Brancalonia – The Empire Whacks Back!

Brancalonia, the ENnie Award-winning Spaghetti Fantasy setting for the 5th Edition of the most famous role-playing game of all time, is back with “The Empire Whacks Back”, a brand-new campaign!

Brancalonia – The Empire Whacks Back consists of around 180 richly illustrated full-color pages, with maps, characters, antagonists, monsters, and other images evocative of the Bounty Kingdom.

The book will feature:

●  A description of the northern regions of the Kingdom and their Free Towns, with secrets, menaces, curiosities, places of interest, rumors, game hooks, and new ideas for your gaming sessions.

●   A general presentation on the Altomannic Empire, its rulers, secrets, and armies.

●   A complete map of the northern part of the Kingdom

●   A new, original, war-themed campaign, in 10 linked adventures.

●   New Backgrounds, new Dive Games, new Grandluxuries, new Equipment, new Spells, and new Magical Junk for all the Knaves.

●   20+ new monsters and antagonists typical of Italian history, tradition, and folklore.

The Jinx’s Almanack #1 is a hardback, full color Collector’s Edition that brings together the first three issues of The Daily Jinx, and some hard-to-find and well-loved adventures such as For a Fistful of Hops, Showdown at Borgoratto, and The Bigat’s Treasure, plus the extra material that will eventually be unlocked as stretch goals during the campaign!

In the history of Brancalonia, the territories south of the Crown Mountains are officially rebel provinces of no value to the Altomannic Empire, that refuse to pay taxes to the royal treasury and have been ignored by the northern sovereigns, because a military campaign to reconquer them and maybe even gain something never looked promising.

However, laxity in paying taxes has now become unsustainable, and the Emperor decided to invade the Left Boot to remind the Southerners who’s in charge, and he is doing so with an unending cohort of heralds, vassals, warlords, and knights.

After some threats and skirmishes, mostly never even fought since the hired mercenary troops keep changing sides and so no one is really able to reach any sort of military supremacy, the Emperor found a possible solution, a more diplomatic one: he betrothed his youngest daughter to the most prominent dauphin of Tarantasia’s nobility, to cement Galaverna’s loyalty and try to spread the Imperial alliance, bringing with it a series of puppet allies.

Players can decide to side with the Landsknechts and the Imperial cities, or with the rebel League of Free Towns against the Altomannic army. In both cases, the Knaves will travel through a country impacted by war, roaming soldiers, ravagers, renegades, and deserters, while carrying out tactical missions for their Leader, searching for the opportunity that will let them make the Big Hit of their lives!

So, this is it: a new loot for the award-winning, one and only Spaghetti Fantasy RPG on the web!

You can also Download the Quickstart and the new Adventure “Stall Wars” now, along with other awesome playable stuff, and try Brancalonia for free with your friends!

JOIN US IN BRANCALONIA!

Inferno RPG – Dante’s Guide to Hell for 5e

Inferno RPG is the most successful Italian role-playing game on Kickstarter ever created. It’s something that makes me proud of the job done because Inferno is a project of mine (together with rich stuff of other professionals, of course), AND because the previous records on the same contest were of Brancalonia and Lex Arcana, two other projects of the same hands OR in which I took a great part!

So: first Lex Arcana, then Brancalonia, now Inferno: the Italian RPG scene is rich now more than ever, and these increasing successes probably mean that people all around the world are appreciating our job and having fun with our games.

But… what is Inferno RPG?

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Inferno RPG Explained

On the occasion of the seven-hundredth anniversary of the passing of Dante Alighieri (1321-2021) and after the international success of Brancalonia, we on Acheron Games launched the crowdfunding campaign for Inferno – Dante’s Guide to Hell, the first Dante-based setting for the 5th edition of the most played RPG in the world, reaching our funding goal (20000 EUR) in 9 minutes.

The game consists of two manuals planned by Two Little Mice, a team well known to the public for titles such as Broken Compass and Household, winner of the Lucca Comics & Games RPG of the Year award in 2019.

Descending into hell, there’s also Epic Party Games (First Kings, Brancalonia), Acheron Book’s partner game-studio, taking care of Inferno RPG game design, rule development, 5e-adaptation and adventure design.

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In Inferno RPG, players are all Lost Ones, living beings forced to enter Hell for some reason and complete their journey to the Last Door, the only exit, before losing their Hope.

They could come from any world or plane and, of course, from our Earth, but when they enter Hell they will appear with a unique shape, forged mainly by their virtues and sins in an otherworldly aspect.

They are alive and could remain alive throughout the journey, as Dante was in his, but Hell itself, with its devils, damned souls and dangers, will try to capture and enslave them forever.

Thus, the main challenge of the Lost One is not to face and defeat the damned and the monsters, but to maintain their path and their Hope during the journey.

They cannot die there. They cannot be defeated. They cannot lose their way to the Last Gate.

But they could despair, fail, and be damned forever.

Inferno RPG on Kickstarter

Inferno RPG is composed by 3 volumes:

* Dante’s Guide to Hell, the “Player’s Handbook”, which includes character creation, rules and an in-depth description of Hell itself.

* Virgilio’s Untold Tales is at the same time the “Game Master’s Guide” and the “Monster Manual”, with adventures, dangers, special equipment, an entire complete campaign to play and the bestiary, along with a more detailed description of the Inferno as a sandbox, allowing the players to replay Dante’s circles of Hell indefinitely, just like self-respecting damned.

* Divina Commedia – Inferno is at the same time the complete Artbook of the game and a luxury edition of the Divina Commedia First Canticle. This Inferno Collector’s Edition comes with the original version of the poem, together with the English translation (by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).

Inferno RPG features 12 brand new archetypes with a level 1-20 progression, very similar to common 5th Edition classes. Each of them is a philological combination of traits, powers, and suggestions directly inspired by Dante’s words.
There are no regular races in Inferno, but you can customize the basic (and suggested) origin of the Lost, to obtain different traits, backgrounds, and characteristics.

Other main setting rules are Hope, the most important resource, and Infernal Emblems, the legacy equipment of the Lost Ones.

We have been working for three years to complete this project, our Inferno is not just a hell-themed setting, but a unique and unforgettable experience. We have studied the original poem for years and brought every monster, phenomenon, environmental effect, situation and danger of Dante’s masterpiece back into the game to allow players to have a complete and philologically correct experience of each Canto.

The crowdfunding campaign started on March 23 and it is already possible to download a complete Quickstarter Set, which contains a general presentation of the game and the setting, the pre-generated characters, the map and a complete adventure.

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Join the campaign on Kickstarter!