Blood & Bronze: rules

Blood & Bronze is a fantasy game of high adventure and role-playing, set in Mesopotamia during a legendary bronze age. Assuming the roles of daring adventurers, you and your friends set out on perilous quests to find riches and glory, battle monsters and uncover hidden mysteries.

Blood & Bronze outlines a unique settings and the cultures living there, provides a wilderness map to explore and six adventurous classes for players to choose from: Mercenary, Rogue, Mystic, Desert-Farer, Courtesan and Seer. It combines well-defined skills for common tasks – such as fighting, lying, searching, scaling walls etc – with traditional roll-to-avoid for saving throws, thus empowering players in purposive actions while still keeping their characters very much at risk.

Blood & Bronze comes in a 68 page pdf or booklet. It features beautiful interior illustrations by Rich Longmore, cartography by Sam Perkins-Harbin and a cover by Adam Moore.

The pdf contains all the rules needed for play. In addition, it details a zone for wilderness adventures and a quick method for generating dungeons, strongholds or similar adventure locations. Together with a brief chapter on character generation and a character sheet with pre-printed reference rules, Blood & Bronze invites you to start your adventures right away.

In addition to the pdf, you need pencil, paper and polyhedral dice to play.

For more info, check out bloodandbronze.com