Dragons & Wizards · Kaico Studio

PLAYTEST 214

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KAICO STUDIO ED. 1 · DRAFT

TABLETOP · IN DEVELOPMENT

DRAGONS
& WIZARDS

A high fantasy game where character development is bound to story progression. The world is a living place. You learn it by exploring and interacting in real time, and it does not explain itself.

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RÆVYLN IS SPLIT IN TWO ★ THE PORTAL IS STILL OPEN ★ NOBODY HAS MAPPED ELARIS ★ THE VOLVELLE KNOWS ★ RÆVYLN IS SPLIT IN TWO ★ THE PORTAL IS STILL OPEN ★ NOBODY HAS MAPPED ELARIS ★ THE VOLVELLE KNOWS ★

THE VOLVELLE

A medieval paper dial. It runs the core of the game. Everything else is a subsystem hanging off it.

— UNTURNED

OUTER RING · THE WORLD

Where you are and what it wants. Set once per scene, rarely by you.

MIDDLE RING · THE ACT

What you are attempting. Turn it to your approach, then leave it alone.

III

INNER RING · THE TIER

How far along your story has taken you. It scales everything above it.

THE WINDOW

Read the result through the cut-out. The dial answers; the GM does not have to.

Turn the dial and read what lines up. That is the whole game.

RÆVYLN

[ MAP OF THE SPLIT WORLD ]

THE PORTAL
SPLIT IT IN TWO

An infernal portal opened and cut the world in half. Both halves kept going. Neither half agrees on what happened.

HALF ONE

SULVISTHON

THE DRAGONFALL SETTING

Where the dragons came down. What's left of them is still in the ground.

HALF TWO

ELARIS

THE DISK WORLD

A flat disk fed by a waterfall at its centre. Everything that grows here drinks from it.

WHO YOU PLAY

[ PORTRAIT ]

HUMAN

Shortest lives, longest records. They write down what the others forget.

[ PORTRAIT ]

ELF

Older than the split. Several of them remember it and none of them will say so.

[ PORTRAIT ]

WOLFFOLK

Travel in confirmed numbers. Hold a line better than anything else alive.

[ PORTRAIT ]

FOXFOLK

Find the way through. Occasionally the way through did not previously exist.

RACE IS FOUNDATIONAL

Male and female of each race have separate abilities, but synergize when they work together.

ARCHETYPE 01

NAVIGATOR

Reads the land and the dial. The only one who can tell you where you actually are.

ARCHETYPE 02

MIST-STALKER

Works in the low light between the halves. Goes first, says least.

ARCHETYPE 03

ALCHEMIST

Turns what you found into what you need, at a rate you will not enjoy.

ARCHETYPE 04

LORE SCHOLAR

Knows the name of the thing. Knowing the name of the thing is frequently enough.

RULES AT A GLANCE

★ Character development is bound to story progression. You advance because the story moved, not because you spent an evening fighting.

★ The player rolls, then consults the volvelle to determine the action.

★ Every result scales by tier, so the same roll means different things later.

★ Race is foundational. It sits underneath every other choice you make.

★ The GM does not explain the world. You learn it by going there.

★ Everything outside the volvelle is a subsystem, and you can ignore most of them for a first session.

AT THE TABLE

TRANSCRIPT

The waterfall is running upward. You have been watching it for a minute now.

NAVIGATOR

I want to find where it drains. Rolling.

Outer ring is on Elaris, middle is on Search. Turn the inner ring to your tier and read the window.

NAVIGATOR

Nine. GAIN.

You find the drain. It is not the only thing using it. Mark the progression.

WHAT'S INSIDE

[ SPREAD ]

THE VOLVELLE, CUT-OUT SHEET

[ SPREAD ]

RÆVYLN, BOTH HALVES

[ SPREAD ]

THE FOUR RACES

[ SPREAD ]

PROGRESSION TRACK

SAMPLE ADVENTURE · INCLUDED IN THE QUICKSTART

THE WATERFALL
DOES NOT STOP

Four travellers, one week, and a disk-world waterfall that has started running the wrong way. Runs in a single evening. No prior reading.

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One email when the book exists. Nothing else, ever.

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BEFORE IT'S DONE

The playtest packet is a volvelle you print and cut out, four pre-made travellers, and the one-evening adventure. We read every report.

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