We are happy to announce that the Kickstarter for our upcoming project Ruthless Heavens, Boundless Fate, will go live later this month! Make sure you follow the project! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1775185920/ruthless-heavens-boundless-fate
Path of the Aram Thyr now live on Kickstarter!
The latest Blackoath Entertainment game, published by Gallant Knight Games, is now live on Kickstarter, so don’t miss out!
Ker Nethalas: Into the Midnight Throne out now!
The hit dungeon crawling survival game is finally available now, so go and grab your copy on all the usual places!
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/465235/Ker-Nethalas-Into-the-Midnight-Throne
https://blackoath.itch.io/ker-nethalas-into-the-midnight-throne
Demonic #2 out now!
Demonic is Blackoath Entertainment's official zine for Sacrifice RPG. Each issue of Demonic offers a mix of short content updates for Sacrifice, such as new starting occupations, new rules and systems, explorations of specific themes within the game, short adventure scenarios, and more.
In this Secunda Convocatio, you will find:
The Arcanist: A new starting occupation, introducing playable spellcasters to Sacrifice for the first time. Dominate the battlefield with your incantations, or expand your possibilities via rituals.
Lucius Voss: A fallen inquisitor turned Apostle.
Servants of Darkness: What happens to characters that choose to serve the darkness, instead of fighting it? Check out the all-new character options and Apostolic blessings for those PCs that have turned to the dark side.
Witch Pig: A new scenario by Imad Ottallah, following the events in a small rural farm. A classic tale of folk horror.
This is not a standalone game. A copy of Sacrifice RPG is required in order to play.
Across a Thousand Dead Worlds available for preorder!
We are very happy to announce that Across a Thousand Dead Worlds, our dark sci-fi RPG, is finally available for pre-order. Shipping will commence in late November. Grab a copy while they last! And while you’re at it, get a copy of the Crew and Exploration Sites expansion as well!
Sacrifice - Branded Edition
We have just released the new and updated version of Sacrifice, which includes both the core rules and the Companion expansion in a single volume! Go grab a copy (or download the new PDF if you already own it) from your favorite platform!
Riftbreakers is now available on all platforms!
Our latest release is now available on DrivethruRPG, itch.io and our website. Go grab a copy!
Broken Shores is now available on all platforms!
Our latest release is now available on DrivethruRPG, itch.io and our website. Go grab a copy!
New Game Jam organized for Sacrifice RPG!
Sacrifice’s first official Game Jam is happening now! This will run for two months, and will allow anyone participating in it to create all sorts of materials for the game. Come join us!
Sacrifice - An Incense & Iron RPG available via LF OSR
Sacrifice is now available as an incredible deluxe edition via LF OSR. Go grab a copy!
Sacrifice - An Incense & Iron RPG
Sacrifice is now available! PoD and offset print copies will be available at a later date.
https://blackoathgames.com/store/sacrifice-an-incense-iron-rpg https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/403379/Sacrifice--An-Incense--Iron-RPG https://blackoath.itch.io/sacrifice
The Commoner - A new starting occupation for Sacrifice https://blackoathgames.com/store/commoner-new-occupation-for-sacrifice https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/403887/Commoner--New-Occupation-for-Sacrifice https://blackoath.itch.io/commoner-sacrifice
Across a Thousand Dead Worlds - Now live on Kickstarter!
Across a Thousand Dead Worlds is finally live on Kickstarter! Make sure you back it if you want to help us bring this project forward!
Across a Thousand Dead Worlds - Coming soon to Kickstarter!
We are very happy to announce that the Kickstarter for Across a Thousand Dead Worlds will go live on Monday, 17th of January! Follow the project now so you don’t miss it!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1775185920/across-a-thousand-dead-worlds
Disciples of Bone & Shadow and Seekers Beyond the Shroud transferred to Exalted Funeral
The full publishing rights for Disciples of Bone & Shadow and Seekers Beyond the Shroud have now been transferred to Exalted Funeral. This means that I will no longer be producing content for those games. Exalted Funeral has plenty of unreleased material to publish though, including a full expansion for both games that only require editing and layout to be finished, so I imagine they'll want to publish them soon. I imagine they will also reprint the zines, plus some other unreleased zines as well. Overall, they have a lot of material to work with, aside from years of notes, in case they choose to hire writers and develop the games further, something I would expect to happen. This has not been an easy decision to make, and it wasn't planned at all (the whole thing happened over the course of a single month) but a combination of burnout (after writing literally daily for these two games for the past 3 years) and desire to have full control of my work (not like Exalted Funeral ever told me to do this or that, they always respected my creative freedom) have pushed in this direction. EF is now quite a large company and as a small indie creator it can be difficult to find a release window for my work, since there are only so many KS they can have running in the same year. I also feel both Disciples and Seekers have grown a bit out of my control, and would benefit from the kind of support EF can offer, since as a single developer it was truly overwhelming at times... So moving forward, I will focus on Across a Thousand Dead Worlds and what is to come after it, and will of course be happy to continue hosting the Disciples and Seekers communities in this server. I will be working closely with the EF team to ensure that anything they release is a continuation of my vision for each game.
We are very happy to announce Blackoath Entertainment’s next original release: Across a Thousand Dead Worlds. This is a solo (group play is supported though, with or without GM) horror space exploration RPG. Coming to Kickstarter soon!
A new limited deluxe tome soon to be released!
We are incredibly proud of presenting our next release: Through Sunken Lands & Other Adventures. Brought to you in collaboration with Flatland Games (creators of the incredible Beyond the Wall), Through Sunken Lands is a kit to make a motley crew of sellswords, sorceresses, and cunning thieves, and send them off in search of gold and glory. This is a simple yet deeply atmospheric swords and sorcery roleplaying game that gives a group of players all the tools they need to play an exciting adventure in a single evening, no homework, no fuss.
Anyone with a background in OSR games will already be comfortable with the core rules of Through Sunken Lands.
Inspired by the works of Michael Moorcock, Fritz Leiber, and Robert E. Howard., the game introduces:
Character Playbooks and Scenario Packs for play in a single evening with no prep.
Player driven setting design for fleshing out the great city and the world beyond.
A sample sword and sorcery setting: the impossible city of Jundarr and the Hundred Seas.
Nine Character Playbooks, including the Spell Thief and the Eldritch Sorcerer King.
Three Scenario Packs: the Mysterious Island, the Treasure Hunt, and the Wizard’s Tower.
The limited Bronze Edition will also include for the first time two new Character Playbooks: The Barbaric Beastmaster and the Daring Adventurer, as well as a new Scenario Pack: City Intrigue!
We are very happy that both Seekers Beyond the Shroud and Disciples of Bone & Shadow: Conquered Sun Edition are back in stock over at Exalted Funeral.
Warlock! - Black Edition now available!
Warlock! is a rules-light roleplaying game that aims to emulate the feeling of old-school British tabletop games of wondrous and fantastical adventure. Warlock looks to reproduce the play style of its illustrious predecessors but in a light, quick and simple manner, with a consistent rule-set that is easily hackable and adaptable as desired.
This exclusive, limited edition, not only contains the complete core rules, but for the first time it presents in a single volume the setting book Kingdom, as well as some rules from the popular Compendium II, as well as tons of all-new art, new layout, many fixes and corrections, and even an all-new character sheet!
Within the pages of Warlock! - Black Edition you will find:
- A complete ruleset, easy enough for new players but flexible and interesting enough for veterans.
- Dozens of interesting character choices and careers. Who doesn’t want to play as a ratcatcher?
- Flexible and engaging combat and magic rules.
- A Gazetteer of the Evening Lands, the western part of the Kingdom, the official setting for Warlock!, with a focus on Grim Biskerstaf, a thriving port city on the mighty river Vessen.
- Advice on how to run the game, and many adventure ideas to get you started!
NOW AVAILABLE!
Trees are People Too - a Seekers Beyond the Shroud scenario is now released!
After almost a year of being a Patreon-exclusive, the first official scenario for Seekers Beyond the Shroud is now released! You can purchase the PDF directly from our webstore or itch.io, or DriveThruRPG if you prefer the Print on Demand option.
Disciples of Bone & Shadow: Conquered Sun Edition Released!
We have finally received the copies from the print, and we couldn’t be happier! The book looks incredible, and the photos don’t do it justice. There are very few copies left, so make sure to grab one of them before they’re gone forever! More info here.
Disciples of Bone & Shadow: Conquered Sun Edition
We are extremely happy to be able to finally announce this which is our first in-house release! We’re going all in, ensuring this is the ultimate Disciples of Bone & Shadow edition, both in content and in format. Limited to 100 hand-numbered copies, this is your chance to get all the rules in one luxurious tome! More info here.
October 15 / 2020 - seekers beyond the shroud - mission deck
The Mission Deck for Seekers Beyond the Shroud has now been released! This deck, containing over 300 cards, allows the game to be played at a much faster pace, reducing the number of rolls required while exploring a Mission Site. Grab a PDF or Print on Demand copy via DrivethruRPG!
August 12 / 2020 - new releases!
We are very happy to announce that the physical copies of Seekers Beyond the Shroud and the Disciples of Bone & Shadow: Narrative Playbook PDF are now available via Exalted Funeral! Don’t miss out!
april 23 / 2020 - new patreon!
We have started a Patreon, to allow all those who want to support us directly to do so. This will also allow us to offer fresh, monthly content for Blackoath games, hopefully creating a continuous stream of adventures and scenarios for those joining us in this journey.
We also had some cool ideas for physical rewards (dice, stickers, etc.), and Patreon is the best way to find people interested in helping us to create and publish more awesome stuff!
March 31 / 2020 - Disciples of Bone & Shadow: Narrative Playbook
After the success and critical acclaim of Disciples of Bone & Shadow, we are very happy to introduce you to a new way of playing the game with the Narrative Playbook.
Although Disciples of Bone & Shadow's base experience provides lots of exciting gameplay twists and turns, due to the fact of having a limited amount of possible results and combinations it can become somewhat stale after a lot of playing with the same encounters and possibilities. This is when it becomes obvious that as a Dungeon Crawler, Disciples of Bone & Shadow provides a fantastic experience, but as a real Role-Playing Game it falls short. There are no surprise elements being thrown at us, coming from the mind or script of a Game Master; there are no interesting, credible NPCs to deal with or unexpected dangers to face.
This is where Narrative Gameplay comes in. We call Narrative Gameplay the style of play that allows a player to experience the full benefits of having a Game Master, without actually having one. This is not a novel idea, there are many games out there that provide a similar experience. Our goal here is to provide the necessary tools to truly explore the unique (and lethal) world of Uzrun, allowing the player the liberty to truly choose their character's destiny, creating a unique story in the process.
In order to introduce Narrative Gameplay we had to also introduce new tools for the character and world creation, making it deeper and more detailed. As opposed to the core experience, where it is advised that you play with two characters simultaneously, this style of gameplay is also specifically tailored for being played with only one character, which means all the threats and dangers have been designed with this in mind. This doesn't mean you cannot play narratively with a friend; you will find instructions on how to do so in this new expansion!
This is also the perfect opportunity to introduce a whole new region of the Twilight: the Whiteteeth Peninsula. This desolate region lies to the south of the Fractured Dominion, in the limit of the inhabitable area. Darkness is almost complete in this region, and the few people that live here are some of the toughest in all of the Twilight, used to facing dangers of all kinds. This region comes with lots of new dangers and fresh opportunities for any adventurer desperate enough to challenge these threats and try to make a name for themselves in this frozen wasteland.
Narrative Playbook features:
- A whole new way of playing the game, full of detail and deepness, and 100% compatible with the base experience found in Disciples of Bone & Shadow
- A new, expanded character creation, with new active and passive skills, Personality Traits, Advantages & Disadvantages, and much more!
- New spells, new gear, new magic artifacts
- A new Archetype: the Deathbinder, defying the power of the Primordial Ones with their Korian Necromagic
- The Whiteteeth Peninsula: a new region of the world to explore, the last habitable frontier before reaching the Land of the Conquered Sun. This frozen landscape introduces lots of new dangers and possibilities for those brave enough to explore it
- New encounters, enemies and threats
- And much more!
March 17 / 2020 - open game license for seekers beyond the shroud
Our Open Game License is finally available, allowing all content creators to sell and distribute Seekers Beyond the Shroud material. You can find it in our Downloads section.
December 25 / 2019 - seekers beyond the shroud available on pdf
It is finally here. After a couple of months of hard work, the pdf is ready and has been sent to backers. It is also available for purchase at DrivethruRPG and Exalted Funeral. The physical copies will be available in a few weeks as well.
December 1 / 2019 - Upcoming releases
As the year ends, we think it’s a good opportunity to talk about what is going on behind the veil here at Blackoath Entertainment. Our next title, Seekers beyond the Shroud, should be out in about a month, but that doesn’t mean we’ve been resting! We have several projects in the works, some of them more done than others, and today we want to talk about a few.
Sands of the Eternal Sun
This is Uzrun. Husk of the Old One. The Sundered Realm. The flame of civilization gutters, dying upon the narrow band of habitable land in this world known as Twilight: a place ruled by ruthless Tyrants corrupted by the horrific Primordial Ones. To the south, the lands of the Conquered Sun exist in eternal, icy darkness. To the north, the Scorched Wastes wither beneath the onslaught of eternal sunlight. This is Uzrun. This is our world. While ruins dot the landscape of the Twilight, these ancient structures are merely the echoes of what may have been a golden age: pillaged and plundered time and again by adventurers, looters, and the villainous powers of this world. The Twilight is a populous place, if such a thing could be said of any region on the fetid corpse of Uzrun. Yet, in the far north, in the Bright of the ever-shining sun, great treasures are buried beneath the Scorched Wastes, many untouched for centuries: perhaps millenia. Beware, though, for the land itself rages against any intruder. Mighty dust storms choke the breath of life on the mountainous dunes of Het-roph, while winds on the high plateaus of Ganazereht whip shards of rock into whirlwinds of eviscerating knives. The sand wyrms bare their fangs, and the insular nomads of the Vazret hunt and (if the rumors are true) feast upon any foolish enough to intrude upon their disparate territories. Yet, like a Tyrant on his throne, the Bright land and its denizens guard vast treasures and incredible wonders: wonders buried deep beneath the sands which can be had by brave and hardened adventurers willing to fight for them and plumb those abandoned arcades of terror.
A supplement for Disciples of Bone & Shadow, Sands of the Eternal Sun introduces new character archetypes, two brand new forms of magic (with, of course, their own risks and requirements), an expanded spell list, advanced weather effects, additional random events, new missions, new encounters, new overland and interior features, new enemies, expanded special loot and artifact tables, an enhanced faction system, fragments of forgotten lore, and an introductory adventure in this forbidding wasteland.
Covert Wars
We’ve already discussed this project (in fact, it’s basically done, we just need to finish the layout and it will off to the print), but aside from what is already known (it’s a traditional historical RPG, Referee and all, set during the Cold War where players play as CIA or KGB agents), we can now share a few more details. This new game will be released as an RPG zine (6x9”) and it’s a quick and dirty little game that goes straight to the point without any fluff. It presents the players with the necessary tools to jump straight into the action, with a detailed character creation system, basic gameplay rules and all the information necessary to allow any aspiring Supervisors to create and run missions for their agents. With Covert Wars you’ll be able to live out your Jason Bourne or James Bond fantasies, all with the background of a world in the brink of annihilation.
Under Ashen Skies
Our next large project is Under Ashen Skies, a solo/co-op horror RPG set in a world of darkness and loss. As a player, you wake up in the once idilic town of riverside with no memories of who you were and what you’re doing there, only to be thrown into a twisted nightmare filled with abominations and unknown terrors. With an underlying theme of loss and psychological horror, Under Ashen Skies plays as a fast and furious dungeon crawler, where you loot and smash your way through randomized locations while gathering the pieces of your broken mind. With dozens of skills, talents and a system that randomly generates gear and places to explore, you will never run out of things to do. Influenced by Hellraiser, the Diablo and Silent Hill videogame series, and the Orphic Mysteries, this is a game like no other.
November 3 / 2019 - seekers beyond the shroud’s kickstarter was a total success!
We are very happy to announce that the Kickstarter campaign for our upcoming solo RPG Seekers Beyond the Shroud was a total success, funding almost at 500% of its original goal. We’ll be posting updates as we near its release (scheduled for December this year)!