13th Age combines the best parts of traditional d20-rolling fantasy gaming with new story-focused rules, designed so you can run the kind of game you most want to play with your group. Created by Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet, 13th Age gives you all the tools you need to make unique characters who are immediately embedded in the setting in important ways; quickly prepare adventures based on the PCs’ backgrounds and goals; create your own monsters; fight exciting battles; and focus on what’s always been cool and fun about fantasy adventure gaming:

• Icon relationships and One Unique Things offer exciting storytelling possibilities
• Backgrounds provide a simple, flexible skill system drawn from characters’ personal histories
• Escalation dice enable fun, fast-moving d20 combat.
• Owlbears will rip PC’s limbs off to feed their young.

Designed for experienced GMs and any type of player, 13th Age offers a fresh take on a familiar tabletop experience. Pelgrane Press gave Rob and Jonathan total freedom to create the game they most wanted to play. They brought the best parts of the great d20-rolling fantasy tradition together with innovative new rules, resulting in a game that EN World readers named “2013’s Most Anticipated RPG”.

Play 13th Age as a standalone game, or use it as a source of cool ideas and add-on rules for make your favorite RPG. This 320-page core rulebook features:

• Character creation that gives your adventurer a place in the world (and the GM dozens of adventure hooks) through Icon relationships and your One Unique Things

• A simple, flexible skill system through Backgrounds that bring your character’s personal history into the game with every dice roll

• Streamlined, free-form combat with new rules that make battles fast, fun and dramatic

• DIY monster and encounter building sections so GMs can create adventures with little or no preparation

• Notes from Rob and Jonathan on how they approach their own games—and where they disagree