There’s something different about you. You might hit harder than others, know more, or break the rules that you thought held the world together, and you’re not the only one. But no matter how hard you think you hit, someone else hits harder. Thousands upon thousands are older than you, more experienced, more privileged, and more selfish, but you’ve got one advantage, you’re a rising star, full of potential, and ready for the DAWN.

DAWN is a grid-based, combat-focused, setting-agnostic tabletop roleplaying game (or TTRPG), inspired by a wide range of battle manga, anime, and tactical video games. 

Cliff Notes

If you are someone who’s played a number of different TTRPGs before this, you may have some assumptions about the game’s systems or could easily recognize traits that it shares with others.

Design Your Character

DAWN is a system that you're meant to mold. Combat is flashy, with players able to pull from a list of 100+ "Techniques" to shape how that character expresses their combat and can contribute to their allies. Outside of combat it's system "Bond" and "Ability" system lets each character push through challenges a way unique to them. 

And even though this freedom presents a player with a breadth of choice the game is sure to give options that guide them towards standard options and make the experience as smooth as possible.

1) Techniques

Multi-tiered abilities that build up your character, with different combinations of these determining the entirety of how they function in combat. Enhancing the sold default "Kit" of a player character with a wide array of passive triggers and bonuses to change how those tools are used.

2) Abilities And Skills

The actions - both supernatural and mundane - that a character is skilled in and capable of outside of combat. Each 'Ability' is customized by the player, allowing for a near endless amount of personalization for each character.

3) Boons And Outlooks

And finally, your 'Boons', found as a part of your 'Outlook', a formative character feature that rewards you for engaging with your character's theme and backstory and gives you access to unique features to spice up narrative play.

Character Sheet

Google Sheets (By Me, sorry for the quality)

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