Welcome to A’Kyria.
A’Kyria is a complete tabletop RPG system set in the infinite world of A’kyria. Designed and developed by The OOGC, the fantasy edition of A’Kyria’s Rulebook follows in the grand tradition of fantasy RPG adventure with Wizards and Warriors and Rogues; oh my!
Want Races and Creatures? We have them!
Want Spells and Skills? Have those too!
Want Potions, Weapons, Magic Items and a horse? It’s in there!
With the A’Kyria Rulebook, you have everything you need to create a tabletop adventure in any type of land you wish, with a versatile system you will love!
“But…what about the story?!” you say.
…Now this is where A’Kyria takes an interesting detour from traditional tabletop RPGs.
In the Lands of the Ancient Empire, in an area known as the Harverhill Highlands, adventures are waiting. The stories unfold in self-contained downloadable software “pods” that contain not only the story, but tools to run the adventure. Find the lost temple where rumors say the moon travels within the mountain peaks and the priests met a terrible end. Or let your party be coerced by a conniving duke to rescue his belligerent daughter from goblins. See the underground Dyson’s Sphere Farmlands bask in the light of their miniature sun. Fight the scourge of Lycanthropy; become Gladiators for the Centaurs; finish off a Mad Necromancer or simply smash your way through a horde of Giant Beetles.
New stories continue to be added, eventually to fill all quarters of the Ancient Empire, from the Harverhill Highlands and the Sark Sea, to the Desert Divide, the Juninboa Jungle and beyond.
And that, my friends, is A’Kyria: One world…infinite possibilities.
A’Kyria: A d100 Tabletop RPG
A’Kyria is a tabletop RPG system, not simply a story-based role-playing game. The combat is d100 based and the advancement is Skill based. Players can use the points they earn immediately to advance their character without waiting to “level” or “rank” up. This provides for an incredible range of diverse characters. The system is not “class” based so it does not restrict you to a fixed path. The base rules currently support fantasy, however the system is designed to work with all genres, i.e. sci-fi, fantasy, espionage, cyber punk, western, superhero, etc.
Races
We have 12 races: 5 of these are traditional races, i.e. Human, Elf, Dwarf, Gnome and Orc, and 7 races are unique to A’Kyria. 6 of the new races are humanoid, but loosely animal based: The Bargwhy is a bear-based race; Scepurian is cat-based; Laquaran is bird-based; Rawg’Mai is lizard-based, the Arphil is canine-based and the Sintis-Man is insect-based. The Cheveroid follows the basic concept of the Roswell Grey alien. Each race has their own set of special abilities and racial modifiers.
Occupations
There are only 3 basic occupations to choose from, Warrior, Wizard and Rogue, but it is important to note that these are simply ‘starting’ occupations for your character and only represent what your character is innately good at. These occupations do not dictate what your character will become.
In A’Kyria, a Warrior can cast spells and a Wizard can wear armor or use a sword. This creates a huge range of possibilities within the system. For example, perhaps you wanted to create a cleric-type character…you can do this by having a Warrior learn healing spells, a Wizard learn weapons and armor or have a Rogue learn both. With combinations of spells and skills, you could create any character from a war mage to a magical thief, to a paladin, a ninja, an assassin, a pirate, a necromancer, a druid or even an earth elemental lizard wizard who can charm animals and is an excellent knife fighting merchant! The choices are nearly endless!
Character Creation
Everything is based on a character’s or creature’s proficiency with an item, skill, spell or power. Skills advance from Simple to Basic to Intermediate and then Advanced. Each stage requires prerequisites that the character can build on to get to the next stage. Characters get increased bonuses or new abilities with increased proficiency. This also applies to Spells. Spell results improve as the spell caster improves with the spell. Spells also build on each other requiring prerequisites much like the skills. There is no occupational or rank restriction as to who may cast a spell or who can learn a skill. The only limitations to these are time or power.
You can detail your character even further with weapons, items and armor. These have proficiencies as well, allowing your character to be more skilled with a bastard sword, for example, than a staff or throwing knives depending on how many points you put into a weapon, item or armor.
Combat System
The combat system has three ranges: Miss – where no contact is made, Hit on Armor – where the blow lands on the armor and Hit – where the blow gets past the armor and hits the target directly. The Hit on Armor section shrinks or widens depending upon the type of armor and how well the character can use it.
Health for a character follows 3 statistics: Stun Points, Life Points and Power Points. All damage goes toward Stun Points first, but if the blow is hard enough it will cause physical damage and then ‘roll’ into the Life Points. Do enough damage and it can continue ‘rolling’ to Power then back around to Stun again. If a blow lands against armor, the armor absorbs the initial blow, but has the potential to still cause damage if the blow is strong enough.
Advancement
Points are divided into four categories: Weapon, Defense, Physical and Mental. Characters can garner points from combat, training or the successful use of their skills. For example: A character with the “Actor” skill can try to entertain a tavern. If they succeed, then they gain points. If they fail, they get rotten tomatoes thrown at them and one point (often called a pity point) for giving it the ole college try. These points can be used at any time to raise proficiencies in spells, skills, weapons, items or armor; allowing the player to buff and adjust their character as they play.
A’Kyria is a tabletop RPG that players love for its versatility; not only for the myriad of options for character creation and development, but also for the range of possibilities for game play.