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TTRPGS I'VE PLAYED

this is a list of every single tabletop roleplaying game i've played! it's separated into two categories: ONE-SHOT and CAMPAIGN. the games are sorted by what play they're most suited for, not necessarily by what i myself played. for example: i've played many one-shots of Interstitial: Our Hearts Intertwined, but it's sorted into the CAMPAIGN category, because it's best suited for campaign-length games.

this list is a little two untenable for me to include my thoughts on every single game, but i've included a little blurb about who i'd recommend (or not recommend) each game for. feel free to ask me for more in-depth thoughts on any of them, because i could genuinely talk about TTRPGs for hours

LAST UPDATED: 3/6/24

ONE-SHOT

SLEEPAWAY || Jay Dragon

"A horror game of Belonging Outside Belonging about a group of summer camp counselors protecting their queer youth from a monstrous cryptid."

RECOMMENDED FOR: gay monsters, fans of summer camp slashers, people who think too many rules get in the way of playing pretend with their friends, those who love a good ritual

HOUSE || Marn S

"This is a story about a house.

This is also a game about an eldritch, ever-expanding building that you and your fellow players have entered, and are going to investigate, and may never find your way out of. It's a game based on House of Leaves and Dionaea House, for 2+ players, using pen, paper, and a regular deck of cards."

RECOMMENDED FOR: haunted house freaks, the ghosts of your past and your future, wannabe paranormal investigators, those who like a story within their story

THE DARK SENTENCER || Marn S

"The Dark Sentencer is a tarot card based storytelling game for 2+ players, where you and your friends play out eleven days in the lives of alien mobsters, robotic pirates, and completely human con artists attempting to escape the galaxy's most dangerous prison planet. It's inspired by the Coheed and Cambria song of the same name (and the entire album Unheavenly Creatures)."

RECOMMENDED FOR: people who say "be gay do crimes", fans of prog rock, con artist appreciators, people who want to teach their friends the basics of prison abolition

DEAD FRIEND: A GAME OF NECROMANCY || Lucian Khan

"Dead Friend is a roleplaying game for a necromancer and a ghost. That is, it's a collaborative storytelling game for two players. You will each play the role of a friend, one living and one dead. You will ask and answer questions to develop the characters, their community, their history together, and the motivations leading up to their final conflict. The script follows the dramatic structure of a necromancy ritual, and you will use the spellbook of instructions throughout the entire game like a witch reading spells from an ancient grimoire. The mood may be spooky or intimate, heartwrenching or hilarious — it is up to you as storytellers. Dead Friend requires 1 Tarot deck or 1 deck of mundane playing cards."

RECOMMENDED FOR: ghosts, friends of ghosts, people who describe their relationships as "it's complicated", believers in the power (for good or for bad) of long-lasting human connection

IT'S BEEN A LONG, LONG TIME || riley rethal

"it's been a long, long time is a game about two characters who were in a relationship and somehow got separated. you tell their story through flashbacks to their lives together and apart, and finally end with their emotional reunion."

RECOMMENDED FOR: people who read novel-length stevebucky fanfiction in 2012, characters that haunt the narrative, seers of shrimp colors

HISTORY IS GONE BUT WE REMEMBER || Rufus Roswell

"HISTORY IS GONE BUT WE REMEMBER is part story telling ritual, part history writing game, where in you are asked to share oral histories and to create your own oracle cards. It can stand alone as an around the table LARP or be used to set up the setting of a longer campaign or story."

RECOMMENDED FOR: the chronic worldbuilders, the lore bible readers, people with more than one set of tarot cards

STEWPOT: TALES FROM A FANTASY TAVERN || Takuma Okada

"Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern is a collection of small games for groups of three or more players. Each game lets you, a retired adventurer, play out different parts of running a tavern and settling down in a town together with your old adventuring party."

RECOMMENDED FOR: people who wish more of lord of the rings took place in hobbiton, people who think the ubiquitousness of d&d makes good fantasy very difficult to find

PALIMPSEST || Gordie Murphy

"Palimpsest is a game about creating and discovering the development of civilizations across thousands of years, and understanding how one led to the other. You and a few others will be collaboratively creating concepts for civilizations, taking on Lenses of them, explaining how they faded, how they came to be, and how ideas get re-contextualized from one to the next."

RECOMMENDED FOR: lovers of layers, aspiring writers of sprawling epics, those who tell their people's stories

FOUR SHERLOCK HOLMES AND A VAMPIRE (WHO IS ALSO ONE OF THE AFOREMENTIONED SHERLOCK HOLMES) || Andrew J. Young

"In Four Sherlock Holmes and a Vampire (Who Is Also One of the Aforementioned Sherlock Holmes)—officially abbreviated as either Four Sherlock Holmes and a Vampire or FSHV—four players play four Sherlock Holmes who team up to solve mysteries and one-up each other. Secretly, one or more Sherlock Holmes may be vampires. Can the four Sherlock Holmes find out who among them could be a creature of the night?"

RECOMMENDED FOR: fans of justin mcelroy's specific brand of chaos, people who know too much about sherlock holmes, people who know fuck-all about sherlock holmes, people who wish arthur conan doyle included more vampires

LASERS AND FEELINGS || John Harper

"You are the crew of the interstellar scout ship Raptor. Your mission is to explore uncharted regions of space, deal with aliens both friendly and deadly, and defend the Consortium worlds against space dangers. Captain Darcy has been overcome by the strange psychic entity known as Something Else, leaving you to fend for yourselves while he recovers in a medical pod.

What happens next? Play to find out!"

RECOMMENDED FOR: kids who pretended brooms were lightsabers, pantsers with no desire to become a plotter, busy people without any time to read more than a page of mechanics

SUPERNORMAL || Ursidice

"SUPERNORMAL is a mini RPG where you play as superheroes with unstable powers just trying to enjoy your day off."

RECOMMENDED FOR: capes comics enjoyers, MCU-haters, superheroes pretending to be normal people

OH, DANG! BIGFOOT STOLE MY CAR WITH MY FRIEND'S BIRTHDAY PRESENT INSIDE || Ettin

"Oh, Dang! Bigfoot Stole My Car With My Friend's Birthday Present Inside is a hack of John Harper's Lasers & Feelings about going on a road trip to track down Bigfoot, get your car back, and maybe learn a little something on the way."

RECOMMENDED FOR: would-be lasers and feelings players who like cryptids more than spaceships, monsterfuckers, anyone down for whatever with bigfoot