Today is Free RPG Day! Participating hobby game retail locations and industry publishers will be giving away free adventures and other materials so that gamers can try new games and play exclusive content together. This year Paizo has contributed three special products.

The first thing we're providing is the next adventure in the We Be Goblins series featuring the hijinks of Chuffy, Mogmurch, Poog, and Reta—Pathfinder Module: We Be 5uper Goblins by our own Crystal Frasier. The brainstorm meeting for this adventure was easily one of the funniest meetings I've ever attended, which was super welcome because we'd all had a few really stressful weeks at that time. Here are a few words from Crystal about her zany adventure.

"Goblins win! Goblins reign! Goblins venture ‘cross the planes!

There's not a lot our intrepid goblin hero-chiefs—Reta, Chuffy, Mogmurch, and Poog—haven't done at this point. They've conquered vicious halflings, slain literate cannibals, bested ogres, and battled terrifying harpies! They've grown from mere whelps to big bad hero-chiefs! What's left?

Maybe travelling the planes and fighting a vicious dragon?

We Be 5uper Goblins is the capstone for the We Be Goblins series, dropping everyone's favorite anarchists into a strange new setting where they need their wits and strong stomachs to survive.

Goblin adventures are always fun to write, because you can play with weird, fun ideas and bend the rules more than you can in a typical Pathfinder adventure, so I'm always happy when they come around. It turns the typical adventure dynamic on its head; you assume, on some level, that adventurers because they want to do "good" and they want to get rich. But goblins adventure because they want to do "crime" and get fed! Those two simple words open up lots of weird, fun new encounters, and I hope your players utterly break the narrative presented in this book for this year's Free RPG Day! I know mine did."

The next exciting thing you'll find at your local retailer is a short adventure for Starfinder—Starfinder Module: Skitter Shot, featuring the colorful, lovable, and helpful six-armed skittermanders. Our own Jason Keeley wrote this adventure, and I tracked him down in the far reaches of space to get a few words about his adventure.


"Hihello, nufriends! Today, you'll finally be able to get all of your hands on Starfinder's Free RPG Day offering,Skitter Shot and see what happens when you point a quartet of skittermanders at a problem and say, "Go help!" The four fuzzy friends will need to work together to defeat a rogue artificial intelligence aboard a luxury cruise ship, and will hopefully come out the other end with all their limbs intact.

When we decided skittermanders would be the focus, we took the opportunity to not only give you a fun and wacky adventure, but to illustrate our vision for the hyperactive creatures. Since they appeared in Starfinder Alien Archive, skittermanders have certainly captured most everyone's imaginations! And so, to further stoke those fires, Skitter Shot presents detailed backstories of the four skittermander pregens, each with a fun piece of skittermander slang that you can work into your everyday Starfinder conversations. But that's not all, the inside back cover of the book features a list of ten fun facts about skittermanders that will give you insight into their society and personal relations.

Like any good skittermander, WE only want to help YOU."

Lastly, players can add some ferocious goblin fun to their to Pathfinder Adventure Card Game with Nok-Nok. This fully playable character, complete with role and token cards, will be released for Free RPG Day 2018. Nok-Nok may be used with any Pathfinder Adventure Card Game set.

As in past years, the new Free RPG Day module is also sanctioned for the organized play campaign, and we've released the sanctioning document so that GMs have a chance to read over it and print out Chronicle sheets. You can find links to these downloads on the product pages, but we've also gathered them here to make things easy on you. If you're planning on playing the adventure, it's best to not check out the sanctioning documents. No one wants spoilers!

We Be 5uper Goblins sanctioning document
We Be 5uper Goblins Pregens
Skitter Shot sanctioning document
Skitter Shot Pregens
Did you oversleep and miss getting your hands on our offerings for Free RPG Day? Were you not able make it down to a store? Were no retailers in your area participating in this awesome day? Don't fret!

Physical copies of the adventures and the Nok-Nok card will be available for purchase here on paizo.com starting on July 1st, which is also the same time that you can come back here and download a free PDF of the adventures.

We hope everyone has a fun-filled Free RPG Day!

Adam Daigle
Managing Developer

It’s Free RPG today. Gamers around the world are encouraged to pop into their local store and try a new RPG for free today. It’s made possible by a host of sponsors which Geek Native thank and will mention a little later on.

Since 2014 Geek Native has been tracking the number of free RPGs available at DriveThruRPG. This is the world’s largest collection of downloadable tabletop RPGs.

Surprisingly, despite the tabletop RPG boom, the number of free RPGs this year has fallen.



There are 7,764 free RPG products at DriveThruRPG and 1,148 free downloads at the DMs Guild for D&D fans.

Of course, quantity and quality are not strongly linked. Despite the fall in free products, the hobby is still enjoying a resurgence and perhaps creator’s spare time flows into Twitch, YouTube and Kickstarters in 2018.

Most popular free RPGs
If there’s no link between the number of free RPGs and how good they are perhaps one way to sort through the thousands is to see what’s most popular. Here’s the current top ten of free RPGs on DrivethruRPG.

Trudvang Chronicles: Taken by Trolls by Riot Minds. Pay What You Want.
Die Screaming Character Sheet by Bryan Rantala. Pay What You Want.
High Fantasy Magic: A Simple Magic System for Fate Core & Accelerated by Nathan Hare. Pay What You Want.
Monster extractor IV – Aliens & Manufactured Beings, for Dungeon Crawl Classics by Inner Ham. Pay What You Want.
Pride Festival 5e Supplement by PbPlaysInside. Pay What Your Want.
Monkey The RPG Quickstart Rules by D101 Games. Free.
Elemental Evil Player’s Companion (5e) by Wizards of the Cost. Free.
The Void Core PDF by WildFire. Pay What You Want.
Tian Shang: Lone Wolf Fists (Eyebleed playtest version) by Five Emperors Games. Pay What You Want.
Delta Green: Need to Know by Arc Dream Publishing. Pay What You Want.
Most popular free D&D downloads
There are over 1,000 free D&D downloads at the DM’s Guild. The same analysis can be used. Here’s a list of the ten most popular free titles there.

Player’s Quick Combat Guide by Dungeon Masters Guild. Free.
The Secrets of Skyhorn Lighthouse by Dungeon Masters Guild. Free.
The Wild Sheep Chase – A Single-Session Adventure by Dungeon Masters Guild. Free.
A Boy and his Modron by Dungeon Masters Guild. Free.
The Alchemist (5e Classes with 4 Archetypes by Dungeon Masters Guild. Free.
Bulette Storm – Free Adventure by Dungeon Masters Guild. Free.
So, a Cleric and a Vampire Walk into a Tavern by Dungeon Masters Guild. Free.
DMs Guild Creator Resource – Barovia Map by Dungeon Masters Guild. Free.
DMs Guild Creator Resource – Adventures Art by Dungeon Masters Guild. Free.
DMs Guild Resource – Dragons Art by Dungeon Masters Guild. Free.

Free RPG Day Sponsors
There’s a host of companies to thank for providing free goodies to local stores to handout.

Free RPG Day Platinum Sponsors
Atlas Games for providing 15 copies of Unknown Armies 3 per box
Paizo for providing 3 copies of Pathfinder adventure Card Game Pack, 15 copies of a Pathfinder Adventure and 15 copies of a Starfinder Adventure per box
Q-Workshop for providing 15 Unique Viking Dice per box
Steve Jackson Games for providing 30 copies of Unique Munchkin CCG Hero Card per box
Free RPG Day Gold Sponsors
Flying Buffalo for providing 10 copies of Tunnels & Trolls QSR Japan Adventure per box
Goodman Games for providing 10 copies of a 5th edition Fantasy Adventure per box and 10 copies of DCC RPG Adventure and Quickstart per box
Monte Cook Games for providing 10 Numenera Adventures per box
Renegade Game Studios for providing 10 copies of Kids of Bikes RPG per box
Free RPG Day Silver Sponsors
Chaosium
Chessex
Lamentation of the Flame Princess
Ulisses Spiele
Free RPG Day Bronze Sponsors
Pelgrane Press
Troll Lord Games
Wyrd Miniatures
Free RPG Day Sample Sponsors
Off World Designs
Studio9 Publishing
UltraPro

 Mysterio wrote:
One of every Free RPG item?

And then you sold them all on eBay?

Er...

beowulfhunter wrote:

 Mysterio wrote:
One of every Free RPG item?

And then you sold them all on eBay?

Er...

If people will pay for them. I will sell. Made an easy 140.