Desolation. Despair. Desperation.

At the end of the War of Despair, madness and bloodshed were all that remained of a butchered age. When all seemed lost, seven Inheritors wielding ancient rings of power arose to vanquish the Black Crown, a necromancer of near god-like powers… Yet, their unlikely triumph was marred by the Black Crown’s final curse: a dreadful miasma called the Bane that twisted and tainted everything it touched, casting a pall over the mortal realms.

For ten centuries, the world languished under the Bane’s grim veil, and the Inheritors vanished. But the plague fogs are receding. Imidia, once the resplendent heart of civilization, now a desolate boneyard, is accessible once more. Its streets teem with banespawn, warlocks, dragons, and unspeakable horrors, but hidden amidst the ashes of Imidia are untold treasures and secrets awaiting those bold enough to reclaim them… Awaiting the Inheritors!

What's Inside the Core Rulebook?

Whether you’re a solo Inheritor or part of a crew, the Core Rulebook provides everything you need to embark on your INHERITORS adventure:

• The complete ruleset, including full-color illustrations to teach the game quickly and effectively

• Seven Ring Classes and more than a hundred powers to shape your Inheritors and Followers

• More than forty monsters, powered by a unique enemy logic and creature tag system, to challenge and terrify players

• Dozens of character customization options, including races, backgrounds, and stigmata

• A broad array of equipment, armor, gear, treasure, and ancient artifacts

• Fourteen pre-written cooperative and competitive scenarios and a campaign building system

• A rich world steeped in horror and despair hand-crafted by an award-winning writer

• Character sheets, Campaign trackers, full color tokens, and much more!

FAST, FURIOUS, AND FIERCE

INHERITORS combines the fantasy and roleplay of d20 games with the team-oriented strategy and danger of skirmish wargames. Even better, it's structured around the classic pulp adventure story: your character starts as an established adventurer marching into certain peril, rather than telling another rags to riches hero's journey. From the first jump, you're a badass endowed with vast and terrible powers—but whether that's enough to keep you alive in Imidia... only the fates can say.

You'll quickly discover the city is swarming with minions of the Lesser Shadow, the black dragon Cairnvog, but around every corner deadlier threats emerge through surprise mechanics such as Scavenging Conditions and other hazard modifiers. Imidia is ever-changing, and always hostile: it keeps even the most experienced raiders on their toes—and everyone has to pitch in to keep the gang alive.

Gone are those stuffy half hour rounds where everyone is looking at their phones or idly stacking dice, waiting for the GM and the one active player to sort an interaction out: every player is active in INHERITORS, either roleplaying as their heroes, or helping to manage the monsters via a simple but modular AI logic that makes every fight feel desperate. Once you feel the energy of the entire table coming to life, you'll never want to go back to the stodgy old wait-your-turn initiative. This is fast, furious, and fierce: just like a knife fight with a gang of starving, man-sized rat mutants should be.

Customizable Classes: The Seven Great Rings and Player Characters

The world of INHERITORS is steeped in a lore that emerged from a long study of world history, cultural mythology, and psychology. I'm a big dork for the epics, famous and obscure, and from them I derived the the seven Great Rings: mantles that player characters adopt. From Buddha to Boudica, from Hercules and Hecate, and Genghis Kahn to Gilgamesh, players can truly draw their inspiration from anywhere in the world as they build their Inheritors. In the Core Rulebook, you'll find some of the most wide-open customization and freedom available anywhere in the RPG space.

Primary player characters are called Inheritors because they inherited one of the seven Great Rings. These cosmic, divine artifacts bestow vast and terrible powers on those worthy enough to wield them, bestowing significantly more powerful than mere mortals could handle... but it also draws the ire and jealous attention of the wicked-hearted and those of a certain low-cunning. Inheritors are never far from danger...

The second type of player character is the humble but ardent Follower. As these ambitious and loyal companions travel and fight alongside their Inheritors, they begin to manifest powers and signs themselves—and perhaps they may be worthy of inheriting a Great Ring themselves one day.

Each Ring Class comes with more than a dozen powers to choose from, allowing for a huge array of possible combinations and class builds—not to mention the General Skills list! No two Inheritors are alike, just as no two raids into the cursed city will be alike. Build the hero you want to be—and hold