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HackMaster is a crunchy, old-school fantasy tabletop roleplaying game published by Kenzer & Company, created by Jolly R. Blackburn and David Kenzer. It began as a fictional game, a parody of Dungeons & Dragons played by the characters in Blackburn's comic strip Knights of the Dinner Table, and became a real product when the comic's fictional third edition turned into the published Fourth Edition in 2001. That edition won the 2002 Origins Award for Game of the Year 2001. HackMaster Fifth Edition followed in 2011, bringing a Player's Handbook and Gamemaster's Guide, and the line has since grown to more than forty add-ons and supplements. Kenzer and Company announced a 25th anniversary edition, HackMaster XXV, in March 2026 through a Kickstarter campaign. The Fifth Edition directly evolved from HackMaster Fourth Edition, which is a custom system derived from Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D). Description Players create characters from a race and a class, as in the older editions of Dungeons & Dragons, in a low-magic world that reads as strongly old-school. The default setting is the Kingdoms of Kalamar. The Game Master (GM) runs combat, exploration and the consequences of both, and the game's rules back up a harder, more simulationist style than the parody that started it. The game asks a table to accept a lot of detail. The rules are described as crunchy, with many optional combat moves and fighting styles and wound-by-wound healing that takes real time. It suits groups who enjoy knowing exactly how a fight works and don't mind reference tables, and it is a poor fit for anyone who wants a quick, rules-light evening.

Arkham Horror: The Roleplaying Game is a cosmic horror tabletop roleplaying game about investigators in 1920s New England, published by Edge Studio, the roleplaying arm of Asmodee, together with Fantasy Flight Games. The Core Rulebook, a 256-page hardcover, reached stores in November 2024 and includes the full rules, a guide to Arkham, Massachusetts and the surrounding Miskatonic River Valley, a chapter on the Ancient Ones and their servants, and a complete adventure, "Terror at the Tick-Tock Club". A beginner-focused boxed set, Welcome to Promise, was announced for July 2026 and moves the action to a town in 1920s Louisiana. The game shares its setting with Fantasy Flight Games' Arkham Horror line of board, card and dice games, but runs on its own engine, the Dynamic Pool System (DPS). Description Players take on investigators drawn from eight pulp-inspired archetypes, who look into strange events, track down occult clues and face things the human mind isn't built to understand. The Game Master runs scenes of conversation, exploration and, occasionally, violence, with dread building through the investigators' own sanity and health pools rather than through a separate monster roster alone. The game asks for a fiction-first table. Rolls are made in the open, clues aren't locked behind dice, and the GM is expected to say yes to creative ideas rather than send players back to their sheets. It is a game where failure can wreck a character's mind or body, and the rulebook includes advice on setting up a safe table and checking in about sensitive themes beforehand.

Conan 2d20 or "Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of", is a low-magic, high-action, fantasy roleplaying game set millennia ago, in the Hyborian Age. Immersed in an exotic land, strewn with ancient ruins, Stygian jungles and frozen wastes - where the heroes are daring, the treasures fleeting and the horrors Lovecraftian. Magic is shunned (but present nonetheless) and sorcerers are vilified; their dark machinations and obscene rituals have earned them fearful reputations and, often as not, a swift burning at the stake. Description The players can create competent and cunning characters from the start (best done with the online character generator - below) and immerse themselves in the joy of battle, tactical play and clever use of the environment. Teamwork is strongly encourage via archetypal characters, powerful talents and the use of shared Momentum and Doom resources, that can be used to spectacular effect or perilous misadventure.  System Overview & Key Features Momentum and Doom points are shared resources that accumulate during action scenes and battles. They are spent to activate powerful talents and abilities, which allow the characters to perform outrageous feats and spectacular displays - or imperil them just when they thought they were safe. Displays are a methods of intimidation, varying techniques that enable a character to demoralise their foes and strike fear into the hearts of man and beast alike. Win the war before it starts! Wounds and healing mechanics that allow character to shrug off scrapes but still significantly suffer from serious injuries until healed. Skills and talents related to them that cater for most possible situations and allow for daring escapades and mighty battles. Additional links modiphius.net - Official storefront and support page for the 2d20 system catalog https://pulp-lit.com/270.htmlpulp-lit.com - Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian

I kept being the one at the table saying "hang on, let me look it up", or I would remember a detail wrong. I built Loresight to help me out. It listens while you play. Say a spell name and the spell comes up. Say a monster's name and the stat block is on screen before you've finished the sentence. You tell it which categories to pay attention to (e.g. spells, items, monsters), so it isn't throwing item cards at you every time somebody mentions a rope. The microphone only runs while you've got listening switched on. It also works as a normal reference app so you can use quick search too. Loresight is free and will never be for sale. If anyone asks you to pay for it, it is not Loresight. The only official downloads are this Google Play listing and the GitHub releases page. Four systems come built in: D&D 5e (SRD 5.1), the 2024 5e SRD, Pathfinder 2e Remaster under the ORC licence, and Daggerheart SRD 1.0. You can add more content and systems. A system is just a JSON content pack, and once it's loaded the app treats it like any of the built-in ones. You can browse it, search it, and the assistant will spot its names while you talk. There's nothing D&D-specific buried in the code. Homebrew sits next to the official content rather than replacing it. Browsing works the ordinary way when you'd rather do it yourself. Search by name or work down through the types. Entries link to each other, so you get from a monster to the spell it casts in one tap. Search only ever covers the system you're playing, so Pathfinder results never turn up in a D&D game. There's a notetaker as well. It transcribes anything it hears directly to text. It won't identify people, but where possible it will add "new speaker" with a line break so sentences don't run into each other. All of this runs on the device. Speech recognition is local, audio is processed and thrown away immediately and is never saved, and there's no account, server or analytics anywhere in it. Turn the wifi off and nothing changes. The install is large for the same reason: the speech models are inside the app. Android is the primary platform and the best-tested build. The Windows, Mac and Linux apps are the same thing, but they aren't code-signed because there's no budget for the certificates those platforms charge for, so expect a one-time "unidentified Fair warning: the listening is best effort and won't always be 100% accurattrade-off in on-device speech models. I'm also limited to allowed contentonly for this release, since that's what can be handed out, with the attributions in the app. This is why I made it extensible with an import/export system. There is no affiliation with or sponsored support from any of the systems included.

Fables is a DND tool to make playing easier and faster. With automation and comprehensive character sheets. We are looking for all the feedback we can get and we listen to our community. If you suggest it, it will be heard.

Genesys is a role playing system designed for flexibility and adaptability, specifically tooled to work with any setting imaginable. The Genesys Core Rulebook not only contains an overview of the rules and how the innovative narrative dice system works, but everything a GM and players need to run adventures in five completely different settings.  Everything from equipment to adversaries, character abilities to an overview of narrative tropes, all is provided in the core rulebook for Genesys. With a system so adaptable and expansive you can explore every popular roleplaying genre, from classic fantasy style campaigns, to modern day detective thrillers, and even to a far off sci-fi future, Genesys doesn’t fit into any one genre of roleplaying, and instead invites players to craft their own stories with unparalleled freedom.