What it is ? 

• A new rule system that is between PBTA and OSR. Simple and a bit deadly.
• A sword and sorcery setting.

What's there ? 

This contains the quickstart rules and the character sheet. It is a WIP but it was used for a few one-shots already, so reasonable solid.

This document will quickly present how to play The Exiles of Augurum and how to create a character.

In order, you will :

• learn enough about the world to imagine a character
• define the origin and backstory of your character.
• reflect numerically the strengths and weaknesses of your character
• learn how to roll, fight.
• get your equipment

OSR + PBTA

The game navigates between OSR and PBTA. This is the result of 4 years of campaigns and a few one shots. You need the usual set of dice to play.
Most rolls are done with 2d6.
This is not a crunchy system but one that put agency and consequences above anything else. Players take risks, fail and endure the consequences or succeed and reap the rewards. 

The World of Augurum

The Augurum setting is a sword and sorcery setting, similar to the world of Conan The Barbarian. It has a few differences from the usual fantasy fare.

It is a Bronze-age fantasy world, centered on the city of Augurum :

• Not Medieval : inspired by Ancient Egypt, Babylon, the Celts.
  • Bronze is the default metal. paper is not common but papyrus is.
• Post-apocalyptic : great civilizations like Atlantis or Mu were there before.
• Unexplored : beyond Augurum most of the map is blank. Maps exist but are always wrong in some way.
• Colourful : occult blood rituals, cruel tyrants, mad sorcerers, seductive courtesans, etc. No neutral tones here.
• No Elves or Dwarves except as wicked creatures of legend.

Magic and gods are rare and dangerous :

• Most Religions are harmless lies until you believe in them, lots of people do.
• Real gods are often just masked Lovecraftian horrors or demons.
• Magic is rare, strange and often of demonic origin. Always costly.
• Wonders of past civilizations beyond understanding do exist, including artifacts.
• Kings would go to war to get healing magic if it existed.
• Otherworldly entities give otherworldly scars.

The city of Augurum is set on the southern ocean and has the bigger harbour in the world. It is the stable center of a world constantly on the brink of apocalypse. Today, people talks about the Sorcerer King coming from the east, an undefeated warlord that wield magic and a blood-drinking army, they wonder about the Purple Spores in the west that contaminate and transform the land.
But next year, it will be something else.

The characters - like Conan in the books - are roguish characters of rebellious morality : ready to die for their friends but suspicious of authority. They must be dauntless and clever not because they want to, but because their survival is at stake, as they navigate between the conspiracies of powerful lords and the entrapment of otherworldly entities.