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Riftbreakers strives to deliver the immersive experience of a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) right on your tabletop. Explore a strange yet familiar world, embark on randomly generated quests, delve into challenging Rifts (self-contained spatial dimensions), discover powerful loot, master intricate crafting, and develop your character in meaningful ways – all without the need for a Game Master!

Riftbreakers is a complete toolkit for adventurous, high fantasy storytelling. This second edition refines and streamlines the gameplay of the first, offering:

  • Intuitive D100 Skill System: The core mechanic is simple: roll equal to or less than your Skill to succeed. Difficulty is easily adjusted by modifiers.
  • Meaningful Character Progression: Grow in power through the acquisition of powerful loot and the improvement of your Skills. Rolling doubles on a Skill check allows you to mark it for potential improvement, and with hundreds of different items to loot, you will be progressing every single session!
  • Deep Crafting System: Don't rely solely on drops! Gather resources and utilize various kits (Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Cooking, etc.) to create the gear and consumables you need to survive.
  • A World Waiting to be Explored: From the desperate pleas of Kar Helos to the dangers lurking within Rifts and the mysteries of the surrounding regions, Kaethor offers you many ways to experience all sorts of adventures. The quest system (fully procedural) ensures that you want to go out and explore, for you will be rewarded handsomely!
  • Engaging Encounters: Face a wide array of monsters, from Cave Trolls to Underworld Dragons, each with their own unique action table, so you never know what they'll be throwing at you next! Enemies all adapt to your party's power level, ensuring they always pose a threat.
  • Tools for Solo Play (or for lazy GMs): Utilize random tables for quests, NPC interactions (including personalities, natures, and actions), and even landmark generation to fuel your solo adventures. Of course, all these tools can be used by a Game Master to run a game on the fly with no prep work!
  • Ideal for West Marches Style Campaigns, or for the Forever GM: With a gameplay loop centered around completing quests starting from the city of Kar Helos, it is extremely easy to play a drop-in, open table campaign. With Riftbreakers 2e, the forever GM will get the chance to finally join their players as one of the adventurers! Furthermore, there is seamless transition from solo to co-op play: play solo at home and then use the same character to meet up with your friends and play together.

Although not necessary to play, you can also purchase the different Heart decks to facilitate deckbuilding and speed up combat. You can either purchase the individual decks you're interested in, or the digital bundle, or the physical + digital bundle.

Published 1 day ago
StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorBlackoath
GenreRole Playing
TagsDeck Building, Fantasy, Solo RPG

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In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of 18.00€ EUR. You will get access to the following files:

Riftbreakers 2e.pdf 83 MB
Sheets.zip 3 MB

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Can you summarize the difference between 1e and 2e? I’ve purchased 1e, how much do I gain if I get 2e?

Great question!

  • All-New Combat: Gone is the standard RPG combat (you-roll-I-roll); instead, we are introducing an exciting Ability-based combat system that emulates card play and hand management. This is all done without the need for cards, though, using a clever Ability Loadout system that serves as your deck! Pick your 12 Abilities (from the ones you’ve unlocked, with hundreds of options), add them to your Loadout, and you’re ready to go!
  • No Heart Limitations: You are no longer limited to four Hearts, and can now learn any number of Heart Abilities (as long as you loot them!). This allows for an almost infinite number of possible character builds.
  • Clear Exploration Procedures: The exploration rules are now hex-based, and have been expanded greatly, with every region having several tables of encounters and findings!
  • Streamlined Crafting: Gone are the dozens of different crafting components, forcing you to grind for hundreds of hours to craft a single item. Everything has been streamlined, without reducing the amount of possibilities.
  • No More Ranks (or XP!): All leveling is now skill and loot-based. There are no more differences in ranks, and enemies scale to your party’s power, making sure you always find something interesting to fight!
  • Exhaustive GMless tools: The GM emulation rules have been expanded and cleared up, making sure you don’t need anything outside of this book!
  • And more! All-new art (commissioned exclusively for Riftbreakers 2e), new print format (7x10", up from the 5.5x8.5” of the first edition), new layout, new enemies, streamlined achievements, reworked Companions, new items, and so much more!

It's honestly a completely new game, expanded in all senses, but also streamlined. You can find a few videos of people playing it already if you check YouTube!

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This sounds really exciting. I’m a huge fan of skill-based progression and hex crawls. I’ll see if I can find a few real plays on youtube later today!