Against the Darkmaster

High adventure tabletop roleplaying from OPEN ENDED GAMES

Against the Darkmaster

The corebook, GOLDEN THRONE, adventures, and Spell Cards

Starter Collection - $7.95

  • Against the Darkmaster
  • Against the Darkmaster - Heartbane
  • Against the Darkmaster GM Screen

Bonus Collection

  • Secrets of the Golden Throne
  • 2 Against the Darkmaster adventures
  • Darkmaster Core Spell Cards - 6 sets

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Against the Darkmaster Core RulesAdventurer! This new Against the Darkmaster Bundle presents Against the Darkmaster, the tabletop fantasy roleplaying game from Open Ended Games of epic adventure and heavy-metal combat. Funded in an October 2019 Kickstarter campaign, Against the Darkmaster (abbreviated VsD for "versus Darkmaster") adapts old-school percentile systems (specifically, Middle-Earth Role-Playing) to support grand sagas in the style of Tolkien, The Wheel of Time, Labyrinth, and Dragonslayer – stories of a fellowship of heroes standing together against overwhelming evil.

Using rules aimed at creating epic quests, with detailed travel mechanics for long overland adventures, you'll travel to distant lands, face terrible dangers, uncover ancient items of power, and gather the armies of the world under your banner to defeat an ultimate menace. What menace, specifically? That's up to your group of players: You launch your VsD campaign by rolling on or choosing from several charts that collectively define a dreadful and immensely powerful being who seeks to plunge the world into darkness. The rulebook describes three examples: the Horned King of Annwn, the Witch-Queen of Despair, and the Blood Lord of War. Whether an eldritch horror or a devious warmaster, a tempter or sower of discord, a herald of Death or Fimbulwinter – the Weaver of Lies, the God of Entropy, the Unborn Spirit – whatever his nature and epithet, the Darkmaster commands ruinous powers, hordes of servants, and corrupting magic. He has no game statistics and cannot be directly fought. But a prophecy tells of this entity's downfall, if the heroes can find the Coveted Artifact that is his bane.

This new Against the Darkmaster Bundle presents much of the line – everything you need for a full-scale campaign of good against evil, of courage and sacrifice, and a struggle that will transform the world – for an unbeatable bargain price. (The bundle is bargain-priced, not the transformation of the world.) For just US$7.95 you get all three titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $33.50) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete 574-page Against the Darkmaster Core Rules (previously in our November 2021 Cornucopia 9) plus the short introductory adventure Heartbane and the GM Screen.

Against the Darkmaster adventure The Silence of DawnfellAnd if you pay more than the threshold price of $18.40, you'll level up and also get our entire Bonus Collection with nine more titles worth an additional $57, including the 355-page rules expansion Secrets of the Golden Throne; two full-length adventures – The Silence of Dawnfell and Legacy of Blood; and six sets of printable Core Spell Cards for easy reference, keyed to the spellcasting classes: Animist, Champion, Common & Kin, Dabbler, and Wizard, plus the new spells from Secrets of the Golden Throne.

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Starter Collection

Pay the minimum price to get these titles:

Against the Darkmaster

Your epic saga is about to begin
  • Designer(s): Massimiliano Caracristi
  • Open Ended Games, 580 pages
  • Retail price $25

Against the Darkmaster - Heartbane

An introductory adventure for AGAINST THE DARKMASTER
  • Designer(s): Massimiliano Caracristi, Nikola Segoloni
  • Open Ended Games, 10 pages
  • Retail price $2.50

Against the Darkmaster GM Screen

Useful charts and tables
  • Designer(s): Open Ended Games
  • Open Ended Games, 42 pages
  • Retail price $6

Bonus Collection

Beat the threshold price to LEVEL UP and ALSO get this entire collection of BONUS titles:

Secrets of the Golden Throne

New rules, settings, and an epic campaign for AGAINST THE DARKMASTER
  • Designer(s): Various designers
  • Open Ended Games, 355 pages
  • Retail price $20

2 Against the Darkmaster adventures

Silence of Dawnfell - Legacy of Blood
  • Designer(s): Jonathan Hicks, Scott Malthouse
  • Open Ended Games, 69 pages
  • Retail price $18

Darkmaster Core Spell Cards - 6 sets

Animist - Champion - Common & Kin - Dabbler - Wizard - Golden Throne
  • Designer(s): Various designers
  • Open Ended Games, 665 pages
  • Retail price $19

US$90.50 of epic RPG fantasy....

...But you pay just $7.95 for our Starter Collection of three complete titles, including Against the Darkmaster Core Rules, the short introductory adventure Heartbane, and the GM Screen. And if you pay more than the current threshold price ($18.40), you'll level up and also receive all nine titles in our Bonus Collection, including the rules expansion Secrets of the Golden Throne, the full-length adventures The Silence of Dawnfell and Legacy of Blood, and six sets of printable Core Spell Cards for handy reference.

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Chronicle of the struggle

Here's what others have paid for our bundle

Number of bundles sold
183
Total contributed
$3,466.59
Threshold (level-up) price
$18.41

To keep the starting threshold price from rising too quickly, we calculated it based on 400 fake sales at $17.95 each.

DARKMASTER'S NEMESES: Our most generous customers

  • Champion: The Mighty Jimbo - $26
  • Warrior: Glinbog - $26
  • Dabbler: Deirdre - $25

Other Darkmaster foes:

  • Madoc the Cunning
  • Gandrell Windblade
  • Mornien
  • Qralloq
  • Amberly Ash
  • Varus Darkelm

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