Legacy of Iseria

Embark on an epic adventure where exploration meets strategy. Traverse a dynamic, evolving world, engage in strategic dice-driven, roll-and-match combat, and battle powerful foes. Your choices truly matter—will you cleanse the guardians and save the land, or succumb to the growing threat?

Requirements

Players: 1-4 players, no GM required.
Age: 14+
Duration: Approximately 60-120 minutes per session; 60+ hours of play per campaign.
Genre: Cooperative dungeon-crawling, narrative-rich, tabletop adventure

Introduction

Step into the enchanting world of Iseria. This tabletop adventure game invites you to explore a dynamic world filled with hidden labyrinths, powerful overlords, guardians, memorable NPCs and evolving world events. Your choices shape its destiny, making every game unique and immersive.

Objective

The primary objective is to purify labyrinth guardians, defeat the mega-boss (overlord), and restore balance to the world. Players must work together to cleanse the guardians, uncover hidden secrets, and ultimately face the overlord in a climactic battle.

How to Win

Victory is achieved by successfully purifying all 8 labyrinths, and defeating the overlord, restoring balance to Iseria. Players must strategically navigate the world, engage in tactical combat, solve intricate puzzles using ciphers, and make impactful decisions to reach this goal.

What makes this game unique?

Dynamic World Exploration: Shape your destiny in a living, breathing world where every choice changes the map. Traverse hex tiles, uncover hidden labyrinths, and watch as your actions ripple across a dynamic landscape.
Roleplayability and Customization: No two campaigns are ever the same! Randomized labyrinths, evolving storylines, and a modular world ensure endless adventure.
Unique Combat System: Engage in tactical grid-based combat. Roll dice in the roll-and-match system to fulfill your attack patterns and requirements dealing patterns of damage on foe hp-grids. Master the innovative Threat Meter System, betting risk versus reward.
Immersive Narrative Integration: Every decision tells a story—craft your journey through branching quests, NPC interactions, and labyrinths that evolve based on your success or failure.
Flexible Campaign Structure: Stay in the fight! Whether you surge back after defeat or retreat to regroup, the adventure doesn’t end.
Expandability: The journey doesn’t stop here. From new overlords and labyrinths to fresh heroes and quests, endless expansions mean the adventure continues to grow with you.

Primary Mechanics

Exploration: Traverse the Iserian Atlas, discover unique locations, interact with NPCs, and encounter memorable events. Obtain quests, gain key items, unlock scenes/skits, and complete stories.
Narrative: Cards and decks contain game state, through narration and the choices you make, you build and edit your various decks: day, combat actions, keys, NPCs, maps; thus, altering the world around you. Cards sometimes reference booklets--which are larger tombs of rich, world building.
Combat: Engage in skirmishes using weapons and abilities using the roll-and-match dice mechanics across grid-based terrain/room tiles. Deal damage to Foes using attack patterns dealing damage to their hp-grid. Enemies move and react naturally using behavior cards, dice and the combat action deck.
Puzzle-Solving: Solve intricate puzzles using ciphers to unlock new areas and progress your adventure.
Character Progression: Level up your character to increase your Might (d6 dice), Wisdom (fudge dice), and Valor (action points) attributes. Unlock new abilities. Acquire new weapons and armor, placing your armor in a traditional RPG grid-layout.