OSN Book Club Anthology vol. 1

12 micro RPGs, bound together in one PDF. Run numbers for a dream-bound boohag, give up slivers of your emotions to lose a memory forever, or just smash the ever-loving **** out of a pumpkin at a party! The games in this anthology are diverse and amazing.

Originally published monthly as part of the One Shot Network Patreon Book Club, this anthology was funded on Kickstarter. We now present all 12 games to you! If you want ongoing access to the new games we're currently releasing, consider joining the Book Club!

The Games

House Mites, by Tracy Barnett
House Mites is a game that's The Borrowers meets Doozers from Fraggle Rock. The house mites live in the walls of every house and work to protect it from whatever would threaten it. It's a whimsical, cozy game with funny names and real feelings. 

Bottle Spirits, by Nick Butler
Bottle Spirits is a game that combines prohibition-era speakeasies, parkour, a 1980s punk aesthetic, and a government plot to turn minorities into zombies. The streets are being filled with the spirits, an intoxicating brew that was seeded into marginalized communities by government agents. You and your fellow runners have found a cure and you've got one night, tonight, to get that cure into safe hands.

Dream Runners, by Jonaya Kemper
In the underground world of supernatural creatures, a thriving dream lottery business has arisen. Translating their dreams into numbers that they play, cryptids play the dream lottery for the same reasons any other person might play: inflation is a killer, and even supernatural creatures have to pay the bills.

Nexus Books, by Sharang Biswas
People come from everywhere and everywhen to get book recommendations from the staff at Nexus Books. Take on the roles of the quirky staff members as customers of myriad backgrounds come to you to get a book recommendation (not for any other reason, nope, surely not to fix their lives)!

Qualia, by Paul Stefko
Qualia is a roleplaying game of horror, action, and heroism aboard a starship besieged by a mysterious alien foe. The players portray psychic echoes of the first victims, fighting the invaders to rescue their surviving crewmates.

Goblins With a Gourd, by Adira Slattery
The Gourd must be protected... or decorated... or smashed!! All depends on the kind of goblin you are. Goblins With a Gourd is designed to be played at any party that can accommodate goblin-centered shenanigans and the smashing of a gourd-like object.

Painless Blue, by Cat McDonald
The Winter Prince, beautiful and cruel and generous, takes, for his own reasons, one human heart every winter. The Unmelting Arena is full of people competing for the honor and the release of having their burdensome feelings taken away.

He takes only one heart.

If you want it to be yours, you must prove yourself.

Backroads, by Alex Teplitz
Backroads is a one-shot about a group of people in a car, with a tape deck, trapped in the liminal space of the Backroads. Only one of you will get out. Maybe. 

Aliens Don't Do Group Projects, by Jay Dragon
You're each an alien, in disguise as a middle-schooler and you've all been assigned the same group project. Build your presentation and try to win by getting in the info you want. Whomever gets the most points, wins!

Monoculture, by Marc Majcher
You play rogue gardeners in a dystopian urban city megablock tower, tending and maintaining secret spaces to provide fresh food and self-sufficiency for yourself and those around you.

Fire in the Garden, by Gabrielle Rabinowitz
The Emperor is ailing. The once formidable ruler has grown weak. His dominion is wavering. Many gifted healers have tried and failed to restore the Emperor to health, but to no avail. And yet, you few gathered here today can heal the Emperor.

Mythmakers of Morpho, by Logan Timmins
You, an alien researcher who got distracted by karaoke, needs to complete an astounding report about Earth's birds. The citizens of Morpho are going hang on your every word! Better make birds sound awesome!