What is abyssal fate?
Abyssal Fate is a dark fantasy tabletop RPG set in Essentia, an industrial world torn by conquest, Elemental Crystals, and Horror Spawns escaping a failing cycle of death and judgment.
Build a character from one of four races, choose your elemental path, and grow through hard-won levels, crystals, abilities, and Archetypes. Tactical combat rewards positioning, terrain, timing, and resource management, while the Ability Builder lets you create your own spells, martial techniques, summons, defenses, and battlefield powers.
Features
Build Your Character
Choose from four races and fourteen backgrounds, generate attributes through your character’s life stages, select an element, learn abilities, develop Masteries, and advance from Level 1 to Level 20.
Tactical Combat
Manage Action Points across attacks, movement, and reactions. Use cover, high ground, concealment, flanking, status effects, mitigation, targeted strikes, equipment damage, and elemental interactions.
Elemental Powers
Bind power from nine elements through Elemental Crystals. Increase elemental damage, define your alignment, exploit elemental advantages, and decide which supernatural paths your character will pursue.
Archetypes
Invest Elemental Crystals into specialized paths that change how your character fights, heals, summons, moves, defends, controls enemies, and shapes the battlefield.
Custom Abilities
Build spells, martial techniques, weapon arts, reactions, healing, movement, summons, constructs, and area effects through one structured system with defined costs and limitations.
Creatures and Taming
Capture, tame, train, store, summon, and command creatures. Turn dangerous beasts into companions, battlefield assets, campaign rewards, or the foundation of a creature-focused character.
Industrial Warfare
Use firearms, armor sets, shields, ammunition, industrial tools, steam vehicles, rail weapons, siege engines, hardpoint weapons, ships, boarding, and naval combat.
Exploration
Travel dangerous routes by foot, mount, vehicle, or ship. Manage supplies, rest, fatigue, weather, hazards, difficult terrain, hidden paths, and environmental consequences.
Crafting
Gather materials, harvest defeated creatures, refine elemental essence, craft equipment, create alchemical items, repair damaged gear, and turn the world’s resources into power and survival.
Mortal Realm
The Mortal Realm is where Essentia’s peoples live, build, conquer, and survive. Nations fight over territory, trade, influence, and control of Elemental Crystals.
The Valnar dominate through empire and industry. The Brakkons endure oppression, the Elari guard ancient knowledge, and the Kobbari carry the memory of fallen dragonkind. As conflict spreads, Abyssal horrors appear more often in lands already divided by war.
World Lore
World Lore
Creation Realm
The Creation Realm is where souls, matter, and Elemental Crystals are formed. After death and judgment, worthy souls return here to be renewed before entering the Mortal Realm again.
The Elder Gods shape existence from beyond mortal reach. They do not rule nations or decide ordinary conflicts. The realm exists to sustain creation and continue the cycle of life, death, judgment, and rebirth.
Abyssal Realm
The Abyssal Realm is where souls are judged after death. The Monarchs decide whether each soul returns to the cycle, remains in service, or is sent to the deletion pylon to be destroyed.
The realm was created to keep corruption from returning to creation. Some Monarchs have become corrupt or derelict, and damaged souls sometimes escape destruction. These failures create Abyssal horrors that enter the Mortal Realm and spread death, fear, and corruption.