Anyone recommend a good FREE paper n pen RPG style game?

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**SkavenLord**

AegisGrimm wrote:
Heroes Against Darkness is an awesome D20 game. The rulebook, is big, fully fleshed out with both a Player's Guide and a GM/Monster Manual section, the artwork is great, and it's totally free directly from the designer's blog.

He basically took everything he thought worked great from all of the editions of DnD, and completely threw out the rest. For instance, magic users use anima (mana) points to cast spells, and every spell of each level is available as soon as you hit that level for each type of magic user. There is no once-per-day, or memorized spells.

Though there is a lengthy section of the GM guide dedicated to putting certain DnD tropes back into the game, like bringing back memorized spells.

It's awesome and I would totally recommend it. I am going to be a first-time GM and I could literally run every standard fantasy setting I can think of with this one book for the rules. I may even buy the Rise of the Runelords adventure path and just use Heroes Against Darkness templates for the monsters.

http://heroesagainstdarkness.blogspot.com/p/heroes-against-darkness-downloads.html

Also, try going completely crazy and running Swords and Sorcery, the free reprint of original, old, old, old-school D&D.

I'm going to second this one. Much, much easier to work with than D&D in my opinion and a very well made rulebook.

Are you by any chance a Pokémon fan? They have a D20 RPG for that too somewhere called Pokémon Tabletop Adventures. It's actually pretty decent in my opinion (if a little complicated)

Also, I'm also going to throw in these lists of free RPGs out there too. Are they good? No idea. Do some of the links not work? Well... yes. But there are a LOT of these here.

http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/freerpgs/index.html

http://sillyhatbooks.com/about/games/

http://www.1km1kt.net/cat/rpg

Even 1D4Chan has a few of them.

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Category:Homebrew_Rules

Hope it helps!

**SkavenLord**

Doesn't DriveThru RPG also have free RPGs?

Also, Dungeon Squad I've heard is a good hack and slash one for beginners without a lot of detail to story. I haven't tried it though. There's also a 40k expansion of it somewhere if you look.