Lizards and Wizards Players Guide

Lizards & Wizards is a rules-lite story-driven TTRPG set in a medieval fantasy setting. The rules are streamlined and easy to pick up for new players, with the primary focus on telling stories guided by mechanics rather than mechanics guiding stories. 

You are a myrmidon. An adventurer, a dungeon-delver, an expert in matters of sword and sorcery. You, and your fellow myrmidons, are specialist mercenaries who are hired for - or simply seek out - clearing deep dungeons and forgotten tombs, risking deadly traps and vicious creatures for gold and glory. You come from nothing - and will end as nothing, if you don’t keep your wits about you.

However, if you are smart, brave, and most importantly lucky, you may rise above your humble beginnings and achieve all you ever wanted - fame, wealth, power, and even apotheosis, should you so desire. All that lies between you and your goals are a thousand fanged monstrosities champing at the bit to rend you limb from limb. Do you have what it takes to brave wild lands of mysterious biome, to slay the horrid creatures who want to devour you whole, and to cast down the wicked sorcerers who wish to use this land for their own dark magicks and nefarious purposes?

Lizards & Wizards is a game for telling stories guided by game mechanics, meant to streamline "rules" into "rulings" and allow a wide variety of narrative structures to form at your table. Heavily rooted in the concept of "theater of the mind," you, your fellow players, and your Game Master will work together to form tales of brave heroes and horrible monsters with freedom only limited by the collective imagination of the people at your table. All you need to start is a pen, some paper, and two six-sided dice. 

Lizards & Wizards was written and developed DIY by John Brauer. All art featured is from the public domain. 

Includes separate character sheet PDF for the four classes without page numbering.