13th Age RPG: Gamemaster's Guide

“Our goal with 13th Age is to recapture the free-wheeling style of old-school gaming by creating a game with more soul and fewer technical details. …13th Age makes the play group’s campaign the center of attention, with a toolkit of rules that you can pick and choose from based on the kind of game you want to play. The mechanics draw from classic games as well as newer, story-based games.” – Jonathan Tweet, co-designer Wide Open Stories An evocative setting that’s deliberately half-designed so that you and your players can customize it for your campaign. Each player character is connected to one or more icons, high-fantasy archetypes such as the Archmage, Lich King, or Prince of Shadows, which gives them a place in the world’s story, even at 1st level. Crunchier Crunch Streamlined combat rules harness the good bits of crunchy tactical combat without ticky-tacky measurements. Innovations like the escalation die ensure that battles crescendo instead of getting bogged down. Each chara