Vesk
The best cat burglar in the city
Shadow, twice
A thief who never gets seen. Fast, quiet, and good with locks.
A tabletop roleplaying game
The GM tells you what’s coming before anyone rolls.
You play people who are good at what they do. Each round the GM puts every threat’s dice on the table: what it’s doing, who it’s aimed at and how hard. Your sheet’s already done the counting, so you spend the round choosing what to answer and what to let ride.
TelegraphRound 1
The brute
He swings his club at Isolde.
d8At Isolde, and her Armour’s a d2.
Answered together
Wren puts an arrow in his arm and Bram gets his hammer under the club.
Fight 5 and Fight 4 make 9 steps from two actions: a d12 and a d6.
8on the d126on his d8
Stopped. It never lands.
How it plays
You see it coming
A threat telegraphs with its Challenge die, and the GM never hides its size or its target. You’re never going to answer everything, so every round’s a choice.
Every roll starts from a number
Your sheet does the counting before you play. If a line’s on your set action and it fits, it’s free, and anything else that fits costs 1 Aura.
Any world you like
The rules don’t come with a world attached. Build your own, or start from one of the frames in the book.
Your phone at the table
Coming next: your character on your phone, with the counting done and every roll a tap away.
Steps make dice
A set action’s steps are 1 for the action and 1 for every line on it. Then turn your steps into dice: 1 step is a d2, 2 steps a d4, and so on up to a d12 at 6.
Vesk’s Sneak is her first Title, move unseen and Silent Step, plus the action. That’s 4 steps, a d8.
- d21 step
- d42 steps
- d63 steps
- d84 steps
- d105 steps
- d126 steps
Meet the crew
Pick one and play tonight. Take one as written, or copy one and change anything you like.
Dorrie
The voice that talked a duke out of his own house
FaceShadow
The face of the crew. Gets you through doors you can’t pick.
Bram
The wall that held the harbour gate
GuardianLeader
The muscle. Stands in front of the crew and doesn’t move.
Isolde
The last student of a dead order
OracleScholar
The scholar. Reads the old books and works the rituals nobody else will touch.
Wren
The hunter who has never lost a trail
Hunter, twice
The scout. Sees them first, and hits them from further away than they thought possible.
Ash
The last fire-speaker of the Ember Court
ElementalistFace
The fire mage. One kind of magic, and very, very good at it.
The rules are free to read
Every chapter’s here, and it’s the master copy, so it’s always the current rules. Last updated 16 October 2026.