Strike Forth to Claim the Godhead

The worldlords, the Nowdead Gods, have fallen and the lands they once ruled with wrath and divinity have exploded into an age of unprecedented warfare. You, as a dawnwalker, are a nigh-immortal juggernaut of death clad in the gods' own armor: dawnplate. Stride into battle with your honor guard and your allies, to claim territory and seize the drops of Godhead Ichor dripping from the astral corpses of the Nowdead as they hover over the world, morbid reminders of what came before.

Now is a time of war and fire. Shod yourself in dawnplate and carve through armies to claim what is yours.

One-Page RPG Jam 2024

This game was released as a submission to the One-Page RPG Jam 2024.

Dawnfire Warriors is a tactical warfare RPG where you play as a mortal uplifted to demigodhood by the divine power of your dawnplate armor. You, your honor guard, and the allied dawnwalkers and honor guards you bring with you into battle fight to seize godhead ichor from enemy forces. Losses are inevitable, and as long as the godcorpses above continue to bleed out their divinity, this war is sure to continue.

• The game is intended to have a GM, but it wouldn't be hard to automate their role.
• The game uses d6s, be sure to have at least 2 on hand (but 2 for each player would be preferable).
• The game is fully playable, and fits on a single sheet of A4 paper. 

If you happen to play Dawnfire Warriors, please let me know how it went with a comment here! I may one day think about expanding this into a bigger wargame, but for now it was an exercise to see if I could complete a one-page RPG, as every time I've tried in the past, I've found myself spilling over into more & more pages.

Current Version: v1.1

Update Release: August 25, 2024

• Tweaked number of enemy units per dawnwalker. 1 DW faces 4 starting units, 2~3 DWs face 6 starting units, and 4+ DWs face 2 units per DW.
• Clarified some text. Clarified that DWs have a single HG unit each and that the GM is in charge of picking all enemy unit types.
• Fixed some typos. Cleared out some errant words left over from when I'd changed wordings around to better fit the space.
• Improved War Wizard's Skyblaze Levinbolts ability. Compared to Marshal's inherent passive and Tidewall's 7th armor slot, WW's passive seemed slightly underwhelming. I didn't improve their passive, but made them deadlier at range to compensate.

Attributions & Credits

This project uses the Dicier typeface by Speak the Sky, which operates under a CC BY 4.0 license. It also uses licensed fonts by YutaONE (@yuta_ptv on twitter). The painting used for the banner and store cover image is by Warmtail and is used by license with Shutterstock.