Stone Age

Prehistoric (fantasy)
Self Published
2010
Complexity: 4

Stone Age is—unsurprisingly—a prehistoric role-playing game, which is a setting that seems like it would be interesting, but is extremely underutilized. It’s also another 24-hour RPG, which as previously stated I like reviewing because they tend to be short and interesting. For a 24-hour RPG it’s also a bit… let’s just say “ambitious,” and you should keep the time restraint in mind while reading this review because me doing so while writing it would be unfair to other games.

[New Size Labels]

Greeting obscure role-playing game enthusiasts! I have now added a size label to all reviews indicating the length of the document in pages. You can now browse reviews of games that are 1, 2–29, 30–100, or over 100 pages in length. The new labels can be found on the sidebar with all the others.

Technical stuff: Page count is based only on "content pages" excluding covers and character sheets or similar pages (that's how I was qualifying things as one page, so I'm sticking with it). Also, any digital documents laid out in two-page spreads will be categorized by laid-out pages, not by PDF page count.

Update: changed the labels a bit, now they display in order and all of them actually work.

Above the Earth

Modern (superheroes)

Innocence Games
2004
Complexity: 1

Above the Earth is another 24-hour RPG, which I tend to review a lot of because they’re generally A: Free, B: Short, and C: Based on more experimental ideas. It’s also a superhero RPG, which just happens to be the most broken and unbalanced genre of role-playing game since, let’s be honest here, there is no way Batman and Superman are anywhere near the same power level, but in comics they are. This seems to be the problem that Above the Earth tries to solve.