Easy D6
Easy D6 earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. EZD6 simplifies tabletop RPGs into a fast, flexible system that's easy to learn and quick to play.
Low prep games reduce the work required before the session starts. They support tables that want quick setup, improvisational tools, or procedures that create usable material during play rather than demanding extensive GM planning.
Easy D6 earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. EZD6 simplifies tabletop RPGs into a fast, flexible system that's easy to learn and quick to play.
Scum and Villainy earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. Set in a universe inspired by classic sci-fi franchises like Star Wars and Firefly, Scum and Villainy is a tabletop RPG where players take on the roles of daring...
Index Card RPG earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. IndexCard RPG distills fast-paced, adaptable tabletop gaming into a streamlined system perfect for any genre.
Fast Fantasy belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A tabletop RPG designed for quick setup and fast play, ideal for players looking to dive straight into adventure without getting bogged down by complex rules.
Risus earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. A light-hearted, rules-lite RPG that encourages creativity and humor in a wide range of settings and genres.
Four Against Darkness belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A thrilling tabletop roleplaying game that takes players on perilous dungeon-crawling adventures with a focus on exploration and strategic decision-making.
24XX fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A rules‑lite sci‑fi toolkit SRD: pick a die, roll high, keep play fast, and favor clear fictional positioning over build math.
Choose A Torch in the Dark for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A rules-lite solo dungeon delver using Forged in the Dark mechanics.
Aether & Iron earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. A steampunk strategy-RPG focused on class tension, faction pressure, and hard choices inside a soot-choked industrial city.
After the Blast belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A rules-lite post-apocalyptic survival RPG using 2d6 + stat resolution.
All Flesh Must Be Eaten belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A rules‑lite survival‑horror game using the Unisystem.
Alone Among the Stars fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A rules‑lite solo journaling game about exploring strange worlds.
Choose ARC: Doom Tabletop RPG for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. ARC is a rules‑lite, doom‑clock RPG about racing the apocalypse.
Backpack & Dream earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. A small indie RPG with a drifting, introspective feel that favors mood, memory, and intimate character focus over mechanical density.
Barbarians of the Ruined Earth fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A rules‑lite post‑apocalyptic sword‑and‑sorcery game built on The Black Hack.
Basic Fantasy RPG belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A rules‑lite, B/X‑inspired fantasy game with ascending AC and race‑class separation.
Bastards. (Pearlescent Edition) fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. Is a rules‑lite OSR fantasy game using straightforward d20 tests and saves.
Choose Best Left Buried for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A rules‑lite fantasy horror about desperate cryptdiggers braving lethal, resource‑starved dungeons.
Choose Breathless for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A rules-lite survival horror RPG using polyhedral dice with degradation mechanics.
Choose Brindlewood Bay for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A mystery-horror tabletop RPG about elderly amateur sleuths solving strange crimes in a cozy New England town while a darker occult conspiracy closes in around them.
Cairn 2e earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. A classless fantasy adventure RPG in the Into the Odd and Knave lineage.
Cast Away earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. A rules-lite survival RPG using Diminishing Dice mechanics to model deteriorating conditions after disaster.
Cloak and Dagger belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A lightweight intrigue RPG built for secrets, reversals, and fast-moving capers with minimal overhead.
Crash Pandas fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A one-shot comedy RPG about raccoons driving a stolen car in an illegal street race.
Choose Cthulhu Dark for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A rules‑lite horror game by Graham Walmsley that pushes dread and discovery to the forefront.
Cthulhu Hack belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A rules-lite investigative horror game that pares Lovecraftian mystery down to d20 saves, usage dice, and mounting pressure.
Dead Reign belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A post-apocalyptic horror RPG about surviving the zombie outbreak.
Death in Space earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. A rules‑lite sci‑fi survival game about scrappy crews trying to make it through a dying universe.
Choose Deathbringer for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A grimdark fantasy RPG kit by Professor Dungeon Master that compresses character creation, combat, and spellcasting into a fast, lethal chassis compatible with 5e...
Desperation belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A rules-lite survival horror RPG containing two complete games: Dead House (blizzard-stranded Kansas town, 1888) and The Isabel (doomed fishing vessel in the Gulf of...
Don't Rest Your Head fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A rules‑lite psychological survival horror about insomniacs who awaken to the Mad City.
Choose Down We Go for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A rules‑lite OSR dungeon crawler using familiar d20 and d6 rolls.
Durance fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. On a remote prison planet, convicts and guards struggle to survive in a brutal hierarchy.
DURF earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. A rules‑lite OSR dungeon‑fantasy game using d20 tests with advantage/disadvantage.
Electric Bastionland belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A rules‑lite OSR game of dangerous expeditions in a strange industrial city and its depths.
Enter the Survival Horror fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A rules‑lite, Forged in the Dark survival‑horror game about dark corridors, dwindling resources, and mounting dread.
Choose Escape from Dino Island for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A rules-lite survival adventure using Powered by the Apocalypse mechanics.
Fate Accelerated fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A rules‑lite, universal RPG that trades classes and skill lists for Aspects, Approaches, and Stunts.
Choose Fiasco for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. An immersive storytelling game where players create and unravel intricate tales of greed, betrayal, and misguided ambition in small-town America.
Choose FIST: Ultra Edition for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A rules-lite Cold War-weird RPG about paranormal mercenaries on deniable ops.
Five Torches Deep earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. A rules‑lite dungeon‑adventure game that marries 5e familiarity with OSR grit.
For the Queen earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. A GM‑less, prompt‑driven story game by Alex Roberts.
Frontier Scum fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A rules‑lite acid‑western OSR game about wanted outlaws scraping by on the Lost Frontier.
Choose FROSTBITE for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A rules-lite arctic survival RPG using d20, d4, and d6 dice.
Ghost Lines earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. A lean haunted-industrial RPG about train crews, lightning barriers, and dangerous work on the spectral frontier.
Goblin Quest belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A comedic disaster RPG where players burn through bands of tiny goblins pursuing grand plans they are almost guaranteed to ruin.
Green Dawn Mall fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A rules‑lite survival-horror about teens lost in an endless, uncanny shopping mall.
Choose Honey Heist for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A one-page comedy RPG about bears trying to pull off a criminal honey job.
HOSTILE belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A near‑future, blue‑collar sci‑fi survival RPG using classic 2d6 task resolution.
Index Card RPG (Master Edition) belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. Index Card RPG: Master Edition is a rules‑lite fantasy toolkit built around scene targets, timers, hearts, and effort dice.
Into the Dungeon: Revived fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A rules‑lite OSR fantasy game using simple d20 saves and inventory‑driven resource play.
Into the Odd (Remastered) fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A rules‑lite OSR dungeon‑adventure in a grim industrial world.
Choose Knave Second Edition Review (2023): Is It Worth the Upgrade? for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. Classless, slot-based inventory creates meaningful gear decisions while 75+ generators produce dungeons, factions, cities, and monsters.
Lady Blackbird earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. Lady Blackbird invites players to embark on a steampunk-inspired adventure aboard a luxurious skyship with a crew of daring outlaws and rebels.
Lasers & Feelings belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A one‑page, rules‑lite sci‑fi game by John Harper.
Liminal Horror fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A modern investigative horror RPG descended from Into the Odd and Cairn.
Lost Echoes fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A dark fantasy solo RPG that blends atmospheric mystery, prompt-driven play, and resource pressure into a solitary journey through uneasy places.
Choose LUMEN for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A fast power-fantasy action RPG chassis built for flashy abilities, aggressive momentum, and missions that resolve with minimal downtime.
Macchiato Monsters earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. A rules‑lite OSR game using roll‑under ability tests and Risk dice for gear and attrition.
Maze Rats belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A rules‑lite OSR fantasy game using 2d6 tests and swingy, lethal outcomes.
Mazes Fantasy Roleplaying fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. Mazes is a rules‑lite fantasy dungeon crawler using the polymorph system (each role rolls a single die).
Choose minimald6 for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A rules‑lite universal engine using 2–3d6, where 5–6s are successes.
Mountaintop Isolation earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. A solo journaling survival game where you document your struggle to endure a blizzard trapped alone in a remote ski cabin.
Choose Mutant Crawl Classics for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A post-apocalyptic, OSR-inspired game of deadly expeditions into ancient ruins.
Never Going Home earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. A rules-lite WWI survival-horror game using straightforward tests plus card-hand pressure.
Offworlders belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A rules-lite sci-fi game using 2d6 tests in the World of Dungeons/PbtA vein.
Outbreak: Undead (2nd Edition) earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. Outbreak: Undead (2e) is a survival-horror tabletop RPG focused on realism, resource scarcity, and tough choices.
Outgunned fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A cinematic action RPG built to emulate stylish gunfights, wild stunts, and escalating set pieces in the mode of modern action movies.
Paleomythic belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A rules‑lite stone‑and‑sorcery survival game using opposed dice pools and conditions.
Choose Perseverant for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A rules-lite collaborative story game about surviving a brutal wilderness.
Perseverant RPG earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. Perseverant is a rules-lite survival story game about desperate journeys through hostile wilderness.
Pirate Borg belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A dark fantasy pirate RPG about cursed seas, undead threats, and fast, filthy adventure on a doomed black ocean.
Primal Quest - Essentials fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. Primal Quest – Essentials is a rules‑lite stone‑and‑sorcery RPG.
Choose Push SRD for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A rules‑lite, narrative engine built around a single d6 push‑your‑luck roll.
Roll for Shoes belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A microscopic free RPG where characters start with almost nothing and develop absurdly specific skills entirely through what happens at the table.
Ryuutama fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A cozy, Japanese-inspired RPG where village folk—bakers, healers, farmers—embark on a grand journey across a world born from seasonal dragons.
Searchers of the Unknown fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A rules‑lite OSR micro‑game that runs classic dungeons with a single‑line character stat block.
Choose Slugblaster: Kickflip Over a Quantum Centipede for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. Slugblaster is a kinetic sci-fi RPG about teenage crews, dimension-hopping hoverboards, and trying to look incredible while reality keeps getting stranger.
SQUISHY! earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. Is a rules-lite survival horror TTRPG using a d10 resolution system.
Stay Frosty belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A rules‑lite military sci‑fi game using streamlined OSR/Black Hack–style rolls.
Stoneburner belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A rules‑lite sci‑fantasy survival game using the Breathless step‑die engine.
Survive the Night fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A rules‑lite horror one‑shot built for fast, cinematic survival.
Choose SURVIVE THIS!! Zombies – Ultimate Edition for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. Zombies is a rules‑lite OSR modern horror game using d20 tests and class‑based play.
Technoir earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. Jeremy Keller's hard-boiled cyberpunk RPG about desperate professionals pulling on threads in a dirty future until the whole city starts tugging back.
The Beast earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. A rules-lite one-page RPG about low-rent monster hunters in 18th-century Eastern Europe.
The Black Hack (2nd Edition) belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. The Black Hack 2e is a rules‑lite OSR fantasy game with player‑facing, roll‑under ability tests.
The Deep Forest fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. Groups that want collaborative play without a traditional GM.
The End of the World: Zombie Apocalypse fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A rules‑lite modern survival RPG using simple dice pools and stress tracks.
Choose The Hero's Journey for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A rules-lite OSR fantasy RPG built on Swords & Wizardry White Box.
Choose The Skeletons for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A rules‑lite, GM‑less fantasy story game about cursed tomb guardians.
The Warren earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. A rules-lite survival RPG about intelligent rabbits facing a hostile world.
Choose The Wildsea for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A narrative survival-fantasy RPG set on an endless treetop ocean.
The Witch is Dead earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. A one‑page, rules‑lite fantasy caper by Grant Howitt.
Those Dark Places belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A rules‑lite industrial sci‑fi horror game using simple dice pools and stress checks.
Choose Tiny Cthulhu for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A rules-lite Lovecraftian horror game using the minimalist TinyD6 engine.
Tiny Dungeon earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. Tiny Dungeon (TinyD6) is a rules‑lite fantasy RPG that runs on simple 2d6 tests with advantage/disadvantage.
Tiny Frontiers belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A rules‑lite sci‑fi game powered by TinyD6’s 2d6 tests.
Tiny Taverns fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A rules‑lite, narrative fantasy game using a simple TinyD6 dice‑pool (1–3d6, 5+ succeeds).
Tricube Tales fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A tiny generic RPG built for one-page play, fast setup, and flexible genre hacking with almost no mechanical overhead.
Choose Tunnel Goons for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. A rules-lite dungeon-delving game using 2d6 contests against a target number.
Twilight: 2000 belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. A retro-apocalyptic survival RPG using the Year Zero Engine.
Vast Grimm earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. A rules‑lite sci‑fi horror game powered by Mörk Borg’s chassis.
Wanderhome fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. A cozy, rules‑lite game of traveling animal‑folk in the world of Hæth.
Whitehack (Fourth Edition) belongs here when the table wants minimal setup without an empty table, not just the label on the cover. Whitehack is a rules‑lite, classless OSR fantasy game that marries old‑school tempo with modern clarity.
World of Dungeons fits low prep because it gives the table enough structure to start quickly and discover material during play. An ultra-minimal, Dungeon World–adjacent fantasy game that runs on 2d6 rolls and rulings over rules.
Choose Wushu for low prep play when you want minimal setup without an empty table. An exhilarating tabletop RPG that immerses players in the high-octane world of martial arts, encapsulating the vibrant action and drama of classic kung fu films.
Zombie World earns this tag by making low preparation matter during play. A rules‑lite, card‑driven survival RPG about a community fighting to live through the zombie apocalypse.