Coming soon to Kickstarter:
The Last Tome
— A Magical Character-Building Game for 5e
What’s written in the stars? You decide, or leave it up to fate. Mix & match endless character traits and background story elements. Confront your demons to fulfill your destiny — or else.
This is character creation you play, with real consequences and gorgeously mysterious outcomes.
Sign up to get notified when we launch:
Roll a soul…
…and meet a rich, lifelike character who’s deliciously fun to play. Born with:
special boons (stunning custom coins, spendable in-campaign)
a unique destiny (that once met, bards will sing about for eons…)
and shadows that must be faced.
Fate may even ask you to heed the ‘Deep Call’ —where your character’s luck is entwined with the fortunes of the entire party.
Every lucky break feeds something your GM has been growing in the dark.
And the day it wakes, it will shake your party to its core.
Over 400 million possible heroes.
The dice will find yours.
Ditch the boring origin stories, forgotten about as soon as the campaign starts.
The Last Tome builds character stories you’ll actually want to play (and get rewarded for doing so).
Sidenote: you can skip the gameplay mode, but we promise you won’t want to…
Infused with real astrological archetypes—zero astro-knowledge needed…just dice, a table, and a sky full of trouble.
Every roll generates fate-driven elements that add excitement or tension to the campaign.
You’ll throw custom dice to generate your hero, layer by layer. Each layer adds rich details to who this person is • their light and shadow • and three beautifully written origin story lines (which, by the end, are mixed-and-matched to weave an always-unique character).
Fated births
For each layer of your character, the Fate die rides along.
Sometimes it speaks, and your character is born:
with a Fortune coin (ready to spend)
Retrograde-born (stronger shadow traits with challenges that pay off, once overcome)
Eclipse-born (a rare and powerful destiny—you might just re-write history).
Each character has a ‘Guiding Planet’ that gives a special ability called a Blessing, which you can use to improve the outcomes of rolls that align with your guide’s sphere of influence.
Just beware: abusing your Blessing might provoke the wrath of the sky. . .
You were born for this…
You’ll roll to find your character’s Zenith—a unique destiny, what they were born to become—along with the planet that is quietly influencing their hero’s journey.
Each Zenith comes with a specific event, representing the culmination of their personal development. You must guide your character’s story towards this event.
Once complete, it will solidify their reputation (for better or worse) and crown them with a unique title that will be written about in legends.
Succeed, and their ‘Stars Align’ permanently: they’re immune to Retrograde effects and their Blessing is refreshed each dawn.
With over 400 million possible characters—338 trillion if you include alternate origin stories and Zenith layers…
The Last Tome truly is the last character-building guide you’ll ever need.
Be first in line
Enter your email to be notified when The Last Tome launches — meaning you’ll get first dibs on a very limited number of:
your Fantasy Alter-Ego story—based on your natal chart, created by an astrologer
personalized Illuminated Scrolls—with a custom illustration to look like your character
— we plan to offer only 50-100 of these.
P.S. Contact us if you’d like your table to be considered for playtesting.
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