Interdiction - Quick Start

INTERDICTION A Tabletop Roleplaying Game of Gothic Apocalypse

Quick Start Rulebook • First Edition 

The countdown hit zero and the fireworks went up over the harbor. Then the streetlights guttered — all of them, all at once — and a sound rolled through the sky that was not thunder and did not end. On January 1, 2000 the Interdict cracked: the wall that had kept Heaven and Hell off the Earth since the Crucifixion. The angels want a way home. The stranded demons carve small empires and keep one whisper-line open to Hell. The witches were already here. You are one of the Awakened — a mortal who woke at the millennium with the spark of Creation in your hands.

Interdiction is a complete first-edition tabletop RPG of mortal-scale gothic horror. You are not a demigod. You are a night-shift nurse, a priest with a pistol, a mechanic who saw something walk the alley. 

This Quick Start book contains everything you need to play:

• Pointers into the full First Edition core rulebook
• The Empty Casket, a two-hour first adventure
• Four ready Awakened
• Blood, fear, and Creation magic — only what tonight needs
• The whole engine: STAT Die + Skill Die vs Difficulty
• Setting in one page: January 1, 2000, the Interdict cracked

The full version the of game contains (~195 pages):

• Full rules for character creation, combat, magic, summoning, gear, and progression
• A bestiary of mortals, the risen dead, witches, Nephilim, demons, and angels
• GM tools, content calibration, and campaign frames
• Two complete adventures: Echoes of the Veil and Fog of Ravens Hollow
• Pre-generated characters and a photocopiable character sheet
• Optional rules for playing witches, Nephilim, angels, and demons
• Optional End Game: the path by which mortals can finish Creation and restore the Interdict

All illustrations are public-domain engravings by Gustave Doré (1832–1883). Written for a mature table