Devil’s Due: A Grimdark Roleplaying Game of Gothic Heroes

Core Rulebook by Barrel Rider Games

Devil’s Due is a grimdark roleplaying game of colonial gothic fantasy. Using a simple d20-based system compatible with many vintage and old school roleplaying games, players will challenge zealous inquisitors, draw upon sanguine blood magic, and wield corrupted magic items in an effort to stave off the darkness for just one more night!

Features Include

• d20-based rules that are easy to teach, easy to learn, and easily adaptable to your favorite classic fantasy resources
• Six new classes: the blood magic wielding Arcanist, the reckless Swashbuckler, the deceptive Guttersnipe, the savage Hunter, the zealous Inquisitor, and the raging Slayer.
• Rules for blood magic that include strange tattoos, terrifying magical backlashes, and strange new spells that must be written in blood on the sorcerer who dares invoke them!
• Risk everything and tempt the devil with each roll you make when you spend Devil’s Dice to determine whether you live or die – but at what cost?
• A bestiary of horrors both human and gothic!
• Simple rules for overland travel that turn travel into a life-or-death endeavor where the wilderness and its denizens are predator and the players are the prey!
• Corruption rules for when player characters begin their inevitable descent into darkness.
• All new magic items like Chains of the Infernal and Axe of the Executioner that extract a terrible cost each time they’re used.
• A unique, yet simple character creation system that uses simple questions and random tables to create a complete gothic hero in minutes!
• Full color interior art that lets players and Grim Scribes immerse themselves in the colonial gothic world that is Devil’s Due.

Devil’s Due: A Grimdark Roleplaying Game of Gothic Heroes is available through DriveThruRPG in PDF.

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