"We tried to make an omelette. Seventeen goblins died." Goblin Quest - the game of fatal incompetence - a GMless comedy one-shot romp where each player controls five goblins (in sequence, not in parallel) who attempt to achieve a basic task. But, goblins being as unlucky and stupid as they are, even simple actions have a chance to immediately, violently, permanently wrong. To play, you'll need a handful of six-sided dice, some pens and pencils, and two hours to spare.

Goblin Quest - Softcover: A game of fatal incompetence

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Grant Howitt

Gaming

Rowan, Rook & Decard

You are a dark elf. Your home, the towering city of Spire, was occupied by the high elves two hundred years ago. Now, you have joined a secret organisation known as the Ministry, a paramilitary cult with a single aim to overthrow the cruel high elves and restore the drow as the rightful rulers of the city. What or who will you sacrifice to achieve your aims? Will you evade the attention of the authorities, or end up shot in the street like so many before you? Spire is a 220-page book which contains: A quick and easy D10 system that lets you tell stories of brutal rebellion Details on the districts, factions and personalities that make up Spire the frozen high elf kingdom of Amaranth, the lawless undercity of Red Row, the mysterious Mortician sect and the bleeding hole in reality known as the Heart Ten character classes, including the vagabond Knight, the sorcerer-artist Idol and the arachnid nurse Midwife Multiple extra advances to sculpt your character, allowing them to learn the hidden magicks of the Ministry, fall back on their military training, or devote their existence to a mad cannibal king who lives under an abandoned warehouse A gamesmastery chapter, written with an eye to help you craft conspiracies and power structures that your players can topple, subvert or be consumed by Over fifty illustrations by the tremendously talented Adrian Stone

Spire: The City Must Fall RPG (RRDSPIREHB)

Christopher Taylor

Rowan, Rook and Decard

Strata is the first full-length sourcebook for the Spire roleplaying game. Written by Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor, and with ten scenarios from a wide variety of other authors, Strata gives more details on the best and worst that the city of Spire has to offer: Two new classes: the purple-prose black-magic pulp fiction occultist Inksmith and the multifaceted and fractured Shadow Agent Many new extra advances for any class: such as the flower-skinned Druid of the Living Spire, the muckraking Gazetteer, the sigil-scrawling Children of the Runestack and the language-hunting Lexicutioners Ten scenarios (detailed below), allowing you to start a campaign of Spire easier than ever More details on the richest and poorest parts of Spire: the shadowed and fecund Garden District, the decrepit grandeur of Ivory Row, the nightmare industrial bowels of the works, the alien luxury of Amaranth, and more Beautiful full-page, full-colour artwork from Adrian Stone throughout The scenarios in Strata are: Better the Devil (by Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor). Forge unusual alliances as House Starys of the drow, long thought fallen, returns to Spire to take control. Home Is Where The Hatred Is (by Helen Gould). Infiltrate and assassinate a wealthy aelfir household ruled by a cruel undying matriarch. Bisquiet (by Xalavier Nelson Jr). Overthrow the government via the medium of arcane patisserie. Lines in the Dirt (by Pauline Chan). You and your cell are being evicted from your Derelictus tenement. It s not much, but its yours can you bring the other residents on-side? Eye of the Beholder (by Christine Beard). An aelfir artisan is surgically modifying drow to act as tormented masks unless you break into her lavish auction and put a stop to it. The Fall of Glasshelm (by Mary Hamilton and Kira Magrann). Bring down the Glasshelm corporation, and put a stop to their dreams of bulldozing the undercity to make way for new aelfir housing. The Forgotten (by Laurence Phillips). After the death of their protector, a group of vulnerable citizens must navigate the dangerous world of espionage after they are caught between the Ministry and the Solar Church. Ironshrike (by Ben Brock). In the depths of Derelictus, the cell are tasked with eradicating a sacred market built in the worship of predatory capitalism. How do you kill a place? The Sulphurous Presses (by Coman Fullard). Given a printing press and some run-down premises in the Works district, the cell must gain dominance over the newspaper market by publishing their own propaganda and sabotaging rival papers. Dark Harvest (by Chris Farnell). After a mission goes wrong, the Ministry bundles the players off to the deep farms of La Grotte du Corde but, of course, nothing is what it seems in this idyllic pastoral village. Strata requires a copy of the Spire RPG to use the rules and setting within to the best effect.

Strata: A Spire RPG Sourcebook

This sourcebook for Spire contains: Rules for the Blood-Witch, a terrifying character class that deals in deceit, immortality and exsanguination thanks to a mystical blood disease they willingly contract in the depths of the underspire The Demonologist extra advance, allowing any character to dabble in powers far beyond their ken and mar their eternal soul in the process A list of demons: extra-dimensional horrors bound into unstable equipment by people who really should know better The Grangou extra advance: a hedge-witch who deals in community, fortitude, magical curry goat and a cauldron that brings people back from the dead The Deep Apiarist extra advance: one of a sect of protectors of Spire who take pilgrimages into the Heart and fight the nightmares they encounter there, replacing their organs with waxen simulacra and filling their bodies with sacred bees A list of occult fallout results that GMs can inflict on players that delve too deeply into the dark arts, including: horns, your lies appearing as tattoos on your skin, the worst luck in the universe, and every night, as you sleep retching up a grey-skinned, needle-toothed child that bears your face and runs around desecrating altars

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The Book of Masks

Heart: The City Beneath is a tabletop roleplaying game about delving into a nightmare undercity that will give you everything you've ever dreamed of or kill you in the process. It is a dungeon-crawling, story-forward tabletop RPG from the designers of Spire that focuses on what characters have to lose in pursuit of their dreams in the chaotic darkness beneath the world. WHAT'S IN THE BOOK? Full rules for playing and running games of Heart; Nine strange character classes and five dangerous callings; 21 Zenith Abilities, the ultimate expressions of power, almost all of which kill the user when activated; Over 50 landmarks to explore such as predatory pubs, entropy machines, community centres in churches devoted to forbidden gods, cursed underground stations, vast subterranean forests and portals to multiple heavens; Over 30 adversaries to avoid, put down or get killed by such as the cannibalistic Butcher, the pathetic Feral Psychopomp, mad trees, train worshippers, burnt-out occultists and Flightless Owl Hives; Over 40 gorgeous full-colour illustrations by Felix Miall; An extensive gamesmaster advice section with guidance for all experience levels. Sharing a setting with Spire, Heart expands the unreal world beneath it. It uses an expanded and updated version of the Resistance system, the mechanics that power Spire, to help you tell stories of desperation, hubris and adventure in the City Beneath.

Heart: The City Beneath (RRDHEARTHB)

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