One Year of One-Page RPGs: VOLUME FIVE (2024)

In 2016, Grant Howitt decided – flippantly – to
write a one-page roleplaying game every month
and release it for free online. Little did he know
that the barely-intelligible pen-and-ink scratches he
turned out would go on to define his career, and
the shape of roleplaying games, for years to come.
Played by thousands of people all over the world,
Grant’s one-page games run the gamut from strange
to silly, daft to deadly serious, and powerfully
original to potentially copyright-infringing.

This volume presents the fifth group of 13 games in their original single-page format, complete with SECRET BACK PAGE material for (almost) every game that’s never been released online.

Volume 5 is the result of collaborations with 13 of the best and brightest voices in the world of games design (or people who aren’t games designers but that Grant wanted to work with anyway), and as a result several of the one-page games within are significantly more than one page in length. One of them is a short book!

Volume 5 (2021–2022)
• Uncanny Rally – with Chris McDowall
(Electric Bastionland, Into the Odd)
• Big Bang Superstars – with Nathan
Blades (Shadow Operations, Arcana
Corps)
• Cluedon’t – with Chloe Mashiter
(Alongame, Time Heist)
• Himbo Treasure Hunt – with Sasha
Sienna (Odd Jobs)
• Arlecchino’s Eleven – with Daniel
Lavery (The Toast, The Chatner, Texts
from Jane Eyre)
• Heartswood – with Sarah Gordon
(Vicious Creatures)
• Lexinomicon – with Becky Annison
(Bite Marks, Lovecraftesque)
• Wreck The Halls – with Thryn
Henderson (Ryne, Small Town
Skeletons, Jolene)
• The Rules of the Deep – with Jay
Dragon (Wanderhome, Yazeba’s Bed
and Breakfast)
• Captain Swanhands – with Jeeyon Shim
(The Longest Rest, The Snow Queen)
• Bird Crimes – with Xalavier Nelson
(Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator,
Hypnospace Outlaw, An Airport For
Aliens Currently Run By Dogs)
• Death Was The Only Road Out Of
Town – with Alex Roberts (For the
Queen, Star Crossed)

US Letter folder