The Ruin inches closer. Soon, the last remaining society in the world will be swallowed whole by a dark and deadly force. Better keep the champagne flowing…
Only six days remain to back Studio Hermitage’s debut tabletop roleplaying game, Our Brilliant Ruin, on Kickstarter. Engage in the socio-political drama of a gilded age while contending with the end of the world when Our Brilliant Ruin becomes available later this year.
Back Our Brilliant Ruin on Kickstarter
The Kickstarter campaign for Our Brilliant Ruin has surpassed its initial funding goal of $25,000 US, raising $37,437 US from over 600 backers in 23 days. Several stretch goals for the campaign have been unlocked, including the Gazetteer chapter, the development of a Virtual Tabletop experience with Alchemy, a digital coloring book, and a digital supplement called Whisper. The Whisper supplement has been expanded through several stretch goals to contain a fashion catalog, recipes created by professional chefs, and Penny Dreadful-style story excerpts. Additional rewards will be revealed once visible locked stretch goals are met.
Limited-quantity pledge tiers are still available as part of the Our Brilliant Ruin Kickstarter campaign. These include a Brilliant Edition hardcover copy signed by the three Studio Hermitage founders, Justin Achilli, Andy Foltz, and Paxton Galvanek – which is only available to campaign backers – and the opportunity to play a four-hour session of Our Brilliant Ruin with up to three friends run by designers Justin Achilli and Rachel J. Wilkinson.
The PDF version of Our Brilliant Ruin will be available for free later this year, and Backers will receive the PDF ahead of everyone else. Get a head start on learning how to play with this condensed version of the rules and five pre-made characters. The following is preview material and may not reflect the final version of the game: https://uberstrategist.link/OBR-Rules-Overview.
About Our Brilliant Ruin
The Ruin befouls everything in its path, ravaging culture and geography alike, and leaving its living victims contorted into horrific creatures. In its wake, Dramark society moves toward an irreversible demise, buoyed on a tide of excess and intrigue.
In Our Brilliant Ruin, players must navigate the social and political machinations of a class-based society while facing the end of the world. Three distinct factions and the families and guilds within them allow players to create fully realized characters to inhabit this doomed world. Investigate an abandoned mansion fallen into danger and disrepair, attend a high-society ball while keeping abreast of the ever-present danger, or confront a deadly chimera that bears an unsettling resemblance to a missing lover. The world is an open book of possibilities… until it ends.
Our Brilliant Ruin uses an original system of dice pools driven by a character’s emotions and motivations. Combine personality traits and skills to accomplish goals by rolling pools of d6s to determine success, failure, or catastrophe. Inspired by similar dice pool-based systems, these original mechanics for Our Brilliant Ruin provide numerous ways to determine player characters’ fates. An attack motivated by jealousy could be Obsession + Fight, or discovering your best friend is hiding a dangerous secret might be Benevolence + Intuit. Players can leverage their Portfolios to gain advantages in social situations and call upon their Passions to gain an edge on a roll… at a risk.
From the outset, Studio Hermitage designed Our Brilliant Ruin as a transmedia IP. In the future, they will bring the world of the Dramark to other formats, such as graphic novels, audio dramas, and video games.
To stay up to date with Our Brilliant Ruin, follow the project on X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, and Discord, or sign up for the newsletter at www.ourbrilliantruin.com. Follow Studio Hermitage on Facebook, Linkedin, X (Twitter), and the official website at www.studio-hermitage.com.
