UChicago's Tabletop Tuesdays
Hi, we're UChicago's tabletop gaming society! Any reviews & blurbs left here are courtesy of information provided by current and former students.
Any UChicago student interested in accessing the content displayed here in our collections is welcome to contact Jude (jvdenning@uchicago.edu) for the downloads!
Board Games & Game Modules
A Shifting Memory card game (Inspired by a song)
A push-your-luck roll-and-move game where players rapidly roll and save a dwindling number of dice per round.
Alpacas on pirate ship trying to reach the land: their homeland or an unknown new one.
A hand-written, hand-drawn memory game/dungeon crawler!
Add drama, acting, sneakiness, and roleplaying to the Shopkeeper Showdown base game!
An Improv Comedy Smackdown
Battle for bags of gold via strategic selections and drafting in this 18-card game
What if you got to combine your favorite fantasy TTRPG with a classic board game? Well now you can!
Indie TTRPG Roulette
TTRPGs designed for anywhere from 3-6 players to be played during a future Tabletop Tuesdays meeting!
One page RPG about Office & Gossip - Lasers & Feelings hack
A dinosaur-themed expansion for Come Rain Come Shine.
A Solarpunk Collaborative Story-telling and Role-playing Game, based on the Four Points system.
A micro-TTRPG about magical girls in love.
A one-page RPG about the clerical workers of the Lords of Hell
A roleplaying fighting game of selves-discovery.
a game about land-memories and the horrors of war
A role-playing game inspired by old school first person shooters.
Science Fantasy Looter Shooter Illuminated TTRPG. Swords, Guns, Magic, Apocalypse.
A Game of Backstabbing Fae Politics
The Monsters of Marginalia Explode from an Illuminated Manuscript
A Soulslike TTRPG
The Definitive Edition of Futuristic Fantasy Roleplay
Another game about burnout, about looking after yourself while being kind to others.
A gm-less, diceless hot mess for 3-4 players to live out your best vampire sitcom life
A 1-4 player TTRPG about friendship across time
A micro RPG where you play adorable, magical bees that normally save the world, but now it's vacation time!
Fall In Love With Your Friends. Embrace Your Monstrosity.
A Paranormal Inc Mystery about Corporate Sabotage
A TTRPG where you are creatures of the Fae trying to remove the humans from your home. Band together to drive them out!
TTRPG Modular Content
TTRPG content that can be added to existing games or in a variety of systems & settings!
A pamphlet of tools to elaborate on door and lock contests in TTRPGS.
A dinosaur-themed expansion for Come Rain Come Shine.
A Ghost Tour Storytelling Game
Kill demons with their own bones, find your place in the spheres!
A bestiary/factions sourcebook for Troika
Mörk Borg compatible weapons, items, creatures, and more.
A playbook for Thirsty Sword Lesbians
Love is a Force of Nature
An adventure for four adventurers of 3rd level
A RADICAL 4 page Neon Nights 1st Edition expansion!
An ever-shifting dungeon crawl compatible with Mörk Borg.
Return to the moon palace of Claviceps Purpurea and fight for the future of your planet!
A Man Divided Against Himself Cannot Stand
This social and roleplay adventure has a high-stakes, low-gravity boss fight your players will never forget!
See the Dark Woman, Nightmares Follow
A Wanderhome supplement funded by the Haeth Grant
A two-page, five-room dungeon from the famous warlock himself!
All Pigs are Bastards
It's a hurricane coming and at it's heart a forgotten mind seeks comfort in destruction
Solo/Journaling TTRPGs
Fight SPEED DEMONS in this solo wish fulfillment RPG.
A solo-journaling game about first-time big magic
Try to balance your personal, social, and school life in this dice-stacking solo RPG.
A one-page solo journaling TRPG set in an ongoing global alien invasion
A solo journaling game inspired by the Zen bums of the Beat Generation.
A solo game about communities in a post-capitalist world
A no-DM competitive or solo TTRPG dungeon crawl for 1-6 players utilizing a deck of tarot cards and a set of dice.
A solo journaling RPG where you write a book report.
A solo game about mechas, monsters, and mothers
1930s Pulp Adventure Solo RPG
A journaling game about making monsters and writing about them with friends
A Blackjack-based Solo-Journaling TRPG.
A one player survival horror RPG based on a true story
A solo RPG about jewellery and revolution.
A solo journaling RPG where you fight nightmares
A quiet game about running a tea shop on the border of the living and the dead.
A solo-rpg system, used in games like the Van Witch, Moon Soup, and the Sun Fleet
A solo journaling TTRPG about Hermit Crabs finding shells and helping others along the way!
A Peregrine Game - solo journalling TTRPG
Grab your composure and a d6
LARP Collection
You wanna LARP a Jester?? Click Here! (Not Clickbait)
Party Games (6+ players)
Use GIFs to guess the song titles before the Devil steals your soul!
Recall your memories and the lessons you learned from Wonderland
Create your own bad spaceship
Make doing the dishes, waiting in line, or making toast sound like the BEST THING EVER!
An RPG for anyone that could use a way to make profit fast
A low prep party game-style tabletop RPG in which you play a team of actors producing a horror-comedy prank show.
A high-fantasy TTRPG built on themes of balance and tipping points
An RPG, a party game, & a hack of Taboo. (Yes, that Taboo.)
A collection of party games where you play by having a conversation.
Tell of your adventures traveling through the Stargate
Make up long-winded stories and PAY ATTENTION! Yes, even you!
Two-Player TTRPGs
a game of letter writing in the ashes of a world that was
A 2-player superhero romance rpg
A survival horror postcard-writing game for two players/households.
A duet game about desperate last conversations.
Recall your memories and the lessons you learned from Wonderland
Card interpretation game for worldbuilding and history-exploring
Forge your backstory through play!
A firebrands-inspired ritual about relationships and community for two players--one is a pilot and one is a mech.
A two-player journaling game about bonds that transcend space and time
Create your own bad spaceship
An rpg about making your lover laugh, aka finding pockets of joy in grim times.
A short microrpg for two players, about a duel and a death.
An RPG for anyone that could use a way to make profit fast
a ttrpg about running a very haunted funeral home
A solo RPG based on Ironsworn. Find a serial killer in a Victorian inspired city beneath a moon that bleeds Ghostlight.
Elden Ring inspired Mini TTRPG of killing gods and burning the world
a slice-of-life game of fallen angels and Belonging Outside Belonging
A d4 one-sheet two-player story game
a time loop rpg for two players
Group TTRPGs (3-6 players)
Just what the title says - a collection of TTRPGs that are best played in small groups! Note: most of these player estimates don't include the GM since there's quite a few GM-less games. For instance, if a game calls for 2-3 players but it...
A 24 hour RPG about superheros
Play as swashbuckling parrots in this TTRPG
A Lasers & Feelings hack inspired by The Last Dragon Chronicles by Chris d'Lacey
Cosmic fantasy between the spheres and planes
A two page/trifold pamphlet RPG about exploring space and saving the galaxy from corporate greed
The call of The Open Road beckons
A gmless game for four players about fighting monsters far greater than yourself.
A roleplaying game for episodic mystery stories and more!
Find love, play in horrible bands, and fight your exs when they break up your date.
Digital Zines
A look at medieval society from its lower rungs.
Forage for mushrooms from the comfort of your home in this 8-page zine!
A sci-fi audio drama about living on a doomed earth and building things anyway.
Our debut issue exploring the strange worlds and new horizons of tabletop gaming
Issue 2 celebrating the changing face of tabletop games, from D&D B/X to the best new games of today
A poem I wrote, made into a pocket-sized zine.