About this product

This is the quickstart for the upcoming kickstarter of Shinobi Revenge! You get: A fully playable quickstart, with characters, a mission, and guidance on how to play the main action phase. Armoured Gaming presents... Have you ever enjoyed a revenge story, samurai cinema, or spy movies? If any of those are true, this game is for you. Shinobi Revenge is a narrative focused TTRPG for three to six players with a tight focus around one of the most popular genres of storytelling - the revenge tale. What does Shinobi Revenge do Differently? Firstly, Shinobi Revenge makes your feel like a real revenge tale by integrating mechanics, genre conventions, and structured play to tell a story about spies, samurai, and revenge. While nothing beats a good GM to fill in the details, the structure of Shinobi Revenge will mean that the narrative beats from the horrific tragedy to the conspiracy gaining the upper hand, to the final bloody act of revenge and the eventual denoument will be ready when you need them. As a short to medium length campaign, your players will see the entire revenge arc play out in six to ten sessions. Secondly, Shinobi revenge focuses on the genre conventions through roleplay by using the new Focus mechanics. Players are encouraged to do samurai and ninja movie actions and scenes, and play out the effects of the consequences as well as interact with, having fallouts with, and making up with the other characters. Doing these actions fuels the dice mechanics for the game and creates a natural tension-and-release story between the characters and their environment. Thirdly, revenge will be a constant companion to the players. In the set-up phase for the game the brutal and tragic circumstances of the characters are played out, and as the game continues the PCs play through flashbacks of the deepening tragedies of the events after that point. Through these flashbacks you can keep the characters, and the players, motivated for revenge. What Story Will You Tell? Shinobi Revenge is designed to tell stories of espionage and revenge. But that isn't all; it is a game that examines violence and the toxic fallout that violence has on those it consumes. Shinobi Revenge also deals with moments of connection and disconnection between the characters and the communities, of bonds and alliances put under extreme pressure, and in time, catharsis - or destruction.