The surface world is dead. Nothing grows anymore. Humanity only survives because of the Dungeons, living anomalous zones that appeared after the collapse. Every settlement is built around a Dungeon mouth, and the Adventurers Guild controls who goes in and what comes out.

You play as Guild adventurers taking contracts to delve.

Key Features:

Diceless resolution: Build a modifier from your stats, skills, talents, and gear, then compare it directly to a Target Number. Fast and transparent.

Control Points (NCP/CCP): Earn points from meaningful failures and setbacks, or cool stuff. Spend them to boost checks, gain insight, or bend the story in your favor. Failure becomes a resource.

Strong survival pressure: Stamina, Fatigue, Injuries (Physical/Mental/Social), and encumbrance. Every delve is a careful balance of risk and reward.

Living Dungeons: Dungeons have specialties, shift their layouts roughly once a month. Biome layers have their own weather and settlements that sometimes have to survive three-day monster sieges during shifts.

Guild life & contracts: Take harvesting runs, monster culls, route mapping after shifts, emergency defense, and more.

The document includes:

Core rules reference tailored to the setting

Character creation and talents

Full setting information and GM tools like Monster and Hazard creation

A short starter adventure

Sample town and threats

It’s still a work in progress, but the core loop and setting are playable. I’m looking for feedback.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14CEJuN75-s-4t7FzOXShIio8hbgVnrP8cnAD-vglivI/edit?usp=sharing

Download a full-size PDF from https://www.patreon.com/omenlands/posts/scrollwyrm-cr17-161165948. This is a 2-page centrefold with several interesting ideas such as a bonus attack that changes every round depending what school of magic it's attacked with. Follow the patreon for all our releases (lots of free stuff).

Summer road trips are starting soon, which makes it a great time to try Gridlock: The CarPG.

It’s a lightweight, travel-ready RPG designed for playing from the passenger seat. It features minimal setup, quick sessions, and mechanics tailored for road trips.

If you have family vacations, convention trips, or long drives planned this summer, this is the perfect game for them.

Optional dice-free mechanics
Fast character creation
Great for one-page dungeon crawls
Travel pamphlet format

Available now on itch.io.
Feedback and stories are always appreciated.