Blunderbuss RPG: Blood, Coin & Black Powder Collide in a Grimdark 16th-Century Europe
Over 100 professions. Rules-light play. Grimdark fantasy in the gunpowder age. Blunderbuss RPG launches soon on Gamefound.
Prepare for blood, saints, and sin. The Blunderbuss Role-Playing Game is here to drag you into a world of grotesque monsters, corrupt priests, and morally ambiguous adventurers clawing their way through a dying age. Inspired by grimdark fantasy RPGs of the 1980s and 90s, Blunderbuss blends brutal narrative tone, streamlined mechanics, and a deeply atmospheric world built for those who like their fantasy strange, savage, and darkly funny.
Welcome to Danswijk — The Free City.
Once part of a crumbling kingdom, now a corrupt trade hub at the mouth of the Visula River, Danswijk is a seething cauldron of crime, cults, sin-worshipping conspiracies, and opportunity. It's here — or in the twisted wilds beyond — that your story begins.
Key Features:
- 🎲 Streamlined Percentile System: All rolls are player-facing. One roll resolves everything. Simple mechanics, deep consequences.
- 🧿 Great Successes & Great Failures: Doubles on the dice mean narrative fireworks — good or bad.
- ⚔️ Creative, Skill-Driven Combat: Nearly any skill can shape a battle. Disarm, provoke, intimidate, improvise.
- 💀 Dynamic Wound System: Take injuries that matter. Lose limbs, gain scars, or meet a spectacular end.
- 🛠️ Base-Building & Earnings System: Invest your loot to upgrade your party’s hideout — from shrines to taverns to forges.
- 🧙 Magic That Bites Back: Exhausting, mutagenic, and often cataclysmic, spellcasting in Blunderbuss is not for the faint-hearted.
- 🌍 A World Ruled by Sin: In the year 1597 of the Era of Sin, dark powers walk the world. The next Sin is coming. Are you ready?
- 🧬 Mutation, Cults & Corruption: Failures and dark pacts can twist your body or soul. Even death isn’t the worst thing that can happen.
- 🎭 Over 100 Careers: From halfling guerrillas to undead-fighting witch hunters to elven tree-sorcerers. Progress through Basic, Advanced, and Master professions.
Danswijk Awaits.
From cursed swamps to elven ruins, from backroom pugilist rings to ancient dragon lairs — Blunderbuss offers a massive open-ended world full of political plots, eldritch horrors, forgotten saints, and filthy money to be made. And no two campaigns will ever be the same.
