Fathoms Foretold

Fathoms Foretold is an underwater, pirate-themed one-shot tabletop RPG made for a group of 2-5. In it, players are a crew of pirates whose ship is destroyed by a kraken. After their demise, and fueled by rage, the players arise as undead Revenants amongst the wreckage of their vessel. They seek to find and fell the beast that destroyed their ship!

Character Creation

Creating a character in Fathoms is a quick and easy process. Players only need to roll a few eight-sided dice (d8s) to fill out their Revenant's silhouette (character sheet). This determines their weapon, its element, and their rage. Their bond is equal to the number of them there are. Then, they're ready to play!

Playing The Game

Fathoms Foretold is played with a deck of tarot cards and some d8s. When a challenge is encountered, the Sea (the player running the game) plays a card from their hand that best represents the challenge's difficulty. The card is played face down, with the one attempting to overcome the challenge rolling 2d8. The card is then revealed. If the total of the roll is higher than the value of the played card, the challenger succeeds!

Revenants can spend bond before rolling to add additional dice to the roll. However, since bond is a shared group resource, it must be spent carefully.

Combat is built for fast turns, and powered by spending points to Slay or Move. When an attack is made, both the attacker and the target roll 2d8. If the attacker rolls higher, damage is inflicted. If the target rolls higher, they dodge the attack!

Revenants that roll an 88 (two eights) restore some of their crew's bond and rage, and invoke the power of their weapon's element for additional effects.

Resources

Included in the downloads you'll find:

• The rulebook (13 pages)
• A PDF with just the character creation pages for players
• A fillable Revenant silhouette PDF
• A printable Revenant silhouette PDF
• VTT Tokens for each of the four important NPCs
• A rules and Revenant-tracking cheat sheet for the Sea