Veridia is the name of an imaginary world. All began in the mid 2010s when a little indie videogame was made: Veridia Tactics. Being inspired by great tactical titles of the past, the game has a heavy focus on strategy and planning. Nonetheless, great care had been put into the world building process; a part of its potentialities as a fantasy setting were already perceivable, yet at that time much work had still to be done.
The next step saw a change in the medium, going from a videogame to a book. The opera, titled Veridia, is a setting manual describing a much more refined world. It could very well be considered as the full expression of the ideas previously pioneered by Veridia Tactics. A free copy is available here or as a free epub. However, it's by no means the finishing line: countless details and stories awaits to be created.
The Veridia Tabletop RPG is born to give people the possibility to leverage Veridia's lore in order to create and experience their own adventures. Reading the setting manual or having played the videogame is not strictly required to start an adventure, but it'll greatly enhance the campaign, so give it a try!
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Veridia is a world resembling our own during the Middle Ages.
Magic is neither common nor too rare: it doesn't impact the ordinary life of common people, but it definitely influences the balance of power.
Veridia is composed of many regions, each one having its own peculiarities. There are powerful city states, large kingdoms, unexplored lands and more. - A character never has to roll the dice more than once per turn. This speeds up play considerably.
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Even if your character is an experienced fighter any battle can be dangerous!
By using a fixed amount of health points, there's always the risk to receive a long lasting injury from a small foe's lucky hit. - Characters progress by freely acquiring traits and increasing their abilities and skills. They are not constrained to a certain class or archetype.
- There's an equal amount of attributes and skills for both combat situations and social interactions. Your character can progress either as a fighter or as a pacifist.
The project is divided in the following parts:
- Rulebook: contains the game main rules.
- Traits: compendium of characters' abilities and backgrounds.
- Prices and wages: lists the prices of common items and jobs' remuneration.
- Travel: rules for long journeys.
- Creatures: descriptions of typical encounters.
- Siege: rules about siege warfare.
A few additional resources:
- Lore book: the original lore book for Veridia Tactics, the game that inspired this tabletop RPG.
- Character sheet: a character sheet in ascii.
- Quick NPC sheet: a fast to use character sheet for NPC appearing in combat only.
Copying, use, modification, and creation of derivative works from this project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. See the accompanying LICENSE file for details.