One Year of One-Page RPGs Bundle: Volume 6

In 2016, Grant Howitt decided – flippantly – to write a one-page roleplaying game every month and release it for free online. Little did he know that the barely-intelligible pen-and-ink scratches he turned out would go on to define his career, and the shape of roleplaying games, for years to come. Played by thousands of people all over the world, Grant’s one-page games run the gamut from strange to silly, daft to deadly serious, and powerfully original to potentially copyright-infringing. Each volume contains (at least!) 13 games in their original single-page format, complete with SECRET BACK PAGE material for every game that’s never been released online. Plus, where relevant, the longer games Grant and his collaborators have released are printed in full-color, saddle-stitched booklets. Each game has been written, illustrated (sorry) and laid out entirely by Grant, unless someone else helped him, in which case it says so. As of 2024, all these volumes come in US Letter size, in a sturdy cardboard folder with a spine.   What's in the book? Board To Death: You’re trapped in a board game (any board game). Fight your way out before you’re murdered by the malevolent inhabitants. Back page: A Card Game. A card-based game about personal development and interpersonal tension. Knock Off Mascots: YOU are an unofficial mascot for your football team. For years now you’ve been in the shadow of the official mascot. You’ve had enough. You and your friends are going to murder them. THEN the club will take you seriously.  Back page: Lists of official mascots to dethrone and examples of their absurd privilege. Fucked Up Little Man: A Dark Souls fan RPG where you play the weird NPCs who go “heh heh heh heh” at the end of every exchange. Back page: Covenants to devote your fucked up little life to, traits and professions to make you that little bit more fucked up and weird, and some more rules. Malign Inspiration: A cosmic horror metagame that you may already be playing and cannot opt out of. Back page: A list of failed roleplaying game ideas that coincidentally rhyme with Malign Inspiration. You’re welcome to them. Super Cool Monster Hunting Club: Adventurous children battle unseen monsters using improvised equipment. Involves a surprising amount of dress-up for a tabletop game. Back page: An urban horror hack of Super Cool Monster Hunting Club. Darker and with more swearing. This One Time At Bard Camp: You are a trainee bard at Bardic Community College. You’ve been waiting all year for the highlight of the season – Bard Camp. You’ve got one week to achieve your dreams before you have to go back to the real world. Back page: Your entire adventuring party’s stuck in this one guy’s head. Take turns controlling him, and spend the rest of your time backseat driving. The Dungeon of Numbered Days: A means of of producing a wholly original dungeon for adventures and looting using only a second-hand advent calendar, a pen and some imaginative gumption. Back page: An assortment of dubiously festive treasures with which to populate your dungeon. Stag Party: YOU are a HALF-HUMAN, HALF-BEAST creature from the DEEP DARK of the WOODS. You are getting MARRIED. As is TRADITION, you and all your peers are to be wed to THE ARBOREAL SOW: a beautiful and sacred pig the size of a transit van. It is the night before the ceremony and, as is TRADITION, you must secure tribute for your queen from the LANDS OF MAN. You have until dawn to claim something worthy.  Back page: Hen Knights. YOU are a CHICKEN pressed into service as the Arboreal Sow’s honor guard. Fingers are complicated and you don’t know what’s going on. Do your best. EVERYONE IS SEAGULLS: The entire group plays a flock of seagulls. The core mechanic is yelling. Back page: Other things to be a large, noisy collective of, including rules for such. Irrefutable Proof: It’s 1890. You’re a charlatan medium. Perform your latest seance and fleece your client while a real ghost tries to kill you. Back page: Eleven abandoned literary adaptations of Honey Heist. The (Orc) Pope Is Dead: The last orc pope died of a drinking binge. Find a new one, or do the job yourself. Back page: MORE DETAILS OF THE INEFFABLE AND MYSTICAL ROLE OF THE POPE IN THE FAITH OF BOG-AL-KURRUK. Plastic Bastards: A narrative miniatures game in which you build a small gang of horrible little fighters, then come up with spurious reasons for them to try and murder each other. Back page: Grant’s Guide to Kitbashing, which you’ll find remarkably helpful in making your horrible little sods.