Revised and expanded, Royal Blood has doubled in size since its original publication in 2016. Now 172 pages long and beautifully illustrated by Silvia De Stefanis, Royal Blood includes:
- A whole rules-light, diceless TTRPG where outcomes are decided by the turn of tarot cards
- Full rules for creating a Royal, one of the half-human, half-magic protagonists
- Rules and advice for generating a magic heist through the medium of a tarot spread
If you’re familiar with the original Royal Blood, look out for:
- Expanded Royal abilities: more options, more evocative, more detailed
- New Royals: the Stranger of each suit, an outsider who warps and inverts their royal family’s powers
- Alternative heist setups, based on different spreads
- Guidance for interpreting tarot cards
- More detail on turning each of the Major Arcana not only into Marks for the heist but also into obstacles and opponents.
- Expanded rules, including rules for playing Jokers (which we’ve added to our tarot deck, because we can)
- Alternative settings to transpose Royal Blood’s action into different places and genres
You will need a deck of tarot cards and a handful of coins to play. You can buy the Royal Blood tarot deck here, or the Magnificent Edition, including book, cards, and coins, is available on this page.
Sylvan Lawrence –
I don’t want to say anything overly controversial but I think this revamp of Royal Blood might be the best product Rowan Rook and Decard have ever put out. They took what was already one of the smartest and most enjoyable games of our generation and gave just the PERFECT coat of fresh paint.
Alex V (verified owner) –
Could have been marketed as “Attack and dethrone god – the RPG” and it would be slightly underselling how cool and a e s t h e t i c this game is. Incredible art, amazing writing, stellar production.
Sam –
The perfect one-shot rpg. A framework that keeps the story focused without being constricting. An immediately understandable setting sold on vibes rather than pages amd pages of lore. And a system that cuts to the cool bits without wasting anyone’s time.