RPG: Torchbearer 2nd Edition – Eight Days Left
There are only eight days left to get one of the best Dungeon Crawling RPGs this side of a THAC0. Come check out Torchbearer 2nd Edition.
Torchbearer, if you’ve never played it, is a fantastic game of dungeon crawling adventure with a lot of crunch in all the right places. It’s a little more story-driven than D&D but it distances itself from Dungeon World in a whole bunch of interesting ways. This is definitely a game of fighting monsters and acquiring treasures, well worth checking out. The first edition is a classic, and the second has obliterated its funding goals.
via Kickstarter
You’re a scoundrel, a villain, a wastrel, a vagabond, a criminal, a sword-for-hire, a cutthroat.
Respectable people belong to guilds, the church or are born into nobility. Or barring all that, they’re salt of the earth and till the land for the rest of us.
Your problem is that you’re none of that. You’re a third child or worse. You can’t get into a guild—too many apprentices already. You’re sure as hell not nobility—even if you were, your older brothers and sisters have soaked up the inheritance. If you’re cursed with visions from the Immortals, the temples won’t take you in. You question their authority and subvert their power, so you are outcast like the rest of us.
And if you ever entertained romantic notions of home-steading, think again. You’d end up little more than a slave to a wealthy noble.
So there’s naught for you but to make your own way. There’s a certain freedom to it, but it’s a hard life. Cash flows out of your hands as easily as the blood from your wounds.
But at least it’s your life.
Torchbearer is a roleplaying game of desperate adventure. The expeditions you undertake are taxing on your body, your mind and your very nature. To survive, you must carefully manage your food, water and light resources. To excel, you must fight for what you believe in. To prosper, you must fill your bags with loot and treasure.
This triumvirate of competing needs creates a delicious tension unique to Torchbearer. Players are asked to weigh these forces in every decision they make. Some may seem easy or frivolous to start, but the deeper you become enmeshed in an adventure, the heavier and more costly each decision becomes.
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