We were delighted to hear today that In Death, one of the top ten finalists in our 2024 BRP Design Challenge, has officially released on Itch.io.
Created using the Basic Roleplaying Universal Game Engine rules and released under the ORC license, In Death is a tabletop roleplaying game about what becomes of the deceased. When all seems lost, you are gifted one final chance to set things right – what will you do with your Afterlife?
BRP Design Challenge winner J.D. Trotter says, "It has been a long road to this day... During its development over the last year, it has went through some ups and downs and some major changes. It placed as a finalist out of 190 entries in the 2024 Basic Roleplaying Design Challenge from Chaosium. It's undergone over 40 hours of playtesting across two short-form campaigns of deeply varying style and subject. It's had whole aspects of its system overhauled, rules remixed, stat blocks changed, images swapped and altered."
The PDF version of this book contains everything you need to play In Death, with over 240 pages of rules and lore, including:
- Rules for creating recently deceased characters
- A guide to the Afterlife campaign setting
- Over 50 unique powers and magicks
- Over 20 mythical relics reimagined for play
- Over 50 stat blocks for tortured spirits, ancient beings, infernal demons and divine entities
In Death is available in PDF at Itch.io, and in physical print at Angry Cherry.
The BRP Design Challenge was set up to financially assist new and upcoming creators in bringing their games to independent publication. As a top ten finalist, J.D. Trotter received USD$500 and a trophy.
