Strap on your bearded axe and delve into the forsaken barrow!
Runecairn Wardensaga is an 84-page full-colour rulebook delivering hard-hitting action and adventure in a post-Ragnarok Norse fantasy world. Designed by Colin Le Sueur and inspired by Dark Souls and Elden Ring, Runecairn is a lightweight combat-focused TTRPG built for two players, one Warden and one Adventurer.
This book contains everything you need to run the game, from a brutal one-shot, tense dungeon delve, or epic campaign, including:
- Dynamic reactions to speed up combat: block, parry, backstab!
- A tutorial dungeon adventure, perfect for teaching new players.
- 6 powerful backgrounds from Warrior to Skald to Pyre; change your playstyle with a new weapon.
- Drop-in additional players for jolly cooperation or player-vs-player invasions.
- Options for solo play with a rune-based oracle, freeing you from the curse of scheduling.
- A delve generator to create random Viking adventures, getting you into the action immediately.
Download includes fillable character sheets and a delve generator tracker.
Death is Not the End
- Writer/Designer: Colin Le Sueur
- Standard Cover Illustration: CROM
- Variant Cover Illustration: Annemieke van Barlingen
Collects everything in Runecairn: Core Rules, Beneath the Broken Sword, and Runecairn: Advanced Rules.
What People Are Saying
Chris McDowall (@Bastionland), designer and creator of Into the Odd and Electric Bastionland:
I absolutely love Runecairn! As soon as I read it I wanted to steal its ideas. It changed the way I think about the type of games that the Into the Odd system can run.
Rich August (@RpgAugust), designer and writer at Steamforged Games (Dark Souls: The Roleplaying Game):
Thank you for such an awesome game - I loved reading Runecairn and it’s on my list of 2022 games to get to the table. And the layout is lovely too.