13th Age Second Edition Slipcase

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13th Age Second Edition Slipcase

The 2nd Edition of 13th Age is available for pre-order and will dispatch in January

13th Age Second Edition Slipcase includes includes the Second edition Heroes’ Handbook, Games Master’s Guide and Gamemaster’s Screen.

Heroes’ Handbook includes:

Character creation, a chapter on the kin, classes, backgrounds, the combat rules, Icon connection rules, and writeups of each of the Icons. All aimed at helping players use their connections in fun ways to shape the story.

Heroes’ Handbook opens with a 17-page example of play. This covers campaign planning, character creation, and the first four battles fought by a party of heroes exploring a cemetery overrun by Lich King cultists.

All of this is within a beautifully crafted 350 page book helping people get into the game.

Storytelling

• Every character has One Unique Thing that sets them apart from all others. This provides the raw materials for adventures and plotlines focused on that hero.
• Each character’s backgrounds provide bonuses to relevant skill checks. Every skill roll can reveal new details of that hero’s backstory.
• Connections with the icons—high fantasy archetypes give even 1^st level heroes an introduction to the conflicts that shape the world.
• The evocative setting helps each campaign surprise itself with new twists! We don’t tell the story—each of your campaigns tells new stories.

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 of the nine character classes has unique features, advantages, and play styles.
• Thirteen years of experience with the system and hundreds of playtest reports helped to revise the game.
• Revised Class features, talents, spells, kin powers, and monsters leave only interesting choices.

Gamemaster’s Guide includes:

Players will want 13th Age Second Edition Gamemaster’s Guide for treasure and information on the default setting of the Dragon Empire. Gamemasters need the 250 pages of 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!

13^th Age Second Edition Gamemaster’s Screen features:

This three-section screen features the twelve icons displayed for players. The GM side has all the tables needed to design monsters and battles on the fly It features reminders for conditions and actions during battle, and the guidelines for both environmental threats. It’s not all bad for the heroes—the screen also has guidelines for suggested treasure rewards.

13th Age combines the best parts of crunchy d20-rolling fantasy gaming with story-focused rules that help the gamemaster and players collaborate to create unique campaigns.