The Harbingers Roleplaying Game

Welcome to the Harbingers Roleplaying Game - a free-form open roleplaying game system! This comprehensive system allows you to play a TTRPG in any setting, with any sort of characters - without limitations.

If you or your group has ever thought "Well, I'd like to play an alternative history with magic set in the French Revolution?"

You can.

If perhaps someone has suggested "Why don't we play a sci-fi campaign set in a future where Japan has discovered a quantum space engine?"

You can do that too.

Or perhaps you just want a custom system that's highly customizable and controllable for your homebrew fantasy world.

The Harbingers RPG supports this as well.

In addition to various general settings and homebrew creations, you can also use The Harbingers RPG with famous settings from your favorite books, movies, TV, and games with little-to-no adjustment. This game is made precisely for this sort of integration.

This game features:

- Building characters from the ground up with an Experience-based system without classes or levels. Game Masters can adjust this value to create the classic "start out as farm kid to grow to legendary hero" experience, or use the default values to create a capable professional who still has room to grow with life and game experiences.

- Custom powers and techniques. Default passive and active abilities are supplied to run the gamut of very realistic settings to high-powered magic and futuristic technologies. Monsters, androids, superheroes, and more are also supported. With these default passive Traits and active Techniques, Players and Game Masters alike are encouraged to make their own to create truly unique moves and features for every PC and NPC.

- Skill system that works in all settings. The Harbingers RPG uses broad-based Skills to determine a character's competency in various types of tasks. Traits determine specialized training or natural ability in more narrow fields. For your custom settings (or famous ones that have specific rules), there are guidelines on how to create Traits or introduce Skills to accommodate those unique setting parameters.

- Game rules that are combat agnostic. The Harbingers RPG is built from the ground up to support a combat-less experience as well as an action-packed combat experience, and combat itself has no special unique rules that do not apply to any other sort of Skill Roll. It is possible to build a top-tier lawyer, a skilled blacksmith, or a pacifist diplomat with no adjustment to the base rules.

- This game will receive constant (if sporadic updates). The creators made it to play with their friends, putting it on sites for others is just us wanting to share it. Because we play it all the time, we'll be updating it as time and availability permits.