Brighter Worlds is a whimsical fantasy tabletop RPG with modular crunch.

Writing & Layout by David Lombardo (twitter,itch.io)

Fully laid out PDF version, featuring Evlyn Moreau’s artwork is available here.

Brighter World’s text is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0

It is unfinished, currently at version 0.8

Rules based on Into the Odd by Chris McDowall (www.bastionland.com), Cairn by Yochai Gal (cairnrpg.com), and Macchiato Monsters by Eric Nieudan (@surcapitaine).

Recent changes

• Added new Calling: Bag of Bones!
• Added new Calling: Sneaky Bastard!
• Update Blessed of Water watery construction ability.
• Renamed the Blessed of Water’s core ability.
• Replaced Witch’s Curse with Wild Spellcapture.
• Slight update to Archivist’s core abilities to high light the Deep Lore ability and to adjust Monster Manual.
• Updated wording in Animal’s Companion and Witch for clarification.
• Updated wording in character creation to note that modifying the Callings is encouraged.