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The nautical steampunk setting is flexible enough to allow game masters to fill in their own story while skipping all the hard work involved in creating conflicts and rewards for players. Players can take quick character classes or customize their skill options. Rising Tide is designed to work for a variety of play styles. If their voyage is successful, they’ll have enough treasure to repair their ship and set sail again. After facing harrowing occurrences and close encounters with enemies, the group may gain ship conditions like Failing Power or Mutinous Mutterings. A Rising Tide group may want libraries and laboratories to study the strange phenomena they encounter or weapons and armor to defeat opponents.įollowing the innovative resource management of Torchbearer, players supply their ship with resources like food and fuel in port and then engage in calculated risk-taking to support their venture. Players are given numerous options for customizing and upgrading their vessel based on the interests and strategies they choose to pursue. The mechanics of Rising Tide allow strategic management of the players’ vessel and its resources.

Steampunk Contraptions: Outfitting both explorers and their ships, the Inventor class builds impossible devices based on discovered schematics from the lost Empire.

Weird Science: The Empire’s advanced technology was possible because of a malleable, highly radioactive metal that puts off a soft green light. Sailors call this substance “glow.” The Scientist class uses carefully calibrated bursts of glow radiation to create spell-like changes in physics.

Clockwork automata guard the Empire’s ruins and even old Empire ships are said to still prowl these treacherous waters.

Fascinating Adversaries: Otherworldly leviathans pour out of glowing rips in the air, emitting light to lure in prey or changing shape to evade capture.

The boiling point of water might drop or sailors could fall upward into the sky.

Strange Occurrences: Ships that dare to sail on the old Empire’s seas face strange rips in reality, creating bizarre changes to nature’s laws.

But fragments are scattered on surrounding islands and beneath the waves, ready for daring explorers to plunder. The Empire is gone now, shattered by cataclysm and civil war. A Fallen Empire: In days long past, a technologically advanced Island Empire ruled sea and shore alike.Important elements of its setting include: This digital expansion for Torchbearer is inspired by cosmic horror stories like The Southern Reach and video games like Sunless Sea.