March 15, 2041
Dinosaurs Ravage Las Vegas Strip!
Witnesses have described three days of terror as hundreds of “dinosaurs” ran amok through the Las Vegas Strip, killing 16 people, wounding 302, and leaving 751 reported missing. Federal authorities have closed off the neighborhood and brought the situation under control using the U.S. Army and Nevada National Guard.
An unnamed government source told this reporter that the creatures originated from a six-acre jungle that had “appeared out of thin air” in a nearby housing development. What happened to the people who lived there has authorities baffled.
— Los Angeles Times
Shattered Worlds
Technology and magic collide on a broken Earth.
Fractures tore open the barriers between worlds, exchanging vast pieces of Earth with alien landscapes and carrying plants, animals, and entire peoples into unfamiliar realities. When new Fractures connected Earth to the Abyss, invading demon armies brought a war fought with magic and nuclear fire. Civilization collapsed, billions died, and the devastation became known as the Fall.
Twenty-five years later, the climate is recovering and survivors are venturing beyond their protected communities to rebuild. Across the shattered landscape, humans, elves, orcs, devils, liches, and other displaced peoples compete for safety, resources, and power. Player characters form professional teams that take dangerous missions, explore the unknown, and decide which factions will become allies, enemies—or both.
In Development
Shattered Worlds Reforged
A rebuilt edition powered by Basic Roleplaying and the Siegebreaker BRP engine.
Reforged brings Shattered Worlds into a flexible percentile system built for dangerous expeditions, hard professional choices, surviving technology, scarce resources, and magic in a world remade by the Fractures and the Fall.
More character possibilities
Expanded species and new or revised professions create characters with distinct backgrounds, capabilities, and practical roles within a professional team.
Tools for a shattered world
Expanded equipment covers weapons, armor, survival gear, modern technology, rare pre-Fall discoveries, and the difficult choices created by limited supplies.
Magic with a cost
Setting-driven magic brings together Soul Points, spells, Otherworldly Patrons, Warlocks, and Eldritch Invocations. Magic is powerful, scarce, disruptive, and never taken for granted.
The Siegebreaker BRP engine
Percentile skills, tactical combat, wounds, fatigue, sanity, meaningful consequences, and episodic campaign tools support missions that grow into larger story and season arcs.
The planned launch line includes a Player Guide, a Game Master Guide, and a launch adventure. A Kickstarter campaign will follow once the core books are substantially complete and ready for production.
Made by people
Human-created artwork throughout the Player Guide.
The Shattered Worlds Reforged Player Guide uses artwork created by human artists. No generative AI artwork is used in the Player Guide.
Its visual world is built from commissioned and licensed work by credited artists, including Dmitry Nosovsky, JE Shields, Dean Spencer, Leandro Alberto Murga Moreno, Gary Dupuis, Shaman Stockart, Rick Hershey, Tamas Baranya, and additional artists whose work helped define Shattered Worlds.
A complete new edition
- Basic Roleplaying foundation
- Siegebreaker BRP rules and campaign tools
- Expanded species and professions
- New equipment and survival choices
- Rebuilt magic, Patrons, and Soul Points
- Player Guide, Game Master Guide, and launch adventure planned
Build a team and take the jobs that keep civilization alive.
Reality fractured, pieces of other worlds replaced parts of Earth, and magic returned alongside surviving technology. Communities endure behind defended borders while professional teams travel into the dangerous spaces between them.
Characters may be soldiers, scientists, pilots, explorers, mystics, and specialists brought together by contracts that demand more than any one profession can provide.
The original 5e line
The first edition established Shattered Worlds through core books, encounter supplements, and a full road-campaign collection. Explore the complete published line below.
Available Now
Explore the published Shattered Worlds line.
Start with the free introduction, build characters with the Player Guide, expand the world with the Game Master Guide, or take your table directly into one of the published encounters and adventures.
Introduction Guide
A free, 27-page introduction to the Fractures, the Fall, six post-Fall character roles, and modern weapons in a world where technology and magic collide.
Player Guide
The original 5e-compatible foundation for creating soldiers, scouts, technicians, specialists, wardens, and modern warlocks equipped to survive the shattered Earth.
Game Master Guide
History of the Fall, vehicles and drones, radiation and disease, more than fifty creatures, more than twenty-five factions, and the Eternal Blood War between devils and demons.
Hunters of the Dammed
Professional monster hunters pursue the biggest bounties with hard-earned knowledge, salvaged pre-Fall equipment, and a simple operating principle: kill the thing and get paid.
Mad Molly and the Black Cat
Meet Molly Rodriguez and Señor Bigotes, her enormous and very proud black cat, as they travel the post-Fall world and bring a memorable new encounter to the table.
Encounters Across Time
Encounter Anthology
A journey across post-Fall North America containing multiple encounters and scenarios, plus new rules for goblins, the Gleeman, magical artifacts, and more.
On the Highway to Hell
Six music-inspired adventures of burning engines and supernatural trouble: a demonic car, a fey roadside challenge, a forgotten hotel, dwarf steel, warring road factions, and missing children.