@Ziggurat tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article

@Advent well the first thing i did was freeze up and then break character and tell them that they just killed the quest giver and now i have no prepared way to hook them into the plot 🤣

then i think i had some orcish thug employees of the wizard show up and coerce them into getting back on track. Continuity meta-police.

@bionicjoey @Advent my players immediately killed the sheep. I was a new dm at the time so it absolutely broke me 🤣

@tissek check out Wendi Yu's stuff! They use a tag system in a lot of their stuff! https://wendiy.itch.io/here-there-be-monsters

@QuietStorm Do you want something that feels like D&D? What else are you into? What vibe are you looking for?

You can browse the free solo games on itch and see what jumps out at you.

https://itch.io/physical-games/free/tag-solo-rpg

@tissek
TRAVELLER SRD
https://www.traveller-srd.com/

RISUS
https://bit.ly/Risus

13TH AGE SRD
https://www.13thagesrd.com/home/

TROIKA! SRD
https://www.troikarpg.com/resources

QUEST
https://www.adventure.game/store/digital-edition/

TALISLANTA
http://talislanta.com/talislanta-library
https://gamefound.com/projects/cbatarlis/talislanta

4 COLOR SYSTEM
https://bit.ly/4ColorSystem

RENAISSANCE
Renaissance SRD:
https://bit.ly/RenaissanceSRD
Renaissance Deluxe:
https://bit.ly/RenaissanceDeluxe

PATHFINDER 2 SRD
https://2e.aonprd.com/

STARFINDER SRD
https://aonsrd.com/

@tissek STARS WITHOUT NUMBER
https://bit.ly/StarsWithoutNumberFreeEdition
https://bit.ly/StarsWithoutNumberDeluxeEdition

WORLDS WITHOUT NUMBER
https://bit.ly/WorldsWithoutNumberFreeEdition
https://bit.ly/WorldsWithoutNumberDeluxeEdition

GODBOUND
https://bit.ly/GodboundFreeEdition
https://bit.ly/GodboundDeluxeEdition

CAIRN
https://bit.ly/Cairn

MAUSRITTER
https://bit.ly/MausritterRPG

INTO THE ODD
https://bit.ly/IntoTheOdd

FATE CONDENSED
https://bit.ly/FateCondensed

THE CEPHEUS ENGINE
Cepheus Engine SRD:
https://bit.ly/CepheusEngine
Cepheus Engine full PDF:
https://bit.ly/CepheusEngineFull

@tissek save you a click:

IRONSWORN
https://bit.ly/IronswornRPG

WICKED ONES
https://bit.ly/WickedOnesFree

MORK BORG (BAREBONES)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HTo3sZj2amEdHzWnVe93mjqAbyVlXS7h/view?usp=sharing

DEGENESIS
Core rules:
https://bit.ly/DegenesisRebirth
Biggest rules expansion:
https://bit.ly/DegenesisArtifacts

BLADES IN THE DARK SRD
https://bladesinthedark.com/basics

LANCER
https://massif-press.itch.io/corebook-pdf-free

OLD SCHOOL ESSENTIALS (SRD)
https://oldschoolessentials.necroticgnome.com/srd/index.php/MainPage

GUMSHOE SRD
https://pelgranepress.com/gumshoe/files/GUMSHOESRDCC3.pdf

BASIC FANTASY
https://www.basicfantasy.org/downloads.html

SWORDS AND WIZARDRY
https://bit.ly/SwordsWizardryCore

@tissek @GataZapata I don't think you can call Blades (or Wicked Ones, mentioned below) rules light. It's core mechanic is super simple, yes, and has inspired lots of lightweight hacks. But Blades has soooo much tacked onto it that it almost feels like a board game to me in the sense that there are just so many moving pieces, and stages of play, and faction play, etc: it feels like a collection of mini-games sometimes.

@KoboldOfArtifice wiki software my dude. i used to keep all my campaign notes in a project wiki on github. and have recently been using vimwiki. that way stuff can be hyperlinked instead of linear. and vimwiki has a good tagging system. and it's all plain text so you can search it really easily.

@amoroso My first linux! Around 2001 it was the only thing that would run on my laptop with no issues.

@corcaroli @Rapowke This is the correct answer.

@Velynt I'd check out Modern d20 and BRP. Might be worthwhile trying to find a Shadowrun hack.