BRUTAL 4ed Released

Big Bad Ball Busting Bloody Battles 

BRUTAL is fast, furious, and fun. I put it halfway between RPG and Miniatures Skirmish game. I met the author and played in one of his games at (I think) Dundracon many years ago (BRUTAL is 15 years old).

"Hordes of Heart-Pounding, Heavy-Hitting, Hack-and-Slash action adventure await! This game is not for sissy players who don't want their characters to die."

Now available as free PDF  http://www.BrutalRPG.com

"BRUTAL is a fantasy/horror tabletop war-game/role-playing-game. It uses a pile of 6-sided dice. Your characters use XP to improve their ability ratings to roll more dice. Opposng dice rolls are added up. If the attacker rolls higher than damage is found as the difference. Combat is fast and bloody, with many things all happening at once. Characters often die. Do you have the guts to play? How long can you keep your characters alive?"

Free RPG, Why Buy?

Look at these Free RPGs!

That's only the ones reviewed by the Free RPG Blog. If you can't find something interesting there to play or riff ideas off of, man, I just don't understand you. And if you think it's all low production, amateurish schlock. One, you're wrong and two, get off your high-horse you pretentious wanker.


There is a nearly endless stream of creative, innovative fan-based material on the net or printed at cost like Fight On! More than you could easily get through. Tis why the Free RPG Blog is one of the most important blogs/resources the RPG community has. Finding, filtering, and reviewing some of the hoard that is out there for all to use. Rob Lang is most deserving of a Tip of the Hat.


From that list of reviewed free RPGs I've played (and would recommend) FUDGE, Brutal, the unrevised JAGS, FATE, Star Frontiers (back in the day). I'm really interested in trying out Midgard and Dominion Rules. And so want to run a short campaign of Digitally Remasterd Star Frontiers. Also ripping tons of great ancient flavor from Zenobia.


There's really no need to buy another RPG product ever. For me games have always been a hobby, not an industry. Never wanted to make it a job and after discovering FUDGE I understood there was no need for publishers. Of course I still buy stuff (although often used and mostly from small pubs). Except for a few major players, publishers are all right. They just don't provide a needed service anymore. But neither does Starbucks.

Big Bad Ball Busting Bloody Battles

I got introduced to BRUTAL aka Big Bad Ball Busting Bloody Battles at a con when I lived in Seattle, WA or maybe it was in San Fran... Anyway, glad to see it's still busting balls and being reviewed on the excellent Free RPG Blog.

It's a great game. Exactly what a rules-lite, combat heavy miniatures game should be. Fun, fast and furious! Definitely what I'd use to play a Dungeon Reality Show based off of Blood Bowl. It also has great art because the creator, David J. Stanley, doesn't want it to look like ass. So, he pays a lot of money commissioning talented artists to make art for his free game.

I made some Sci-fi rules (think "Game over man" and the excellent Space Hulk game) I'll have to dig them up and post them.

What other free RPG has a hangman game on it's website?