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Blades in the Dark is designed for 3–4 players and one Game Master. It’s certainly possible to play with fewer players, though the GM may need to adjust the severity of consequences. It’s also possible to play with more, though the system begins to strain at 5 players, and 6 or more will likely have too many resources to be effectively challenged.

How many players is best for Blades in the Dark?

Typically a one-shot will consist of a self-contained adventure that will take place all in one session, which will usually take a few hours to complete. They are meant to be completed in one sitting, and will usually have a very focused plot or objective. A campaign on the other hand, is a longer adventure that takes place over multiple sessions. Short campaigns may be only 2-3 sessions, while longer ones may be played over months, or even years!

What is the difference between a one-shot and a campaign?

Obviously this will vary from table to table, but here are some good places to start! If your game is played in person, most likely you will want to get a set of dice, something to write with, and paper to take notes. 
If your game is hosted online instead, you will probably need to make accounts on a few sites for things like character sheets, access to the Virtual Tabletop for maps and tokens, and sites like Discord or Zoom for video/voice calls during the session. 
You won't always need to have the rulebooks to start, but if you want to read through them to make sure you know all the rules, this might also be a good option.

What supplies do I need to play Blades in the Dark?

Knowing every rule of the game may be helpful to some, but many players will learn the game as they play! If you want to read the rules ahead of time you absolutely can, but if you are a hands-on learner you can also just start playing, and if there is something you don’t understand never be afraid to ask questions, because everyone starts somewhere!

Do I need to know all the rules before I can play Blades in the Dark?

Blades in the Dark can cover an impressive range of topics and styles, including violence, horror, romance, and many many more! However, if there are specific themes or content that you’re uncomfortable with, let your group and GM know before the game, and have an open conversation about these topics. Any group worth playing with should be respectful and understanding of your concerns and the game can be adjusted so everyone is having fun. Many tables also use “Safety Tools” which help ensure that these conversations are handled easily, and everyone has a voice at the table.

What if I'm not comfortable with certain themes or content in Blades in the Dark?

Players roll pools of six-sided dice based on their character’s skill and take the highest roll; a 6 is a complete success, a 4–5 a success with consequences, and a 1–3 is a failure. Players can also spend a resource called Stress to boost their rolls, activate special abilities, and even flashback to plan retroactively. In addition to controlling their individual characters, players also collectively control their crew, a gang of scoundrels fighting to carve themselves a place in the haunted city of Duskwall.

How to play Blades in the Dark

When ran as intended, the player is licensed to directly influence the narrative, plus Doskvol is a beautiful place for all kinds of mischief, revenge, and justice.

Dudley B

If you like heists and on the fly creative thinking, this is the system for you. My only dislike is how repetitive the loop seems at times.

Jonathan

My go to system. Without out a doubt my favorite system of all time with a setting and tone that can be dark and gruesome or a hilarious disaster. One of its main draws is having zero prep for the GM; and making the party as a whole its own character, incentivizing everyone to work and grow as a team. When I want a rules light game I pull out blades.

But the system is not all sunshine and rainbows, it is particularly difficult to get into, if you only have traditional systems in your background. The games rules are also more of a tool box then a system. No GM runs blades the same way, even more so than with other systems. Playing blades requires you to find your own style and to pick and drop mechanics and aspects as it suits your table.

The best mechanic in BitD is one where the characters go on an adventure and don't plan everything they need because in the moment the player can do a 'flashback' and retroactively explain why they have something just right for the moment. This fosters creativity, on-the-spot improvisation and can lead to funny and outrageous moments at the table. Lots of fun!  The other mechanics in the game range from very good to satisfactory. 

The game setting of BitD is not particularly exciting for me personally so it gets 3 out of 5 stars.

Your GM Chandler

Probably the best game for running heists out there. Fairly quick to learn. And just a lot of fun.

Dirk 

Blades in the Dark (BitD) is a fiction first system. 

This means that what you can do depends on the situation you're in within the game. There is no set skill list.  Your imagination is what runs the game.

It does take a bit of thinking on one's feet, so the GM should be ready to improvise quite a bit.

If it has a downside, it's that its not particularly campaign friendly, but better for short adventures, say 10 sessions or fewer. The character progression is not tuned for long campaigns.

But if you want a fun time in between adventures in other systems (e.g, D&D, Pathfinder), you can't go wrong with BitD.

From a player perspective I really enjoyed the narrative aspect of Blades and the fact that you're sort of supposed to be the bad guy or at least an anti hero. In all of my long-term DnD campaigns we're ostensibly always doing good deeds and acting morally. In my Blades campaign I was a leech goblin with a drug addiction and we wreaked havoc on the city. The group as a whole was a cult that was worshipping an evil god from a previous DnD campaign we had finished. The game is very fast moving, unforgiving (in terms of PC health) and free flowing. I would recommend it as a fun, dark alternative to more standard DnD games.

Alec 

Blades in the Dark has great mechanics for involving player input. It has a well-developed setting with interesting places to use in your games. It gives you information that can get you started on creating an interesting story of criminals and fugitives and high-stakes shenanigans.

Colton Mayo

Blades (and the underlying Forged in the Dark System) excels at marrying scenes of narrative heft with nailbiting gameplay choices. Story is a consequence of gameplay as much as gameplay is a consequence of story. While much of that has to be resolved in metatextual/above-game conversations, it's all at the behest of arriving to the next thrilling moment as meaningfullly and efficiently as possible. What could take an entire arc of 4-5 sessions in other more "immersive" or "GM led" RPGs, Blades can resolve within a score, if not a single action. 

Be prepared to face heavy stakes often, and of your own (deliberate) making. Regardless of the narrative scenario you're in, the elegant Position/Effect system - which allows players to "tailor their poison" in exchange for anyhing from better action outcomes, to XP, to Coin, to Assets, and beyond - allows GMs and even players themselves to award their daring and bravado with worthy rewards, both in failure and success. This in turn allows the whole table to think of bigger and broader strokes versus traditional RPGs' moment to moment progressions. In that sense, Blades in the Dark might be too much of a "writer's room" experience for certain players - where you will be going over the details of your story as much as you might roleplay through them. However, what time you lose in immersive roleplay, the whole table gains in collaborative story-crafting. This is truly an all hands on deck system and as long as you're onboard with what this game offers, you and your crew will end up creating a truly unique and memorable time each and every session!

DM Toast

Easy to learn, quick to get started, and plenty of freedom for just about anything you could want to get up to. The ultimate heist toolset.

Jason

Blades in the Dark focuses on a narrative game system that encourages bold choices, creative solutions, and collaborative storytelling between players and game master. The game focuses on the players as part of a crew usually acting in the seedier and more disreputable side of society. Characters are made utilizing playbooks to determine the sort of skills that they have and where their talents lie. This game’s setting is focused in a time where technology is wondrous and dangerous and where the supernatural can influence the everyday lives of the residents. Traveling outside the city is dangerous and nearly impossible to do for any extended period of time meaning that the heat that a crew gains from their heists and jobs will have a long lasting effect on how they can operate in the future.

The system uses the d6 to determine levels of failure and success allowing one to critically fail, fail, succeed with consequences, and fully succeed during any number of scores. The Game Master typically isn’t responsible for rolling dice, but instead focuses on providing consequences for the results of what a player is doing. Blades in the Dark utilizes tools like Flashback Mechanics, Amount of Equipment (rather than specific equipment), and a small set of questions to create a game of heists that doesn’t turn into simply sitting around a table and making plans for the whole time. A player can use some of their ‘Loadout’ to announce that their character brought along the tool required for a situation, another can ask to use a ‘Flashback’ to talk about the escape plan they had set up in case things went to hell, and another could ‘Push Themselves’ beyond their normal limits to increase their chance of success in a particularly important situation. I’ve personally used a lot of these mechanics in other systems that I’ve run because I think that they speed up players and encourage them to plan along with the heist rather than wasting entire sessions making plans that fall apart within minutes.

For Game Masters, this game is a blast when it comes to setting up situations. The game can be as serious as you need it to be while leaving plenty of opportunity to shift things towards the ridiculous or comical. Few games make creating and participating in a heist as fun as this system, and as a GM, the system does a great job explaining how to set up a session while encouraging you to prep less and allow your players to shape the direction of the story. It makes for an interesting change in mindset, but once you get used to it, you have a game that lets you be as surprised as your players at times.

I would suggest this to anyone that wants a good heist adventure or a game that focuses on the darker side of society and the people that have to do whatever it takes just to survive until the next day.

Chris

One of... no, my most favorite TTRPG! The setting is amazing, the mechanics are refreshing, and -- it emphasizes collaborative storytelling. If you enjoy narrative-first games (or want to learn them), Blades in the Dark is perfect. Give it a try!

Danil and Dragons

Blades In The Dark is the most cinematic TTRPG I run. It also one of the easiest systems to teach new players but it also has a lot to give for veterans of ttrpgs.
My favourite aspect of this game is the resolution system used for all actions in the game. The succeed with cost feature pushes narrative and story and it really embraces the fail forward mentality. This game inspires and rewards player creativity more than any other system I have run. 
The fact that combat uses the same system as all other areas of the game means that there is no down time.
There is no initiative system so players can take moves when it makes sense in the action. The lack of hit points on enemies means you can reward a good roll and combat description with a take down rather than slog through a hit point sponge enemy.

I always enjoy running BiTD and it plays out in a much more fluid, unscripted way than other systems .

Kaben

The system so good that the best 5e "how to GM" book opens with a foreword about how it changed their approach to tabletop gaming. I can candidly say that even just reading the rules for this game made me a better GM across all systems. 

Rules-lite, collaborative, and efficient in design. Weirdly enough, the more ingrained other systems are in folks, the harder it can be to pick up, but once you've got the grasp of it it's hard to put this system (or its lessons) down. 

Want to run a high stakes, edge-of-seat heist, but want to skip the boring planning parts? Think to all of your favorite heist films where in the eleventh hour, when our heroes are cornered, suddenly, we flashback, and see how they prepared for this... 

That's it. That's how the game works. 

One of the few games I give a perfect score to.

Blades is probably the best PBTA adjacent game on the market, and the worldbuilding is nothing short of stellar. Groundbreaking planning, flashback, and encounter roll mechanics make this fast paced and exciting. No analysis paralysis here, and it can support things like heists, smuggling, and assassin style play like no other TTRPG can.

Eric VanSingel

My go-to rules light system, few do it as well as Blades. Every mechanic is well-thought out, focusing on GM and player collaboration, while still intertwining itself with the Victorian-esque world of Duskwall. It cuts out all the fat that bogs down most TTRPG’s and focuses on “what are the fun parts?”. And in that it succeeds in creating a thrilling and unique game. 
Always ready to get dirty in the slums of Duskwall!

RollingDeadly

Blades in the Dark is literally a game-changer in the TTRPG space. It's nimble, evocative, and intuitive in a way that almost nothing else is, and if you cut your teeth running or playing something like D&D, Blades will absolutely change the way that you approach role play and action! 

There are a couple of things that make it harder to pick up than some other systems. First of all, the play style is so different that, as the rulebook warns, it will take your group a few sessions to adjust to it. More importantly, you need to be comfortable with improvising the details of your character or campaign, because a lot is left intentionally vague. I like this a lot, because it gives the GM and players space to make the world their own, but it's an adjustment compared to how most systems handle things!

Colby

A completely different experience, and one you have to get your hands dirty and try for yourself. Blades in the Dark isn't a game for altruistic heroes, it's one that allows you to pull your crew of criminals together and pull off heists. Hold territory, score loot, and uses vices to manage your stress as you fight for your lives in Duskwall. See how playbooks are different from classes, experience playing a score when the action begins and back-filling the planning as you encounter each new failure and twist while the Bluecoats close in on your gang.

Andrew M. "Fish" Popowich

My absolute favorite tabletop RPG. It excels on selling you a theme, delivering on genre expectations, and hinting at all the wonderful mysteries that exist in the game's setting. The flashback mechanic is so incredible for allowing players to feel in control of the game's narrative. I highly recommend this game to everyone who loves tabletop RPGs, you should try it at least once.

Brayden

An excellent system and one of the best steps for players wanting to try new, Non-Ampersand games! The rules are simple and flexible, the story is as cool as your imagination allows, and the world is an amazing combination of detailed content with room for you to flesh it out as you see fit. If you like heists, high stakes, and exciting, descriptive combat, try this!

Ross

Blades in the Dark is a FANTASTIC game if you like
- adventuring in a dark, spooky, crime ridden city
- participating in heists and capers that allow for unparalleled player input and agency
- seeing an amazing and intricate plan go off, but aren't psyched about making a plan at the table (flashbacks for the win!)

Blades in the Dark is probably not your cup of tea if you are not interested in
- sometimes stepping out of your characters headspace to decide what happens more as the "writer" for your characters story
- a campaign focused on the desperate, dangerous, and (sometimes) distressing world of crime

Blades in the Dark is DEFINITELY a game best understood through play, so the most helpful suggestion I can make is to sign-up for one of my learn-to-play sessions or campaigns. Check out the comments from previous participants- they will help you understand why I am an excellent choice to introduce you to this great game.

Take care!

GM Ray Nagle

I love a grimdark setting, players immediately see huge problems to someday rectify. There are complaints about gameyness: "Do X to get Y ability." That gives the players direction! Rules reward specific play, you get xp for "Doing smuggling missions with your smugglers."

Isaac "Achoobert"

Blades in the Dark is my gold standard for tabletop roleplaying games now. It is so expertly designed to encourage story-forward gameplay, and gives just enough choice to the players in designing their characters without getting bogged down in too many details. Quick thinking and swinging big are built into the system, with mechanics for flashbacks and "devil's bargains" to keep things moving at a brisk pace. If you love the Crows from Shadow and Bone, or the Zaun scenes from Arcane, you will absolutely love Blades in the Dark. This is a game I think everyone should play at least once in their lives.

Isaac

Blades In The Dark is a fiction-first game that piles on the drama with every roll. Instead of a failure meaning you simply do nothing (a null result), you instead get a complication. Blades seeks to emulate the heist movie, and by cutting out the tedious prep with flashbacks and the engagement roll, you can get right into the action.

I've played dozens of Blades sessions, and they've all been memorable, chaotic rides. No system better keeps every PC on the very edge of losing it all for so long. Wonderful!

Nick (HisCursedness)

The Blades in the Dark game and the system it's made with, Forged in the Dark, is a fantastic system for telling unforgettable stories.  Its roots from Pbta can surface if you squint, but the mechanical weight and cleanness of it.  Grab a seat at the table or even run it if you can.  I have run 7 campaigns of it and adore the system and offshoots, such as Band of Blades or Wicked Ones from this gem.  

- Matthew Pauze (https://startplaying.games/gm/oniwolf)

Matthew 

Blades in the Dark is an amazing system for anyone who loves daring scoundrels and swashbuckling heist stories. My players love creating their own unique crew & filling it with a cast of weirdos drawn from all walks of life. They've decided to be a cult, dedicated to Zzorp, the whispering one, a great demon leviathan that slumbers beneath the waves. They've spent our 15 sessions contending with other gangs for turf, clashing with other cults, and unraveling a conspiracy that could doom the city itself, all while trying to perform a ritual to awake their ancient deity. This is one of my favorite systems to GM, and to introduce new players to tabletop games with. 5/5 stars.

Clarissa

A crew of scoundrels gathers round a stolen blueprint as they plan their big score. Their target has them outnumbered and outgunned; they’re just a no-name street gang up against the rich and powerful. But they have something their mark never expects: the stone cold audacity. The guts to risk everything. And a desperate hunger to get rich or die trying.

Blades in the Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game, or TTRPG, about building a criminal empire in the industrial fantasy city of Duskwall. Inspired by video games like Thief, Dishonored, and Bloodborne, as well as crime drama films and television like Heat and Peaky Blinders, players create scrappy scoundrels who commit crimes in a haunted city. They might play a smooth-talking Slide, a bloody Cutter, an ingenious Leech, or a weird Whisper (among others) to lie, cheat, and steal their way to the top. They’ll also create a Crew, the gang they operate, and which, through a series of criminal jobs, will attempt to conquer the city’s underworld. One player, the Game Master (GM), takes on the role of the world those players inhabit; they’ll play as the rival gangs, wealthy nobles, and corrupt Bluecoats that pressure the player characters from all sides; the haunted, sunless, industrial city of Duskwall; and the ghosts, demons, and occult forces that lurk behind it all.


Blades In The Dark

This is the fighter of the team. The Cutter can take more hits than other characters and command allies to push past their limits. This Playbook also allows you to use spirit energy to grapple spirits with your bare hands. 

Cutter

While it’s usually best for a crew to stick together, sometimes a lone warrior needs to scout ahead or track an enemy. The Hound excels at this set of skills. This Playbook gives you tools for tracking, sharpshooting, and surviving in hostile environments. 

Hound

If you like the techie characters in heist movies, the Leech is for you. They excel in preparing gadgets and alchemical solutions even when under a short deadline. You can use certain Leech skills can also help you act as a saboteur, planting destructive devices that detonate quietly. 

Leech

The Slide is your fast talker and master of disguise. Slide into a location, talk up that crucial contact, and get out before the guards even notice you were there. Their communication skills are so honed that they can even talk to ghosts!

Slide

Here’s the Playbook for those who like being the mastermind. The Spider has several ways of bailing teammates out of danger by planning for just that moment. You don’t actually have to be a genius to play the Spider, however; your master plans come out in the form of enhanced dice rolls.

Spider

BitD is seen as a heist game, but there’s a strong supernatural element to the world as well. The Whisper is the best at channeling those ghostly powers. These abilities let you summon entities, control ghosts, and even summon storms.

Whisper

Gritty Fantasy

Post-Apocalyptic

Steampunk

Blades in the Dark

Vampire: The Masquerade presents a more dramatic, contemplative world than most tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs). While the average TTRPG experience is a Dungeons & Dragons inspired one (fighting monsters and getting treasure), Vampire is about simply surviving and keeping a piece of yourself intact. Players in Vampire become the titular mythological figure in a version of our modern world. And while near-immortality and superpowers seems cool, they come at the cost of existing in a secret society where hunters and other clans are out to get you. And there’s also the whole hungering for blood thing. In a typical Vampire game, holding onto humanity is just as tough as fending off foes.

Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition

Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game brings you and your friends into the beloved setting of Avatar Legends—as new heroes of your own stories! Weave tales of self-discovery and action with your team of friends, and go penguin-sledding while you're at it! 

In this RPG, you might face off with the Triple Threat Triad in Republic City, travel through a spirit portal to rescue a missing child, negotiate peace between Earth Kingdom outlaws, pursue enemies through the Four Nations, and even learn a thing or two from beloved Avatar Legends characters.

Avatar Legends: The RPG

How will you re-shape the world? Will you join with a plucky band of survivors to fight off all comers and carve out your own settlement? Will you team up with pre-existing factions like the Brotherhood of Steel or Super Mutants to enforce your own ideals on the wasteland? Ghoul or robot, paladin or raider, it’s your choice - and the consequences are yours.

Create your own survivors, super mutants, ghouls, and even Mister Handy robots, and immerse yourselves in the iconic post-nuclear apocalyptic world, while gamemasters guide their group through unique Fallout stories. This 2d20 edition of Fallout is as close to the bottlecap-bartering, wasteland wandering, Brotherhood battling excitement of Fallout you can get.

Fallout: The Roleplaying Game

Candela Obscura is a tabletop roleplaying game, or TTRPG, about a circle of paranormal investigators who analyze occult phenomena in the turn-of-the-nineteenth century industrial fantasy city of Newfaire. In this game of monstrous gaslamp horror, players create intrepid characters who solve mysteries and defeat monsters with their various skills and specialties. They might play a smooth-talking Face with a knack for mesmerism, a soldiering Muscle bearing scars from the Great War, an ingenious Scholar of magick from the university, the sly Slink of a private detective or a Weird spirit medium. This crew, called the Circle, will take on jobs to set right the problems caused by supernatural phenomena. 

One player, the Lightkeeper or Game Master (GM), takes on the role of the world those players inhabit. They’ll play as the eponymous Lightkeeper, a character who dispenses assignments and information from the occult organization Candela Obscura. They’ll also play the environment, the city, and of course, the mysterious and even malevolent forces the Circle is called to confront.‍

Candela Obscura

Here's the lowdown: City of Mist is set in a modern city where legends are real people. Heroes, tricksters, and monsters are reborn inside ordinary people, regular Joes and Janes, who gain supernatural powers connected to their legendary alter-egos.
Someone is running the show in this City, and it's up to you to find out who. Hit the streets. Collect the clues. Face small-time villains and demi-gods in epic showdowns. Solve not just the case, but also your own personal mystery and the secrets at the core of this very City.

This is your City: gritty, corrupt, and rife with magic and mystery.

City of Mist

MÖRK BORG is a pitch-black apocalyptic fantasy RPG about lost souls and fools seeking redemption, forgiveness or the last remaining riches in a bleak and dying world.

Who are you? The tomb-robber with silver glittering between cracked fingernails? The mystic who would bend the world’s heart away from it’s inevitable end? Confront power-draining necromancers, skulking skeletal warriors and backstabbing wickheads. Wander the Valley of the Unfortunate Undead, the catacombs beneath the Bergen Chrypt or the bedevilled Sarkash forest. But leave hope behind – the world’s cruel fate is sealed, and all your vain heroic efforts are destined to end in death and dismay. Or are they?

Mörk Borg

In dark forests, beyond the mountains, by black lakes in hidden groves. At your doorstep. In the shadows, something stirs. Strange beings. Twisted creatures, lurking at the edge of vision. Watching. Waiting. Unseen by most, but not by you. You see them for what they really are. Vaesen.

Welcome to the Mythic North – northern Europe of the nineteenth century, but not as we know it today. A land where the myths are real. A cold reach covered by vast forests, its few cities lonely beacons of industry and enlightenment – a new civilization dawning. But in the countryside, the old ways still hold sway. There, people know what lurks in the dark.

They know to fear it.

Vaesen

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay takes you back to the Old World. Get the gang together, create your (anti)heroes, and set off to face vile corruption, scheming plotters, and terrifying creatures intent on destruction.

The Old World is a grim and perilous place. Its vast mountain ranges are teeming with warlike Orcs and Goblins. The deep forests are the home of marauding Beastmen. The corrupting force of Chaos leeches into the world, the result of a tragic accident when the world was young. The insidious taint of Chaos leaves folk hideously altered, and liable to seek solace in the worship of Daemons and the Ruinous Powers of the Chaos gods. The followers of Chaos gather in the north, armies of reavers and monsters that threaten to overwhelm the world. But they also reside in secret in the towns and cities of the Old World: an enemy within plotting to overthrow civilization and establish their own regime in its place.

Nations such as the Empire stand defiant against the darkness. Its people come from all walks of life, from landed aristocracy to the urban poor. Most are heedless of the true dangers that beset their world; they imagine themselves safe within city walls and merely try to make a good living for themselves. But there are those adventurous folk who, driven through desperation or ambition, seek to confront dangers and win renown.

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

DIE RPG is a roleplaying game based on the comic of the same name by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans – and it too has been made by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans! In DIE, you play a group of authentically flawed and desperate real-world people (Personas) who are sucked into a cursed roleplaying game and take on the form of heroes, villains and power players (Paragons). 

Some of you might want to get back to the real world for whatever’s waiting for you there. Some of you might want to stay in a reality where you can finally get what you want out of life. You all have to agree whether you stay or go, and dead people can’t vote. It can get pretty bloody.

DIE: The Roleplaying Game

You’re no hero.
You’re an adventurer: a reaver, a cutpurse, a heathen-slayer, a tight-lipped warlock guarding long-dead secrets. You seek gold and glory, winning it with sword and spell, caked in the blood and filth of the weak, the dark, the demons, and the vanquished. There are treasures to be won deep underneath, and you shall have them. 
Return to the glory days of fantasy with the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role-Playing Game. Adventure as 1974 intended, with modern rules grounded in the origins of sword & sorcery. Fast play, cryptic secrets, and a mysterious past await you.

Dungeon Crawl Classics

Gaia is dying. The ices melt, while the seas swell. The heat rises, while the forests wither. Extinction threatens millions, in favor of the few. The Garou — warlike shapeshifters torn be­tween Rage and spirit, between Wolf and Man, and champions of the earth-mother — have failed. The Apocalypse is here.

Yet, a new generation of Garou now call upon their Rage to confront the forces of destruction, avarice, and greed ravaging the earth-mother. With tooth and claw the Garou will wrest her from the brink of death — or follow her enemies to the grave. Will you answer their howl? What legends will the Garou sing of you? When will you Rage?

In Werewolf: The Apocalypse, you play as the Garou, a creature of flesh and spirit, blessed and cursed with primal rage. Born to fight and die in a desperate war to protect Gaia — the very living earth — you engage in an unequal battle against the greed and power-hunger of human civilization that has trapped the world in a choking web of technology and corruption.

Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition

Mutant: Year Zero takes you to the world after the great Apocalypse. Humanity’s proud civilization has fallen. The cities are dead wastelands, winds sweeping along empty streets turned into graveyards. But life ­remains. Among the ruins, the People live. You are the heirs of humanity – but not quite human anymore. Your bodies and minds are capable of superhuman feats. You are mutants.

Mutant: Year Zero

The Walking Dead has always been about characters facing impossible choices in an unforgiving world. In The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game, you enter into the world of the dead and must face these choices head on. You can do this at any point in the timeline – encountering familiar faces and locations, or new ones – but the hardest choice will always be the same: Who are you going to be?

You will play as people struggling to survive in a hostile world. Exceptional challenges can appear from anywhere – from the lack of essential supplies, from conflicts brewing within the group, from hidden construction flaws in your safe haven, or from approaching walkers hungering for your flesh. 

The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game

The world is ending. ⸐
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Constantly in flux; shifting, distorting, always reborn as something worse. Destruction by ecological catastrophes, the fallout of history’s belligerence; by modern man-made Miseries or the blood spilled by the reckless machine of capitalist supremacy. Mankind’s greatest ability truly is to destroy itself in creative ways. Designer demise, consumer-customized death, endlessly on repeat.

Poisonous space rocks, nuclear weapons, cyclical revolutions, warring nations, warring corporations, warring neighbors; pandemics, tsunamis, volcanoes. In between it all: direct person-machine interfaces, tactical neural implants, and bacteria from outer space hijacking intercellular nanorobotics. And the sky is full of ads.

Everyone is interfaced/injected/infected/infested with something. Everyone wants something from everyone else. Everyone is a liar and a cheat. Everyone wants more creds.

Welcome to the year 20X3.

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Twenty-four years ago, an alliance of Elves, Men, and Dwarves defeated a horde of Orcs and Wild Wolves, under a sky darkened by Giant Bats, inaugurating a new era of prosperity for the Free Peoples. But twenty years is a long time for peace to last, and in many dark corners of the earth a shadow is lengthening once again.
Enter the world of Middle-earth with The One Ring™, the official tabletop roleplaying game based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Designed specifically to evoke the atmosphere of The Hobbit™ and The Lord of the Rings™, the game contains rules for creating heroes and sending them off on adventures in a land threatened by the growing Shadow.

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