The Silt Verses Roleplaying Game (Preview)

The Silt Verses Roleplaying Game is here!

Today we're excited to present you a deluxe preview of the game, with the full release to come at the end of the month. We'll dive into the details of this release in a moment, but for now, we want to strongly encourage you to join us on The Gauntlet Discord server. The Gauntlet is a terrific community of gamers and game designers, and we're ready to help you understand what this new game is all about, how to play it, and how to create for it.

In The Silt Verses RPG, you play Custodians, employees of the Bureau for the Investigation and Assimilation of Stray Deities. In a world with tens of thousands of gods, your job is to track down the forgotten and stray deities causing trouble in the community and... deal with them. Sometimes that means figuring out how a community can co-exist with the god, and sometimes that means eliminating the god's threat in a more extreme way. Regardless, you are a pawn within an uncaring system, and will eventually be the target of a conspiracy that will try to use your work for its own nefarious purposes.

Here's what you'll find in the preview release of The Silt Verses RPG (attached to this post):

The rulebook
This 80+ page rulebook has rules and advice for both players and Keepers for how to run a campaign of The Silt Verses RPG. It includes both spreads and pages layout.

 
Player handouts
Character sheet
Reference sheet

4 Faith sheets
The Trawler Man
The Pox Martyr
The Saint Electric
The Waxen Scrivener

3 Journey Scenes
A Roadside Diner
The Wirebitten Child
Escaped Test Subject 

2 Assignments
The Hungering Roots
The Dusk Mother

Campaign sheets
The Institute: Conspiracy Sheet
The Institute: Confrontation Sheet

This release contains enough material to play a few sessions of the game. To play a full campaign, you'll have to wait for the full release at the end of the month. Until then, you have time to read through the rules and get a feel for how the game works.

It has been a long (but creatively exciting) road to reach this point, and we're so incredibly proud of this game. We want to thank all the people involved, including: game creators Gabriel Robinson and Jason Cordova; illustrator Ezra Rose; layout artist Ben Mansky; and contributing writers Jacqueline Bryk, Megan Caldwell, Mike Martens, B. Narr, James Smith, Michael Van Vleet, and Jon Ware. We want to extend special thanks to Jon Ware and Muna Hussen for letting us play in their world, and to The Gauntlet community for all their support. 

A few other things...

Typo Report

You will inevitably find a typo or correction as you read through these documents; please do not message us or post a comment telling us about the typo. Instead, please fill out the typo report. It helps us a lot.

The Silt Verses RPG: A God Must Feed

If you'd like to see the game in action, Jason Cordova is running it on his YouTube channel. The series is called A God Must Feed, and in addition to being a great resource for how to play this game, it's just damn entertaining. You can find that playlist here.

The full game release is coming!

The full release should be out by the end of the month. You'll be able to find it in both The Gauntlet and The Silt Verses respective Patreon feeds. Here's what will be added in the full release:

2 more Faith sheets
The Cairn Maiden
The Watcher in the Wings

4 more Journey scenes
A Roadside Shrine
Who Wants to Be an Avatar?
The Dig
An Artist's Mural

6 more Assignments
The Floating Market

The Sleepless Warden

The Skyward Sprawl

The Miraculous Clinic of the Bleeding Witness

The Bowered Companion

Young Jolly Junk

And that's not all! Post-release, The Gauntlet will continue releasing new material for the game, including new Faith sheets such as Sweet Jolly Crunch Tooth, The Beast That Stalks, and The Veiled Witness; new Assignments such as Something Wonderful Just Outside of Town and

Punk Never Dies; new Conspiracies; and more!

As always, thanks so much for your support! Enjoy!