This year, I have released a free character pack with three pre-generated zillas for you and your friends to take to town. This is the ‘Classic Character Pack’ and it isn’t hard to see the inspiration behind Thoron, the giant lizard with atomic breath, Leoptra, an enormous psychic moth, and Kapparo, a gargantuan magma-infused tortoise.

Download the classic character pack for free. If you don’t yet have the game itself, download ZILLA! for free too.

Happy Free RPG Day, everyone!

It’s Free RPG Day and I’ve got something special for you to sink your teeth into. I present my first roleplaying game: ZILLA!. You’re a giant zilla on a city-smashing rampage. Zillas are powerful and hard to kill, but they are prone to becoming enamoured with humans. Will you fight another zilla, escape the city to a better place, smash the city to the ground, or even… find love?

Zilla is an ‘oracle game’, which means it’s complete, but very short – only two pages long. It’s heavily inspired by John Harper, primarily his work with GHOST/ECHO and The Wildlings. I was also inspired by Vincent Baker’s In a Wicked Age and his awesome Otherkind dice (seriously, go read about them now). Even though I didn’t use Otherkind dice in this game, that system got me thinking about mechanically elegant games that provide options while being incredibly easy to learn.

So, please download ZILLA! and tell your friends about it. It’s free, so share it with anyone you think would be interested. If you read or play it, I’d love to hear your comments about how the game went (either here, or at Story Games).

Have fun, and happy Free RPG Day!