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The Fire Burns Low

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Fire Burns Low is a folkloric horror role-playing game where characters discover what's beyond the wall. There are no levels, only change. Every oath sworn, every strange cup drunk from, every relic kept too long leaves a mark, and each cuts both ways. Magic is never granted freely. Everything comes at a cost. Change is the way forward. Even death is its own kind of mark.

Set in a world where mortals have carved out a home in a land of fable, the game trades world-altering stakes for intimate locales and quiet dread. Inside town walls, the world is familiar. Outside, there be monsters. Stories begin with rural intrigue and step by step turn into something stranger: an creature in the woods who remembers your great-grandfather, a stone that asks questions, a dagger that should not be touched. It's dark folklore drawn from Celtic, Nordic, Haida, and Slavic roots with dashes of cosmic strangeness. A small game about small places, closed doors and the people foolish enough to look behind them.

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The Fire Burns Low is a tabletop RPG I've worked on and had the fortune to playtest for coming up on fourteen years. There's still lots to test, but having just finished up four adventures, I am releasing on chapter a time. All art is either done in Inkarnate or on Midjourney with a little GIMP polish. I plan to replace the Midjourney art in the final release. What I'm using now is to give a feel for the atmosphere and to make it more pleasant to read.

Elevator Pitch: The Fire Burns Low is a level-less system that emphasizes change as a means of growth. Rather than progressively higher levels and bonuses, players strike bargains and experiment with magic. You and your companions play mortals confined to the known world. Everywhere else are immortals, terrifying and unfathomable, they are alien creatures that reside outside the safety of civilization. The GM is given tools to introduce challenges that best complement solving issues and ramping up the tension, creating a tense balance of risk and reward. 

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