BIND is an open-source, grunge-fantasy RPG.

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Setting

Fenestra is a world, built on a single question.

How would normal people actually live in a world of wandering monsters?

In the myriad walled baileys, archers guard the fields and the farmers during daylight.

When night comes, people bar their doors, as large predators crawl across their rooves, and feel over the little house for an opening.

And someone has to guard the barrier between civilization and the predators in the dark. Someone has to walk with the traders from the baileys to the town.

So the town sends their unwanted, unwashed, and understandably bitter brutes, scamps, and political upstarts.

They send you.

Guilded Temples

As any idiot can see, the gods hate humanity.

When people freeze to death, Sable takes their soul. The Temple of Frost exists to push him back, by keeping a hearth-fire going, and weaving warm clothes. The Temple also serves as a Weavers' Guild, with a divine mandate to SELL! SELL! SELL!

When people investigate dark holes, and don't return, they say curiosity killed them, and Yonder takes their soul. The Temple of Light seeks to rescue humanity by letting them read instead of investigating what might kill them. This temple always has a library, a candle-making section, and sells soaps, as they also function as a Paper Guild. They always need more basilisk bodies, so they can use the fat for candles and soap.

Each Temple holds a divine monopoly. Each Temple is a guild.

The Night Guard have a holy mandate to push back the forest, and stop Sylf, the mother of all monsters, from feeding humanity to her creations.

Their temples are bothies - half-way houses along the road, which let traders and travellers sleep safely. Whenever Sylf takes another soul, by sending her children to eat them, the Night Guard build another bothy where the forest took them, so nobody has to die there again. They name the bothy after the deceased, so each one also functions as a cenotaph.

Rules

BIND is a ruleset built for parsimony.

Overview

Every module has all the rules that modules needs.
The entire system uses 2D6 for rolls.
Only players roll to hit in combat.
If they miss, the monster hits the player's character.
Every NPC statblock in the modules is printed on the same page as it's referenced, or the next page.
Spellcaster NPCs have a short selection of their spells printed next to them.