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IRON & BLOOD: HISTORICAL ROLEPLAYING 1500-1875

The premiere tabletop roleplaying game set in the golden age of black powder weapons.

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🏛️BRING FOUR CENTURIES OF HISTORY TO LIFE

Iron & Bloods features 375 years of history in six Tech Levels:

  • 🪓TL 6: Early Modern (1500-1684) Conquistadors, knights, landsknechts, musketeers, and samurai fight in conflicts as diverse as The Conquest of the New World, 30 Years War, English Civil War, and Japan's Warring States period.
  • 💡TL 5: Enlightenment (1685-1764) Bayonets and flintlock muskets usher in the age of linear infantry. They fight across the diverse battlefields of the Great Northern War, War of the Spanish Succession, War of the Austrian Succession, and 7 Years War.
  • 💂‍♂️TL 4: Revolutionary (1765-1819) Advanced weapons including rifles and rocket artillery begin use in titanic struggles including the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary, and Napoleonic Wars.
  • 🛤️TL 3: Early Industrial (1820-1849) Percussion caps debut on the battlefield as rifling becomes standard in conflicts as diverse as the Carlist Wars, Mexican-American War, Opium Wars, and Revolutions of 1848.
  • 🚂TL 2: Industrial (1850-1866) Percussion caps see their heyday as armies begin adopting breach-loading rifles to fight in the American Civil War, Austro-Prussian War, Crimean War, and Taiping Rebellion.
  • 🏭TL 1: Late Industrial (1867-1875) Mass-produced breach-loaded rifles and artillery dominate the battlefields of the Meiji Restoration, War of the Tripple Alliance, and Franco-Prussian War.

🎭FAN-FAVORITE LIFEPATH CHARACTER CREATION

Iron & Blood character creation begins with little more than a family background and some starting Aptitudes. Player characters serve 6-year terms in chosen careers. Each term involves rolls on various tables to determine their survival, promotion, events, and more.

Along the way characters may age, suffer injuries, or even die. Death means restarting character creation from the beginning. Good luck.

🩸Dynasties

Continue your adventure through the centuries through the eyes of a whole dynasty of characters. As each character passes away or retires, they will pass down their estates to their heirs. By achieving legendary feats, characters can earn special traits for their whole dynasty.

💣BRING THE RIGHT TOOLS TO THE JOB

Fight on foot or horseback with a massive arsenal of historical weapons, including melee weapons, explosives, firearms, and artillary. Custom-design your own firearms with the firearm designer.

Non-combat encounters call for the right equipment too. Wear the latest fashion at court, don disguises to bypass guards, practice medicine with the latest pharmaceuticals, and more.

⚔️EXPERIENCE TACTICAL AND THRILLING COMBAT

Iron & Blood combat is sharp and lethal. A single bayonet or bullet wound can be enough to remove a character from combat or outright kill him.

Long reload times means those equipped with firearms at close range will have to fire off whatever they have loaded before turning to their bayonets. Those specialized in melee must survive the hail of fire before charging to exact cruel revenge.

Combat at longer ranges is no less deadly. Neither side will want to close the distance without a sure advantage. But braving the killing field must eventually happen to secure decisive victory.

⚓DIVE INTO IRON & BLOOD ON THE HIGH SEAS

Iron & Blood isn't just for landlubbers. Dive into a nautical roleplaying system like no other with Iron & Blood on the High Seas. A richly realized system for life, trade, and war aboard historical ships of oar, sail, and steam.

  • Create your own seafaring vessels with a powerful ship designer.
  • Explore the seven seas in a fully realized navigation system featuring realistic points of sail, fuel and supply consumption, natural hazards, and more.
  • Buy and sell goods, transport cargo; mail; and passengers, and sell your services to patrons in need of skilled seamen.
  • Fight for glory, profit, or survival in deadly ship-to-ship combat. Maneuver your vessel, fire its guns, ram the enemy, and fight boarding actions. Do whatever it takes to triumph in an oceanic combat system where the skill and experience of a ship's crew matter just as much as the power of their vessel.

🗣️CONDUCT INTRIGUE IN SOCIAL ENCOUNTERS

Recruit friends, negotiate treaties, and talk your way out of peril.
But trust must be earned before it can be counted on... or exploited.

Non-player characters have their own interests, attitudes, and agendas to consider. If they are not careful, the player characters could easily end up used and taken advantage of.

⚕️SAVE LIVES IN MEDICAL ENCOUNTERS

In a world before anti-biotics, even a small wound or the flu can be a death sentence. Doctors must accurately diagnose and treat their patients, lest they suffer temporary incapacitation, permanent injury, or death.

Combat wounds can lead to a variety of temporary and permanent injuries including lacerations, scarring, damage to extremities and organs, and mutilation. The most extreme cases will call for surgery. Characters wishing to survive the ordeal will be grateful to know a skilled physician.

📜BECOME A MASTER HISTORIAN

An Iron & Blood Game Master is called a Historian.

Iron & Blood comes with a full Historian's Guide, featuring all of the advice, guidance, and tips needed to run a great game of Iron & Blood. Including how to:

  • Take full advantage of a historical setting and feature historical figures as compelling NPCs.
  • Plan fun, well-paced, and thematically interesting missions, adventures, and campaigns.
  • Design, balance, and efficiently run exciting combat, social, medical, and high seas encounters.
  • Schedule game sessions with often uncooperative players.
  • Design and equip enemies to match your unique setting.