Fourthmarches RPG is a weird-fantasy open-table RPG about exploration and rediscovery using the Year Zero Engine.
In the game players...
- explore iteratively, delving into strange sites
- try to survive the elements, animals, and oddities of the Fourth State
- flesh out pregens and make them their own
- follow a four-phase game structure and try to get home before end-of-session
- form cohesive parties or play with rotating casts
- gamble with empowering RESONANCE and possibly lose themselves to it
The setting includes...
- societies across a continent emerging out of uncounted centuries of instability
- the ancient cause is RESONANCE, a phenomenon your employer is trying to stamp out
- its empowering and self-dissolving effects
- most large fauna wearing their skeletons on the outside (such as the manticore, pictured below)
- the scarcity of extractable metals and the consequences for weapons, tools, and value
Free Quickstart is here.
The game follows many OSR principles with strong NewSR vibes.
The Year Zero Engine is used under the Free Tabletop License 1.1 (not associated with, sponsored, or endorsed by Fria Ligan).