They say that Mr Red is the closest thing to the devil hisself to walk the Frontier. But the banks he builds, the branches of The First National Bank of Perdition are trusted higher than pretty much any authority. The building of them isn't unopposed, and many would rather no bank, than that bank.

Your Posse of Dusters have just arrived in Ghostrange, on a ridge of small mountains in The Frontier, and the tension is almost as thick as the dust in the air. Something is off, and it's concentrated around the brick and iron construction site at the end of Main Street.

Decisions will have to be made, about how Law, Freedom, Modernity and the Arcane all see and deal with these changing times.

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Tex Arcana is a game system writen by the members of the Powered by the Apocalypse discord server. It's a Weird West game where not only is magic real, but common, if poorly understood and often beyond control. Characters are quick to make, and this game will follow the Agenda of Play to Find out.

The rules are freely avalible at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Duq2-iBV3vDWW4NciTj4sMVFHZl-KRFIRiIT...

Eleven solo games have been very kindly donated by Kiwi RPG creators for you to play during this round. Choices range from the cosy adventures of a baby pūkeko on a marae, to something more mature, like a freshly turned vampire trying to save their maker. Perhaps you'd like to map the office on your first day of corporate hell—I mean life—or would you rather wander a magical tower while earning the trust of its occupants? Some are short and won't take long to play while others might take a couple of hours.

Sero (she/they), the facilitator, will provide the games and have supplies on hand—things like dice, playing cards, and notepaper. They will introduce you to the games, provide assistance, answer questions or chat about solo games and the like.

List of possible Solo RPGs available during this round might include:

• L-inked
• Two Graves
• Fresh Blood
• The Bog Eternal
• Bog Body, Watching
• Corporate Onboarding
• The Tower in the Meadow
• You're Going to Your Ideal Wetland
• Na te Puhipa - Your Dear Friend Busby
• It is a Beautiful Day on the Marae and You are a Baby Pūkeko
• It is a Beautiful Day in the Wetland and You are a Horrible Bittern

What are Solo RPGs?

Solo RPGs are tabletop games designed for just one person. You don't need a Game Master or others, instead you can play on your own, using mechanics like random tables, oracles, journaling prompts, etc, to guide the story and gameplay. Some can be played with good ole' dice, while others utilise different mechanics, like drawing playing cards, flipping coins or using a tumbling block tower.

This winter is longer than any other before and some fear it will last much longer. King Ambrose has decreed to explore the mountains adjacent to the capitol to map new access to an old indigenous coal mine. You are part of this underground expedition.

Mountain Resonance is a soon to be released game developed in Aotearoa.
It combines the desperation and horror of the Mothership® RPG/Panic Engine™ with the aesthetics of 1930s alpine mountaineering. If you want to experience horror and attritional spelunking, this is your game.

Content warnings: Claustrophobia, loss of agency, colonialism, racism, character death, hypothermia

There will be a new king in the mountains to the east. To appease the soon-to-be self-crowned King Ambrose a gift is to be delivered. You have been chosen to traverse the mountains at the border and deliver the gift, from one king to another, from one brother to another.

Mountain Resonance is a soon to be released game developed in Aotearoa.
It combines the desperation and horror of the Mothership® RPG/Panic Engine™ with the aesthetics of 1930s alpine mountaineering. If you want to experience horror and attritional mountaineering, this is your game.

Content warnings: Body Horror, loss of agency, colonialism, racism, character death, hypothermia

"Earthquakes have flattened Antioch! The princeps is dying! His new provinces east of the Euphrates are in revolt! The king of kings is on the march! The gods are angry and the empire is doomed!"
As turmoil threatens Syria, a merchant vessel docks at Seleucia Pereia bearing travelers from Rome chasing a rumour of an ancient figurine. In quake-ravaged Antioch, a troubled sailor is murdered in mysterious fashion. Is the empire as doomed as people say, and can you do anything about it?

Nefas is an under-development PbtA game of Lovecraftian horror set in the Roman Empire.

A group of skeletons who have been serving a necromancer, while helping defend from a small attack of zombies during flashes of events s where they were a group happened to be on the castle bridge they are knocked in the heavy current of the water and have now suddenly found themselves washed up on a beach at the far end of there island home.
It seems the events leading up to this have triggered their minds and skills from there life before they were resurrected as skeletons and a connection to there master back at the other end of the island calling them back for help as they are unsure how long this freedom will last if their master perishes what will become of them as the party must now navigate across an island.

Look, mimics are smarter than you or me. It says right here, it's canonical, it's in the big book of truth:

This means they could be ANYWHERE. They could be ANYTHING. They could be ANYONE. The Dragon Emperor has decreed that something must be done about this, and that's now your problem. How are you going to solve this? Is the twist that you're secretly all mimics too? Maybe the Emperor's a mimic?

Have your dice started eating each other yet? Have you counted them recently?

The Legion is in retreat following a failed battle against the armies of the undead. You are a member of the Legion, your bonds to one another forged in the dark by bone and blood.

Now you have have reached Talgon Forest, which grows more mystical by the day. The Panyar brought a cutting from their Heart Tree a few hundred years ago and now the paths and trees are becoming prone to shifting. A sacred site to the Horned One is hidden here too, and she has great power to offer you. Talgon Forest is one of the most pristine places left in Aldermark, but that does not make it safe. The forest does not care for intruders, and the Legion are only marginally better than their undead counterparts in the eyes of those things that call the forest home.

When the Chosen of the Moon Goddess Nyx faced the undead Cinder King, he Broke her, as he has Broken so many of the Chosen. The moon shattered and fell from the sky. A huge fragment of it lies in the Talgon Forest, and such a powerful and holy relic would be invaluable in the war.

Put a team together, choose your unit, and go and fetch it.

A reboot of the wildly popular* game from several years ago.

It's the first day of college and you're moving into a shared apartment in a dormitory with people you don't even know!
Sure, you have your secrets, but you can absolutely start afresh and no one has to know you're not a normal kid raised in a normal suburban house. Maybe you're the antichrist, maybe you have psychic powers, maybe you have weird abilities others would freak out about, but not to fear! You're in university now, it'll be totally fine.

You're the Gen Z progeny of some people who had wild adventures in the 1970s. Fans of films like The Wicker Man, The Omen, Carrie, Halloween, Rosemary's Baby and so on will have a blast.

Using the Monster of the Week system, this motley crew of misfits will face a bizarre mystery that blends modern horror with something a little more camp and classic.

(*Wildness of popularity may be exaggerated)

Space Marines. Adeptus Astartes. 8 foot tall, genetically engineered, cybernetically augmented. In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest guns will they be armed. And They Shall Know No Fear.

The Deathwatch has been requsitioned to intervene after a series of lightning strikes with uncommon co-ordination on the supply planet of Hydraxus IV. Acting as material and munitions center for ongoing war against the Orks in this sector, it is far enough from the front lines to have minimal armed presence. The Planetary Defence Force has failed to respond adequately to what should be easily tracked Ork forces, and ongoing losses are becoming unmaintainable.

Your Deathwatch squad is en route to prelimiary reports of another raid, and have orders to eliminate the Xenos.

Oath of Moment is a game designed to give humanity and character to Space Marines, by presenting them with humanising flaws and personality. Space Marines have Demands, from Duty, Honour, Blood and Conscience. And they can and will conflict. How you resolve these, how you navigate these emotional perils will speak who who you are.