#eidolon playtest

[the-satellite-official]

They're Just Like Us: This Dolphin That Passed The Mirror Test Five Years Ago Is Posting About Being A Former Gifted Kid

[drawn-from-the-undertow]

art by @boocanan

After years of thorough playtesting, you too can now play the complete and beautifully illustrated game of EIDOLON: Become Your Best Self!

EIDOLON: Become Your Best Self is a tabletop RPG for 2-6 players. Look deep inside yourself to find the power lying dormant within, nourish that power through the bonds you build with others, and use the reality-bending abilities it grants you to fight for your ideals, fighting against the pull of the Undertow, the psychic tides that dictate the collective unconscious!

art by @skarchomp

Challenge Fate

EIDOLON uses our own Drawn From the Undertow game system, which replaces dice with a deck of tarot cards. Each action requires a draw, and each card dictates a new direction for the story to go. Play The Magician, and "you achieve an impossible success," but play The Tower, and "something terrible happens." Each character also chooses their own Resonant and Dissonant cards, which act as their own personal critical successes and failures!

art by L.L. Simkowiak

Drama-Driven Battle System

The combat system from 1E has been significantly reworked, while remaining the same core of the Crash system, in which battle is governed by dramatic arcs instead of hard numbers and stats. Short-term victories make enemies more powerful, more deadly, and more desperate, pushing them to further and further extremes until the players reach a moment of climactic triumph!... or, they suffer enough failures, incur enough physical, psychic and metaphysical damage, that they are forced to Face Death, and must cut a deal with the forces of The Undertow to go on fighting.

art by Julie Low

Actually, I Meant for You to Kick My Ass!

With the Reveal Your Master Plan Move, you can dramatically change the flow of a session by revealing a secret strategy that your character's been employing the entire time! Take a bullet? Reveal Your Master Plan to open your shirt and show off the body armor you've been wearing all along! Find yourself alone at the mercy of a powerful villain? Reveal Your Master Plan to declare that you called for back-up before the fight even started! Of course, nothing's ever a guarantee, and you'll often find that your "master plan" has a few hitches you'll need to resolve before it comes to fruition!

EIDOLON was developed in conjunction with the award-winning Eidolon Playtest podcast. Check it out if you want an example of the game in action!

[chum-personable]

(notices Eidolon Playtest's patreon numbers going back up)

hey! just a heads up to any new fans who don't know, but back in July the rest of the podcast decided to kick founding member Fabby off for completely fabricated reasons that implicated her (a latina trans woman living in Texas) as being a sex pest! cancel your subscriptions and spread the word!

[dykeferatu]

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[yerfriendmolly]

EIDOLON: Become Your Best Self 2nd Edition is available now!

EIDOLON: Become Your Best Self is a tabletop RPG for 2-6 players. Look deep inside yourself to find the power lying dormant within, nourish that power through the bonds you build with others, and use the reality-bending abilities it grants you to fight for your ideals, fighting against the pull of the Undertow, the psychic tides that dictate the collective unconscious!

EIDOLON uses our own Drawn From the Undertow game system, which replaces dice with a deck of tarot cards. Each action requires a draw, and each card dictates a new direction for the story to go. Play The Magician, and "you achieve an impossible success," but play The Tower, and "something terrible happens." Each character also chooses their own Resonant and Dissonant cards, which act as their own personal critical successes and failures!

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My friend Luke and I have been working on this game for the last three and a half years and we are now ready to let you all get your hands on it! If you enjoy story driven tabletop role playing and/or Jojo's Bizarre Adventure or the Persona series, you should check out EIDOLON: Become Your Best Self.

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SHIP OF THESEUS

[lo-sulci]

Wielding the sword that promises my victory, I carve my way to the life I deserve! MAID Corporation, 3rd generation! Delta Daggersmith! I'll captivate you until the very end!~ ☆

inspired by the amazing (and two time award winning actual play podcast that YOU should listen to) @eidolonplaytest and drawn by the unparalleled @chimeracauldron, it's my maidsona! who at least appearance-wise is just me :Þ

[spades-gameing]

Shit man, this Eidolon war is fucked. I just saw a guy clap his hands together and say "Black Hole Sun" or some similar shit, and every one around him got spaghettified in the event horizon of a singularity. The camera didn't even go onto him, that's how common shit like this is. My ass is using Scenes From An Italian Restaurant. I think I just heard "Holy Diver" two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.