Independent tabletop roleplaying game publisher Absolute Tabletop recently announced they have released the beta rules for the Harbinger Roleplaying Game for free. The free bওeta rules are available to download in PDF form from the w🐼ebstore.
Harbinger is Absolute Tabletop’s (AbTab) latest RPG product, a dark science-fantasy RPG under the Open Gaming License (OGL) for the 5th edition rules of the world’s most popular tabletop roleplaying game. The Harbinger campaign setting takes place in a fascinating yeꦉt ominous universe that mixes dark science and bleak fantasy, where void ships and Necrotech exist alongside warrior mages and bayonetted rifles.
Set in the sector of space called the Known Orbits, you roleplay as a venturer, brave (and foolhardy) beings who “delve the dark depths of derelict voidships, crumbling ruins, broken moons, and the Harbinger itself.” Your character is crafted from a diverse selection of origins (Forgeborn, Moonborn, and Voidborn), classes (Mancer, Mechanist, and Treader), and background traits that include Soldier, Voidship Ace, Astra Adapted, and many others. Harbinger also m𝓀odifies the 5th edition skills list and adds a few of its own, including Tech, Diplomacy, Astrogation, Astra (magic), and more.
As is usual with AbTab’s RPG products, Harbinger has a well-written and thoroughly chronicled history and lore section supporting the campaign setting. The history of Harbinger begins recounting from a millennia ago, when The Hegemony (human space travelers from some forgotten world) first arrived at the Known Orbits around the planet Bastion, establis🦩hed a thriving empire, then🦩 destroyed it all over centuries of war.
Closing in on the current time, humanity has risen from the ashes of war by founding a feudal🤪 class system of septs, and suffering through a crusade slash ♑rebellion. And then came the arrival of the Harbinger, a moon-sized craft that destroyed the moon of Verloren as it settled into orbit around Bastion, then began loosing horrifying alien creatures into the Known Orbits.
This version of the Harbinger rules (v0.6) is the sixth edition of the RPGs in-progress playtest that began in 2017. This beta version is centered on testing the classes and their core features to help get them smoothed out and ready for Harbinger’s final release. If you plan on playing the Harbinger Beta rules in public gaming sessions, such as online streamin🌺g, note that you will need to read through and abide by the Online Playtest Agreement (OPTA) detailed at the end of the Beta rule♓s PDF.
AbTab is crewed by a team of RPG developers who have bee🦋n worldbuilding and publishing quality products together since 2015. The AbaTab adventuring party is staffed by Michael Barker of 🧔, Matt Click of , and James and Tim Kearney, the brothers who helm .
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