Karst

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Karst is role playing game of storytelling, discovery, and soft horror, presented by the Karst Archipelago Historical Society.

Set in a haunted archipelago filled with animal folk and terrible secrets, Karst features a simple, flexible set of rules and guidelines to help you and your friends create Ballads and Requiems: tales of glory and woe.

The object of the game is to create a story together. To play, you will need a narrator and one or more players. Each player acts as a character within the game world, while the narrator controls the world itself: setting the stage, describing it to the players, and determining how the world responds to the actions of the characters.

Based on some of the earliest games of the genre, but informed by more recent systems and sensibilities; there are no classes within Karst, but through a system of character customization, they can be recreated and reimagined. Content from other games and systems is easy to integrate with Karst, and the rules are designed to grow—or shrink—with your group’s needs and tastes. The the setting is an open canon with a permissive third-party content creation license.

This beautifully crafted, hardcover edition contains all of the rules and setting guides to begin playing Karst, along with player and narrator advice, knacks, an introductory tale that can be played with minimal preparation, a mini-gazetteer that outlines one of the most famous ports of call in the Karst Archipelago, and dozens of full-color works of art that illustrate the setting and its inhabitants, along with a set of six sample character cards. Karst also has a new Discord Server, offering inspiration, support, and updates on everything Karst-related!

• • 96 pages total in 8.75″ x 11.25″ smyth-sewn format
  • Linen-wrapped hardcover
  • Gold hot pressed foil stamped cover art
  • Printed end-pages
  • High quality thick, uncoated interior paper
  • Bright, full color printing throughout
  • Includes six 3″ x 5″ character cards in a custom envelope
  • Created by Caz Downing-Bryant of the The Karst Archipelago Historical Society (Site | Twitter), edited by Erik Cusick, proofread by Christine Crabb, and illustrated by Anastasia Khmelvska
    

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CURATOR’S NOTES: “I’ve had the honor of watching Caz develop Karst in its later stages and was immediately enchanted by its pastoral exterior – however, I quickly learned how well thought out, and highly lethal, the system’s foundation was when I had a chance to play it! The clash of the setting’s beauty with its darker roots and gameplay continues to pique my interest and genuinely gives the game a unique sense of exploration (and danger) in a world that keeps you guessing. I was extremely happy to hear Caz, via the The Karst Archipelago Historical Society, was going all-out on the quality for Karst’s physical release, and I can confidently say the passion that went into the physical product truly reflects the care that has gone into Karst as a whole.” – Leo, of L.F. OSR

 

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