Ruthless Heavens, Boundless Fate
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Ruthless Heavens, Boundless Fate is an epic Role-Playing Game of cosmic adventure and power cultivation inspired by the LitRPG genre. In it, players play as Ascendants, powerful characters that due to a combination of talent, luck and sheer determination have become the de-facto rulers of their nations. Unfortunately for them, this means little in the cosmic scale, and they quickly find out that they are at the bottom of the power ladder. Their planet has just been introduced to the Path of Ascendancy by the Ruthless Heavens, and as such the rest of the Nolurian Sector is now aware of its existence. It falls to them to become strong enough to protect their homeland, exploring the sector for new opportunities while sending them resources so they can eventually be strong themselves. Through hard work and fortuitous encounters they will have the chance to do so, while reaching new heights of power and cultivation.
Ruthless Heavens, Boundless Fate features:
- A robust, D20 ruleset compatible with most OSR systems and games.
- A gazetteer of the Nolurian Sector, exploring the main locations of interest, such as the Wandering City of Yeross, the different factions and their conflicts, and the motivations behind the mysterious cosmic force known as the Ruthless Heavens.
- Detailed character creation, with 5 different original ancestries, 8 classes, 10 unique lineages, random background generation, and rules to improve your soul, body, and bloodline, which are at the core of character progression.
- A unique skill system with 100 different powers that you can personalize and evolve, combining into your signature power set. Tired of a skill? Swap it for a different one!
- Living Weapon rules to find and evolve your unique artifact, feeding it different resources that you must gather during your travels across the Nolurian Sector, and tailoring its powers to your specific wants and needs.
- Different pre-made locations such as Trials, Hunting Grounds, or Divine Decrees, for you to explore and investigate, each with their different challenges, events, encounter tables, and more.
- Hexploration rules to randomly generate different locations across different planets.
- Rules to expand your settlement between adventures, with a collection of buildings and facilities that grant your character a series of benefits.
- The most exhaustive collection of solo rules and tools ever found in a Blackoath game, allowing you to play the game solo or co-op!
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Hey, very happy to have found this game (bought on DTRPG rather than here, unfortunately). I was just making a character and I've seen two things :
- on page 64, Abyssal Blast is attributed to the cold domain, I wonder if it's a bad case of copy/paste or if it's actually cold attributed.
- on p81, Iron body states that Unarmed attack deal D4-1 damage, while on p113 it is said that it's D4 damage.
about Unarmed combat, I was wondering if it's considered finesse or not (using DEX bonus for damage and to hit is better than STR for the Zenith Guard.
That being said, I can't wait playing and DMing the game. I'll probably make a solo playthru video about it very soon (but that will most likely be in French).
I was wondering about writing a similar game, inspired by Primal Hunter, Defiance of the Fall, Randidly Ghosthound. I quite I don't have to now. Though I think I'll homebrew some skill fusion in when I have a better feel about the ruleset.
Thanks for the game !
Apologies it took me so long to reply, I'm not notified when a new post is created, for some reason. In the future, I'd suggest you either join the Blackoath Discord, or directly email me at info@blackoathgames.com. As for your questions:
- You're correct, it should say "Shadow", not "Cold". Thanks!
- The correct damage is D4.
- Unarmed Combat is indeed Finesse.
Please let me know if you do record a video! I'm glad you find my game interesting!
I got this on release day and just wanted to say that I've been thoroughly enjoying my first read of the book. I've never read or experienced anything in the cultivation genre before so this was quite a revelation for me!
I think this kind of game and story lends itself well for solo play, looking forward to my first session.
Thank you so much for your kind words! If you're interested in the cultivation fantasy genre, I cannot recommend the Cradle book series enough. They're even going to make an anime of it!