Welcome to the official Crossblade TTRPG blog!
If you've got any interest in Crossblade, it is recommended you start here!
What is Crossblade?
Crossblade is a work-in-progress indie TTRPG built by @squidd1e. The game is built out of a love for fantasy, history, arms and armor. It tells a dramatic story with a grounded base to enhance the impact of any fantastical elements. The setting is a combination of many old romantic fantasy tropes with an air of black comedy and authentic historical contexts.Â
What is Crossbladeâs intention as a game?
Crossblade is a historical fantasy game, built around its own setting with its own rules. The game is meant to tell a gritty historical fantasy story, with characters able to develop and change outside simply increasing their level.Â
The game is meant to produce a story that ALL players collaborate to tell within the game world. Characters are built with mechanics that can express their flaws, ties, motivations, and even their relevance to the story itself. Players are given tools to create strong backgrounds for their characters, including NPCs that can show at key moments of modules. Game masters will be given the tools necessary to reduce any improvisation or strain required while running the game.Â
There will be a larger-scale Battle system and a smaller Duel system, both meant to emulate two very different forms of combat. Combat is tactical and meaningful, which has more than just death as a potential failure state and a strong focus on skill expression. Characters are not meant to be optimized for success in combat, instead made to interact in some interesting way with the mechanics to produce enjoyable fights.
This sounds really cool! How do I play?
As of right now, Crossblade is not completely ready for playtesting. In the Cross Thy Blades! discord server there will be playable content posted for anyone to experiment with, but not a completely playable game quite yet. If you'd like to see what is currently built, head on over there!
Cross Thy Blades! is a community server surrounding the tabletop roleplaying game Crossblade (working title). It is primarily here to house



















