Mini Myth
A downloadable game
Mini Myth is a single-page tabletop roleplaying game, that (literally) fits in your pocket!
Mini Myth is a D6 roll-under rules-minimal roleplaying system, which is extremely simple, quick and easy to learn. It's a design passion project with the goal of distilling the tabletop roleplaying experience to a single page, while still achieving a fairly complete little roleplaying rules system.
- The Experienced Dungeon Master who wants to introduce tabletop newbies (of all ages) to the basics of tabletop roleplaying.
- The Seasoned Tabletop Adventurers taking a break from the year-long roleplaying campaign to go off on quick one-shot questing shenanigans.
- The Wandering Role Player in need of a tabletop roleplaying game to bring along on travels, the pub, day trips, lunch breaks... Anywhere and any time!
- The Homebrewers, Tinkerers & Creators looking for a hackable pocket tabletop system, that can be modded, tweaked and expanded as you see fit.
All you need is a single regular six-sided die for each player and the Lore Master (LM), pencils for filling out your Character Sheets and a printed (or digital) Hero's Handbook.
1. Print and fold the Hero's Handbook: (or use the digital one)
2. Print and cut out the players' Character Sheets:
3. Grab pencils and regular six-sided dice. (one of each for each player and the Lore Master)
4. Players follow five easy steps to each Create a Character:
5. That's it! Off you go, adventure awaits!
Mini Myth was created as an entry to the One-Page RPG Jam 2025.
Mini Myth is proudly 100% Human Made. No AI was used in the creation of this project.
Given the short existence of the game, Mini Myth is currently in its "Alpha" phase. Feel free to reach out and share your experiences, thoughts and critique of the game, so we can work on improving it in the future!
Mini Myth is a giant pot of bits and pieces of tabletop roleplaying games, mixed, boiled and distilled into a small shot of fine micro roleplaying spirit. It was loosely inspired by the following roleplaying games:
Chris McDowell's Into the Odd (and its offspring) - Introduced me to the world of indie TTRPGs.
Penflower Ink's Stravagante! - General inspiration for the pocket-sized RPG format.
Yochai Gal's Cairn - For the roll-under system, concise wording and general clarity.
Pelle Nilsson and Johan Nohr's Mörk Borg - For combat and encounters.
Tuesday Knight Games' Mothership - For the (almost) all-in-one Character Sheets.
Seattle Hill Games' White Box (FMAG) - For weapons, armor and items.
Special thanks to 3 Skulls Pub's Pocketfold as a template for the layout design!
Further thanks to HINOKODO's Human Made badge.
Mini Myth © 2025 by Studio Minch is licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0.
Created and Published by Studio Minch.
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Holy graphic design Batman! This is very well done.
I think this definitely needs some external or improvised resources to be played currently. I like the use of exactly 1 six-sided die, however. My playthrough ended in the death of the party wizard from a tough encounter they were unable to flee, though the solo procedures I made were rather harsh.
Hi! Glad you gave the game a goal and interesting to see several players going the solo route with the system. I had limited time to get the project done for the one-page jam, so it's my intention to expand and grow the system into a more complete little box set with a Bestiary, Loremaster generation tools, more items, skills and spells as well as perhaps an intro adventure. Life has been a handful for me lately, so I've put the project on hold until I get things under control, but after that, I'll be back expanding the Mini Myth system, since it's a passion project of mine and I really enjoy working on it when time allows it :)
Mini dice for Mini Myth. 🙂
Looking good :)
Hey, love this. I used it to run a bit of solo fun. Great work.
Thank you so much for your video! It's a truly humbling experience to see someone okay my game and record it - and super exciting to see it as a solo rpg as well! It's also super insightful to see you go through the rules and quirks of the little game :) Two takeaways for me, are that maybe "Mystic" is a abit of a silly choice of word and that maybe I need to clarify that rolling for initiative is only something to be done on the very first turn of a combat sequence. Either way, I am super glad you liked the game and had fun with it :) I'm working on expanding the system with some extra optional booklets featuring a Bestiary, different tables and generators for events, encounters, places, items, etc. and maybe even an intro adventure.
Again, thank you so much :)
Really love the overall layout and the simplicity of it all! Can't wait to use this to play with some friends and see the supplements the community creates for it!
Only critique I have right now is that IMO rolling for a Stat Test (STR, NIM, MYS) should only succeed if you roll UNDER your score. Not sure what the highest allowed stat score is intended to be, but if for example, the highest is 6, and players are only rolling d6s to determine stat test outcomes, they won't need to roll for a stat that is currently at 6, because there's literally no way they can fail the roll.
IMO players, no matter how powerful they are, should still have a chance to screw up lol.
Also, I assume the dice symbols with the "?" mark inside mean the exact die to roll isn't finalized yet?
Hey, I'm super glad you like it and I also hope that people are excited enough to modify, hack and create for the little system. Behind the scenes, I'm working on creating a mod-pack, to help kick-off content creation or just for hacking the system for house rules or whatever people feel like. I'll make an update post whenever I feel things are ready to be shared along with a road map of other expansions on the system, that I might proceed to work on in the future.
As for your critique, given that it's a roll-under system and only D6, I've kept the core Stats permanent after character creation, meaning that each player will have a stat that is max 4, one that is max 3 and one that is just 2, so at best, a roll will always have a 1/3 chance of failing. There are temporary boosts that i.e. give a "-1" to a single test roll, such as the condition "Bless" and one could have (rare) single-use items that also give such a boost, but the Loremaster should (in my opinion) very rarely allow such powerful manipulations, even for single rolls. I hope that answers your critique :)
Ohhhhh I just noticed that you can't increase stats during level up, thought I saw that in the Growth section. My bad!
Looking forward to the mod pack!
I really like the design! Although im more of d20 4 stat systems i think its a gem. Gonna try making a bestiary and a few adventures
Thank you! Really appreciate it! Sounds great! Hack away :)
Woah looking forward to seeing what you make!
Looks great! Excited to try it out :)
Thanks! Look forward to hearing about your experience. And also THANK YOU for creating Stravagante! It's been a huge inspiration for me and I simply adore your art! :)
So clever and intuitive... I also loved the layout.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it.
Although the sizes are perfect, might be worth to check one of my mini foldable booklet. Instead of folding, by cutting the middle piece you can make a full page like book.
https://nicholas2884.itch.io/wolfs-bane
Please ignore typos and general mistakes, it was my first game.
Hi Nicholas, thanks for your feedback and nice little system you've made! I've purposely used the folding method instead of the pocket-mod method because I wanted to keep the DIY to a minimum and have players and Loremasters be able to print the game, fold it up and start playing without any tools necessary.
Also, it was a conscious design choice to open up to a double spread with everything you need for character creation.
Lastly, you can actually use the folded format as a tiny Loremaster's screen, although it is almost symbolic since it would be fairly easy to glance over such a small surface, but I thought it is a cute bonus :)
Wow, you did put some thoughts on it... Makes sense now.