For the last nine years, I've been writing and playtesting a game called His Majesty the Worm. It is now available in both physical and digital forms. I would love for you to check it out.
What is His Majesty the Worm about?
His Majesty the Worm is a new-school game with old-school sensibilities: the classic megadungeon experience given fresh life through a focus on the mundanities and small moments of daily life inside the dungeon.
- Food, hunger, light, and inventory management are central to play and actually fun.
- Tarot cards are used to create an action-packed combat system that ensures that all players have interesting choices every minute of combat: no downtime!
- The game has robust procedures. Adventure in the Underworld, rest in roleplaying-driven camping scenes, and plot long-term schemes in the City at the center of the Wide World.
- The relationships between companions, called Bonds, powers the rest and recovery mechanic of the game.
The game is intended for a traditional setup between a single GM and 3-6 players. It emphasizes long-term, Metroidvania-like play. The book is 404 pages long, split up over 10 chapters and 5 appendices. The print edition is silver foil stamped and has a ribbon bookmark. The digital edition is thoroughly cross-linked, with a robust index. It is a complete game with everything you need in one tome (just add a tarot deck).
Interested in a preview?
- Appendix A: Sorcery - This chapter provides a magic system with versatile, level-less spells designed specifically for the dungeon crawling milieu.
- Appendix B: Alchemy - This chapter details the alchemical subsystem that lets adventurers steal the powers of monsters.
- Appendix D: City Creation - This chapter details the procedural generation of the ur-city at the center of the game's anticanon.
- Appendix E: Underworld Creation - This chapter provides procedures and examples that simplify the daunting task of creating a mythic megadungeon. It also includes a tutorial dungeon, The Tomb of Golden Ghosts, with designer commentary!
Let me at that Worm!
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Get the physical edition at Exalted Funeral |
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Get the digital edition at Itch |
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Get the digital edition at DriveThruRPG |
Congratulations on the release my friend!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ty!
DeleteThis looks so good! I can't wait for my book to arrive so I can get it to the table!
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