/tg/'s homebrews
Tee Gee sometimes gets bright ideas about "original" settings and ideas which sometimes turn out to be awesome. However, due to the fa/tg/uys' inherent laziness (due to the intake of large quantities of meatbread) these project rarely come to any sort of fruition. Due to the sheer volume of attempts, and how long /tg/ has been around, we get some diamonds in the rough.
See also Homebrew Settings.
What are homebrews?
A "homebrew" is an unofficial, DIY modification, adaptation, setting or entire game made by the players themselves and not by the industry or professional developers. It is not intended for publication or wide distribution although in the age of internet people often share their work with others who might appreciate it.
Sage for Homebrew
A habit of lazy trolls whenever anyone posts a thread about a homebrew project or setting. If the lazy troll is determined he will repeatedly sage the thread and incite rage from those trying to get shit done.
List of known /tg/ homebrews
Some of the games and settings conceived in or around the board include:
- 4chan CCG
- A meme-based tabletop card game.
- 4chan: The Trolling
- A rules-light RPG based on the various boards of 4chan. It currently takes the "rules-light" description to an extreme, as none have yet been written.
- 8-Bit Dystopia
- all of those old 8-bit games coalesced into one cyberpunk dystopia set on a far away planet.
- Accursed Toys
- A rules-light FUDGE setting for playing as toys, such as clockwork dragons, claymen, and poppets.
- A Certain Role-playing Game
- To anime and manga fans: A homebrew set in the universe of the anime To Aru Kagaku no Railgun and To Aru Majustu no Index. To everyone else: Weeaboo RPG for playing in the setting of "A Certain Scientific Railgun" comic books and animoo.
- Adeptus Evangelion
- A modification of Dark Heresy to allow for play in the Neon Genesis Evangelion universe.
- Afterschool Activities
- A school-based horror game based on a nightmare in which you must not fall asleep.
- Americana
- (The setting, recorded in the D&D Wiki.)
- (The original thread, archived on sup/tg/)
- An idea built around a single image, and around the concept of an America as represented by its own mythology.
- Angry miniatures
- A rules-lite fantasy beer-n-pretzels skirmish game. Designed for use with any fantasy minis.
- Arthropocalypse
- (Entry point to the Forum where we work this shit out)
- Intelligent Insects, the RPG.
- ArtifIce
- (Rules on sup/tg/)
- The game of Machine Intelligence.
- Audiomancer
- An in-progress cyberpunk setting where the human genome is catalogued musically and stats and skills are derived from songs and rhythms spliced onto junk DNA. The pilot thread, on sup/tg/.
- Autumn
- Para-Modern miniatures combat on the fictional world of Harmony. Players command one of five unique factions waging Hegemonic war to gain cultural and political superiority in a dark time.
- Blam!
- Travel as a cyborg wanderer through the neverending mechanical City of Nihei Tsutomu's Blame! manga. Play Safeguard, Silicon Creatures, Dismantlers, Safeguard Agents and many more, in a post-apocalyptic game of loneliness, lost memories and mass destruction.
- Break
- To play the rules, you gotta break them.
- BRICK STONEWALL
- A Munchausen based on mostly freeform rules.
- Bucketworld
- A horrifically named setting designed to have isolated, self-sufficient communities where travel is very dangerous and difficult.
- Busty Barbarian Bimbos
- Take on the role of a titular character in the "swords and sluttery" setting.
- Car Lesbians
- You have a car and you are a lesbian. You must drive around and make out with other lesbians while making your car awesome.
- CATastrophe
- Humans have spliced their genes with animals in order to survive a great flood. Light-hearted catfolk adventure on the great blue sea.
- Catfight: Tactics
- A strategy wargame for small teams of characters about exactly what the name suggests.
- Chapter Master: A Chapter Management Simulation
- Like Dwarf Fortress, but with Space Marines. A Chapter Master Is You, are you a bad enough dude to serve the Imperium?
- ChromeStrike
- An rules-lite mecha rpg based around games like Chrome Hounds and Armored Core
- Codex - Hrud
- They're like the Skaven. In space.
- Codex - The Covenant
- For fans of Halo who want to play as the Covenant in Warhammer 40k.
- Crab Truckers
- An RPG about crabs the size of truckers.
- Cthulhu Void Tech
- An attempt to replace the broken Framewerk system used by CthulhuTech with the system used by The Void.
- Drunken Bear Fighter
- In this RPG you will play Russian agents who combat the drunken bear menace present in the modern day Moscow underground.
- The Dark Tower
- Chaosium's Basic Roleplay system adapted for the Stephen King universe.
- Dead Space
- Grimdark homeless in space GURPS setting. Getting enough food and water are the PCs' main concerns. Not related in any way to the vidya game that came out 8 months later.
- Deathworld
- An alternate universe Earth where Nazi Germany and the USSR never fought, filled with magic, high-technology and eldritch Presidential death-gods.
- DERP
- /tg/'s pet digital tabletop.
- Deus Volt
- Fantasy/mythic parallel to the crusades.
- Devil's Dixie
- (Devil's Dixie at bluwiki)
- What if the South made a deal with the Devil himself to fight the Civil War?
- Dieselpunk
- (Engines of Discord at bluwiki)
- A world permanently stuck in a darkly fantastic midway point between World Wars One and Two that never actually existed...
- Dive into the Sky
- Mecha Musume fighter girls/air combat.
- Dogpocalypse
- What if the dogs the government has been using for psychic experimentation suddenly realize they can literally escape on whim?
- Dungeons: the Dragoning 40,000 7th Edition
- A massive crossover RPG
- Endless Isles
- What if nobody ever died? Folks just sail the seas and take what they please.
- Engine Heart
- In a post-human world, the robots man built to serve its every need now seek a new purpose.
- Feltpunk
- MiB meets CoC...but with Muppets.
- Fight Fighters
- A dice game that turns all of your worthless toys into a table top game.
- Flatland
- Like the novel. Players take on the roles of triangles, squares and pentagons in a two-dimensional Victorian satire.
- Fortress Quest
- Dungeon crawl resolving around problem solving instead of hack 'n' slash.
- (Rules link)
- Four-Sworded Adventuring
- Randomly generated dungeon crawl pitting 1-4 Links against the world.
- Futurama: Now With Dice
- Futurama adapted for Steve Jackson Games' TOON system.
- Gestalt
- For Vidya players: a grimdark, horror take on Trine. For everyone else: Everyone is John, except the voices are actual people and is decidedly more serious
- Giant Guardian Generation
- A mecha game on the style of Super Robot Wars.
- Go to hell!
- Sick sad pokeymanz...
- Grimsystem
- A Gritty system that combines elements of WHFRP, The Burning Wheel, and a few other titles.
- Hail and Kill
- An RPG based around the lyrical themes and aesthetics found in heavy metal music.
- Hammerbro
- The companion game to Megaton.
- Harry Potter and the Tabletop RPG
- A d10 system for playing wizard children in the magical world of Harry Potter.
- Heathen Western
- What if Vikings had discovered the new world, and actually settled it? And then Ragnarok happened. A western.
- Henshin!: The Tokusatsu RPG
- System emulating tokusatsu such as Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Ultraman, or others. Reached alpha status, then got trolled to oblivion.
- Iron Hearts
- /tg/s Play-By-Post steampunk skirmish wargame rules.
- InfiniCon
- A game set in Infinity City, a town which is pretty much anime/comic/TV/fandom convention. Different fandoms create factions, and immersion in a fandom causes reality-bending "magic" of sorts related to the fandom.
- Inn0cence: Lost Future
- A riff on the classic Terminator future, with rag-tag free robots that fight against the tyranny of Network, but face suspicion and prejudice from humanity. Quality post-apoc cyberpunk, inspired by Wall-E.
- Inland Empire
- Steampunk in an alternate North America. Vikings, robots, and telegraph phreaking.
- It Came From Somewhere Else
- A B-movie RPG where you get slaughtered by the thing that came from somewhere else.
- Joints and Jivers
- RPG for historical reenactments.
- Lady Luck's Door
- Pen and paper roguelike, designed to be played without a DM.
- Legend of Zelda RPG
- The video games in RPG format, hopefully better than the existing d20 Zelda.
- Liberi Gothica (formerly known as NecroLoli)
- (Forum link) (Wiki link)
- A gothic horror, medieval steampunk setting, where small children [the PCs] suddenly acquire large amounts of power and don't know what to do with it. They are persecuted by the Church of the Twelve.
- Machina Dei
- Rome+giant robots=?
- Magic: the Gathering RPG
- A homebrewed system made to play an RPG in the style and fluff of the popular card game as both Planeswalkers and powerful Mages.
- Magical Girls - The Game
- Magical girl system. For the weeaboo paedophile in all of us.
- Mass Workshop
- Mass Effect tabletop skirmish game based on Warhammer 40k rules.
- Megaton
- In the eternal struggle for the Sacred Realm, there is only war.
- Metal Slug System
- METAL SLUG! A system based off the legendary game that seems to represent everything that is /tg/ - over-the-top mow-'em-down warfare with big explosions and bigger bosses.
- Modempunk
- A rules-lite d12-only game for playing hackers in an alternate-reality 1986. Now you too can be z3r0c00L.
- Moons of New Dixie
- An in-progress low-magic setting based around the folklore and stereotypes of the American South. The main wiki.
- Mosaic
- MAJIKAL ROONZ, LADDIE! Seriously though, it's an alternate reality in which the standard class archetypes are achieved in a very different manner than in D&D. The framework for the system's fluff and crunch is nearly completed.
- Most Excellent Adventure
- A rules-light RPG made by /tg/ in two days for playing in a Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure setting.
- Mother Fuckin Beyblades
- Beyblade: the RPG.
- New Jhelom
- Started as a simple "Make a Setting" Thread, and has ballooned into what you would get if 1001 Arabian Nights had been written by Lovecraft and the Brother's Grimm. Elemental blood lines, a wall of stars with demons behind it, a Vizier run empire that covers most of the oceans of the world, and technology powered through glass, souls, blood, and mathematicians are demonologists.
- Northeast
- A small game about a princess and her love for a knight that never fully came back from the War.
- Only Awesome
- Rules-light game where players have to be awesome.
- Ops and Tactics
- A Quasi-realistic RPG that's based off of the D20 System, who's claim to fame is over 50 pages of customizable guns, a reformatted bleeding system, and a slew of other major changes to the base D20 System. Written completely by one person.
- Orgomancer
- (Orgomancer wiki with feats and spells and other things)
- A game where you play as a sex mage who fucks monsters and then can summon them from cards
- Outlaw Star RPG
- A system for using [Dungeons the Dragoning] to play an Outlaw Star game.
- Outsider: The Calling
- A fan-made splat for World of Darkness in which the players take on the role of Lovecraftian abominations or those who have been touched by those beings not of this world and are now considered Outsiders, or, alien to their own world. A kind of inverse Call of Cthulhu.
- Panic
- The game of little girls running, a system inspired by survival horror games featuring young girls running from murderers.
- Pause
- Time has stopped, except for you. Why? And how're you going to survive in a world put on "pause" ?
- Pirate Lords of Warhammer 40,000
- Pirate adventures IIINNN SPAAAAAACE!
- Pokemon Tabletop Adventures
- It's exactly what it sounds like. Surprisingly can be used for anything from Nintendo-endorsed happy to grimdark, warlike, horrific, etc. interpretations of the setting.
- Project Daussalt
- Mecha Musume meets Advanced Wars in this /tg/420 Alpha.
- The Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap
- A universal setting wherein users contribute background for their own locales, as it will be 3 years after a minor nuclear exchange.
- Rivet
- A pulp rules-lite system and a dieselpunk setting all in one!
- Rockworld
- A setting where people live in small air air pockets underground. Contains glowing rocks, portals, and superpowers.
- Rodentia
- (Rodentia brainstorm on Bluwiki)
- Description here...
- Run & Gun
- A fast paced game designed to capture the feel of action video games.
- Samurai Movie RPG
- Exactly what the title says.
- Scholomance
- A "school for magic" subgenre game with a lot of backstabbing.
- Scrollhammer
- The Elder Scrolls: The Tabletop Game. Uses the Games Workshop engine, as the name might suggest. Very big work in progress.
- Server Crash
- A game with the premise of humanity trapped inside a hostile and sentient Internet.
- Shadowrun 4.5
- A streamlined ruleset for 4th edition Shadowrun, making the rules more comprehensive, cohesive, and fast.
- Shattered Sun
- The sun shattered, and now shards fly low over the landscape. The cities of the rich lay below stable shards, while most must chase after shards of the sun to avoid being eaten by vampires or sacrificed by dwarves.
- Simple_D6
- A super-lite freeform, narrative-based 1-page-system for people who hate explaining new systems to people. Fits any setting you can think of.
- Slavepunk
- Description here...
- Sorcerous Space
- Humans never learned how to use magic due to being inside of an anti-magic field. Instead, they have technology while the rest of the galaxy are more or less medieval or victorian wizards.
- Sputnik Lost
- The Soviets launched a moon landing first. They never returned, and their records were lost. Until now...
- STALKER: The RPG
- A game set in the nuclear wasteland around the disaster area of Chernobyl, Ukraine. Be a Stalker, tell other Stalkers to get out of here.
- STALKER: The Zone RPG
- Another /tg/ Stalker homebrew, this time using the Dark Heresy ruleset.
- StatWar
- A customizable wargame with a point buy system.
- Super Mario World: Pipes and Plumbers
- A game where the players take on the role of Bowser's minions, as opposed to Mario; a work in progress.
- Supernatural World War II
- An alternate universe were magic and technology co-inhabit after World War I.
- Surrail
- By Ruler of sup/tg/: A game where you venture through a train fuelled by famous peoples dreams and your own nightmares.
- Tau Dark Heresy
- A Dark Heresy modification based around letting people play in the Tau Empire.
- Tales of Arcadia
- A wargame made to actualize a Mornington Crescent-type meme that had been going around.
- The Editors
- Join the Transpace Guard to protect and secure the myriad worlds of fiction! A setting meant to handle multiversal crossovers of varying scales and intensities.
- The South Seas War
- A wargame inspired by Epic 40,000 with a setting inspired by Ace Combat, Front Mission and Rambo.
- The Machine
- A setting based off a earth that's interior is a giant clockwork machine.
- The World of Aarn
- A flexible fantasy parody setting with magitech, science, playful whimsy and eldritch horror. Its mission statement is to be funny, internally consistent and thought-provoking.
- Tiji Sector
- A terrifying sector in the WH40k Galaxy, for use with Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader and I guess Deathwatch.
- Time Wizards
- A rules light RPG about the shenanigans of wizards with nonsensical time-based powers. Best played intoxicated.
- Trigger Discipline
- (Rules on Google Docs)
- A generic rules lite mech RPG, with the twist of simulating a television show (with mechanics for director interference, fan mail, and so on)...
- Turning Point
- It is an alternate history world. It is Earth, but about a hundred and fifty years in the future shortly after the end of a time period known as the Era of Endless Smoke - a time where much of the Earth was blanketed by pollution. The skies were dark and most of mankind retreated to self contained cities known as Megatropolii, amalgamations of the extant mega cities of the world which were then cordoned off, quarantined, and self contained for protection against whatever was happening beyond their walls. tl;dr Grimdark Dieselpunk
- Überstadt
- (Überstadt on Wikispaces)
- DnD tropes are mercilessly inverted in this comedy of manners setting. Imagine the World's Largest Dungeon and other overly complicated D&D ecologies. Now transplant that onto a Ankh-Morpork style fantasy metropolis. Lawyers and gardeners are fearsome playable classes and various monstrous races serve different social niches (from goblin bankers to gnomish factory managers to orc bodyguards and dwarven gangsters).
- The Unified Setting for /tg/
- All of /tg/'s favourite original fantasy-setting content rolled into one campaign setting, from doobies to dorfs.
- Unofficial Elder Scrolls RPG
- A d100 Elder Scrolls RPG that is currently being redesigned: the first edition was based on Dark Heresy, while the WIP second edition is more heavily influenced by Runequest.
- Veil of Madness
- Humanity is inside of an area of space that is actively harmful to sentient beings. We don't have to fight space wars and develop to a higher tech level than anybody else. When we finally leave the Veil, all our first contacts paint humanity as a dark and evil race. After some time trying to fight it, humanity accepts this version of themselves and proceeds to troll the galaxy.
- Humanity Fuck Yeah, the setting. A little bit Mary Sue.
- VeloCITY
- Jet Set Radio, the role-playing game. Skate, blade, parkour, and fuckin' taggers.
- Vrilwar (now hogged by Dagda)
- WWII + Mechs (Anyone remember what the mechs were called?). Depending on which side's propaganda you believe the setting is either realistic (or at least gritty) or has a secret history involving Atlantean supertechnology. The Nazi's mystical view of vril technology was hijacked after the fact to serve as a convenient excuse for the German mech program to use Super Robot genre tropes such as teenage pilots and hot-blooded supermove shouting (as well as giant swords...) in contrast to the more realistic tank/jet warfare style of other nations' pilots.
- Waffle Edition 40K
- /tg/ got sick and tired of the official rules for 40K, and designed their own.
- Walmart Apocalypse
- Post-apocalyptic survival inside a giant Walmart hiding from killer stalking robots and avoiding being turned into a lobotomised greeter while clashing and trading with survivors in other departments.
- Wild Cards
- The in the West, some Guns have appeared. A full deck of them, dealt, perhaps, by Old Scratch himself.
- Wizard battle
- A small tactical board-game where two players are WIZARDS.
- Year Zero
- An RPG adaptation of Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero ARG.
- Zero Day
- One day Humanity wakes up and discovers half of the population have become superheroes and can't be hurt. A good chunk of the other half die when they try to see if they are superheroess too.