Heroes of Karia began as a very thorough and creative hack of Big Eyes Small Mouth, rooted in an original world developed primarily by Aric Clark, a collaborator in Escape and Robosnake Games. The original campaign that he ran, Heroes of Karia Vitalus, opened up an amazing world, new game mechanics, and inspired the players to write literally hundreds of short stories and vignettes set in the world, paralleling the main storyline.
Since, we've worked on developing an original system for Heroes of Karia and have had two alpha playtests. Both playtests went very well - the new system is much better than a hack for HoK.
Heroes of Karia is about saving the world - and what it will cost to do so. Heroic anime-style characters with growing superpowers battle supernatural, nigh-unstoppable Oni which grow out of the suffering inflicted on the world. Their battles against the Oni escalate the conflicts in the world and lead to yet more suffering until the battle between good and evil reaches a climax - a final confrontation where the world is at stake, and where the Heroes will have to find a way to save the world that does not simply further empower the Oni.
Meanwhile, the technological Cheldrun are at war with the native, innately-magical Karians; the Dusk Sages are disappearing and no one knows why; the First Minds return, but not in the form that anyone expects; the last of the Vorax are dying; inevitably, every living thing on Karia must choose sides in the coming conflict; and behind it all is the Question: is this the end of Life? Or a new beginning?
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