Hey, got another question related to The Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality from itchio. You mentioned the video games you recommendeded (and I definitely agree with the recommendations for Pyre and Bleed), but which of the TTRPGs would you recommend? Because the themes for quite a few of them are interesting, but I don't know which of them are particularly fun.
(With reference to this post here.)
Could do. The Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality’s contents are considerably heavier on video games than tabletop games, and I’ve already covered solo/single-player tabletop RPGs in a previous post (and won’t replicate them here), so this is necessarily going to be a somewhat shorter list than the previous one; hopefully folks will find something in here that catches their eye all the same.
A few personal favourites:
Anomaly - A SCP Foundation inspired investigative RPG based on Avery Alder’s The Quiet Year. Its sequel is also included.
Atomic Robo: The Roleplaying Game - A Fate Core-powered RPG based on the webcomic of the same name.
Blades in the Dark - A tightly engineered supernatural heist caper game that plays a lot like tabletop Dishonored.
The Bloody-Handed Name of Bronze - A Bronze Age tragedy whose dice rules partly inspired my own Olaf Hits the Dragon etc.
Corvid Court - A game about terrible people doing terrible things. Also, you might literally be birds?
Costume Fairy Adventures - Exactly what it says on the tin. This inclusion is purely self-serving, as I’m its lead developer!
The Curse of the House of Rookwood - A gothic urban fantasy game with a focus on family -- for better or for worse.
For the Honor - A She-Ra and the Princesses of Power inspired setting hack of the Firebrands framework.
Glitter Hearts - A rare example of a non-grimdark magical girl tabletop RPG. Uses the Apocalypse Engine.
Godsend - A diceless god-game hack of Legacy: Life Among the Ruins (the base game is not required to play).
Hello, World - A Blades in the Dark setting hack (see above) about immortal digital intelligences in a post-cyberpunk utopia.
Ironsworn: Delve - A huge dungeon-crawling expansion set for the free Norse-flavoured travelogue RPG Ironsworn.
Lancer - A crunchy mecha combat simulator from the creator of Kill Six Billion Demons.
Mausritter - An old-school D&D retroclone with a novel papercraft inventory system, in which the player characters are all mice.
Michtim: Fluffy Adventures - An emotionally driven political fantasy game about tiny hamster-like critters.
One Last Fight - A GMless card-prompt game about a group of heroes on their way to their final battle.
Stand Up - A lightweight Persona 5-inspired hack of Avery Alder’s Belonging Outside Belonging engine.
Strike! - A fun little exercise in trying to re-create D&D4E-style tactical depth while keeping the math a little simpler.
Troika! - Surrealist road trip fantasy with table-based character creation that can easily pull double duty as a prompt generator.
Visigoths vs Mall Goths - An LGBTQ-friendly tabletop dating sim about time-travelling Germanic warriors hanging out in a mall.
