{"product_id":"karanduun","title":"Karanduun + complimentary PDF (via online store)","description":"\u003ch1 class=\"text-center\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBATALA IS DEAD, AND THE HOLY TRINITY HAS KILLED THEM. IN THE END OF THE UNIVERSE, WILL THEY SING OF YOU? MAKE. GOD. BLEED.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKaranduun\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emodern Filipino Epic RPG about worthless heroes dismantling God, whatever cycle of oppression that must be\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.  Inspired by modern Filipino folklore and culture. You play as young heroes who must make their legend known and become a legendary Karanduun by making God (whichever oppressive system and tyrant that is) bleed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis game requires 4 - 6 players, with one player as the Alamat Chanter, the term for Game Master. This game only uses six-sided dice for everything. You're going to need around 6 in the beginning. By the end, you'll need around 20.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKaranduun are those that are as fast as the lightning and as strong as the hurricane. \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKaranduun are those that, with a single command, fell entire armies and break the hearts of gods. But God is dead, and the Holy Trinity has killed Them. The Multiverse spirals into Kawalan, oblivion and entropy, due to the Hatred brought about by the forces of the Holy Trinity. Yes, there is no hope for this doomed world, but in its dying breath, the wake of the Karanduun, it might have been glorious. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWill you be remembered? You, lowly hero, of no name and consequence, so insignificant that not even Tadhana, destiny, has you etched upon its web, must rise and achieve that legendary sobriquet: Karanduun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"text-center\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSANSINAustriaOB AND ALAMATPUNK\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSansinukob is a setting inspired mainly by Filipino Myth and Folklore\u003c\/strong\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eModern Filipino Culture and Folklore. From provinces to the metropolis, all of them come from the experience of having lived in the Philippines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWide Range of Settings.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThe world is vast and varied. Urban settings, especially within Biringan, the City-of-Cities, is closer to the aesthetic of post-American Philippines, just with electricity and cars replaced with magic spirits and giant boars. Outside of Biringan, one can find more fantastical settings and less urban fantasy settings.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt is also inspired by \"center-of-creation\" settings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003elike\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePlanescape's Sigil, Kill 6 Billion Demons' Throne, and Roger Zelazny's Amber\u003c\/em\u003e. It is also inspired by post-apocalyptic, punk, and new weird settings like \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShin Megami Tensei Nocturne's\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Vortex World\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChina Mieville's Bas-Lag\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003eand the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDying Earth genre of Fantasy \u003c\/em\u003elike \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, Jack Vance's Dying Earth, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTanith Lee's Flat Earth, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExalted's Creation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSansinukob is the center of the multiverse, and is where the Neverending Ocean flows out from.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWhen BATALA was killed, the dregs of the multiverse seeped in from Neverending Ocean, where all universes can be found. Here the multiverse festers, toiling under the horrible violence that is the Holy Trinity. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat is Alamatpunk? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eAlamatpunk is the plight and struggle of heroes rising in power, ascending the Angel's Ladder, overthrowing oppressors, and achieving their destinies.  They are\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlamat,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003emeaning \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003elegend \u003c\/em\u003eor \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efolklore \u003c\/em\u003ein Filipino, for the heroes and the settings are inspired by Filipino legends, traditions, folklore, and mythology. They are \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePunk \u003c\/em\u003ebecause they are stories focusing on fighting back against an oppressive regime and an overwhelmingly powerful outside force with nothing but you, your friends, and your ideals and beliefs to power you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 class=\"text-center\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTHE SYSTEM\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn Easy to Learn Heroic System.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThe system only uses six-sided dice, and is meant to be easy to play, inspired by the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExalted\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e1e Quickstart and PbtA design principles. One player takes on the roll of the \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlamat Chanter, \u003c\/strong\u003ethe one who describes and facilitates the game, while the players play as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWorthless Heroes  \u003c\/strong\u003ewho yet have no names and legends and must etch their being into the world to change it. In this way, the Alamat Chanter sings the legends that these no names build for themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe system is uses \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eActs, \u003c\/strong\u003enarrative systems that trigger when a Player narrates their hero in a specific way, and \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eResponses,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003emoves that the Alamat Chanter can use to make the PC's lives weirder, stranger, and harder to help facilitate a savage narrative that all the players create. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Alamat Chanter does not roll, only the players do. They will roll a dice pool of d6s equal to the sum of two of their Traits. Every 4, 5, and 6 counts as a Hit, and every 1, 2, and 3 is considered a Miss. The AC determines the Difficulty of an action, assigning a Threat Number. If the number of Hits is below the TN, the action fails. If the number of Hits is equal to the TN, the action is a partial success. If the number of Hits is greater than the TN, the action is a full success.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eQUICKSTART SCENARIO: The Temple-Body of Aring Sinukuan. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Temple-Body of a War and Mountain Spirit has been defiled, turned into a devils pit for engkanto and Fallen druggies. 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