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In celebration of Free RPG day, here are some cool RPGs that are already free or have free basic editions:
- Action! System
- Basic Fantasy Role-Playing
- Dan’s Diminutive d20
- Dungeon Squad, an extremely simplified retroclone initially built for gaming with kids
- FATE, which uses Fudge dice and several modern innovations
- Fudge, partly a system and partly a toolkit for building your own system
- …in Spaaace!
- Labyrinth Lord
- Lady Blackbird, which is a system, setting, and adventure all in one. You can also download a number of Lady Blackbird hacks:
- Blackbird Pie, a deconstruction of Lady Blackbird into a generic system
- Castle Blackbird, a horror-themed hack
- Escape from Thanatos, a space opera hack
- Lamentations of the Flame Princess
- Microlite 20
- OSRIC
- Risus
- RuneQuest
- Spirit of the Century
- Tech Noir
- True20 Quick Start
- WaRP, the system used for Over the Edge
- Warrior, Rogue & Mage
If that’s not enough, the following sites link to hundreds of other free RPGs:
