#singleplayerttrpg

(rescued from a post from r/solo_roleplaying)

I backed Two-Hand Path on Kickstarter and now that it's out I've been playing it daily. It's got the good vibes of a rogue-like video game with modern post-apocalyptic dungeons. The central roll and write mechanic gives you tattoos, jewelry, and scars to define your mage's struggle to survive, and backstory of how they inherited their magic as you try to clear dungeons and complete goals. Your character sheet is literally just a picture of two hands you fill in with details as you play.

I haven't fallen this hard for a solo RPG in a while and it feels like something innovative in the genre, so I wanted to spread the love. Here's a photo of my mage's hands from my most recent runs:

Scars give you more HP, bracelets let you reroll dice, rings let you substitiue their number for numbers on the dice, and tattoos tell your story when prompted in certain encounters.

The People's Revolution has been stolen! The Revolutionary Council of Kyneburgh is corrupt! Was it the influence of those dead nobles, the allure of treasures and wealth, or dark and vile magics? Whatever the cause the people starve and riot, and the rich hide in their towers and send their bailiffs to beat us.

We must climb to the top of the city and root out the evil once more! We must burn down their spires!

Fire in the Spires is a single player dungeon climber ttrpg. It's my follow-up/sequel to A Torch in the Dark. It's a story of how revolutions are stolen, twisted, and spit back in the face of those who need them.

A Torch in the Dark is one of my first games, and to this day one of my most popular. I've never done a sequel before, but I've had this idea for a while now, and wanted to give folks who loved Torch more lore, more ways to play, and more gruesome and wretched rich people to kill.

Fire in the Spires uses the Forged in the Dark rules system, splitting game play into two phases: climbs and downtime. In climbs you assemble a crew of rebels each with a single unique trait. You combine these traits together with spire modifiers and encounter complications to build a die pool, which determines if your crew will ascend, or be weighed down by stress and damage.

When your climb is done, you return to the streets, cross days of the new People's Calendar, and do your best to recover and recruit before your next climb.

Fire in the Spires is a standalone sequel. You don't need to have read or played Torch to get it. But if you'd rather take your favourite delver through five new dungeons and hundreds of new encounters, you can. I'll be including instructions about how to mash the two games together, if you want to treat Fire in the Spires as more like an expansion.

Also, if you missed your chance to get a printed copy of A Torch in the Dark, I'm doing a rare second printing. You can get digital copies as an add-on, or back at certain tiers to get the physical copy.

Check it out on Kickstarter now. Spread the word. Tell your allies. Scream it at your enemies.