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Stand Alone Games

Orcs in the Webbe started out as an online repository of scenarios and rulesets for Alternative Armies' blackpowder skirmish game, Flintloque. However, over the years several people, most notably games designer Matthew Hartley, have created fully developed stand alone games exclusively for publication on OITW.

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  • Release the Hounds

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! A fun and fast stand alone game set in the popular Tales of Albion setting in which a group of convicts try to escape the justice of gnashing teeth following a prison break.

  • Marxism at Midnight

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! Matthew Hartley returns (again) to the ever popular Tales of Albion setting with another fun and fast stand alone game.  Can the greaving followers of the Dwarven philosopher, revolutionary and tour guide, Skid Marx, escape Hangum Highgate cemetery before the restless spirits frightens them to death !

  • The Thrill of the Race

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! Matthew Hartley once again returns to the ever popular Tales of Albion setting with this fun and fast mini-game in which two teams compete against each other in the annual Orcsfud and Kambrig boat race.

  • Tilting for Pleasure

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! A fun fast paced set of rules allowing you to play buzkashi - where teams of mounted players fight for control of the decapitated remains of a goat (A real world sport! Google it). Easily adaptable for jousts and mounted melee. Complete with rules for integrating the game into your games of Flintloque 3rd Edition.

  • May Contain Nuts!

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! During an afternoon ridiculing the sick over a bottle of grog at Bedlum a group of Londinium's over privileged upper class must fight for their lives and try and escape as they get caught in a breakout of Albion's madder citizens.

  • The Hideous Game

    An Orcs in the Webbe Exclusive! There are many ways in which this world connects with others. Ideas, beliefs and, occasionaly, even people fall between the cracks. One such idea is chess. But as with anything viewed through a glass, darkly; subtle changes occur in every retelling. The Hideous Game tells of how Chess is played in Panzerfäuste's The Land.

  • The Fright Before Christmas

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! In this brand new 10,000 word adventure gamebook set in the world of Crooked Dice's 7TV you take on the role of Tweedy Mattison, a brilliant, if eccentric, scientific advisor to the British Department for Extraordinary Affairs (also known as Department X) as he investigates inexplicable accidents in a small country town...

  • Murder Run

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! In this brand new 14,000 word adventure gamebook you play as Cal bastard, a Half-Orc P.I. eking out a living in the lawless city of Edge. Waking with little memory of the night before, a dead body on the table before you and someone pounding on the door can you uncover the clues before it is too late?

  • Escape from Haydes

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! After an unclear series of unfortunate events you find yourself deep within Haydes, beneath both Londinium and the buried ruins of the old Human city of Dresda. It doesn't matter how you got here, you just have to get out before it's too late in this card game for 1-4 players.

  • The Beast

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! With food running low the families of a remote village must use what little resources they have to hunt and gather food all the while wary of a fearsome beast that lurks in the nearby woods in this exclusive card driven board game.

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    Stand Alone Games

    Orcs in the Webbe started out back in 2004 as an online repository of scenarios and rulesets for various wargames. However, over the years several people, most notably games designer Matthew Hartley, have created brand new fully developed stand alone games exclusively for publication on OITW.

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  • The Lost Patrol

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! You must guide your section of ten soldiers out of the mysterious forest before the Darkness that lies within claims them all in this Print and Playboard game for 1 or 2 players.

  • The Raft of the Medusa

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! Players take on the roles of shipwrecked crew afloat in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1816 in this brand new and original game by Matthew Hartley. Being one of a handful of survivors your comrades have succumbed to starvation, thirst, madness and despair. You must make hard decisions in order to survive until rescued. But beware, your choices make come back to haunt you when you are eventually rescued...

  • Night of the Shambling Dead

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! In this years Advent Calendar's exclusive free game players take on the role of a hardened band of survivors struggling to get by during the zombie apocalypse. Using a clever card draw mechanism combined with a narrative track detailing game play can you survice the night...

  • Slaughtership Down

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! Michael White returns to OITW with something rather lovely, a Flintloque/Chess crossover featuring the rabbits of Burrovia.

  • Revenge of Tiddy Mun

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! In this year's exclusive free game one player takes on the role of the Dutch Engineer Cornelius Vermuyden as he struggles to cross the Fens in safety to give his report on drainage to the agents of King Charles I. Can the local Fenfolk, aided by the legendary Tiddy Mun, protect thier livelyhoods and stop him... 

  • Love Bytes

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! Michael White turns his attention to 4999AD when in the grim twilight of a stupidly implausible future, there is only L.O.V.E. . . .

  • A Walk on the Brink

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! In this years exclusive game you take on the role of a stranger to the Fens wandering home after perhaps one too many ales...

  • What's Space Opera, Doc?

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! Designed with the twin philosophies of less is more, and a game you get on the table is better than one you never get on the table; Michael White brings us a fast play science fiction miniatures wargame set in a unimaginably distant future.

  • Foiling the Lincolnshire Red Terror

    Foiling the Lincolnshire Red Terror

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! In this years exclusive game Matthew Hartley gives the classic card game Blackjack a dash of theology and exorcism based on a delightfully real 1926 event...