Towers of Carcosa

Welcome to the Towers of Carcosa RPG. This is a dungeon crawling, mostly combat based RPG that relies on a unique system designed to make in depth combat.

The Story: Your character wakes up to find themselves in an unsettling, prison-like. You have little knowledge (unless your deity of worship does, in which case, you may be informed on some details) as to why you’re here.  What you do know is that you may as well kiss your home goodbye!


RACE: Race has several factors to throw in, some may have similar ability scores, but each race is capable of unique abilities only to them. These abilities are sometimes ‘unlocked’ if they’re more unique. Each race has a TON of details left out in these small descriptions (except perhaps humans), consult the DM for more needed details if needed. Note that just because the “Stats” descriptor doesn’t state the race has unique abilities, doesn’t mean they may have them. Please note that some races belong to only a few worlds. Therefore, the GM Will notify you if you have selected a race from a specific world.

If you want a race that’s not listed, consult the GM.

http://pastebin.com/VvgEY51C ←- Common races. These are essentially the races that’d commonly be brought to Carcosa, as well as just common in general.

http://pastebin.com/muMZAgbX ←- Uncommon races. These races aren’t as common in Carcosa -- and in most cases, aren’t common at all on their home world.


World lore: Read the lore for each world in order to grasp some to make a background story. Or just use the names of the world’s lore and make a casual story. Whichever the case, this is here as a reference, use it. Alternatively, if you’re using the race maker, use your own planet.

http://pastebin.com/b2dnqPGX ←- Yveska Lore. Yveska is a planet consisting of mostly archipelago and water.

http://pastebin.com/BUDv7KhK ← Erilen lore. Erilen is a planet that has been cursed and condemned by the outer planes.

Adria Lore: -WIP.-

Your own planet: You can attempt to make your own lore, as long as I OK it. Which will generally be never, unless you want a custom race I OK’d.


Making your character: Fill out the following template.

Name: What is your name.
Gender: Male, or female?

Age: 16 and up only. Unless permission is granted. (Which is rare)

Home:  Include your homeworld for sure. Country/sector if possible.

Worship: Do you worship anything? With the GM’s consent, you may worship more than one deity. Though a case such as that is rare.

Physical appearance: What do you look like?
Armor/clothing: Leather is the highest you can begin with. unless permitted by the GM. feel free to customize.

Weapons: Most of the time you can only begin with one weapon. Consult the GM if you wish for more. Weapons are always of steel quality. You can begin with two steel daggers. (since people will always ask me that question)

Misc Equip: You always begin with a small set of rations able to be used for one meal. You can begin with more to the GM’s consent.

Background: Backstory influences your starting abilities. The bigger and better your story is, the more starting abilities you have a chance of having. In some cases, background will allow more equipment as well. To be basic: Try to make a serious character, and you will get a serious set up so you won’t end up dying the first level.