The A.E.O.N. Agêratos Narrative-Driven RPG system
Don’t just play a role, write the script
Your Saga Awaits
Embark upon your own epic Sagas with Agêratos, an Oneirostoria A.E.O.N. (RPG system) designed to unleash your imagination. With Agêratos, experience collective storytelling and exciting adventures in worlds borne entirely of your imagination.
Third Person Omniscience
Experience your Sagas as both Author and character. As an Author, clash or collaborate with your peers as you compete for Saga control. As your character, explore and bear witness to your Saga’s unfolding events, immersing yourself in its intrigue and drama.
Control Your Destiny
Seize Saga control through Authorial Agency, utilise Focus to shift the narrative spotlight, engage in Conflict to overcome adversity, and employ Foreshadowing to sow the seeds of future Saga events.
Storytellers, Not Story
Dealing with which Author has Saga control and the influence they can exert, Agêratos allows your imagination alone to determine your Saga’s narrative details: Mediæval fantasy to gritty sci-fi, tense noir thriller to visceral horror—truly, the only limit is your imagination.
Forge Your Own Worlds
Spark your creativity with a versatile tool, extensive discussions, and a wealth of ideas to create your own settings. Then, through collective storytelling evolve your concepts into legendary worlds. While this book does not contain a comprehensive setting, it offers several detailed examples to guide and inspire.
Overlays
Optional rule add-ons to help customise Agêratos to your own RPG group.
- The Protagonist Overlay: Sagas are shifted from the Author level to the Character level. This gives a more traditional character-centric experience as Player Characters now gain Assets and Experiences—equipment, skills, talents, allies, enemies, and the like. Sticking with literary themes, these are all applied through the Active or Passive Voice.
- Bibliomancy Overlay: Replaces the use of playing cards with books! Let your chef character be guided by a cookbook or your wizard by an occultic tome. Or, as an Author, be guided by those whose literary works mirror your Saga’s themes, such as Leo Tolstoy or Erich Maria Remarque for war and morality.
- Dice Overlay: Replaces the use of playing cards with dice to help with familiarity or online gameplay.
- Mantle Overlay: The Monad’s (GM’s) role becomes a Mantle that any Player can don. Drawing inspiration from collective writing, it acknowledges that all authors have strengths and weaknesses. Also, there is the element of support: Players with little experience of running games can gain some, all the while being supported by those with more.
- Wild Card Overlay: Turns the role of the Monad over to card draws and random chance, allowing you to play alone or to add an unpredictable element to your group Sagas.
Agêratos Core Rulebook Available Now
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Agêratos Playing Cards
Bring your Sagas to life and elevate every Conflict with these tailor-made decks of playing cards.
Each deck comprises of 56 meticulously crafted cards: 40 pip cards, 12 court cards, 2 Jokers, and a playing aid for use with the Foreshadowing mechanics.
Emodying the colours of Agêratos, the suits are a contrast of deep black for Clubs and Spades and the Agêratos purple for Hearts and Diamonds.
Crafted with fully reversible designs, each card is designed for both form and function to keep your secrets and strategies safe, no matter how you arrange your cards.
Whether you’re a cunning strategist or let fortune guide you, these decks are must-have tools on your journey into the depths of your imagination. So, embrace the full experience of Agêratos and let your Saga’s beat march to each riffle and snap of these decks.
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Chapters Of Continuance: An Overlays Expansion
Chapters of Continuance is an extensive expansion for Agêratos, introducing two brand new exciting Overlays to enhance the depth, strategy, and narrative potential of your Sagas.
You’ll also find the Dice Overlay (Revised) that refines and integrates the use of dice for the Protagonist, Mantle, and Wild Card Overlays, as well as the Archetype and Antagonist Overlays from this very supplement—all to help you explore more worlds born entirely from your imagination.
The Archetype Overlay
Blend deep role-play with a dynamic class system that adapts to the events of your Saga.
Explore twelve Archetypes (narrative character classes) inspired by literature and psychology (see opposite).
Focus your efforts on a single Archetype, or multiclass as you wish—all with a system that adapts to your character arcs; your Sagas.
As an Author, Archetypes grant you powerful Tropes (narrative abilities) but also afflict you with challenging Weaknesses.
As a character, balance your ideal self and shadow self to stave off Shadow Emergence—disturbing moments where your darker impulses influence or even dominate your actions.
The Antagonist Overlay
Collaboration? Pathetic. Teamwork? Weakness.
Cast aside friendship, trample others underfoot, and burn those bridges—for the only thing that matters is victory.
In the Antagonist Overlay, the Conflict mechanics now reign supreme.
Clash with your fellow Authors in a relentless series of Conflicts as Agêratos, the TTRPG, transforms into Agêratos, the narrated card game.
Strategise, deceive, and pray your luck doesn’t run out—for in the end, there can be only one…
UPCOMING AGÊRATOS PRODUCTS
Growing Seeds (supplement—draft: January 2025)
Continuing on from the extensive tool for designing your own Saga settings in the Agêratos Core Rulebook: Planting Seeds – Growing Seeds will provide you with similar tools for societies, characters, items, and more.