Early Dark RPG

Our maiden title is a low fantasy RPG set in a world of magick and intrigue, a

world two thousand years older than those of medieval fantasies. Nature

is still dangerous and unknown, alive and attentive, ever-watching the daily

We are preparing for the launch of the Early Dark RPG Corebook with an escalating schedule of PREVIEWS and giveaways. Every two weeks we will be unveiling one of the five civilizations featured in the book and/or a piece of the Early Dark mechanic. click on the link above or to the right.

For our play testers we will also be ramping up on the HAPPENINGS page, bringing the first generation of Early Dark players into a sidewise campaign titled ‘Fiery Winter’ and set all across the World of the Hara Sea. All players, old and new, are welcome to play along without leaving their own ongoing campaigns. click on the link to the right.

A full warehouse of free DOWNLOADS will be up soon as well.

Title: Early Dark RPG

Genre: Low Fantasy

Setting: Near-Mythic Past

Character Sheet: 2 pages, or premium booklet

Random Element: 10-sided dice

Marital Status: Engaged to a Western Game that’s got cold feet

Age: 11 months in this form

Measurements: 200+ pages, 8.5X11, paperback

Required Friends: 3

Minimum Age: 14

Special Features: Context-driven character creation, realistic human ecologies, variable builds, no looking up rules mid-game

illustration by Michael Goliver

Our maiden title is a low fantasy RPG set in a world of magick and intrigue, a

world two thousand years older than those of medieval fantasies. Nature

is still dangerous and unknown, alive and attentive, ever-watching the daily

trials of humankind. In The Early Dark, heroes are few, less divine than

their legendary predecessors. The great events and climaxes of early myth

still ripple through the lands. Here Players shape characters with human

weakness but epic influence in a time between myth and history.

After the flood of Noah but before Abraham founds the three religions

After the Pandavas win the battle of kurukshetra but before the Andhras rule India

After the Yellow Emperor but before Sima Xian records the origins of the Qin Dynasty

After the events of the Iliad but before they are spoken of by Homer

After Romulus and Remus suckle the wolf but before Caesar is made Emperor of Rome

These are periods of uncertainty, dark ages between legend and history. Times not spoken of that exist only as a blur between the myths of origin and the recorded history of a people. Epochs of gods, spirits, and goblins. These are the generations of dragons and magick, before people stopped believing in such things. Ages of flux, where humans struggled as one race among many for survival.

In The Early Dark, every myth is young, every legend still alive, and every human prey.