Tegwyn Saga Roleplaying Game

Do you fancy being a kindly Sun Giant empowered by plant magic? What about shapeshifting into a werespider and attacking with four swords? Playing a photosynthetic rhino-cobra-person who hurls explosive potions? Creating an enchanted hammer that splits the very earth before you?

Welcome to Tegwyn Saga, a tabletop roleplaying game for adventures in a bronze age to medieval fantasy setting! In this game, you and your friends play heroes in a world of swords and city-states, arrows and empires, monsters and magic. You might be a Human, an Elf, a Giant, a Troll, or something unique to this fantasy setting, like a Relakite or a Zorglixian. Through a combination of acting, thinking, and dice rolling, you can make friends, thwart enemies, explore forbidden places, converse with characters, cast spells, and slay monsters. Are you ready to play Tegwyn Saga?

This book has the complete rules to play or run your own Tegwyn Saga adventures!

• Full game rules, with bookmarks, a table of contents every chapter, and an index
• Introduction for players new to tabletop roleplaying games
• Unique experience system that ties into session recaps
• Advice for creating parties and adventures
• Dozens of fantasy races from humanoid to feline to reptilian to... strange
• 14 character classes
• Nearly 200 spells
• Blank character sheet, plus an example
• Information for a pre-made character for each class
• Tutorial adventure to help you get started
• World map (digital only)
• Cheat sheets for players and GMs
• Creature templates with 80 example monsters for levels 1-10

Game Mechanics

Tegwyn Saga uses its own, unique rules system. You'll be rolling plenty of dice, from handfuls of classic six-siders to mixed pairs of 8-, 10-, and 12-sided dice. You even get to roll to dodge enemy attacks! And speaking of combat, different kinds of weapons have their own critical hit effects to turn the tide of battle. Interested in playing a spellcaster? Magic uses an MP system where all your spells come out of the same pool of energy—no need to keep track of individual spell slots. You can even invest some of this MP to fuel enchantments!

Want to know more about Tegwyn Saga's rules before you buy? Here's a summary of the system.

• There are two basic kinds of rolls built into the rules: attribute rolls and skill rolls. Attribute rolls are usually opposed rolls, where you roll a die based on how high your character's attribute is, and the GM does the same for your opponent or obstacle. The higher roll wins! The attributes are strength, endurance, dexterity, agility, magic, and aura, and each one begins with a 6-sided die that can increase in size as you level up and spend points to improve it.
• In combat, attribute dice are combined with weapon mastery dice (unarmed, blunt, edged, pole, throwing, and archery) to determine whether an attack hits: the attacker rolls for accuracy, the defender rolls to evade, and the higher roll wins. Armor reduces damage, while shields boost your evasion. Critical hits are determined by how high the combatants' weapon mastery dice rolled, and the effect is based on the weapon: a spear ignores armor instead of deducting it, a katana does extra damage, and a mace stuns your enemy, making them clumsy and vulnerable!
• Skill rolls use sets of 6-sided dice and are usually (but not always) against a fixed difficulty number. With level 4 wits, roll 4 dice to see if you can spot a narrow passageway, obscured by foliage. If you want to make a vicious blade that costs your enemy their turn whenever you get a critical hit, and have level 5 crafting, you roll 5 dice and need at least 19 to make progress. Not enough? Burn some dexterity points (DP) to boost the roll! Feel more like alchemy? If you have level 3 alchemy, roll 3 dice and determine the potency of your potion by the result. Sacrifice some dice from the roll to get extra doses!
• Magic uses an MP system, where each spell takes a certain amount of magic points (MP) to cast, and those points refill over time. Learning and upgrading spells uses spell points provided by your class (and sometimes race). For example, learning flare takes 1 destruction point and 1 fire point. Spend those points again to make it more powerful! Want to read minds? The read mind spell is only 3 telepathy points away... if you already know message. But don't try to cast a spell that's more difficult than you can handle—bad things can happen to mages who do that.
• Want to create enchanted items? No problem! Just learn the proper enchanting spell and the spell you want to put on the item, and you've got it. No money or experience payout necessary. Just one catch: some of your MP will be sealed away for as long as the enchantment exists. That's not a problem, is it?
• Your character gains experience not just from surviving fights but from having memorable experiences. The more the players remember about the last session, the more experience the party gets. (And yes, you get experience from fighting, too.) When you have enough experience, your character levels up!

Like the map? It's available as a poster!