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Free 4th Edition

Posted by on April 29, 2009 · 9 Comments 

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  • GURPS Lite: “GURPS Lite is a 32-page distillation of the basic GURPS rules. It covers the essentials of character creation, combat, success rolls, adventuring, and game mastering for GURPS Fourth Edition.”
  • Ars Magica: “The fourth edition of Ars Magica‘s core rulebook introduces improved systems in several key areas such as combat, character advancement, and covenant generation.”
  • Shadowrun: “Shadowrun, fourth edition quick start rules, strips Shadowrun down to the core with fast, playable rules, an introductory scenario-Food Fight 4.0- and four ready-to-play characters.”

and now…

  • Dungeons & Dragons: “These quick-start rules provide an overview of the game so that you can play the Keep on the Shadowfell adventure.”

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9 Responses to “Free 4th Edition”
  1. Marcelo Dior says:
    April 30, 2009 at 7:28 am

    There’s Exalted too, isn’t there?

  2. Nicholas says:
    April 30, 2009 at 8:59 am

    Call of Cthulhu has a free quick start set of rules and an adventure too. It’s really not that weird. I’ve run the free quick start rules of several games with my group to see if it is something we’d like to play.

    I’m not too sure about using content people previously paid for but I think it is a good move on WotC’s part in general.

  3. The Game says:
    April 30, 2009 at 9:23 am

    Maybe I was too cute for my own good (it’s been known to happen) but I was only showing free RPGs that are also in their 4th edition.

  4. Marcelo Dior says:
    April 30, 2009 at 9:55 am

    In this case, you forgot Shadowrun 4th ed. quick-start rules: http://www.shadowrun4.com/quickstart/

  5. The Game says:
    April 30, 2009 at 10:00 am

    Crap, I even looked around at the Shadowrun stuff and couldn’t find that. Thanks.

  6. Bartoneus says:
    April 30, 2009 at 10:04 am

    Yea, the URL is totally decieving, what with the “shadowrun” and the “4″ and the “quickstart”. Perhaps putting “murder” and “puppies” into google only works for 75% of the free RPG content? :D

  7. Marcelo Dior says:
    April 30, 2009 at 10:40 am

    Holly shit, I rolled a critical failure.

    Sorry…

  8. The Game says:
    April 30, 2009 at 10:54 am

    Marcelo: You didn’t miss anything, I sneakily added it to the original post, and thanks again for the link.

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