With This Glyph

The glowing symbols on your hand, invisible to most people, mark you as an entrant in a secret and deadly contest. Primal forces of the world are stirring again, calling on Mages to summon arcane Champions and spill the blood of their rivals. Whether you compete for ambition, honor, or a promised reward, you and your adversaries are ultimately all fighting for the same thing: survival.

A CUTTHROAT TABLETOP ROLEPLAYING GAME

In With This Glyph, you are out to get your friends. You take on the role of a Mage enlisted in a generational battle royale playing out at the edges of reality called a Glyphed War. At your side is a Champion, a powerful spirit that has taken the form of a historical, mythic, or literary figure like the Lady of the Lake or Genghis Khan. Together, you will do all you can to take down your rivals. Not only are your lives on the line — stories say the Glyphed War's victor is granted their heart's deepest desire.

SIMPLE RULES, QUICK ACTION

With This Glyph's intuitive rules let you get right to the action. All you need to play are this rulebook, the character sheet, something to write with, a six-sided die, and a four-sided die. Players will quickly pick up basics of play, which hinge on a simple check system based on three scores: your mage's PHYS, WITS, and SPRT. This 100-page rulebook includes setting information, rules, recommendations, sample characters, and examples of play to make it easy to begin your first Glyphed War. 

INSPIRED BY DARK, CONTEMPORARY FANTASIES

• Type-Moon's Fate series
• Atlus' Persona video games
• Ron Edwards' Sorcerer
• Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six
• White Wolf's Mage the Ascension

FROM THE CREATOR OF

• Kiera's Blades, a 5e setting
• Snow, a meditative TTRPG
• solo_e1, an adventure for .dungeon//remastered

 

Cover image by LunaScript. This page's illustrations by Sam Petto. This game contains no AI works.