13th Age Second Edition Gamemaster’s Guide is a must all players and Gamesmasters. Featuring treasure and information on the default setting of the Dragon Empire as well as rules for running the game, campaign advice, quickly creating exciting and balanced battles, hundreds of monsters, guidelines, and an introductory adventure in a living dungeon!
In this Gamemaster’s Guide, you’ll find:
The Dragon Empire, ready to embellish and reimagine for your campaign.
Guidelines to help you set up memorable campaigns, perilous adventures, and challenging battles.
Hundreds of monsters, newly revised to highlight each creature’s unique place in the ecology of heroic fantasy battles.
Hundreds of redesigned magic items for when the heroes earn loot that matters…or when you want to equip monsters with magic weapons!
An introductory adventure that shows how to work with heroes’ backstories, develop icon connections, and run a living dungeon filled with surprising encounters.
Wide Open Stories
An evocative setting that’s deliberately half-designed so that you and your players can customize it for your campaign.
Each player character is connected to one or more icons, high-fantasy archetypes such as the Archmage, Lich King, or Prince of Shadows, which gives them a place in the world’s story, even at 1st level.
Crunchier Crunch
Streamlined combat rules harness the good bits of crunchy tactical combat without ticky-tacky measurements.
Innovations like the escalation die ensure that battles crescendo instead of getting bogged down.
Each character class has its own unique features, advantages, and play style.
What is 13th Age?
13th Age combines the best parts of traditional d20-rolling fantasy gaming with new story-focused rules. Designed so you can run the kind of game you most want to play with your group. 13th Age provides the tools needed for making unique characters that are immediately embedded in the setting. Quickly prepare adventures based on the PCs’ backgrounds and goals as well as creating your own monsters for fighting exciting battles, whilst focusing on what’s always been cool and fun about fantasy adventure gaming.
