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Adventure Band is the working title of a fantasy RPG from Shewstone Publishing. It is currently under early development.

TODO: Introduction saying many hobbyists want a narrative game and emergent moments. Adventure band is designed to make the story unfold in unpredictable ways. I wouldn't call it rules-light, but we don't regard complexity as desirable.

Open Game Content

The rules for Adventure Band are free to use, modify, republish, and sell under the Open Game License version 1.0a. The Drintera™ setting is Product Identity owned by Shewstone Publishing LLC.

Setting

The setting for Adventure Band is an original fantasy world called Drintera™. It's a world where adventurers explore lost cities, perform secret missions for lords and monarchs, and eventually become champions of the gods themselves.

Rules Engine

Updated June 2022: Adventure Band is based on the Fate Condensed rules engine. We settled on this instead of a D20-based engine, because there are plenty of good D20-based dungeon crawling games out there already. Fate™ is better aligned to our design goals (see below).

Rules

• Character creation
• Character Classes
• Stunts
• Category:Ancestry
• Character Aspects
• Loot
• Equipment
• Skills

Design Goals

See also the Design Notes page.

• Inspire players and GM with narrative opportunities. The best moments are spontaneous.
• The best mechanics are simple. Be suspicious of complexity.
• Support creative problem-solving
• Emphasize teamwork and provide mechanical support for teamwork
• Playable with or without electronic tabletop
• Supports plugging into a homebrew or published setting. Setting is not baked into the rules.
• Balance. We don't want some characters to overshadow others. We don't want any options so powerful that you're at a disadvantage if you choose something else.

Is Adventure Band for You?

Adventure Band may be to your liking if:

• you want to solve problems creatively.
• how you roleplay your character is more important than how much damage they can do.
• your character falling out of the frying pan and into the fire sounds fun.

Adventure Band is probably not for you if:

• power gaming is your thing.
• you need exotic character options like a half-elemental thunder gnome shadowrune bladesoliloquist to have a good time.
• you prefer rules that don't require you to think too much.