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Recently I'm need of writing inspiration, so I'm playing solo tabletop RPG. Both are very good (and free).

80 Year Old Spy (Free) is a journalling tabletop RPG that you experience the career of a spy, navigating through a web of secrets and betrayals. It has a similar mechanic to "Thousand Year Old Vampire", in which you follow prompts to write a journal about a vampire. The vibe is very John le Carre, which your first decision has to do with betrayal and cost of missions. It is more fast paced than the Thousand Year Old Vampire, as it's easier for you to lose everything in that game. My character gets betrayed, loses everything (including their principle) and crashes and burns in recorded time.

Help! I Have a Crush on My Rival?! (Free): It's a journalling TRPG about the developing relationship between your character and their rival/crush. It's based on the Carta system, but choose to use cards to explore the metaphorical ups and downs of a relationship between two people. It's very flexible to decide on what the world and the characters are like. I set my game in a Roadside Picnic inspired setting, in which my MC and the rival are forced to work together to survive in the quarantined zone together. It's really fun.

Charity bundles on itch.io updates

Solo But Not Alone 5! Solo Tabletop RPG Charity Bundle: 107 items for $10. Offer ends in 14 days. I posted a signal boost post about the bundle.

Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle: 237 items for $16. (including video games and TRPG). Offer ends in 15 days. The donation will goes to Crips for eSims for Gaza to directly fund "the activation and top-up of 18K+ eSims for Palestinians surviving genocide and occupation under the Israeli state. This mutual-aid driven communications network has supported doctors, nurses, paramedics, journalists, family members, and students."
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Sometimes I wish that there was less need for these charity bundles to be organized. However, if you can afford them, they are great deals for worthy causes. If you find the itch.io search function lackluster, you can check out the content of Amor per Valencia / Love for Valencia, and TTRPGs for Trans Rights - Ohio bundles on Random Bundle Browser with a much better interface.

Current charity itch.io bundles on sale:

Update: 

link from [personal profile] stepnix 

Every Party Needs a Healer bundle: (Buy 34 items for $10)

Yazeba's Bed and Breakfast is $25 alone. Spindlewheel is a tarot like storyi making game. It's funding Baltimore Street Medic Collective for a series of 20-hour street medic trainings. Offer ends in 22 days.

TTRPGs for Trans Rights - Ohio ($5 for 467 items: 19 video games & 420 tabletop RPG):

This year's Trans Rights Bundle is benefitting organizations in Ohio, a state which has 9 anti-trans bills currently in the legislative process, targeting healthcare, bathroom usage, schools, and more. All proceeds from this bundle will be split between two queer-focused charities in Ohio: TransOhio and the Kaleidoscope Youth Center. They provided housing, healthcare, legal advocacy, and other essential support to the LGBTQ+ community across Ohio. Paizo Inc., Renegade Game Studios  and Playground Adventures also offer extra items to buyers who fill in forms after purchase.

Some highlights of the bundle: The Mystery Business (Scooby Doo style mystery investigation RPG, $15), Rebels of the Outlaw Wastes (rock-n-roll retro-dystopian tabletop roleplaying game fueled by stickers, $9.99), Pathwarden (a Pathfinder 2e hack, $14.99).

Link from [personal profile] stepnix:
Amor per Valencia / Love for Valencia Bundle ($5 for 771 items: 179 video games & 493 tabletop RPG):

On October 29th, the Valencia region received a year's worth of rain in just eight hours, which devastated much of the towns in Valencia, Spain. It's the worst natural disaster to hit Spain this century. Over 230 people were killed. The donations will go to Projecte Butterfly, a project that seeks to help those affected to recover their homes. Offer ends in 24 days.

Solo But Not Alone 5! Solo Tabletop RPG Charity Bundle: 107 items for $10. Offer ends in 1 month, 14 days. I posted a signal boost post about the bundle.

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Reincarnated as the Unlovable Villainess?! is a free solo journaling game that uses a six-faced dice and a 20-faced dice. The player character (PC) reincarnated into a fantasy otome game they love. Unfortunately, they are not the beautiful and lovely Protagonist Penelope. Rather, they are her romantic rival, the arrogant, petty, and unlovable villainess who is rude to Penelope whenever, wherever. What’s worse is that they are doomed to be killed or imprisoned in every single route. The PC's goal is to avoid the bad endings, while possibly winning the love interest (LI) as they please and more. There are random tables for you to roll the potential LI, bad endings, scenario prompts and plot twists, etc.

The ticking clock really increases the tension of the game. Advancing relationship with LI can grant you one time bonus, but failure in scenario can set relationship back and even introducing major plot twist (eg: the heroine now knows that she's just a character). You have to consider the risk and reward, which really put you in the mood of the reincarnated villainess. I also like that I can be a really evil villainess and kind of deserve the bad endings. For people who like the reincarnated villainess genre and/or journalling games with a twist, it's a fun game to try. 
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I have bought the HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit Bundle and checked out two titles new to me first: Breakfast Cult and #iHunt: The RPG. Here are my first impression from reading about the books.

Breakfast Cult: "a Fate Accelerated TTRPG about cosmic horror mysteries and high school drama. " The art is colourful and cartoon style, which I think fit the game theme well. The book presents the setting and rules very clearly. Each character has a secret agenda so they may work at cross purpose amid cosmic horror investigation and teen drama. Depending on the game, the secret can range from more silly and high school drama trope (eg: Crush on X) to more serious (eg: Secret cultist). It provides pre-gen characters and scenarios so you can start a game easily. If you like Buffy, Harry Potter, or Soul Eaters, I think it'll serve well.


#iHunt: The RPG. "Killing monsters in the gig economy": It's a much darker game than Breakfast Cult. You play monster hunters who are also gig workers barely surviving on what they earn, dealing with sales tax and banking trouble. The book is thick - ~329 pages. The starting fiction set the setting's grim and depressing mood. The text (including the rules) is written in a more angry conversational tone, which YMMV whether you like it or not. There are robust advice about creating monsters, setting and the game rules. I think it does its focus very well.

Overall it's a worthwhile purchase for a good cause.


Current charity bundle bundles on sale:

HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit Bundle (30 items for $25): "100% of the proceeds of this bundle go directly toward Distribute Aid's efforts to supply kits of 1 year's necessary medical equipment into the hands of trans people in needs for free." #iHunt and Breakfast Cult are among the offers. Offer ends in 9 days, 21 hours.

Link from [personal profile] stepnix. Thank you!

California Fire Relief Bundle (Buy 422 items for $10) All proceeds, minus processing fees, go to CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort), a Los Angeles-based organization which offers direct monetary support to survivors of the fires, and supports projects for fire resilience in affected areas (and potential disaster zones). Offer ends in 11 days 23 hours.

You can check out this Reddit comment to see highlighted video game offers with good review on Steam.


RPGs for Accessible Gaming
(247 items for $10): "Money raised from this charity bundle will help fund production for sets of d4s, d6s, d8s, and d10s of DOTS RPG Project's Signature Braille Dice." If you haven't already got the games, Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, Neon Nights and Glitter Heart are among the bigger titles. Offer ends in 20 days, 23 hours.

Also Link from [personal profile] stepnix:
Amor per Valencia / Love for Valencia Bundle ($5 for 771 items: 179 video games & 493 tabletop RPG):

On October 29th, the Valencia region received a year's worth of rain in just eight hours, which devastated much of the towns in Valencia, Spain. It's the worst natural disaster to hit Spain this century. Over 230 people were killed. The donations will go to Projecte Butterfly, a project that seeks to help those affected to recover their homes. Offer ends in 1 month, 29 days.

Solo But Not Alone 5! Solo Tabletop RPG Charity Bundle: 107 items for $10. Offer ends in 2 months, 19 days. I posted a signal boost post about the bundle.
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There are quite a number of tempting tabletop RPG bundles on sale, which is really bad to my wallet.

In coming end date order:

The Get Loud TTRPG Bundle (36 items for $20): This is a collection of indie tabletop RPG that the profit is shared among 20 creators. There are many interesting games. Highlight to me is Crescent 2e (kids having adventures in dreamscapes), Monster Care Squad (A Ghibli-inspired RPG about the people caring for magical monsters) and Trespasser  (with heavy Roadside Picnic vibe). Offer ends in 6 days.

HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit Bundle (30 items for $25): "100% of the proceeds of this bundle go directly toward Distribute Aid's efforts to supply kits of 1 year's necessary medical equipment into the hands of trans people in needs for free."  Offer ends in 16 days.

The highlight to me is #iHunt , a story telling game about killing monsters in the gig economy and Breakfast Cult, a Fate Accelerated TTRPG about cosmic horror mysteries and high school drama. Just ihunt, Breakfast Cult, and its expansion Game Over are worth nearly douple the price.

RPGs for Accessible Gaming
(247 items for $10): "Money raised from this charity bundle will help fund production for sets of d4s, d6s, d8s, and d10s of DOTS RPG Project's Signature Braille Dice." If you haven't already got the games, Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, Neon Nights and Glitter Heart are among the bigger titles. Offer ends in 28 days.

Solo But Not Alone 5! Solo Tabletop RPG Charity Bundle: 107 items for $10. Offer ends in 2 months, 26 days. I posted a signal boost post about the bundle.



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Solo But Not Alone 5 is a bundle of over 100 single player TTRPGs for $10 to suuport Take This, a charity working to support mental health in the gaming community and industry by decreasing stigma and making supports available to people who need them. It's on sale until 16 May. There's a helpful spreadsheet that list the summary and formats of the games. You can play alone, or use them to inspire your creative projects. Lots of games are not included in previous bundles.
Highlight of the bundle to me:

Tangled Blessings: a solo journaling or two-player RPG inspired by dark academia media, ghost stories, and graduate school. ($18.99)

Village Emporium: a solo roll and write game that you are aiming to develop your store in a fantasy kingdom and serve various customers. ($2, on sale for $1.7 now)

Cartograph: a solo / multiplayer map-making RPG about journaling, exploration, worldbuilding, and resource management. You are tasked to produce a map of an unknown world, complete with a journal that details those places. ($12)

The Librarian's Apprentice: a solo journalling game that you travelled in the corridors of an infinite library. 2024 CRIT Awards Winner for Best Solo TTRPG. ($5)

Flying Courier: "You are a courier, ̏flying across the continent to deliver mail. Your particular mode of transportation provides a speed and discretion that traditional means of shipping cannot o̍ffer. Because of that unique ability, you are trusted with the most important sorts of messages and packages. This is true of all couriers, but for you especially, it is vital that the mail arrive safely." ($3)
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TTRPGs for Accessible Gaming Charity Bundle is raising money for https://www.dotsrpg.org/ to commercially produce braille dice on itch.io.
There are 314 items for $10. The offer is going to end in 2 days.

In the TTRPG industry, physical dice are plentiful for sighted individuals but scarce and often unaffordable for those who are blind or visually impaired. DOTS RPG Project is an organization focused on improving accessibility in tabletop roleplaying games.

Money raised from this charity bundle will help fund the production of their Signature Braille RPG Dice, manufactured in partnership with Die Hard Dice. This will make the first ever Braille RPG Dice available in a retail setting worldwide, helping make tabletop gaming more accessible for blind and visually impaired gamers. Read more about the dice here.


Game that looks interesting to me:
Kthonic Descent. (solo jurnalling game about descending to the byss for quest and adventure)
Bump in the Dark (Revised edition): an urban fantasy PBtA game that let you play game in Buffy, Night in the Woods, or Supernatura style
Rosewood Abbey: monks solve seemingly but not actually supernatural mysteries inspired by The Name of the Rose & Cadfael (TV)
The Narrator Paradox: a one page solo-narrating game where you try to tell a story ... if your protagonist will let you. 

This Reddit comment lists more interesting tabletop rpg that haven't been covered in previous charity bundles.


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Cthulhu Dark is a horror tabletop RPG of cosmic horror, You can't fight monster. You can only watch, run, hide and fear. There are no combat rules. If you fight, you die. It has been expanded into a 200 page book with 4 adventures and GM advice.

The original free version

Expanded version

My character:
Name: Ashley Lee
Occupation: Painter
Insanity dice: 1
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Ironsworn is probably one of the most popular solo tabletop RPG, and it's free. (It can also be played wth or without a GM). You play heroes going on perilous quests in a harsh low fantasy land. You can customize the setting by answering a set of guided questions with chosen details. The character generation is simple. The way for characters to advance is to swear an Iron Vow and face challenge to progress, which really help directing the gameplay. There are robust tools to help you when you feel stuck.

List of free Ironsworn tools
Ironsworn character generators

Character:
ExpandAlina )
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The Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game is a free rules-light fantasy game system modeled on the classic RPG rules of the early 1980's. It has a robust fan community and numerous free content: monster bestiary, adventures, new class options, new rules, etc. It's an open source system and has just released the 4th edition.

ExpandMy character: Aimon the elf magic user )
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 Moonhop is a hack of Into the Odd, with GLOG-style races, failed careers, and a bunch of player-facing rules, including classless GLOG Magic, a new-ish set of Hexcrawling speed rules, and weird Hireling Squad rules. You can travel between moons, drive mechas, and use magic to doom.

My Character:
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FIST: Ultra Edition is a tabletop roleplaying game about paranormal mercenaries doing the tough jobs no one else can. In the game, you belong to a legendary rogue mercenary unit called FIST. You are a soldier of fortune who doesn’t fit into modern society. You are a disposable gun for hire, caught up in the death and destruction of pointless proxy wars and oppressive establishments. You may also be someone who can turn into a ghost or control bees with your mind.


My Character:

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In CBR+PNK (Cyber plus Punk) you play as a team of RUNNERS—mercs, criminals, activists living on the edge and running in the shadows of a gritty, ultraviolent world.

In each game we play an entire new cast of characters making their LAST RUN.


CBR+PNK is a rule lite cyberpubnk rpg that runs on a super-condensed version of John Harper's Forged in the Dark system.
Everything is presented as a series of 3 eight-panel pamphlets.

My character
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Apocalypse Frame is a postapocalyptic mecha tabletop RPG that you play a skilled mecha pilot carving through armies of enemies to fight for the your people's freedom.

It's now included along with 642 items for $10 in the TTRPGs for Palestine bundle

My character:

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Lasers & Feelings is a free one page tabletop RPG which you play a crew member in a not!Star Trek spaceship. It has only one stat. A higher number means being better in lasers (science, reason) while a lower favours feelings (rapport, passion). The system inspires a lot of hacks and adaptation in various settings. The game developer maintains a collection on itch.io.

My character:
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Cairn is an adventure game about exploring a dark & mysterious Wood filled with strange folk, hidden treasure, and unspeakable monstrosities. Character generation is quick and random, classless, and relies on fictional advancement rather than through XP or level mechanics.
The full text is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.


My character:

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The road has a song all to its own. Sometimes, when I stay in the same place for more than a few nights and I take some time to lie in the grass and stare at the clouds, I can forget that the song is even there. But eventually it always calls to me, and I’ll put on my cloak again, grab my walking stick and set foot once more.


In Wanderhome, you play an animal folk traveller in a dreamlike post-war pastoral world of Hæth. It's built on the No Dice, No Masters engine (often called Belonging Outside Belonging), which means that it's diceless and can be gmless. it uses a token system instead of dice. You spend a token for extra spotlight/game opportunity, and earns one when your character help others/express their true feeling/marvel at and share details about their surroundings. There're no monsters to fight. The conflicts are mostly within, as characters are looking for a home for different reasons. There're tools for locations and information about seasons to flesh out the characters' journey.

My Character:

ExpandDancer: Your inner fire is a song in your heart, not a voice in your head. The world will not quiet you. You are alive. Your care is intense, vocal, and lighthearted )
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Between the Skies is a cosmic fantasy game of travel and exploration across endless worlds.

Between the Skies is also a set of modular procedures, tables and methods that can help spark your imagination in any game of weird fantasy adventure.


Between the Skies is a free tabletop RPG with 200 hundred pages of table for encounters, NPCs, factions, adventuring sites, creatures, etc. There's no default setting, but assumes a pre-industrial, multi-species, highly cosmopolitan world-between-worlds background. The pdf is bookmarked and indexed, but some in-text links link to nowhere.

It uses random lifepath character creation to establish the character's past and ability when the game start. As a tribute to classical Traveller, the character can die during character creation. As it's randomly rolled, it can be challenging to make sense of the result (eg. what does "Commandingly artistic" mean?) However, you can get something unexpected, like my cursed wasp person healer who travels between the spheres by music to pay off debt.


My character:

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24XX Super Bandits is a free rule light tabletop rpg about deadly starfighters and thirsty pilots. It uses the 24XX system, which the player rolls the skill dice during conflict and determines the degree of success/consequence based on the result.


You're a starfighter. Your colony worlds burn. Your fleets are scattered. False prophets and traitor kings hound you through uncharted space. Let them come. The hunter so easily becomes the prey.


My character

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The TTRPGs for Trans Rights - West Virginia bundle on itch.io is launched and available until 11:59pm Pacific on Saturday, June 1st. In addition to getting 529 items for $5, supporters can get external offer outside the itch.io platform after filling out the linked google form.

It's the third year of a charity tabletop RPG bundle to support LGBTQ+ people. This time it supports Project Rainbow - West Virginia's only LGBTQ+ shelter, and an advocacy center that helps queer and trans people throughout Appalachia.

Highlight of the external offers to me:
  • Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes—a 400 page full cosmic horror investigation campaign for Delta Green (retail price: $32.99). 2022 ENnie Award winner (gold) for best graphic design and layout. Just this is totally worth it.
  • Pathfinder Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall - 128-page of a full fantasy campaign which you play knights who abhors the undead. Note: Paizo grants these PDFs through paizo.com, so you will need to provide an email account associated with a paizo.com account in order to receive this reward. You can create a Paizo account beforehand if you don't have one. It's easy to set up.

Even if you have bought all the previous popular charity bundles on itch.io, over 320 games are unique to this bundle. It's a great deal for a worthwhile cause.

Items in the Bundle that intrigue me (that aren't found in other bundles):

Lilancholy: a lyric game that your character is trying to survive encounters with fairies. "A collection of school yard games warped into horror experiences, all wrapped inside of its own fiction."
Tangled Blessings: A magic academy horror RPG for 1-2 players
Contact: a game about alien communication using a play list and tarot cards
Cosmic Cuthroats: a psychchdelic RPG of adventure and exploration through endless worlds

If you have missed out the Solo but not Alone 4 bundle, I have played and greatly recommended Fox Curio's Floating Bookshop and Hiria: the Eternal City

If you want to check out the bundle items with a more convenient interface, you can check out random bundle

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