A very unique looking Brazilian fantasy roleplaying game from Porcupine Publishing is seeing its first core book release in PDF. The Elephant and Macaw Banner: Player’s Guide will get you started in a fantastical 16th century Brazil based on the Christopher Kastensmidt fiction series. The 60 page player’s guide is a PWYW PDF at DriveThruRPG and there’s also an initial adventure for the system available here.
From Porcupine Games:
Containing the first 60 pages of The Elephant & Macaw Banner Roleplaying Game!
This PDF has everything you need to play your first sessions in this fantastical setting, exploring 16th-century Brazil and its monstrous and magical secrets.
The Elephant & Macaw Banner is an award-winning fiction series that tells the adventures of the Dutchman Gerard van Oost and the Yoruba Oludara during their travels through a fantastic version of sixteenth-century Brazil. These stories, based on Brazilian history and folklore, have been enjoyed by readers around the world.
Now it’s time to immerse yourself in this world of Brazilian fantasy, a setting full of adventure, magic and monsters, in which you will find endless opportunity to invent new stories. Create your own heroes and have your own adventures in this magical world!
What you’ll find in the Player’s Guide:
- The Elephant and Macaw Banner Roleplaying Game’s basic system
- Character creation
- Skills, crafts and professions of 1576 Brazil
- A surprisingly large collection of period musical instruments
- Battle Resolution: an easy-to-use yet engrossing combat system
- Magical & miraculous powers: three forms of supernatural power, namely the Divine Graces given to devout followers of the Church; the Powers of Breath mastered by native shamans; the Powers of Ifá, used through techniques of divination and mysticism fro West Africa.
- A lot of full-colour, breathtakingly beautiful artwork
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