Grotten: 1-Bit Deeper

PDF included.

Grotten is a minimalist dungeon crawler using physical tiles to generate and explore a dungeon, where you roll on random tables to fill the rooms with monsters, traps, loot, NPCs - and a final epic boss fight. The zine contains one-page rules and character creation, cut-out dungeon tiles and tokens, and lots and lots of random tables.

Grotten is perfect for both solo play, co-op, with or without a GM, as a quick and easy stand-alone game or to use as a dungeon in any fantasy system you are playing. 

Grotten uses regular roleplaying dice. The characters are built with only 4 stats. A d20 is used to resolve tasks and combat, where you aim to roll higher than the difficulty rating, and the stats give modifiers to your rolls. There's also a simple level-up system that makes your character better, each time you defeat a boss.

There is really no prep needed, just plug and play. This means it is super quick and easy to get playing, even at a pub or a at party, where concentration and commitment might not be of the highest level.

The physical product is a square 6x6" zine, printed on quality uncoated paper, 20 pages in, black and white. The tiles and tokens will come as seperate sheets on 350g matt finished paper, with fold lines - ready to cut out.