Pierce The Heaven

A game about fighting the impossible.

You’re fighting the final battle for humanity, and you’re losing. But… Your leitmotif starts playing.

I have to do way more math than I expected for something that’s supposed to be a simple one page rpg. 

This time I wanted to have a crunchier dice roll combat on purpose, to make it feel more like a traditional rpg or jrpg fight, but one that’s impossible to beat. The idea is that players should feel that beating the villain though the normal combat as impossible. But they should be able to beat the villain by using Sacrifices and Turnabouts. It’s fine if they sometimes lose, but they should win more than average. The game was mathed around 3 players group though, so scaling might be wonky. 

I decided to base the game on 2d6 so it’d have weighted average but still a lot of randomness because I feel like randomness would make it feel more interesting, making it feel impossible but also more “we might get lucky” feel.

By Catsintrenchcoat Games

Illustrations by https://x.com/Riofird/