, and lost artifacts.

Writing, layout & design: René-Pier Deshaies-Gélinas
Editing: Eric Lazure

Features

• An easy to expand upon dark fantasy setting.
• Player-facing rules and oracles to assist with solo play. 
• Fast character creation, all based on rolling tables.
• An exciting skill degradation based on the Breathless SRD. 
• Numerous subsystems to handle fictional positioning, items, looting, long-term projects, challenges, combat, travel, and dungeon crawl, and more. 
• A player-driven and story-tied progression mechanic. 
• Printable pamphlets for the GM and the players. 
• Tons of rolling tables to help run the game. 
• An introductory adventure frame. 
• Fully open licensed text and rules. 
• And more...

Stoneburner

This Breathless game acts as a prequel to Stoneburner, a sci-fantasy TTRPG of demon-hunting and community building in a dwarven asteroid mine. It uses the same fan-favorite, rules-light systems to allow for fast-paced journeying through perilous lands.

This project was designed for all the wonderful people who have helped, boosted, and backed Stoneburner during its Kickstarter campaign. This game is a gift from us to you and to the rest of the TTRPG community.

Now go explore, loot, and most importantly, survive.

Open Licensed

The mechanics and the details regarding the setting of this work are available under the Open RPG License (ORC).

For more on this and to design your own "Burned in Stones" work, read the Creator Kit and SRD.

Press-kit Assets

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Dash (PDF)

Generic and Rules-Light TTRPG

Dash is a rules-light generic role-playing game that fits on a print-and-play half fold brochure. It uses a quick dice resolution mechanics inspired by Forged in the Dark games, but with an entirely new spin, using clever ways to make the players want to engage with the game as much as possible.

Read online on fari.community.

Features

• Minimalist and generic take on the Forged in the Dark formula.
• Thematic mechanics to reinforce players taking dramatic risks.
• Condensed half fold brochure format for easy print-and-play.
• Fast character creation that supports any setting and story.
• Versatile progression system to make characters grow overtime.
• Beautiful character sheet available on the back cover of the pamphlet.
• Insightful designer notes for you to design your own game using this system.

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