Lofi Bards (To Study and Relax To) is a Table-Top Roleplaying Game about music and magic! You and your friends are students at a magical high-school, college or university and exams are coming up! Go on magical adventures, reveal ancient secrets and forge deep bonds with your friends - just make sure you don’t miss class!
- 100+ Pages of Content!
- Rules for Study and Adventure: Manage your Stress Level, Chill Out with lofi beats to unwind after an adventure, and Pull an All-Nighter to get an edge on the next day's challenges - just be careful not to Freak Out!
- Rules for Nostalgia and Emotion: Write down your Treasured Memories and trigger Nostalgia when your character reminisces on them, gain different benefits based on whether your memories evoke a sense of Passion, Joy or Melancholy, and Dig Deeper to forge emotional bonds with NPCs and Players alike!
- Rules for Skills and Spellcasting: Choose your Disciplines (Athletics, Finesse, Nature, Lore and Performance) to determine your skills, and choose your Arcane Arts (Alteration, Focus, Force and Manipulation) to determine how your character uses magic - with magical abilities changing the associated Arcane Art you add to them based on how you want your character to use them!
- 25+ Playable Heritages: Character origins encompassing everything from Elves and Orcs to Automatons and Undead!
- 60+ Knacks: Magical and Mundane abilities that let you cast magic or showcase your martial prowess!
- 40 Adventure Hooks: Plot threads a GM can weave into their game to kickstart a quest!
- 95 Miscellaneous Artifacts: Magic wands, phoenix-down pillows, restless quills, hyperconcentration hourglasses and mugs that summon all manner of coffees and cocoas!
- 35+ Magical Cassettes: Arcane Tapes that release their magical energy when playing music!
- 15+ Notestrider Upgrades: Magical augmentations that give your fantasy cassette player new capabilities!
As you play, your characters will experience the joys of friendship, the loneliness of late nights, the tension of education and the excitement of exploring the mysterious magical world for the first time. That's the heart of the game: that mixture of happiness, melancholy, peace and turmoil that encapsulates not only the lofi genre, but the experience of growing up.
Lofi Bards is perfect for:
- First Time Tabletop Players: If you've never played a TTRPG before (even D&D), this is the perfect starting place! The rules are light, simple and easy to learn, and reward creativity, ingenuity and experimentation.
- Cozy Gaming: 'Lofi Bards' is a relaxed, emotionally driven game about young adventurers finding their place in the world. If you love RPGs for roleplaying and wonder, but could do without the heavy, tactical combat, this is the game for you!
- Exploring Player Characters and NPCs in unparalleled depth: Each Character is designed with hopes, dreams, fears, anxieties and hidden depths to be explored throughout your games. It is a perfect space for your characters to explore their relationships and identities as they grow up.
- Getting Emotional: 'Lofi Bards' is all about nostalgia, emotion, friendship and growth. If you're in your feelings while playing, don't worry - you're doing it right!