Omios Ures

OMIOS URES is a classless, level-less RPG with a free-form magic system, unique fantasy lineages set in a weird fantasy world. d6-only. 

Fail a roll, gain 1 XP.

Gone are the days of high adventure. Of the great warriors and sorcerers who conquered dragons and defied the gods, rising forth as kings and queens. The heroes of old are dead and gone. This is the world they built.

Today, adventurers are but a dying breed. “Unpredictable,” says the king. “Unreliable,” says the guildmaster. “No admittance!” reads the tavern sign.

But in a world that hates adventurers, you adventure anyway.

The keystone of the system. Fail a roll, gain 1 XP - until you increase the skill. Omios Ures pushes players to take risks to learn and grow, rather than only stick to what they're "already good at". PCs who are already great at what they do have to aspire to ever higher challenges and new creative ways to find growth. Progression through failure encourages the risk taking that creates new heroes – and gets those fools killed.

Lineages represent new takes on classic fantasy races, such as the Dweorg, a dwarf-inspiration, people made of metal, who patina with age, traditionally smelted to be passed on as family heirlooms as weapons or armor, and must melt slag on a crucible to heal their wounds. The Early Access encompasses 5 playable Lineages, each exploring various cultures in concise-but-meaty lore.

Character creation is focused on letting your imagination run wild with possibilities of lives that could exist within Omios Ures; scheming magical tricksters, four-armed orcish battlemasters, mystic lizards with telekinetic dancing swords. Your Character Concept IS your Build. Feats covering a wide range of abilities your character might possess: from combat maneuvers, to social cunning to domain over sorcery.

Magic is open and interpretative. Characters learn Rites: which they can cast or combine to create new spells on the fly. For example: while Alteration deals with flesh and blood, and Transmutation deals with the inorganic, combining both allows you to phase through walls, turn flesh to stone, turn invisible...

Spell Circles limit the power of your spellcasting; ranging from First Circle (mundane) to Fourth (legendary). But any one spellcaster can try to cast beyond their limit by Pushing the Odds. Do this at your own peril, however. Magic is a sensible balance between caster and the beyond… and at the slightest imbalance, the scale sinks deep.

The Rulebook: 105 pages of weird fantasy, ~15 MB, ready to play.

Lodestar to Karamouska: A 64 page setting booklet.

The Thing in a Lead Box: A starter adventure module set in Karamouska.

Character Sheets: Both printable and form-fillable for digital use.

Please note that this is a work in progress. While Lodestar to Karamouska and The Thing in a Lead Box are fully illustrated, the Core Rulebook comes with some missing art. Spots that are yet to feature artwork will be denoted by a faint text marker, and updated with art throughout the following months.

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