#diceless

[wildwoodsgames]

Harvest is a Folk Gothic diceless GMless RPG of tradition, necessity, and sacrifice, about a remote British island whose golden paradise only brutal ritual death will preserve

Harvest gives us laden orchards and barren fields; desperate fervour and doubts grown thick as weeds; calves born and pigs slaughtered; proud traditions, failing wealth, and hostile stares; juice-stained lips and dirt under nails; and always the questions echoing down through the generations: ‘Whose blood must be spilled to feed the land?’ and ‘Whose hand will hold the knife?’

In Harvest, each player chooses a member of the community to play—such as the established Old Name, the restless Young Blood, or the conflicted Homecomer. Together, you'll sketch the landscape of the island: its beauty and its terror. Across three escalating acts, you’ll explore the island’s buried secrets, succumb to community pressure and private desperation, and turn against each other.

Because the hard truth is this: one of you must die, hot blood soaking into the soil to feed the land. And one of you will wield the fatal knife. The only question is—who?

If you're a fan of historical British paganism and folklore, folk horror staples like The Wicker Man and Midsommar, or narratives about small town communities turning violent under as tension, pressure, and desperation mount, this game is for you.

[tootallferne]

I have a new game coming out tomorrow, called Guards at the Gates!

It’s a two-player diceless game that has you playing as two town guard, dragons, or whatever you like, trying to stall heroes from entering your domain by sending them on meaningless fetch quests! But be careful, because too many requests and they’ll get fed up and chop off your heads!

It’ll be up on my itch.io store!

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played PRINCESS WITH A CURSED SWORD ?

By Anna Anthropy

A figure stands in an ancient ruin, bare feet on crumbling stone. Her gown far too fine, her sword much too dark. She can not put down the sword until she finds where it came from. So she has come.

PRINCESS WITH A CURSED SWORD is a journaling role-playing game for one player. It requires a tarot deck, and the deck itself influences the gameplay.

Have you played ?

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Voting ended onFeb 27

[zeitghost]

LITHIC PLAYTEST EDITION OUT NOW!

LITHIC - Playtest Edition by Zeitghost Games

LITHIC IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PLAYTESTING!

The long-awaited rebirth of my Neolithic Fantasy TTRPG project is here. You are a HUNTER-GATHERER, struggling to find a place in the world. Fight spirits with obsidian weapons, cast powerful runes from ancient stones, and survive day after day in the most rugged period of human life. 

This game is a PLAYTEST EDITION, meant to serve as a general representation of the most essential rules of the system. A full edition is coming soon, including:

Original art

Improved editing and typesetting

Over 25 original beasts, monsters, and other fearsome enemies to face

An original hexcrawl which serves as an introductory module to the game

More runes

Improved rules for injuries, survival, hunting, and gathering

Six PALEOTYPES, each with their own perks that shape gameplay

More!

Get the game on my itch.io!!!

[penrosesun]

So my friend just launched the kickstarter for the new edition of his indie diceless ttrpg and

Robby Howell is raising funds for ENCLAVE: Aspirant — The Diceless TTRPG with Infinite Depth on Kickstarter! Easy to learn, even easier t

Robby. Robby, you know how tempted I am to buy that. I can literally hear you laughing at me through my screen, and it just makes me want to buy it more. I should not spend $40 on a silly joke paperweight, but man I want to. I want to so bad. This is psychological warfare, you evil genius.

[twistingbrambles]

Hello :-)

Check out my game!

Gothic Grace - playtest by Lostseas

Gothic horror with wizards, magic and strange gods

Gothic Grace is a Gothic horror rules-light, GMless, diceless tabletop roleplaying game with wizards, magic and dark gods. In this game you play as wizards, magicians, and warlocks gaining their power from the bonds they create. You stalk the blood-soaked and infested streets, battlefields, and dark cathedrals of Grace - hoping to outrun the contract that's forced you into servitude for the nobility.

Gothic Grace is inspired by soulsborne games, full metal alchemist, gothic horror and the occult. Expect to see blood, religion and body horror in this game!

[jy3-1]

We all know whether a hot dog is a sandwich. Now, let's answer...

What can't a diceless RPG have?

Physical polyhedra. (Dice are dice)

Anything with the statistical properties of a die. (Spinners are dice)

Any purely random element. (Urns are dice)

Any element that is in any way nondeterministic. (Jenga towers are dice)

Any element that makes an action unpredictable until resolved. (RPS is dice)

Any element that makes an action unpredictable at any step. (Bidding is dice)

Any element unpredictable to any player. (Other players are dice)

Any unpredictable element whatsoever. (Free will is dice)

Other (will reply in comments or reblogs)

Voting ended onNov 1, 2025

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

Diceless Lasers & Feelings

(in reference to this post here)

A diceless hack of Lasers & Feelings and other games derived from it. Much like Lasers & Feelings itself, my rationale behind this is that it's basically the simplest form of dicelessness that I could implement which could still produce the same spread of results as actual dice.

Instead of using dice, each player draws a 6 by 3 grid on paper, and labels the columns with the numbers 1 through 6. "3" is the maximum number of dice you can roll without help, since in Lasers and Feelings you roll 1d6, "+1 if you're prepared and +1 if you're an expert"; in a game which uses 10 sided dice and you can roll up to 4 of them, it would be 10 by 4.

Each time you would roll one or more dice, you instead choose unchecked grid square(s) and check them with a pencil; the column number is the "dice result". At the beginning of each scene/session/playthrough/whatever (defined by the game, or by the GM if the particular game has no particular opinion on such things), or when you run out of empty grid squares, you refresh, erasing all the check marks.

If you're asked to check more squares than you currently have unchecked (i.e. you'd roll three dice, but your grid has only two unchecked squares left), you check all of the remaining squares, then immediately refresh and check the remaining square(s) from the newly-blank grid.

When one player helps you, the player helping you checks off a square from their grid. Discuss with the player helping you which number to select.

Diceless Lasers & Feelings by Delilah H. Smith is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (I don' t feel comfortable making this kind of derivative work with CC0 since that's more permissive than the license of Lasers & Feelings itself.)