Table-Tested Review of the “13 Omens” Preview

Our local RPG Club had their yearly Halloween Event recently (I wrote a - German - blog post about it!) and I wanted to try something new and Halloween appropriate: “13 Omens” was the perfect choice. The game is currently live on Kickstarter and offers a story-focused horror experience. Game Designer: Jason Bulmahn Publisher: Paizo Page Count (Preview): 63 (preview rules + adventure), 32 (second adventure) Publication Year: 2026 (Preview), 2027 (planned release) The MechanicsBasic roll resolution is done with 2d6 and skill-based target numbers. You are drawing from a dice pool with shifting odds for rolls. It seemed inspired by a mix of Brindlewood Bay and Ten Candles. The complexity is low enough to be easily explained in full before a session, but high enough that dice odds can be somewhat optimized by players (increasing your odds to succeed also increases your odds to become wounded). The rules assume that the game is highly deadly, but in my game, I met an edge case where…

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