13th Age: Gamemaster's Guide

Wide Open Stories An evocative setting that’s deliberately half-designed so that you and your players can customize it for your campaign. Each player character is connected to one or more icons, high-fantasy archetypes such as the Archmage, Lich King, or Prince of Shadows, which gives them a place in the world’s story, even at 1st level. Crunchier Crunch Streamlined combat rules harness the good bits of crunchy tactical combat without ticky-tacky measurements. Innovations like the escalation die ensure that battles crescendo instead of getting bogged down. Each character class has its own unique features, advantages, and play style. In this Gamemaster’s Guide, you’ll find: The Dragon Empire, ready to embellish and reimagine for your campaign. Guidelines to help you set up memorable campaigns, perilous adventures, and challenging battles. Hundreds of monsters, newly revised to highlight each creature’s unique place in the ecology of heroic fantasy battles. Hundreds of redesigned magic items for when the heroes earn loot that matters…or when you want to equip monsters with magic weapons! An introductory adventure that shows how to work with heroes’ backstories, develop icon connections, and run a living dungeon filled with surprising encounters.