SWORDS AND SHADES

In the land of Tenea, a divided realm of progress and barbarity, of feuding kingdoms and city-states, a wandering Sell-Sword can only rely on their blade, their courage, their wits...

...and the deviousness of the spirit they've made a pact with.

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SWORDS AND SHADES is a collection of one-page fantasy roleplaying games designed to tell stories about mercenaries and spirits adrift in a magical land consumed by a continent-spanning war. 

Using the one-page RPG rules of SWORDS AND SHADES, groups of 1 to 3 players can tell stories of...

– Gallant duels between bittersweet rivals.

– Passionate rendezvous between friends, lovers, and family.

– Grueling, frightening, and morally compromising military campaigns.

– Frantic chases where the hunter pursues their quarry through glen, field, and city street.

– Epic sword-smithing sequences  where a Sell-Sword and their Shade forge a blade from steel and quench it in magic.

– Tenses clashes of wills where the Sell-Sword bargains with their Shade for more powers and services.

– Good, old-fashioned dungeon-crawling (it's a fantasy RPG, after all!)

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SWORDS AND SHADES version 0.3 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Share, use and adapt as you please while citing the original source!