Royal Blood: Revised Edition

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Royal Blood is a tabletop roleplaying game about heists, tarot cards, magic, fate and desperation. It uses a deck of tarot cards to build characters, plan a heist in an urban fantasy setting, and determine opposition, and to resolve every risky action the players make in an attempt to claim power.

First released in 2016, the new edition is revised, expanded, and richly illustrated throughout. Royal Blood tells short, sharp, exciting stories about Royals, sorcerer-blooded protagonists represented by the court cards of the tarot, stealing power and privilege from the Arcane (the Major Arcana). With simple but flexible rules, a group can be ready to dive into a one-shot story within fifteen minutes of opening the book. A scenario design system based on tarot spreads allows the GM, in the role of Fate Herself, to generate stories on the fly, based on the cards drawn and the players’ curiosities.

The game can be played with any standard deck of tarot cards, but the newly released Royal Blood deck includes an extra four court cards (for all-new player character options) and two wild-card Jokers to add extra twists to gameplay.