Gun Knights

The land of Ilth lies in its ruinous age. Its people have succumbed to desperation and know only despair at the hands of war, famine, disease, and monstrosities. In the wake of great peril, civilization clings onto hope in the form of Great Knights who swear fealty to shattered kingdoms and dead orders. Knights who roam the land with destructive weapons at arms, surviving on what meager pay they can collect from those in need and blood tithes they can pilfer from unholy perversions.

Revered and reviled, you are one such Gun Knight.

Gun Knights is a rules-light, combat-heavy tabletop roleplaying game for 2-4 players (Knights) and a Gun Master (GM). The game uses a hybrid dice pool and dice-step system, featuring dice explosions and multiple ways to upgrade a Knight's dice.

With a theme and a combat system heavily inspired by Dark Souls, Gun Knights emulates the reactive, rhythmic style of the video game series' battles by forgoing turns for simultaneous play. With no combat map and no movement actions, Gun Knights can easily be played remotely without the need for screen-sharing or using a shared digital map.

Gun Knights' bleak setting and grim themes are best exemplified in the burden that player characters must carry: The Curse of Undeath. Knights' immortality and doom are one in the same, as with every death, they become afflicted by the curse and lose parts of themselves via major stat debuffs.

FIRST EDITION, FREE VERSION

This is the free, first edition of Gun Knights, as the game is still under some construction. This version of the game is still fully playable, but has somewhat less game content than I would ultimately like to provide for purchase.

A more robust release (including more art, character options, and content for GMs) is planned for sale for late 2024. There are currently no physical copies of the game available to the public, though that may change with the game's development.