Unleash Your Epic Fantasy Story

Every character is your creation, every turn your canvas, every campaign your legend.

How? Choices

Epic Power gives you options for your fantasy role playing – tons of them – without burying you in complexity. An epic character starts with the same choice of actions any character does. Then their epic power gives choices for how to do them far better – extra skill, added effects, or maybe just epic flair. The combination unlocks endless possibilities. 

More choices

Even after choosing an action and way of being epic, there are also meaningful choices in how to do them. Take a spell that heats a weapon: do you make it burn characters it hits, or burn its own wielder? Or you've surprised an enemy; time to exploit that with your epic power: do you go for massive damage, or hit them where it really hurts – depleting their epic reserves.

Your choice of complexity, too

Epic Power is crunchy, but smooth to learn. The core is small. New players can jump right in, quickly learning as they go – after a few turns, they’ve got the essentials. They can start with a few powerful go-to moves. As they get more comfortable, they can craft combos that light up the table.

Choices at every level

A Turn: Tristan leaps over a table and swings his sword at Lyndis. With his epic power, he pivots for a whirling strike, and makes his sword cut like a razor.

A Character: Tristan's masteries include the skills of acrobatics and swordsmanship, although he always has room for improvement. And he is peerless at using his epic power for better attacks, by upping his sword's deadliness, and with epic acrobatic moves.

A Campaign: The GM has some surprises for the party. A plains tribe enemy has a new skill: training wolf packs. And a wetlands tribe enemy knows a new epic feat: skipping sling bullets over water, for double the range. Meanwhile, a giant fish combines a wicked bite with the water cannon spell; they'll blast a character into their pool, and start munching.

Fate in every roll

Epic Power's special dice help advance the story too. Any time there's a chance of success or failure – whether it’s an attack or a clever bluff – you resolve it the same way: Start with the character’s ability; add any bonuses, including epic boosts; roll the special dice, adding extra dice if any are called for. Add it all up. Did you hit the mark?

The dice are designed not just for balance, but for story too. There is no limit to how remarkably good or how catastrophically bad their rolls can turn out. And exceptional rolls are a signal: something wild just happened, the more exceptional the roll the wilder. The rules offer ideas for what that could mean, but ultimately, it's your story to shape.

And the dice work as a bridge between the story and the rules. Did a character make a persuasive argument? A +2 bonus doubles their odds of success when they roll to see if their persuasion succeeds. A +2 always doubles the odds of any roll, no matter how good or how bad they had been. Was it a great argument? +4, instead, quadruples the odds. A lousy argument? A –2 cuts their odds half. This one simple mechanic is all you need to make the rule's chance of success match the story.

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