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Broken Shores is a tabletop Role-Playing Game where players take the role of Drifters, survivors from an ancient cataclysm that ravaged their world, turning it into a watery hellscape. Players will explore a randomly generated ocean, scavenging what they can from the myriad of derelicts and tiny islands that are only now starting to appear. This is a dark and brutal world where fresh water is worth more than blood, and magic is both unpredictable and the key to ultimate power.
Broken Shores features:
Classless Character Progression: Build your Drifter based entirely on how you play. Improve skills, master diverse weaponry, or learn volatile sorcery, the choice is yours!
Unique Gear-Based Progression: All your gear is crafted from the remnants of your vanquished foes. With dozens of properties that grant you all sorts of abilities, you can carefully plan your build and go hunt the creatures that will guarantee you’ll obtain the parts you need to craft it.
Raft Building & Resource Management: Your raft is your lifeline. Gather scrap and construction supplies across the open ocean to upgrade your hull, build living quarters, install solar stills, set crafting stations, and weaponize your vessel with ballistae.
Volatile Magic & Godshards: Channeling raw magic is deeply perilous, risking demonic corruption or reality tearing apart. Hunt down crystallized fragments of dead deities—Godshards—to stabilize spells or absorb immense divine powers at the cost of drawing the attention of deadly cults.
Momentum Engine: Broken Shores 2e utilizes Blackoath Entertainment’s Momentum Engine, a skill-based D100 ruleset that empowers the narrative outcome of all your actions, without sacrificing detail or speed.
Grid-Based Combat & Dynamic Wound System: Fights are short, brutal, and tactical. Moving across a 5x5 combat grid, combatants track specific injuries and accumulated Trauma rather than simple hit points.
Deep Sandbox & GM-Less Toolkit: Packed with comprehensive oracles, procedural terrain setups, and endless random tables, Broken Shores 2e can be played fully solo, co-operatively without a GM, or in a traditional GM-led campaign. The powerful hexcrawling rules included allow you to explore the vast ocean and everything you might find there, from islands to ancient, derelict ships, or forgotten ruins of the past.
And More!: Follower rules to ensure you have a crew at your disposal, faction rules that make the world feel like a living place, an extended bestiary with all sorts of unique creatures, expansive loot and gear tables, and a gameplay revolving around streamlined survival against the elements and a hostile world, Broken Shores 2e is packed with content, so you can live your sword & sorcery adventures with it for years!
