Quickstart
Blades in the Dark — Free Player's Kit
Evil Hat / John Harper · 32p
Playbooks, crew sheets, and the core rules you need to try Blades.
Publisher free
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Blades in the Dark
Call of Cthulhu 7e
Quickstart
Call of Cthulhu 7e Quick-Start Rules
Chaosium · archived · 40p
The complete free 7e quickstart — abbreviated rules, pregen investigators, and the classic starter adventure 'The Haunting'.
Publisher free (Chaosium)
Daggerheart
Quickstart
Daggerheart Quickstart Adventure (Sablewood Messengers)
Darrington Press · archived · 48p
'Sablewood Messengers' — the free official Daggerheart starter adventure with 5 pre-made characters. Everything you need to play tonight.
Publisher free (Darrington Press)
Dungeons & Dragons 5e
Basic Rules
D&D 5e Basic Rules (2018)
Wizards of the Coast · 180p
The complete free 5e basic rules — levels 1-20, 4 core classes, 4 core races, 120 spells.
Publisher free
SRD
D&D 5.1 SRD (OGL)
Wizards of the Coast · 403p
The System Reference Document — every open-license rule, class, spell and monster for 5e.
OGL 1.0a / CC-BY-4.0
Mothership 1e
Player's Guide
Mothership Player's Survival Guide (1E)
Tuesday Knight Games · 44p
The complete player-facing rules for Mothership 1E — character creation, combat, stress and panic.
Publisher free
TMNT & Other Strangeness
Basic Rules
TMNT & Other Strangeness — Original 1985 Rulebook
Palladium Books · archived · 112p
The complete 1985 Eric Wujcik / Palladium rulebook. BIO-E mutation system, combat, and the classic TMNT setting.
Archive.org — out of print
The End of the World: Zombie Apocalypse
Basic Rules
The End of the World: Zombie Apocalypse
Fantasy Flight Games · 144p
The core FFG rulebook for the Zombie Apocalypse scenario — character creation via 'play yourself', dual physical/mental/social tracks, four included scenarios.
Hosted by Quest Line