Grim Tidings: The Lost Guard (10/30/22)

The Lost Guard is the playtest adventure for Grim Tidings, a TTRPG currently in development. In the Lost Guard you will play group of heroes seeking out a lost party of Grave Guard, an organization who have dedicated their lives to ensuring the dead don't rise to walk the world again. Lost in the barren wastes of the Ashflet Tundra it is up to you to discover the fate of the missing Guard and return with news.

Grim Tidings is a game of wondrous adventures and great trials. It’s a game of struggle and hardship where the will of the heroes is tested to their limits. Do they have the determination and fortitude to return home victorious or will fall under the mighty weight of their task?

The stories told in Grim Tidings don’t focus on the minutiae of any one event but rather on the story as a whole. The question is never if the heroes will be victorious in a battle but rather what the battle cost them. Did they spend too much effort on a flashy victory, will they now find themselves depleted at a crucial moment?

Grim Tidings is a narrative focused game that should push the heroes to their limits. During the course of an adventure they should find themselves depleted and desperate, struggling not just to continue but to survive. They should feel elated when they find a moment of respite and dread when they realize they must continue.