Book of Heroes — For the Aegean RPG

Description

Book of Heroes — Sourcebook and Adventure Collection for the Aegean RPG

Book of Heroes is a setting and adventure supplement for AEGEAN — the tabletop roleplaying game of mythic adventure in ancient Greece. Take your heroes from their home in the Aegean Sea to the depths of the Underworld, and to lands and adventure beyond imagining.

This sourcebook includes:

• Detailed view of the Underworld, its rulers and denizens and the places they haunt. Meet Haides and Persephone and a host of other chthonic entities. Visit Elysium or Tartaros, and drink from its many rivers.
• New PC options, including new structures and retainers for the polis as well as a new mystery cult to join.
• In Sleep No More our heroes must travel to the lands of the dead and uncover why sleep has left the mortal lands.
• Details on running AEGEAN with a more mythic tone and five adventures to get you started.
• In Palace of Leaves the heroes must unravel the mystery of the curse preventing a young polis from building a palace.
• The Golden Shirt tasks the heroes with weaving a shirt from the wool of golden sheep.
• In The Pelionion they are drawn into the politics of centaur tribes at the games on Mount Pelion.
• A titanic crab assaults the island in The Doom of Katharonisi.Our heroes must discover the reason behind its destructive presence.
• Finally, in Armoury of the Gods the heroes must travel to a forbidden wasteland to capture an undefeatable foe.

Aegean — The Ancient Greek Roleplaying Game

AEGEAN is a tabletop role-playing game about a group of mythic heroes building a new, free city on the shores of the Aegean Sea. There are neighbouring cities to trade or war with, monsters to kill, gods to appease, deceptions, negotiations and bloody skirmishes.

The Setting

The world of AEGEAN is an ancient Greece that never existed – a mix of mythology and classical history. The gods visit the earth and converse with mortals, granting gifts of magic and life to some and fear and terror to others. Fearsome monsters roam the lands and seas making every journey an adventure. The Wilderness is home to strange creatures, some mortal, others half-divine. These centaurs, nymphs and tritons teach, harass or ignore humans as their whim takes them.

The polis—the city and its surrounding lands—is your home and where your loyalties lie. You have recently founded your polis on the coast of the Aegean Sea. The people elect the Arkhon, your leader, through a democratic process inspired by the Athenian model, instead of following the tradition of a hereditary king that many other cities still uphold. The polis sits in a precarious position, between similar neighbouring states who may wish to trade, ally, or make war.

Your character fits somewhere in this world, between the capricious force of the gods, the wilderness and the structure of the polis and its ambitions.

The Product

The Book of Empires is a beautifilly produced 228 page hardback book. The following products in the Aegean range are also available:

• Core Rulebook
• The Book of Empires