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2:32 Ironsworn

3:11 Wicked Ones

3:50 Mork Borg (free stuff, including Barebones edition)

4:26 Degenesis
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5:21 Blades in the Dark SRD

6:08 Lancer

6:44 Old School Essentials (SRD)

7:36 Gumshoe SRD

8:34 Basic Fantasy

9:11 Swords and Wizardry

10:08 Stars Without Number

11:07 Worlds Without Number

11:41 Godbound

12:15 Cairn

13:05 Mausritter
Into the Odd

13:59 Fate Condensed

14:40 The Cepheus Engine
Cepheus Engine SRD:
Cepheus Engine full PDF:

22:59 Traveller SRD

15:28 Risus

16:05 13th Age SRD

16:45 Troika! SRD

17:28 Quest

18:15 Talislanta

18:57 4 Color System

19:51 Renaissance
Renaissance SRD:
Renaissance Deluxe:

20:40 Pathfinder 2 SRD

21:24 Starfinder SRD

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[ProfPyro]

Oh look, 27 more games my group will never be able to align our schedules for!

[mitchellsink]

I believe we are living in an amazing time to be in the trpg hobby. The wealth of innovation and ease to enter the hobby is just insane.

[SonySteals]

I’m impressed that you have managed to fit 27 games in a 23 minutes video, including intro and outro.

[nickenquist]

This is why I love your channel. You always find something new.

Also I was very happy to see that Mausritter was mentioned. It’s my favorite ttrpg currently.

[timothyyoung]

Oh, man, Risus. I remember running and entire, off the wall dimension jumping campaign called Tales from the Warp using this little system. It was fun and easy which worked great for a game with a beetleman janitor, a clone of Elvis searching the multiverse for Graceland, a sentient ostrich, and a demonologist who was tired of being evil and was looking for her new purpose. Nice to see it made this list. Really great for a game where you just want to have fun and screw around.

[OverBlackSands]

Very glad to see FATE in there too, as it feels to have been kind of forgotten over time. Mausritter is lots of fun and I was surprised to see Cepheus Engine in there too. There's amazing stuff out there for Cepheus done by Stellagamma and Zozer. Oh and Degenesis is just too sick, what a work of art. Oh and BFRPG of course, you can get you and your players each a handbook and an aditional adventures book for the price of a single 5e book and the amount of extra community made content is fantastic

[leandronc]

The Dungeon World SRD is also free online. DW was the paradigm shift for me 10 years ago, it showed me RPGs could be very different from D&D.

[Martin_Dimirag]

Basic Fantasy deserves its own video, its a great "modern" take that has several years on its back, with lots of available material for free, and a great community.

[ryanpoulter]

This is where I shill for Ironsworn. Not sponsored, it's just that good. (And it's on the list!)

[golem]

Voidcore is a free rpg that blends science fiction inside our solar system with the Lovecraft mythos. It seems solid and packed with art but I've never personally played it.

[williamdavis]

Just the links alone make this video a gem!!!

[ConlangKrishna]

Thank you so much for this video! 🙏 I had heard about almost ALL of these games, but I did not know they were practically available for free.
I supported the Talislanta 6e kickstarter, and I am looking very much forward to it.

[BerlinTrainStation]

I forgot how much inspiration I got from 13th age until watching this video! Lots of great systems featured here!

[theprecipiceofreason]

Grim Castle has a free version that's pretty huge but they charge for the GMs guide and an additional spells supplement. Czepeku is legit the best looking artist/mapper out there. I hope they start making bigger maps!

[prinnydadnope]

Thanks for this. If you're doing lists like that, I think a System list with things like PbtA, FitD and so on with some example for each would be good to have

[SerpC]

Great vid; I love Ironsworn and Talislanta. Lady Blackbird and Freeform Universal are also great but already mentioned by other commentors.

QuestWorlds has a free SRD and is the successor to the HeroQuest RPG since that trademark changed hands. It feels a little like Fate in some ways.

Dungeon World also has a free SRD; very fun fantasy PBTA.

Finally, Knave isn't free but the text is Creative Commons licensed and several fans have put out free versions with their own layouts/formatting.

[andrewcarper]

There are a few that didn’t get mentioned that are available on DrivethruRPG that I think are worth mentioning. There’s Wushu Black Belt Edition, which is an omnibus edition of an action focused rpg focused on being almost entirely freeform in most situations. There’s The Happiest Apocalypse On Earth, which is a PBTA game heavily inspired by theme parks and also the Monster of the Week TTRPG. It’s a fully free game, as far as I can tell. It’s also worth noting that the whole Microlite 20 collection of games as of 2020 is available as one massive pdf that clocks in at over a thousand pages of many different games for free.

[jcraigwilliams]

Some really good choices here. In terms of suggestions, I always try to raise awareness of Freeform Universal which is a game that I think deserves more love. It reminds me a bit of Fate in that it's very fiction-first and relies on descriptors similar to Aspects.

[Blizzic]

This has just become an essential resource for anyone trying to escape WOTC. You’re doing god’s work

[barbarnyak]

So glad Quest was on the list. ❤
I recommend it for solo players! I do like Ironsworn but Quest was the one I used at my very first solo ttrpg session. I had a blast!