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ZWEIHANDER RPG: Revised Core Rulebook

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2018 Gen Con gold winner of Best Game and Product Of The Year, ENnie Awards
2019 The Best Role-Playing Game Releases Of 2019, Game Informer
2019 Best Games of 2019, Tabletop Gaming Magazine


ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG is a game where your characters will:

  • Live in a gritty, "realistic" fantasy world
  • Make morally grey decisions & enact vicious reprisals
  • Uncover insidious plots & political intrigue
  • Take part in heart-pumping chase scenes
  • Venture into the wilderness & survive its perils
  • Desperately fight in clandestine & open field combat
  • Defend themselves from injuries, madness, & mutations
  • Encounter sanity-blasting creatures & their minions

Using the Powered By ZWEIHÄNDER d100 game engine, you will create grim characters, write perilous adventures, and build your own low fantasy & dark fantasy campaigns. These rules are a perfect fit for Renaissance and medieval-styled adventures, too. You can also use this book to create your own home-brewed worlds, whether inspired by the works of Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher, George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones, Glen Cook's Black Company, Myke Cole's The Armored Saint, Robert E. Howard's Solomon Kane, Scott Lynch's Gentlemen Bastard series, or other "grimdark"-inspired media.

This all-in-one game includes most of what you need to play: a character creation guide, game mastery rules, and a bestiary brimming with creatures both fair & foul. All that's left are a few friends, pencils, and a handful of dice.

ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG awaits, and the fate of your grim & perilous tale hangs in the balance!

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ZWEIHANDER GRIM & PERILOUS RPG PHONE PDF: Tabletop role-playing game books are converted from print books into a Digital PDF, and then distributed on DriveThruRPG. This digital format typically references the same layout as the print book with hyperlinking, resulting in an 8.5 inch by 11 inch Digital PDF. While Digital PDFs display well on laptops, they don’t suit the most common devices used around a game table – tablets and phones:


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INTRODUCING THE PHONE PDF: Working with DriveThruRPG, Andrews McMeel Publishing is proud to announce a new format for digital tabletop role-playing games – Phone PDFs. Revolutionizing the way tabletop role-playing gamers use PDFs at the game table, this new format is optimized for the mobile user. Phone PDF side-steps the frustration of pinch, pan and zoom of traditional Digital PDFs on mobile devices by utilizing a mobile-first design. The Phone PDF is an excellent resource for users who prefer their mobile device at the game table, don’t have the book on-hand to look up an important game rule or are on the go:


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DEVICE AGNOSTIC: Our Phone PDF has both Android and Apple users in mind. It is also designed for both tablets and phones. Images remain high fidelity, optimized for older and newer devices:


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MOBILE FIRST DESIGN: Our Phone PDF utilizes a mobile-first UX. This makes for a more pleasant user experience. Our Phone PDF includes a navigation footer. This tool persists across the entire experience, allowing you to quickly access the table of contents (ToC). By clicking on contents, it will take you to quick links: a standard ToC you’d normally see in a print book or Digital PDF. Every quick link takes a user deeper into the Phone PDF, revealing all of the headers and hyperlinked content within:


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EASE OF NAVIGATION: While the Phone PDF retains mobile device swipe functionality, there are times where you may accidentally move too quickly through the book. That’s why our Phone PDFs incorporate a back button. This button acts as a history tool, allowing you to move through previous pages you visited:


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INTERACTIVE INDEX: One common pain RPG gamers suffer from is having to look up terms from the index. This is why we’ve integrated our index as a right-hand rocker in the Phone PDF. This interactive index allows you to quickly click through to any term you need to find, using the same quick link functionality as the navigation footer:


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GET STARTED: Eager to try out a Phone PDF? Our first title – Zweihänder Grim & Perilous RPG by Daniel D. Fox – is now available at DriveThruRPG in Phone PDF format. This 672-page dark fantasy RPG was the 2018 winner at Gen Con for Best Game and Product of the Year, and represents how you can take a dense tabletop role-playing game book, and translate it into a simple Phone PDF:


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CHANGELOG
We have instituted a new taxonomy for ZWEIHANDER RPG digital title names. For purposes of determining what the correct PDFs to use are, reference the following:
  • Traditional PDF is Version 10 (matches second print edition)
  • Phone PDF is Version 1 (we are no longer supporting this format)
  • Please be aware that the publisher has discontinued the free PDF program with proof of purchase of the physical book.



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Lesley N January 19, 2024 2:28 am UTC
Awesome looking game, not so thrilling price.

Saw a used copy of the hardcover on Amazon Canada for 106 bucks plus 20 for shipping and taxes.

Laughable.
I'd buy it for the same price I bought my Warhammer FRP 4th edition tome. 70 bucks. But clearly this is not being offered.

My likely course of action is printing out my scavanged download for the cost of black and white at my print service likely around 30 bucks. 600+ pages sure will be an interesting binding. I'm used to 300 being the majority.

I mean, I want this mostly as a collectible. I play solo these days. I could see it merging with my Warhammer materials. But I might not even get around to using it too.
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Andrew L October 17, 2023 1:07 pm UTC
Where is the pod for this book, I want a print version :(
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Daniel D. F October 17, 2023 1:33 pm UTC
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Hello there! We don't currently offer print-on-demand for the Revised Core Rulebook. Please check your FLGS or online for the offset print edition. Please do drop into our Discord if we can be of any help! https://discord.gg/Zweihander
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Scott N February 24, 2023 8:23 pm UTC
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Where is the pod for this, I bought one here before and why has the HC shotup $20.00
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wade G January 14, 2023 5:41 am UTC
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This RPG engine is independent from any setting/universe, so you could just as easily fit it into any world you wish - whether Warhammer, Witcher, or even your own! For me, I'm very happy that I can use in my own setting. For some, they like high-power magic but, again for me, I enjoy having the gritty feel which provides that.
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Michael S P January 10, 2023 7:40 pm UTC
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Not sure if this has been reported before, but the phone pdf is missing the explanation of the Ogre ancestral traits like the other ancestries. It goes from the table of Ogre ancestries on page 125 to archetype and profession on page 126.
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Tal O November 09, 2022 8:28 pm UTC
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I bought this years ago, but I'm a little confused seeing the new "Session Zero" thing.
Is there going to be a new edition or is it just a starter kit for this one?
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alejandro A February 03, 2022 4:56 pm UTC
Learned this the hard way, as I purchased the fiscal book. I just cannot belive I got for my money a shameless ripoff of WHFRP2e.
Please, think twice before buying
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Jesse N February 15, 2022 2:55 am UTC
Didn't know they made fiscal books for the game (or anything really) but yeah, the rules are basically the same as WHFRPG but minus the Warhammer setting and plus some other stuff. It's almost like there aren't a million D20/D&D system lifts floating around there for the past 20 years or so.
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JD S November 17, 2021 10:42 pm UTC
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We need a bestiary for Roll20. We have a interactive PC sheet for Roll20 which is really great (except it needs an initiative button), but we don't have automation for the monsters.
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Dirk H October 20, 2021 9:24 pm UTC
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Are the latest errata included in the download file?
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Richard R September 02, 2021 9:42 pm UTC
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"Sensitivity edits have been applied to language throughout. We have removed the Chattel Slaver from all future editions" So you removed the option to keep the older version of the file, if people get offended fine by me make the changes, but leave option to keep the older file if I not offended by the material in the book.
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Daniel D. F September 02, 2021 10:00 pm UTC
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Hi Richard,

You can still find the older version of the PDDF (v9) in your Library, and in the zip file.
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Richard R September 03, 2021 12:06 am UTC
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Perfect!! apologies, I didn't saw the zip file, and thank you for the fast reply.
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August 09, 2021 2:28 pm UTC
PURCHASER
I noticed that this has been updated, and went to grab a fresh copy. What's the difference between the copy of the PDF in the zip file and the one with 'PREVIEWVERSION' in its file name? Actually, that applies to Main Gauche and the Player's Handbook too.
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August 22, 2021 10:54 pm UTC
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Bump. It's about 5MB smaller, but there's no indication of what is different.
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Daniel D. F July 27, 2021 2:57 pm UTC
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Hey gang, Daniel here. We made an announcement in April on Discord about the PDF program in Discord, but it didn't trickle down to here. Very sorry about that!

Please be aware that the publisher has discontinued the free PDF program with proof of purchase of the physical book. However, the Zweihander Compendium is now 100% free over on Roll20.
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Scott N August 22, 2023 2:44 pm UTC
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F#^%#k Roll20!
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Guenther H March 18, 2021 7:33 pm UTC
So you pay $$ 59 for the print version.
Then you pay anothr $$ 19 for the pdf version in order to get a print + pdf bundle.
But the pdf price changed from $$ 11.99 to zero to $$ 19.99?!?

Sorry guys. I spend a lot of money for good rpg rule books.
I am interested in Zweihänder RPG. But I am not willing to part with another 20 bucks just for the pdf on top of the price for the hardcover.

Zweihänder RPG will have to wait some more time.
Maybe sometime there will be a print & pdf bundle.
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Andrews McMeel Universal A March 18, 2021 8:23 pm UTC
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Hi Guenther,

Thanks for the inquiry. While we no longer offer print-on-demand versions, we actually do offer free PDF versions to customers who've already picked up the physical book. Simply hit up Daniel Fox on Discord with a copy of your receipt, and we'll get you sorted!

https://discord.gg/Zweihander
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Colin M July 26, 2021 1:10 am UTC
Bought the hardcover, popped onto the discord; this is no longer true.
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NB N July 27, 2021 3:22 am UTC
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You can not trust a single word that comes out of Fox's mouth.
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