13th Age

Tabletop fantasy role-playing game June 2024 13th Age Pelgrane Press 2013 08 03 yes yes 13th Age, role-playing game.jpg Archmage Engine (d20 System) Fantasy Rob Heinsoo Jonathan Tweet pelgranepress.com/13th-age/ 9781908983404 13th Age is a d20 fantasy role-playing game designed by Rob Heinsoo (lead designer of Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition)Shannon Appelcline Designers & Dragons Mongoose Publishing 2011 978-1-907702-58-7 289–290 and Jonathan Tweet (lead designer of D&D 3rd Edition),Wizards of the Coast: Player's Handbook Exclusive Preview! http://www.wizards.com/dnd/DnD_PH_Intro.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20000711035935/http://www.wizards.com/dnd/DnD_PH_Intro.asp dead 11 July 2000 and published by Pelgrane Press. 13th Age has been well supported with over 25 supplements published since its 2013 release, the most recent in 2022.DRAKKENHALL, City of Monsters https://pelgranepress.com/product/drakkenhall-city-of-monsters/ pelgranepress.com Pelgrane Press 23 September 2022 Publication history 13th Age was released on 3 August 2013,https://pelgranepress.com/2013/07/30/through-the-scrying-glass-13th-age-released/ Through the Scrying Glass: 13th Age Released Simon Rogers Pelgrane Press Ltd 30 July 2013 and the pre-release version was a nominee for the RPG Geek RPG of the Year 2013.https://rpggeek.com/rpg/17925/13th-age 13th Age RPG RPGGeek rpggeek.com Setting The setting of 13th Age is intended to be fleshed out in the course of play. Although there are default places, 13 default Icons that are archetypes of powerful gods and NPCs in standard fantasy settings,https://gizmodo.com/13th-age-rpg-is-an-incredible-fantasy-storytelling-expe-1201550758 13th Age RPG delivers an incredible fantasy storytelling experience 26 August 2013 Gizmodo and a default bestiary, a lot of the setting is dependent on character creation. This is done by means of having freeform backgrounds rather than predefined skills, and by each character having One Unique Thing that can be anything which has no direct mechanics; examples in the rulebook include I am the only halfling knight of the Dragon Emperor and I have a clockwork heart made by the dwarves, both of which affect both character and the entire setting.https://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/08/roll-perception-plus-awareness-13th-age/ Roll Perception Plus Awareness: 13th Age Paul Weimer 15 August 2013 25 June 2024 29 September 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220929023006/https://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/08/roll-perception-plus-awareness-13th-age/ dead In 2018, Rob Heinsoo Games and Chaosium published an alternate setting supplement for Greg Stafford's Glorantha. 13th Age Glorantha was Kickstarter funded, along with a companion volume further detailing the world, The Gloranthan Sourcebook.https://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/247053/13th-age-glorantha 13th Age in Glorantha System 13th Age was designed to be familiar in terms of setting concepts to D&D players, so it is a class-based game with the main rulebook containing standard D&D classes. It is also level-based, with ten levels grouped into three tiers. 13th Age was designed from the ground up to not use miniatures or a grid, and instead uses abstract distances and positioning. In order to speed up combat the Player Characters gain an escalating bonus to hit equal to the number of rounds that have passed starting to count from the second round, known as the "escalation die" (it's a six-sided die, so maximum bonus is +6). The skills systems often associated with recent versions of Dungeons & Dragons have been replaced with "backgrounds" in 13th Age. Players are encouraged to create backstories for their characters that give them bonuses to actions in the game, often asking them to refer to a time in their fictional past when they have dealt with a similar obstacle and how they overcame it or what they learned from the experience. Other differences from standard d20 games include the backgrounds taking the place of most utility magic, weapon damage dice being determined by class, spells that are only expended on bad rolls, and recoveries that resemble D&D 4e healing surges. Like many d20-variant games, The Archmage Engine – 13th Age SRD was released under the Open Game License, so that its open game content can be copied or modified.The Archmage Engine – 13th Age SRD https://site.pelgranepress.com/index.php/the-archmage-engine-13th-age-srd/ pelgranepress.com 24 October 2013 Pelgrane Press 23 September 2020 History After they had both left Wizards of the Coast, long-time friends and gaming partners Heinsoo and Tweet decided to create a game together.https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/05/20/13th-age-review-the-excellent-new-tabletop-game-from-the-lead-designers-of-3rd-and-4th-edition-dungeons-and-dragons/ 13th Age: The New Tabletop Game From The Lead Designers Of 3rd And 4th Edition Dungeons And Dragons Erik Kain Forbes By GenCon 2012 the game was ready for playtesting, and they used the hype created at GenCon to Kickstart a supplement called 13 True Ways even before 13th Age was released.https://pelgranepress.com/2012/08/24/13-true-ways-kickstarter/ 13th Age expansion book: 13 True Ways Kickstarter 24 August 2012 The game was officially launched a week before GenCon 2013. In August 2022, Pelgrame Press announced a second "Escalation Edition" of 13th Age, to be funded via Kickstarter in early 2023.https://pelgranepress.com/2022/08/18/announcing-13th-age-2nd-edition/ Announcing 13th Age 2nd Edition! 18 August 2022 Cat Tobin 19 December 2022https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/13th-age-escalated-edition-2023-pelgraine-press-ttrpg/ 13th Age to Get New Edition in 2023 14 August 2022 ComicBook.com Christian Hoffer 19 December 2022 In December 2022, the 13th Age SRD was updated to version 3.0 to add classes, monsters and multi-classing rules from the 13 True Ways and Bestiary supplemental books. Reception 13th Age won the 2014 Silver Ennie Award for "Best Rules".http://www.ennie-awards.com/blog/about-us/2014-ennie-awards-nominees 2014 ENnie Awards Winners ENnie Awards www.ennie-awards.com 15 May 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20190831054410/http://www.ennie-awards.com/blog/about-us/2014-ennie-awards-nominees 31 August 2019 dead References Category:D20 System Category:ENnies winners Category:Fantasy role-playing games Category:Tabletop games Category:Jonathan Tweet games Category:Pelgrane Press games Category:Role-playing games introduced in 2013 Category:Role-playing game systems