Early dark: the best new low-fantasy role-playing game, a tabletop roleplaying joy. The Early Dark RPG from Anthropos Games. Buy Early Dark here. Play Early Dark here. Come find clues to the Fallow Citadels Living Campaign right here. Roll dice with your friends. Create heroes to battle the dark forces that surround the Hara Sea. Early Dark is your ticket to RPG bliss.

We’re not the biggest guys on the block, just a handful of indie, part-time designers. But we make great games and enjoy playing them all over the world. We are also committed to bringing you ongoing campaigns that give all Anthropos Gamers a chance to interact and role-play with each other.

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Our first title is now available at DriveThruRPG. Hardcovers of the Early Dark RPG will be on sale right here at this site in November. 

Check out the the chaotic, gritty world of the Hara Sea and its inhabitants. And then take part in a living campaign that brings together players in a single narrative that will change that world forever!
Anthropos Games is a small, indie partnership inhabiting Austin, Texas, and serving tabletop gamers all over the world. Our goal is to design and support a handful of role-playing games each with a unique mechanic, realistic societies and ecologies, and a progressive perspective on the human experience. We want to make games for creative, adult gamers who crave environments outside the typical European fantasy tropes and stock science-fiction genres; who look for games with smart tactics, room for a good story, and immersive worlds; and who want to be part of a new wave of tabletop role-playing games.  

We realize our audience is not made up of the average adolescent consumer. But we don’t believe we’re talking about a small, niche market either. These games are for everyone. They just aspire to be something a little more than escapist daydreaming. 

They are fun for casual and hardcore gamers alike. They will keep you engaged for hours, months, and years. But they are sharp. They are edgy.