A very impressive looking roleplaying setting for 5E has arrived from Mechanical Muse. The recently released World of Aetaltis looks to be a high fantasy setting which embraces the heroic adventuring of yesteryear while being geared toward modern players. A trio of core books are now available in PDF from DriveThruRPG.
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A new world of adventure…
Discover the World of Aetaltis, an amazing new campaign setting designed for use with the Fifth Edition of the world’s best-known roleplaying game. In Aetaltis, you’ll unlock a setting that rekindles the fire of classic heroic fantasy game worlds. It’s everything that made fantasy RPGs such an incredible phenomenon, reimagined and refreshed for today’s gamers.
The World of Aetaltis: Player’s Guide includes everything you need to make a character for a World of Aetaltis game, as well as the Aetaltis rules you’ll need at the table over the course of your adventures! Inside, you’ll find:
- Seven New Lineages (Plus All Your Old Favorites): Play one of the seven new Aetaltan lineages, including cheebats, drothmals, fairies, newardin, orogs, scythaa, and sprites. Or choose from your old favorites, such as humans, dwarves, elves, and halflings.
- Cultures, Callings, and Finishing Touches: Add richness and depth to your adventurer with new character creation options. Choose from fifteen unique Aetaltan cultures, nine different callings, and a wealth of options for fleshing out your character’s history.
- Heroic Character Classes: Everything you need to know to play your favorite classes in an Aetaltis adventure, plus the new Mountebank class.
- New Point-Based Magic System: Discover the secrets of glyph magic, an exciting new system for point-based arcane spellcasting. Draw on the power of ley lines, charge your essence stones, and cast spells directly from newly recovered spellbooks. But beware! Roll a 1 and you face potential disaster with catastrophic spell failure!
- And Much More: All of the great content described above, plus a dozen new divine domains, nine new backgrounds, new spells, and over twenty pages of equipment with a revised pricing system based on real 13th century European prices!
The 188 page PDF of the Player’s Guide is available at DriveThruRPG for $19.99
The Adventurer’s Guide is a book of wonders originally commissioned by none other than High Lord Drakewyn of Agthor himself and assembled by a dedicated team of veteran scholars from the Royal College of New Erinor. They created this landmark work to aid novice adventurers as they set out to fight the forces of darkness and build their legends.
In this reproduction of that invaluable text, you’ll discover:
- A Complete History of the World: Discover the marvelous history of Aetaltis. From the creation of the enari, to Endroren’s tragic fall, to the momentous first arrival of the Atlan Alliance, you’ll unlock the myriad secrets of Aetaltis’s past.
- Adventuring in Civilized Lands: Delve into detailed descriptions of the Amethyst Sea basin’s great powers and know you will not go unprepared when your quests take you to strange and distant countries.
- Adventuring in the Wilds: Venture forewarned into the wild places of the world thanks to rich examinations of the best-known Aetaltan outlands, from the essence-soaked forests of the Elliyen Wilds to endrori-infested Deeplands.
- Forces of Darkness: Cringe as you read frank descriptions of the horrors that await when you plunge into enemy territory to face the monsters, miscreants, and villains that threaten the good people of the world.
- Metaphysical Wonders: Unlock the secrets of the cosmos as you learn the metaphysics behind the power of magic, the truth about death and the afterlife, and the secrets of the stars.
- Expert Commentary: Find wisdom in sage advice from a bevy of expert commentators, whose insights, hints, and guidance appear throughout the book!
The 188 page PDF of the Adventurer’s Guide is available at DriveThruRPG for $19.99
Level up your Aetaltis adventures!
The World of Aetaltis: Gamemaster’s Guide contains everything a gamemaster needs to turn their Fifth Edition World of Aetaltis games into legendary campaigns. It’s the third in the series of World of Aetaltis core books, along with the World of Aetaltis: Adventurer’s Guide and the World of Aetaltis: Player’s Guide.
Inside this book you’ll find:
- Secret Gamemaster Info: An accurate timeline covering thousands of years of Aetaltis history, a geographically accurate version of the setting map, and a host of other secrets.
- Minions and Monsters: Fifth Edition stats for more than 50 new Aetaltan monsters and NPCs.
- Expanded Rules: Revised rules for diseases, poisons, NPC attitudes, and traps.
- New Options: Brand new Fifth Edition rules for hauntings, magical corruption, goodwill, character resolve, skill specializations, investments, and more.
- Forbidden Magic: A suite of new options for NPC spellcasters, including rules for dark magic, etiquette for entreating Endroren, and guidelines for the powers of evil clerics.
- Divine Intervention: Complete rules for tracking characters’ favor and disfavor with the gods, plus an introduction to Divine Inspiration Cards, a system that lets players add to the story by roleplaying the gods.
- A Toolbox of Wonders: Plus, information and rules concerning magical baubles, art objects, counterfeiting and coin clipping, building and room quality, the effects of aging, and much, much more!
The World of Aetaltis campaign setting is an amazing new game world designed for use with the Fifth Edition of the world’s best-known roleplaying game. In Aetaltis, you’ll unlock a setting that rekindles the fire of classic heroic fantasy game worlds. It’s everything that made fantasy RPGs such an incredible phenomenon, reimagined and refreshed for today’s gamers.
This book is designed for use with the other two World of Aetaltis core books, but the new rules, monsters, and options it contains can be used in any Fifth Edition game.
