Cast the cards. Don your crown of lead and silver. Tonight you're going to take them for everything they've got.
Royal Blood is a tabletop roleplaying game about heists, tarot cards, magic, fate and desperation. It uses a deck of tarot cards to build characters, plan a heist and determine opposition, and to resolve every risky action the players make in an attempt to claim power.
Players take on the roles ofRoyals, desperate modern-day magicians with wizard blood left over from the time of sorcerer-kings and witch-queens. Each court card in the deck comes with its own player character concept, such as the cruel mask-cutting Queen of Swords, the wild and impetuous Princess of Wands, or the unsettlingly calm Knight of Pentacles.
Theyre going to take down one of the major arcana, or theArcane. The Arcane were once human just like the player characters, but vast power and long centuries have twisted them weird and iconic. Death starts revolutions, the Hanged Man builds border walls, the Sun sells serotonin supplements and the Magus installs spyware on company laptops.
If you want to steal the power from a demigod youll have to be clever about it. You cant go in all guns blazing: Royal Blood deals in heists. Using a spread of tarot cards, youll determine what stands in the way of the player characters and what they can subvert to their own ends. No preparation is required, and you can go from zero to game in about half an hour.
Then its a simple matter of stealing power from the most dangerous people in the world - but theyre old, and complacent, and set in their ways. Theyve been in charge for too long.
Time to get to work!
What is Royal Blood?
This box includes a hardcover copy or Royula Blood, a deck of 84 Tarot Cards with which to play the game and 12 tokens to mark your progess and bribe Fate Herself into co-operating,
