Coron's Sources of Free Role Playing Games and Settings

Note that some of these games are shareware, so you might not be allowed to use all the following stuff for free. You should read the disclaimer of the respective game if you're going to use it regularly. Of course you may load, test and evaluate everything freely.

Game Systems

Other Websites and Servers

• Eric's Compendium of Free RPG's
• Net Games
• The Legolas RPG: Freeware and Shareware page
• Free RPG's on the Web
• HomeBrew at ftp.mpgn.com
• Generic at www.hoboes.com
• The Keep: RPGs and Rule Supplements
• Jeux de Rôles Amateurs, French, English, German and Italian Free RPGs and Worlds, French

Fantasy and Generic

• Abima (Dominic Wäsch), German
• Alternate Realities, a generic, modular rpg system (Carter Butts)
• Archeus Roleplaying Game System
• ARM: Advanced Role-Playing Mechanics (R. E. Bridson)
• ARPLE, All-purpouse Roleplaying Logistics Engine
• The Awakening, RPG rules engine (Dan Regewitz) - only the basic version is free
• BODGERS, Basic One-Dice Gloranthan Epic Roleplaying System (Lewis Jardine)
• Cathay Arts of Role-Playing (Leonard Hung)
• Crestfallen, Bronze Age Fantasy Roleplaying (Dan Hiscutt)
• Dark Dreams, universal game engine and Dark Fantasy RPG
• Death or Glory,a generic rpg (Alexander N. Trofimov.)
• Deathwind, role-playing game on IRC (Enix), English and French
• Demiurgon, ein universelles Rsp-System (Klaus Eisenack), German
• DragonNet RPG
• DragonSpawn, a fantasy roleplaying game
• Dramatic License, cinematic role-playing (Simon Seah) - rtf-file
• Earth of the Fourth Sun Free RPG
• Enchanted Worlds, free rulebook, without background (Matthew J. Rodgers)
• Epix, système de jeu universel, French
• ERPS: Ernest Role Playing System, German
• FAST, a fairly rules-lite, yet universal system (Steve Bruns)
• Freestyle RPG, covers fantasy, cyberpunk and other settings (George DeMuth)
• FUDGE: Freeform, Universal, Donated Gaming Engine
• The Guide to Adventure, a universal rpg (Michael E. Ball)
• Hazon, a fantasy rpg (Mike Jacobs) (62k)
• Heritage, a universal storrytelling system (BulletShower)
• KISS-D2
• Knarf RPG (Edward Forrest Frank and Robert M. Frank)
• lint! (Tom Farrell)
• Monsters and Mazes (John Garwood) (54k)
• NC Role-Playing and Combat System (Andrew C. Myers)
• Outlaws of the Water Margin, a Chinese RPG
• Realms of Adventure (Chris Pinto) (151k)
• Ringwielder
• RIP, fantasy rpg systems (Kalle Marjola)
• Screaming Silence RPG (Christopher Blankley)
• Shell, a generic rpg (Chris Harwood-Jones) (46k)
• Shadow Bindings, a multi-genre game system with three available settings
• SORD: The System Of Role Development (Scott J. Compton)
• SOUPS: Skill Oriented Universal Playing System (Mike Epstein)
• Swift Swords, a fantasy rpg (Kevin Flynn)
• System One, a generic rpg (Paul Clegg)
• ToAd, Theatre of the Adsurb, a model reality kit
• The Window (Legolas)
• Ysgarth Minirules, fantasy rpg and campaign setting

Minimalist Systems

• CORE: Character-Oriented Roleplaying Engine (David F. Nalle) (8k)
• Cran, a generic fantasy rpg system (Chris Harwood-Jones) (12k)
• GAME: Greatly Abbreviated Mechanics, Etc. (Eric C. Garrison) (6k)
• OPIGS: One Page Gaming System (David Mar) (5k) and OPICS Supers (Andrew Arensburger) (1k)
• QCCS: Quick Character Creating System (Uwe Mundt), German
• SAGA: Simple And Generic Adventures (Eric C. Garrison) (8k)
• SLUG: Simple, Laid-back Universal Game (Steffan O'Sullivan) (6k)

Modern Fantasy, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Superheroes

• Ad Astra: The New Age (Paul DuBois)
• Anarcho Australis (Craig Thomas Judd)
• Angel/Demon: The Rapture, a Game for the Storyteller System (Christopher Blankley)
• Bostonia, high fantasy in the far future (Chris Magoun)
• DeadEarth, a post apocalypse adventure
• Echo's, the game of dimentional travel
• The Final Frontier, a Star Trek rpg (John Kim)
• Forgotten Futures, rpg & sourcebook for Kipling's scientific romances (Marcus L. Rowland)
• Grimrules (Samuel Joseph Robb)
• HeroGame, superhero rpg
• Mortal Konquest (TM) (Richard Anderson)
• Phantasm, magic in the modern world (Lamar Henderson)
• Powergame, superhero rpg (Mikko Kauppinen)
• Robot Wars, a battle game (Michael Epstein)
• The New Robotech RPG
• Space-ERPS, German
• Syndicate - Roleplaying the Dark Future (Kalle Marjola)
• Tigres Volants - Science-Fiction Pré-Apocalyptique Fantastique (Stéphane Gallay), French
• TUGS: The Universal Game System; SF
• Warlock: Black Spiral (Black Gate Publishing)

Humor and Satirical

• Combat Monster
• Heavy Ordnance (Christopher Blankley)
• Orange Road, based on a Japanese anime series
• Prestidigitator: The Unpronounceable (Kingsley Lintz)
• René, le Jeu de Ròle Romantique (Philippe Tromeur), French
• ROLF: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters (L.L. Hundal)
• Wuthering Heights, a satirical RPG about Romantism (Philippe Tromeur)

Worlds and Settings

• * Worlds in the Net, over 100 worlds!
• Campaign Settings in Role Player's Haven
• Gehennum (environment for fantasy roleplaying)
• A Generic City (City Design Project)
• MARS, MittelAlterRollenSpiel (Oliver Seyffert), German
• Mutant Bikers of the Atomic Wastelands, a post-apocalypse FUDGE game
• Stellae Cognitae, a roleplaying universe (Mike Collins)
• Universe 13, a role playing source
• The World of Lune (G.R. Adamson)

Internet-based RPGs

• Darkest-Evil

LARP: Life Action Role Playing Systems

• Cambrion Adventures
• LARGHO-Regelwerk 3rd ed., inzwischen veraltet (Stefan Fasmers & Hauke Voß), German
• That's Live (Die Tafelrunde), German
• LARP-Seite der Fraternitas Corvorum, und das Regelwerk der Raven-Cons, German
• Manticore-Regelsystem (Alexander Roth), German
• LifeQuest, Regelwerk der IG Welfenbrut, German
• Règles du Grandeur Nature, Cristal Noir, French
• Amtgard
• Clandestyne, a Storyteller freeform campaign, Australia