Soulshards: Rising Legends RPG

Delve into a deep and unique fantasy world to explore and fight for survival. Ancient beings of immense power and relics remaining from the creation of the realm lie at the end of the most dangerous adventures. Learn how to harness the power of your soul to create magical effects or manifest rituals using fragments claimed from the souls of others. Every time your group meets, you will send your characters to encounter an adventure with new challenges to conquer created and led by a Soulweaver.

Soulshards: Rising Legends RPG is a tabletop roleplaying game with a focus on heavy character customization. Armored spell castor, musically inclined dragon, or a silver-tongued cyclops. It’s all possible with Soulshards. Start with one of the twenty-five playable species that can mix for half-breeds, each with their own subtypes to choose from, and assign your advancement points on abilities you hand select to make a truly unique character. So, grab your twelve-sided dice and get ready for an adventure in a system that encourages teamwork, strategy, and role-playing.

Contents

The rules are presented in sections of related topics to assist with finding how to handle each part of game play.

How to Play

This section provides rules for how the system works. These pages include definitions terms used throughout the rules and details about what magic is within the world.

Characters

Here you will find information about building your own character and tools to help you with the task. We also provide some characters that are ready to play and can be advanced as you like if you choose to keep them. Here you can find details about the 25 species you can choose to be your character and information about mounts, languages, and reach.

Abilities

The collections of abilities any character can learn that differentiate them from others.

Gear and Services

Commonly made objects are defined with their costs so that you can equip you character for their adventure. Services present some of the most common tasks that adventures are likely to pay for along their journey.

Actions

This section shows you how to use your character to interact with the world. Movement actions presents the options for while you are moving. Conflict Actions take only a few seconds to perform and trigger conflict. Utility actions also are quick effects, but often are used outside of a battle. Adventuring actions are the longest actions that are done during downtime. Social Encounters presents how to resolve character interactions if role play and combat are not effective.

The World

The world itself can provide significant challenges that can devastate a party even without intent. Floods, fires, diseases, and poisons, along with other threats, can all be found defined here. Worldly gear also presents objects such as clothes and furniture that are often needed even if you will not be adventuring any time soon.

Guides

The guides provide simplified and organized versions of the rules for specific topics. You can easily learn the details for crafting and shopping here, though some details will only be seen on their related full rules pages. You can also find how to play our gambling mini-game here.

Running the Game

This section is for those that will tell the story. It presents a number of details about how to build the world and manage the players in it. This is also where you can learn about creating non-player creatures and download printable tools to help run the game.