Description
Beyond Dread Portals is a world-hopping D20 Fantasy game by Paul “The Tweed Meister” Mitchener (Age of Arthur, Liminal).
Loosely based on early D&D, modified to meet the needs of the setting. A baroque, decaying, Renaissance style City of Ys and the worlds which make up its Empire, interconnected by a system of magic portals.
The characters are members of the Explorer’s Guild, so there are expeditions to join, loot and secrets to be found, and a web of powerful patrons to navigate carefully. All under the deathly gaze of its undead ruler, the Autarch!
This is a complete game, with rules, setting, bestiary and introductory adventure, in a US Trade hardcover (six by nine inches) sized 318 page book, with black and white illustrations throughout
The contents are as follows.
Players’ Section
- Enter Dread Portals
- The Ysian Empire
- Character Generation
- Character Classes
- Money and Equipment
- Game Rules
- Combat
- Magic
Portal Moderator’s Section
- The City of Ys
- Worlds of Ys
- People and Monsters
- Portal Moderator’s Toolkit
- A Touch of the Sun (an introductory adventure).