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Check out the latest news on DeScriptors: Definitive Edition and all DeScriptors releases by Tim & Matthew Bannock.

DeScriptors: Realms Volume 1 is out now!

DeScriptors: Realms Volume 1 presents the diceless DeScriptors RPG in three all-new settings from Matthew Bannock!

This guide begins with a one-page version of the DeScriptors RPG rules, including the latest errata and updates for clarity. Then, three settings are presented, each one complete with an in-world introductory story, setting details, scenarios, and sample characters. All of this provides you with a complete gaming experience for the fast-playing, deeply narrative DeScriptors rules where no character ends a session unchanged!

The settings are:

Into Stormy Seas is a fantasy setting where the realms of faerie creatures touch on the material world, launching characters on adventures filled with whimsy, mystery, or even terror!

Small Gods is about a world not unlike our own, except that the godlings in charge of minor spheres of influence walk among mortals.

Finally, there’s the existential horror of The Keep. The characters find themselves in what’s supposedly a pseudo-imaginary world being televised for entertainment. Only, the characters might be dead, and are locked into this horrifying game show trying to find keys to their memories, or those of other contestants.

DeScriptors: Realms Volume 1 is a complete diceless roleplaying game with three settings. It is also endlessly expendable when you pick up DeScriptors: Definitive Edition, which contains dozens of additional rules, options, variants, more example settings, a detailed guide for storytellers and players, and a full example of play.

Writing: Matthew Bannock. Editing, Layout: Tim Bannock. Cover Art: Rick Hershey. Interior Art: Jesus Blones, Aaron Lee, Rick Hershey / Fat Goblin Games, Dean Spencer

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Project Updates for Dungeons & Dragons 5e, OSR, DeScriptors, and New Games!

It’s been awfully quiet around my site. That’s deceptive: my head’s been down working on a lot of really cool stuff! Let’s take a look at some of things fast approaching the finish line.

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Adventures in Dalentown for DeScriptors RPG now available at DriveThruRPG

Are you looking for a perfect starting settlement (or three?!), or a headquarters for your fantasy roleplaying game campaign setting? Want a bunch of ready-made NPCs, dozens of scenario ideas, and interesting allies and adversaries for your players to interact with?

Look no further than Adventures in Dalentown!


Now Available!

From the product page:

Adventures in Dalentown presents an expanded write-up of the prospering settlement of Dalentown, originally featured in The Darkness Beneath Dalentown. In addition to the new shops and Non-Player Characters, we’ve included dozens of adventure hooks, two additional nearby settlements, and an expansive bestiary featuring creatures benevolent and malicious! Keyed maps and extensive use of art throughout provide fantastic references for your scenarios, useful ideas for characters to populate your worlds, and plenty of conflict to get your characters immersed in the setting immediately!

This 45 page supplement includes:

  • Beautiful cartography from Elven Tower Cartography, Dyson Logos, and Tim Bannock.
  • A chapter each on Dalentown the growing human settlement, Rock Down the halfling & gnome village, and the mysterious Wizard’s Enclave!
  • A chapter covering additional encounters in the sewers of Dalentown, as well as other areas in the region.
  • The bestiary features 24 creatures — all with accompanying art! — to serve as playable characters, NPCs, monstrous foes, or mysterious allies, complete with suggested traits, setbacks, and more!
  • Loads of adventure ideas for each location, tying the settlements together or allowing you to use them separately as you wish in your campaign!

This version uses the DeScriptors diceless roleplaying game system, available in PWYW or Definitive Editions!

Written by Matthew & Tim Bannock. Editing & Layout by Tim Bannock. Art by Bruno Balixa, Earl Geier, Rick Hershey / Fat Goblin Games, Gary Dupuis, Emile Lassalle and Alcide Dessalines d Orbigny, Theophile Tardif-Desvaux, Gustave Dore, Various Stock Art Resources. Cartography by Tim Bannock, Elven Tower Cartography, Dyson Logos.

Maps by Tim Bannock created using Cityographer by Inkwell Ideas.

Pick up Adventures in Dalentown today!

Behind the Scenes & Actual Play for DeScriptors, the Word Game Micro RPG

A version of this article first appeared on neuronphaser.com. It has been moved here and updated with new content, insights, and links!

DeScriptors: Anything Goes PWYW Version was just released on DriveThruRPG and there are already plans to publish a bigger Definitive Edition in the coming weeks. But what is DeScriptors? And why is the gonzo Anything Goes setting the first release?

Read on and find out where DeScriptors came from, where it’s going, and check out several episodes of the popular Worldbuilder’s Anvil podcast, where host Jeffery Ingram ran DeScriptors to help troubleshoot his fantasy campaign setting!

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The Darkness Beneath Dalentown is now available for the DeScriptors RPG!

Hordes of oozes, slimes, and demonic forces stand to threaten the growing settlement of Dalentown, and only a heroic adventuring party stands in their way!

The Darkness Beneath Dalentown is a fantasy roleplaying adventure in the classic style, converted and updated to the narrative DeScriptors roleplaying game! Now you can use the powerful, genre-bending DeScriptors game to tell stories of heroic action, dungeon-crawling survival horror, and old school fantasy daring.

This scenario provides a wealth of new mechanics and options to the DeScriptors game, including handling gear, magic items, spells, troupe-style play, companion characters, and more. Additionally, the dangerous adventure locales and highly political setting of Dalentown provides an excellent opportunity for long-term adventures or even campaigns, or great ideas on how to run action-packed one-shots in a diceless system like DeScriptors. Better yet, the narrative, flexible nature of the game mechanics make the scenario highly adaptable to games that rely on descriptive keywords, whether they are dice-based or diceless.

This isn’t a simple conversion from the Swords & Wizardry version of the adventure, but a completely rebuilt scenario that leans into the strengths of DeScriptors. Which, by the way, you can pick up the PWYW version or the Definitive Edition and still run this adventure: you choose! So pick up The Darkness Beneath Dalentown – DeScriptors Edition today!

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