Friday Freebie: Free Maps from Paratime Design

This Friday Freebie isn't like other freebie giveaways. It's an actual link to another site that continues to give away their own freebies! I highly suggest you go to their site and look around. They also have products available at reasonable prices. It's a win/Win.

Here is their pitch from their own website:

'Every Friday, a new Creative Commons licensed map will be released (there will be the odd exception now and then). See the Friday Freebie Maps for the latest freebie maps. Some of these maps will receive an Enhanced option. Friday Enhanced Map products contain a multi-layered PDF (allowing the options of white or black backgrounds, numbered or non-numbered areas, and secret doors on or off) and a zip file with all relevant map files as individual jpg images."

NASA's Free TTRPG Adventure: The Lost Universe!

 NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has created and published their very own table top role-playing adventure, The Lost Universe! Now while they say it can be used with any role-playing system, it's clearly written for use with the current D&D 5e. They have released it over on their own official NASA website, but I'll drop the links here for your convenience.

..."A dark mystery has settled over the city of Aldastron, on the rogue planet of Exlaris. Researchers dedicated to studying the cosmos have disappeared, and the Hubble Space Telescope has vanished from Earth’s timeline."...

Sounds exciting!

These links are good as of 3/1/24 (The time this post was published.)

The Lost Universe

Download The Lost Universe gameplay instructional booklet. HERE

Map of Aldastron

Download the map of Aldastron to help you navigate through your adventure.  HERE

The Lost Universe Poster

Download and print The Lost Universe poster.  HERE

Friday Freebie: Savage Dawn

This week's offering is Dutch RPG publisher, Lore Smyth, has released its system agnostic Savage Dawn Campaign Setting, as a FREE 48-page PDF download.

[From their press release]

The mystical and primal world of Savage Dawn beckons. Break away from cliche medieval fantasy settings and explore a visceral, sprawling arctic world with majestic wilds, a mystical afterlife spirit realm, and deep secrets. Craft your own armor and weapons. Only cunning heroes will survive. Strap on your snow boots and come over...

The Savage Dawn campaign setting is system-neutral and can be played with any TTRPG of choice. Take your favorite game system such as 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, Savage Worlds and start exploring the mystical and barbaric world of Savage Dawn. Use it as an entirely new world, or adopt the exciting new materials, locations and characters into your existing world campaign.

• A Primitive Arctic World
• Majestic Wilderness Exploration
• Crafting and Survival
• Mysticism, Spirituality, Magic

UPDATE: The download is no longer hosted at the publisher's website, but IS still available for free download at DriveThruRPG.com

Friday Freebies: The Pool

This Friday's offering (yes, we know it's a day late.. shhh) is from the talented artist, James V. West. We encourage you to visit his website.. http://www.jwarts.com/

The Pool, a FREE PDF, courtesy of James V. West!

The Pool is a very simple game system that promotes player and GM creative collaboration through an easy dice pool gambling mechanic. This is a game system only. Bring your own imagination.

ALSO from James is the fun old-school fanzine, Black Pudding, which you can purchase as PDF or Print On Demand.

PWYW first edition of Black Pudding magazine in PDF format, from rpgnow.com

Glorping and shlorping along, the Black Pudding zlorts upon your party! What do you do? Read it, of course. This is an OSR-style zine of RPG goodies rendered in a highly visual style. Within these 24 ooze-soaked pages you'll find magic swords that make cuts no one can heal, monsters that shoot gold pieces, black knights, catgirls, chainmail chicks, and evil temples!

Contents:

2 character sheets

7 character classes

2 one-page dungeons

9 monsters

1 book of new spells

8 NPCs

House rules and tons of art!

Friday Freebie: Original Cars Wars

Car Wars has come a long way since its publication in 1980, packaged in a little ziplock-bag. If you missed those first exciting years of this classic game, you can enjoy them once again, for FREE!

Download the original rules for, Car Wars, HERE!

Friday Freebie: This week the D6 System!

D6 was released free to the public. Some content is still under license and not free.

Update as of 2-19-2024: This website is still up and the materials are still available, free for download.

Open D6, free to download.

Friday Freebie: DragonQuest

DragonQuest is a fun little tabletop RPG from 1980. It went through two editions before being acquired by TSR and a third edition published in 1989. The game has since been abandoned By Wizards of the Coast, though there is a thriving on-line community of die-hard fans.

Files for the game system have been published on-line with permission by WotC.

DragonQuest 2nd edition - 10 megabyte download

DragonQuest does not use character classes, but instead uses a system of professions with skills. It is NOT a clone of Dungeons & Dragons by any means. First and second edition are both the same, though cleaned up and clarified in the later.

DragonQuest 3rd edition - 16.3 megabyte download 

Third edition was put out by TSR when they took over the property. No real differences from 2nd edition, except some spells and colleges of magic were removed to avoid the, "Satanic Panic", of the 80's.

5 page comprehensive character sheet

A very well-done character sheet. A necessity for keeping track of the many details found in the DragonQuest rules system.

There is still a large, active, community of DragonQuest players online, with many links to fan-made materials. http://www.dragonquest.org/