There is a secret world just above your head. Across the rooftops of your town, intelligent rats confront god-monsters, read the Sphinx’s scrawled graffiti, and answer the calling of Cat-Headed King Death. It is a terrifying yet beautiful domain that you would never find on your own, a place you are drawn into only when the shadow of a ‘Mystery’ falls across your life.
You can now step into that world with The Far Roofs deal at the Bundle of Holding, featuring the roleplaying game from acclaimed designer Jenna Moran. In this complete and standalone campaign, you’ll use more than 150 powers adapted from Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine to fight, or find peace with, the personal horrors that hunt you.
This deal is available until Thursday, 16th October. Note that it’s not a bundle, but a straight discount!
The Far Roofs – $5.95
The regular price for The Far Roofs is $27.
- The complete 256-page Far Roofs rulebook
There’s more information about the talking rats and god-monsters on DriveThruRPG.
The roleplaying game is contained in a single book. To resolve day-to-day actions, players roll five six-sided dice and look for matching pairs to determine success. For bigger-picture dilemmas and long-term efforts, the game uses more esoteric tools. You will draw letter tiles from a bag to build words that shape ambiguous outcomes, and assemble poker hands from playing cards to see how grand gambles play out.
These cards are also used to activate your character’s powers. As you progress through the included multi-year campaign, you’ll gain access to strange abilities that might require a card of a particular suit or value to use. These powers can change you, and to walk the far roofs is to risk being remade into a legend, or even a god.
A Game of Wonder and Horror
The Far Roofs is designed to centre the emotional experience and make you feel present and embodied, even while travelling through its impossible lands. The game’s primary moods are wonder and disorientation, but it can shift into fantastic adventure, delirium, body horror, or profound peace.
That emotional palette is key, and prospective players should be aware of the game’s content warnings. The TTRPG explores themes of existential and body horror, unreality, despair, and dissociation, all of which contribute to its unique, powerful, and profoundly personal atmosphere.
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