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Leo Hunt

Vaults of Vaarn #1

Vaults of Vaarn #1

$9.00 USD
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Vaults of Vaarn is a 48-page, black and white tabletop RPG zine, which presents setting information, a full game system, and character creation procedure for adventures in Vaarn, a vast blue desert that lies at the very end of time. The game is built on the chassis of Knave by Ben Milton, with lightweight rules, speedy character generation, and gameplay that emphasises creativity and problem-solving on the part of players and referee.

Vaarn is a 'dying earth' tabletop RPG setting, drawing from novels like Dune, Hyperion, The Book of the New Sun, and the artwork of Moebius. Vaarn is a surreal and colourful world: a post-apocalyptic, post-human landscape, where the dividing line between flesh and machinery has blurred and the borders between magic, science, and faith have likewise been obscured.

This issue includes:

  • Full rules for play, based on the light, easy-to-learn Knave system.
  • Five player ancestries with detailed character generation tables. Play as a haughty true-kin, a mutated cacogen, a mechanical synth, a feral newbeast, or a fungal mycomorph.
  • Twisted mutations, psychic gifts, and cybernetic implants to further augment your character.
  • 120 Exotica, the strange and valuable far-future relics that can be discovered in the vaults beneath Vaarn.
  • A bestiary of 28 ferocious science-fantasy monsters that lurk in the blue wastes.
  • Nine pages of content generation tables that allow a referee to spark ideas for their own vision of Vaarn. Generate desert ruins, NPCs, trading caravans, nomadic clans, arcology domes, esoteric drugs, forgotten gods, and more. 

    Fully illustrated throughout with evocative black and white line-art. Printed in black and white with colour covers.

    BROWSE THE ENTIRE VAARN COLLECTION

    Buying this you get:

    • A5 52p saddle stitched zine
    • Color cover, b&w interior
    • PDF of the zine
    • PDF of character sheers, oracle, compact bestiary

    Credits

    Text, art and layout Leo Hunt

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    All products of The Lost Bay Studio Store are shipped from the UK, by our fulfilment partners at PackFulfilment. The zines are carefully packaged, and shipped with Royal Mail, unless specified otherwise. Our fulfilment partner is carbon negative and uses as little plastic as possible.

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    EU orders over 150€ or to other international destinations, might cause custom duties upon reception. The Lost Bay Studio is not responsible for those duties and other import taxes.

    If you receive a damaged or wrong item, please contact us, we'll issue a refund or replace the item.

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