Description

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Blackbirds is a dark fantasy tabletop role-playing game.

The gods failed us. The powerful betrayed us. Rise to meet your fate.

Twelve years of war have ravaged the kingdoms of Erebos, where the great battle that would decide the fate of all has been waged. . .and lost. Now, the lights of civilization are going out. Swells of refugees have taken to the roads, desperate to find homes far from all the suffering. New constellations twinkle in the vault of the night, only to disappear if scrutinized for too long. Creatures of long-forgotten folklore once again stalk the countryside. It is a time of ill omens and unlikely heroes.

BLACKBIRDS RPG is set in a dark fantasy world where a cabal of power-hungry Oligarchs has stolen godhood. Their horrific act rent the fabric of reality, allowing corrupt magic to undermine the world's natural order. And, soon, the Oligarchs themselves will return to the mortal plane and remake it as they desire.

About the Author

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John Chambers is an ENnie-award-winning game writer and editor. He’s worked at a myriad of well-known game companies (White Wolf, CCP, Blizzard, and Riot Games) and worked on some of the biggest properties in gaming (Diablo, Exalted, Heroes of the Storm, League of Legends, League of Legends: Wild Rift, Legends of Runeterra, Scion, Teamfight Tactics, Valorant, and Vampire: The Masquerade). Originally from Georgia, John now resides in sunny Southern California. He still finds it shocking he gets to make games for a living.

Edward Austin Hall co-edited the 2013 anthology Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, which The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction suggested, in 2015, might be “one of the most important sf anthologies of the decade.” That estimation resonated in 2021, when Mothership appeared in a story headlined “Sci-Fi Has Changed A Lot In The Past Decade—These 7 Reads Will Show You How,” which ran on NPR.org’s main page. Hall’s first novel, Dread Isle, was published by Gumbohaus in December 2020. His new novelette, Green Treacheries, is set to appear in the MVmedia anthology Terminus 2 in 2022.
 

Daniel D. Fox is a game designer and winner of two gold ENNIE Awards at Gen Con for Best Game and Product of the Year with his fantasy horror game ZWEIHANDER RPG. He has since created Main Gauche, Dark Astral, Flames of Freedom Grim & Perilous RPG, Fever Knights RPG, ZWEIHANDER Fantasy Horror RPG Starter Kit, and produced Blackbirds RPG, Eternal Night of Lockwood, and To Be Or Not To Be A Villain. When Daniel isn't designing tabletop role-playing games or board games, he's enjoying his other favorite hobby: cafe racer motorcycles. He lives in the City of Fountains with his wife Ali and their two young kobolds.