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Karma Roleplaying System
The Karma Roleplaying System puts the players in complete control of the game. No classes. No levels. Only one twenty-sided die needed to play. The simple point-based system can be scaled to suit the type of game you have in mind. From survival horror to high fantasy to superheros, the Karma Roleplaying System lets players and storytellers explore their imaginations without worrying about whether or not the rules will allow something.
Karma Core Rules Book
The Karma Core Rules Book provides everything you need to play. Players will find a wealth of information for character creation, as well as how to create spells, dozens of fully customizable spells, information on how to craft magic items, unique disciplines that allow players to further customize their characters for maximum potential, hundreds of weapons with unique qualities, and more.
Storytellers will find plenty of help for running their game. From advice on how to determine what kind of game to run, to example monsters for encounters, to a simplified wealth rating system that minimizes the need to tracking character wealth. Plus an optional Reputation Rating System that encourages players to ROLEplay, not just ROLLplay.
Available in Black & White print from Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.
Full color print available from Amazon.com
Available in PDF format at RPGNOW.com
Karmic Grimoire
Need help designing spells? Looking for a collection of ready-to-use spells that you can add immediately to your game? Want some pre-generated magic items to get your treasury stocked? The Karmic Grimoire provides all that and more. Over 160 pre-generated spells, indexed by type, element, and impacts. Plus special rules for "consumer-grade" magic items, alchemy, and more.
Available in print from Amazon.com
Available in PDF format from RPGNOW.com
Karmic Monsters
Need random encounters? Not sure how to recreate your favorite monster? Looking for ideas for your own creations? Karmic Monsters includes 40 pre-generated monsters, from classic monsters like goblins and zombies to exotic creatures like the bake-neko. Find advanced rules for monster creation, as well as templates and creature types that you can use for monster-creation short-cuts.
Available in print from Amazon.com
Available in PDF format from RPGNOW.com
Saikorojutsu! The Way of the Dice!
Saikorojutsu! The Way of the Dice! takes the Karma Core Rules and pushes them into overdrive, with 36 pages of advanced rules that let you replicate the feel of your favorite comics or anime adventures. Featuring:
Advanced Character Creation Rules: Create more powerful starting characters. Access Elemental Spirits to unlock unique powers in your characters.
Advanced Magic Rules: Take advantage of special Magical Path benefits. Craft more potent spells with few points by building Spell Groups. Maximize spell damage by taking advantage of elemental opposites.
For Warriors!: Get more out of your mana pool, with advanced rules that let you increase your speed, boost your attributes, and spontaneously heal damage. New weapons and special equipment. Plus two new disciplines: The Monk and the Gun-Fu master!
Monsters: Kappa, Naga, Nukekubi, and Winged Serpent.
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Download the 30+ page Back in Black Sourcebook for free!
Other Supplements
In the near future, one man's utopian vision for an off-world technological paradise becomes reality. Beyond the reach of Earthbound governments and special-interest groups, Horizon Station is seen as a bastion of freedom...and free enterprise. But what dark secrets hide in the shadows, and what price are those that keep the secrets willing to pay?
Karmic Places: Horizon Station is a location supplement for the Karma Roleplaying System. Players can explore the massive complex and unlock its mysteries. This sourcebook includes a full-color overview map of the station, information on surviving in low-gravity, zero-gravity, and vacuum situations, multiple story seeds, NPC stat blocks, a unique alien species, and more.
Fifty years after World War III, the last remnants of humanity struggle to rebuild civilization. Karmic Places: Revelation presents a post-apocalyptic settlement to launch an entirely different style of game. As one of the settlers of Revelation, players will explore the wastes to recover resources, battle against mutated horrors, and try to rebuild what humanity destroyed. In a world where every choice is a matter of life or death, what will the players do to survive?
Welcome to the Golden Age of piracy! In Karmic Pirates, players will find everything they need to live the life of a high seas pirate, and storytellers will find everything they need to challenge them! Designed as a sourcebook for the Karma Roleplaying System, Karmic Pirates offers players a glimpse into the dangerous world of classic piracy.
Print Titles
The following titles are also available
in print from Amazon.com
The Book of Vampires
Some consequences are eternal. Inspired by legends and folklore from around the world, Death's Shadow: The Book of Vampires combines the vampire mythos with the unique multiverse view of Karma system to bring Storytellers everything they allow their players to take on the roles of vampires. Death's Shadow provides just enough pre-generated material for Storytellers to easily launch their games, but leaves enough unanswered questions to allow them to take the concepts and make them their own. This sourcebook includes the origins of the vampire as understood in the Karma multiverse, examples of vampire strains, information on Thralls, and details on those individuals that hunt the undead. Requires the use of the Karma Core Rules Book.
Karmic Places: Chochokpi University
Chochokpi University is a generic college campus that is anything but generic. This fully developed location sourcebook provides you with a wealth of new ideas, story seeds, NPCs, and more to use in modern games. Designed for the Karma Roleplaying System, the ideas and background information in this book can be easily integrated into almost any modern game system. Use this book to provide a unique launch point for a new game, or use it to expand your current campaign world. This book includes: Complete history of the university, from the 1920s to present. Important NPCs on Campus Overview of the various locations on campus, with story seeds Sample NPCs from other eras, for using the college in an early time period.
Bards and Sages Publishing
NJ
United States