Ruins & Rogues

Hello! Thank you for checking out my weird little fantasy RPG. I've been wrestling with this project in one form or another for years, so I appreciate you taking a look at it. It borrows elements of Maze Rats but it’s largely its own thing.

Into the Odd is probably my favorite pre-existing RPG system, but I had a few problems with it...

1. I prefer a slightly more heroic or sword-and-sorcery tone to Into the Odd's implied tone, which is "you start off as a bunch of nobodies."
2. I don't like ability scores. I don't like describing qualities via quantities, I'd rather just describe qualities. I'm not much for math.
3. I know everyone is bored with incentive systems these days, but XP and leveling (not to mention gold for XP) feel so core to what a fantasy RPG is, to me, and I want to explore that in the games I run.

Hopefully that gives you an idea of what I'm trying to achieve here.

Tim B. is a member and moderator of the NSR Cauldron community on Discord. You can find his blog at Quarterling's Corner and follow him @flyrefi@dice.camp.