I’ll keep it brief. I like “pocket sized” rulebooks. I want to know what other rpgs come in pocket sizes.
I’m aware of:
Lamentations of the Flame Princess
All of Paizo’s properties
Tiny d6
Sigil and Shadow
Blades in the Dark
The Dark Eye
What other rpgs have books that are roughly A5-sized and are, preferably, single core rulebooks?
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Mork Borg
Mothership
Troika
Mausritter
D.O.G.S.
Into the Odd
Knave
Dead Halt
Whitehack 3E has a very nice small hardcover edition that you can get with blank dot graph pages in the back to put campaign notes in. I think it may be a bit bigger than A5 but it is small. Love this thing.
You can see where the pages start and where the campaign ended.
That's pretty nice. Most books doing something like that would give you maybe 2 pages.
Pathfinder 2e has pocket sized versions of their books
>preferably *single* core rulebooks
No, and stay no.
Shadowrun 5kraut
>All of Paizo’s properties
>The Dark Eye
You seen to really enjoy weapon grade autism. Why not complete the trifecta with the A5 version of Shadowrun?
There's a shit ton of decent indie RPGs with rulebooks that you can fit on an index card
Cool. Name some you like.
Maze Rats is small, as I recall.
Cryptomancer has an expansion book, but it's largely unnecessary and the small core book suits most of what you might do with the game.
I have a copy of some VERY SMALL D&D books, like the size of a business card. Unearthed Arcana, etc.)
The Konosuba RPG is in standard manga dimensions though its a bit on the thick size.
Theres demand for it? I'll go back to working on the a5 version of my doc
In Germany Shadowrun 5 did this thing were they had everything as normal A4 hardcover on launch for the full price. Then a few years into the life cycle their "Group pack" or something came out. Packs of five core rulebooks as A5 softcovers. Came out to 10€ per book. Some of my regular group bought both: A nice big one for reference at home and a small cheap one they don't care about for going to friends.
Personally I'm surprised there isn't more demand for smaller paperback rulebooks. They're more portable, cheaper, ironically harder to damage and more replaceable. But I guess PDFs are also all of those things
Have you looked at any of the POD providers? The majority of offerings are in a5, half-letter, or trade paperback.
Not really. The only PoD I have experience with is DTR for hardcover standard sized books.
Drivethru's prices are pretty shit these days, but Lulu has some decent stuff. Here's someone else's list of RPG's and supplements:
https://newschoolrevolution.com/lulu-recommendations
Most of those are around a5 size, but not all.
lurking for some of those 1-page dungeon crawler games that ppl used to post in Ganker threads
the kind you can print out, fold up and stuff in your wallet for times you wanna fill a few hours
Burning wheel comes in a pocket size book. The gold edition is kind of the same dimensions that a bible is
Burning Wheel is such a beautiful book. The cover and pages and everything are so good. The contents are amazibg too but not as polished as the actual quality of the physical book.
the dark souls RPG(the original one not the pozzed 5e styled one) comes in a book around the size of a manga or graphic novel. Seems to be a trend for a few jp RPGs
Kingdom/Microscope
Apocalypse World.
Dogs in the Vineyard, oop though.
Pretty much anything you can get into a multiple of 4 page count and print in booklet format.