Gallows Corner – A Peasants’ Revolt RPG

Core Rulebook by Three Sails Studios

The year is 1376, five years before the Peasants’ Revolt

Half of England’s people are dead from plague

You are a peasant among those who remain

And you’re about to become an outlaw.

Gallows Corner – A Peasants’ Revolt RPG is the new game from the award-winning team at Three Sails Studios. In this TTRPG – powered by hope, rage, and the unshakable belief that everyday people can make a better world for all – players are peasants and working-class people in an alt-historical medieval England. Outlawed from the crown’s so-called justice, how will you survive? Who will you save? How will you change England for the better?

This is the full release version of the game. It contains the game’s full Core Rules, all eight Trades and forty-eight Jobs (six per Trade), Character Creation, rules for building and running the Point Crawl, England: A Land Divided (England’s eight Regions plus London), The English (NPC generators, story hooks, and pregenerated NPCs), and a number of Scene Suggestions for Narrators to use when building their Point Crawl.

It also comes with our introductory prewritten adventure, “A Spark Takes Hold”, from our Tales of Old England zine series.

Gameplay and Mechanics

DICE POOL SYSTEM
Each player character has three Experience dice: Physical, Emotional, and Intellectual. Roll whichever dice is relevant to the current situation as part of our simple and intuitive resolution system. All you need is a single success, so more dice means a greater chance of victory.

TRADES AND JOBS
Each character has a Trade, and chooses a Job from within that Trade. Trades and Jobs add more dice to your Dice Pool, increasing your chances of success when a Test is related to your Trade or Job.

RETINUE SYSTEM
Gallows Corner does away with traditional ‘levelling up’ systems. In its place, gather followers and recruit them to your Retinue. Retainers grant you opportunities to approach challenges in a variety of ways, have their own skills and backgrounds, and grant extra dice in combat. And, when the time comes, choose whether to let your character die and replace them with a Retainer, or let a Retainer take the killing blow in your place!

POINT CRAWL
Explore every corner of England and take the fight to the crown wherever you may be. Travel seamlessly between towns, villages, and counties in a world that adapts itself to your actions. Wrestle control away from the crown and help shape the places that you liberate.

VISUAL COMBAT SYSTEM
Our simple combat resolution system is visual. Using diamond shapes, easily see the status of your character, your retainers, and your enemies. Quick, simple, and easy to learn.

Gallows Corner – A Peasants’ Revolt RPG is available through DriveThruRPG in PDF.

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