Introducing Dreadnought: War of the Heretic King

This is Dreadnought!

Dreadnought is a TTRPG that pits nobledark heroes against cosmic horrors borne from depthless ice and sea. 

Players must work together to survive and overcome their dreadful ordeal before they succumb to madness.

One player is the Dread Maker. They use the game's unique Dread mechanic to build tension, drive action, and move the player's story forward. 

This game and the dreadful region of Vandilar is designed by Liminal Artifact: the ENNIE-nominated team behind the Exquisite Corpse series.

How to play

Dreadnought is a rules-light game with no stats and easy-to-use mechanics. It's designed to be about the characters and their story. The game rules are built to drive the narrative forward using an Apocalypse Engine with a dreadful twist.

Dread controls the game; players control the story.

Dread is represented with a creeping die that starts as a d4 and grows as the players encounter increasingly dreadful horrors and events.  Players make moves and take action by rolling the challenge dice — 2d8 — trying to roll higher than the dread die.

You can play Dreadnought right now for free: download the basic rules and starter quest

Dreadnought: War of the Heretic King ties together a trilogy of worldbuilding and narrative toolkits known as the Exquisite Corpse Series. It is the conclusion to that trilogy and implements the rules system (with a massive expansion) to connect everything so you can design and play inside an explorable world deep with lore, intrigue, and dread. 

What's inside this Release:

• Dreadnought TTRPG rules
• A vast and evocative world to explore and customize
• 27 interconnected characters with illustrations and backgrounds
• 27 illustrated horrors with lore and game mechanics
• 27 illustrated relics with lore and tie-in quests
• 9 war machines 
• 9 playable character archetypes 
• 3 new Great Cities with cultural, political, and religious lore
• 6 Lightless Wastes with tons of lore, illustrations, and a suite of maps
• Tons of rollable tables for world-building and story design

Here's a peek inside:

For folks new to our work.

You're getting a complete TTRPG with mechanics that emphasize the dreadful cosmic horrors replete throughout our lore-rich world. Dreadnought is completely human-illustrated with our own interconnected horrors, relics, characters, settlements, and regions.

The key feature of our work is making world-building playable. Everything about the world — the monsters, history, characters — are designed for you to make your own with guided prompts, tags, and loads of tables that interconnect.

For fans of the Exquisite Corpse series.

This is our first complete TTRPG and the first hardcover print edition of Dreadnought. The book is built to play independent of our other work and complete the Exquisite Corpse series. Together, they complete the trilogy and weave together the mad narrative of Nolan Locke, Inquisitor Kada, and The Heretic King. 

The Eidolons are dead. The Inquisition is shattered. War rages on the ice, and below the Deep Things are watching.