The Slayer is Dead

You’re not an professional monster hunter. You haven’t been taught the ancient rites by a secret society of protectors. Your arrival wasn’t foretold in the prophecies. That person just showed up, and now they’re dead.

In The Slayer is Dead , you play as a perfectly ordinary person, caught in exactly the wrong place when a supernatural threat breaks loose. To make things worse, the only hero here just became monster food. 

The Slayer is Dead is a tabletop role playing game for 1 players with Mundane characters and a game master (GM). Your only aim is to survive the monster attack. Killing it? That’s extra credit. This game aims for a tone of spooky hijinks, subscribes to the Rule of Cool philosophy, and urges the use of safety tools like the X-Card.

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The Slayer is Dead is a one page front-and-back game system: complete rules, a character sheet, and rollable tables for scenario generation. All you need to supply are a handful of six-sided dice.

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The Slayer is Dead is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. You are invited to remix, adapt, and build upon this game system work even for commercial purposes, as long as you credit me & the original system and license your new creations under the same terms. Please let me know about your adapted works! I would love to see them.

Image credits: cover, Pexels user cottonbro; title, Pexels user NEOSiAM 2021. All images used with permission.