Surpass is a genre-agnostic, skill-based TTRPG (no classes) built around fast, consistent resolution. Everything runs on 2d6, criticals are simple (double 1s fail, double 6s succeed with an exploding bonus die), and combat uses a single roll to handle both “hit” and “damage.” Initiative is side-based with alternating activations, so turns stay moving and teamwork matters.

This is the Core Rules Draft (v0.1). It’s playable, but still evolving, and I’d love feedback from actual tables. If you run it, drop a comment with what worked, what broke, and what you’d want clarified or expanded.

Download it, share it, and if you’d like to support future updates, you can follow along here.

Publisher's Choice - Quality Stockart: Auntie Witches

This collection of quality stock art figures include two versions of a Auntie Witches (b&w linework and color). Each full-body image is 4x6 or larger in size  (300dpi transparent tiff).

Publisher's Choice Stockart is provided to aid new publishing companies in creating high-quality publications by providing the design essentials to compete with larger competitors. In addition, the line is perfect for adding fresh new content to the seasoned publisher's art library and aiding in keeping design budgets manageable.

Artwork License: A PDF copy of our license is included, allowing our customers to alter or modify any illustration in this set, in addition to rules on crediting, etc.

Battlemap: Bandit Cave

Battlemap Bandit Cave is a hand-crafted fantasy cave battle map designed for tense underground encounters, ambushes, and tactical combat. This map is ideal for bandit hideouts, outlaw lairs, smugglers’ caves, or any subterranean location where danger waits around every corner.

Featuring winding tunnels, open caverns, and natural chokepoints, this battle map is built to support strategic movement, cover-based fighting, and dramatic confrontations. Whether your party is tracking criminals or assaulting a hidden camp, this map provides a versatile and atmospheric battlefield.

🗺️ What’s Included

• 1 high-resolution gridded cave battle map

• Designed specifically for tactical combat

• Clear pathways, open combat zones, and natural cover

• Neutral fantasy style compatible with most RPG systems

🎲 Perfect For

• Bandit and outlaw hideouts

• Smuggler dens and underground camps

• Cave-based ambushes and boss fights

• Fantasy RPGs such as 5E, Pathfinder, OSR systems, and similar systems

📐 Technical Details

• High-resolution PNG format

• 72 px Gridded Map

• Optimized for virtual tabletops such as Roll20, Foundry VTT, Fantasy Grounds, Owlbear Rodeo, and more

• Suitable for digital play and printing

🧙 About Magical RPG Games

Magical RPG Games creates high-quality battle maps and RPG tools designed to help Game Masters run exciting, immersive sessions with minimal prep. Each release focuses on clarity, usability, and gameplay-first design.

If you enjoy this map, please consider leaving a review on DriveThruRPG. Your feedback helps support future releases and helps other GMs discover our work.

Vedic Classes for 5e: War Mahout

The ground trembles before them. The air fills with trumpets like the call of the heavens. Where they ride, formations break. Where they stand, armies rally.

In lands where elephants are revered as sacred beings—symbols of wisdom, sovereignty, and cosmic strength—the War Mahout stands as both warrior and steward, riding astride these living colossi. Their bond with their elephants is not one of domination, but of trust, ritual, and mutual respect, forged through years of shared breath, training, and spirit. On the battlefield, this partnership becomes a force of nature: the rider guides, the elephant thunders, and together they reshape the flow of combat like rivers redirected by a great dam.

War Mahouts are not common cavalry. Their mounts are not swift horses darting between ranks—they are towering beings, capable of crushing enemy lines, blocking paths, and inspiring awe. Each elephant is trained from youth to respond to subtle cues: the pressure of a rider’s foot, the flick of a spear, the tone of a chant. Some elephants are raised in royal nāgaśālās, stables where strategy and ceremony intertwine; others come from forest sanctuaries, bonded to their riders through patience and song. A few are divinely chosen, appearing in dreams or on riverbanks at dawn, waiting silently for the soul they are destined to carry.

Riding atop their elephants, Mahouts act as commanders, protectors, or holy envoys. Their elevated position gives them a panoramic view of the battlefield, allowing them to direct formations, support allies, and control the movement of entire armies. Some specialize in line-breaking charges, their elephants smashing through enemy ranks like tidal waves. Others command through aura, radiating divine or spiritual energy, turning their mounts into moving bastions of protection or celestial power. A few act as forest guardians, guiding their elephants through jungle and grove, blending natural wisdom with martial strength.

Beyond warfare, Mahouts are keepers of living legends. Elephants are family, partners, and symbols—their care involves daily rituals, sacred songs, herbal knowledge, and mutual trust. Many Mahouts are respected community figures, mediators between kingdoms and wild herds, or sacred escorts in temple processions. Their presence inspires both reverence and fear: reverence, for the divine partnership they embody; fear, for the unstoppable power they command.

This contains a full class up to level 20 with abilities and background, based on  the Vedic Indian culture, this is not written by a native of that area so may contain certain cultural biases from a european point of view.

"A foretelling, yes? A question? What lies ahead? Well, certainly.You have coin, of course? The 4 clacks? Very good. Then let us lay the cards down and learn what the Earth Witch will share with you!"

The year is 1625. The place is Nochet. In this ancient, bustling, intrigue-ridden city, your patron House strives for survival at a critical point in time. The House needs bold adventurers to aid them in this effort to forge new alliances, assist their villages, uncover dark secrets, and fend off opportunistic foes and rivals.

Nochet: Serpents & Shadows Book 1 presents the first half of a new RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha campaign set in Glorantha's greatest city at the onset of the Hero Wars. This work provides extensive detail on the noble House Marele and its prominent clients who function as patrons and employers for the adventurers. It also details the House's prominent neighbors, rivals, and foes plus independent figures from among the Old Guard, the city's nouveau riche (such as the feared Wolf Pirates and rising merchants), assorted thieves, and the resident trolls.

Nochet: Serpents & Shadows Book 1 includes: 3 full episodic scenarios (Double Trouble, Hidden Business, and The Proper Message) set in and around Nochet; the Shadowed Portents - Sacred Time omens that may haunt the city through the year; over 30 Adventure Hooks to drive sandbox events; and more than 150 NPCs to engage the adventurers fully in an urban Gloranthan campaign.

Nochet: Serpents & Shadows Book 1 comes with additional full pdf maps of the city and the undercity plus maps of key scenario locations to aid gameplay.

Note: a supplementary handout of pre-generated characters referenced in the work will be available soon as an additional free download as part of this work.

Delve into the frightening secrets of the massive Metropoli, the bastions of "civilization" in the blasted wastelands that make up Ashland. From total control over education, trade, food, water, and life itself, the shadowy Covenant has created a powerbase that is absolute...or so they think. Resistance has sprung up against this tyranny. Who are they, and what are their goals? How far is the Covenant willing to go to destroy them; and what is the dark secret lurking in the bowels of these great cities that the Covenant is terrified will come to light?
You've survived, now do you choose to resist?

40 Pages of the Upcomming Module The Curse of the Fosaken Watchtower