The Gloaming Diaries: Imbolc Edition

The Gloaming Diaries is a tabletop roleplaying game of modern fairy tales in small towns. As a player, you take on the role of the gloamspun, half-human, half-fae beings created when a fairy fleeing eternal war encounters a human seeking change within the Wood. Needing one another, they weave their souls together, becoming one.  Among your fellow gloamspun what unfolds next is a new story. For you have two pasts, but only one future.

Imbolc Edition

This is the Imbolc Edition of The Gloaming Diaries, an updated version 1.5 of the game that has a number of improvements and enhancements. It includes:

• An overhauled combat system to greatly streamline its complexity and focus on character competency and with customizable combat schools.
• Updated versions of all 14 Tales from the original TGD and supplements.
• Updated versions of 27 paths taken from the original TGD and supplements.
• Changes to sorcery.
• Now added a default lore that introduces Oberon, Titania, and Mab, the monarchs of the fae and their society.
• An update to the feudal society of the fae, with 24 great houses.
• Streamlining of traits and math from the original edition.
• And more!

In Development

This is a relatively complete product at this moment in time, but it is going through an active feedback and enhancement society, as well as some pending updates including a motif appendix and a couple of new fae tales, and a greatly refined setting and lore chapter. Stay tuned!

What Brought You To The Wood?

Play as one of 27 Paths, each of which describes the human you were and the path that led you to that fateful twilight meeting, and one of 10 Tales, each of which describes the fae you were and the story your magical life told. Were you an Elder entering the woods to die who instead found a new life with a Tale of Mischief? Were you a Lover who slipped into the woods for a tryst and found yourself drawn to join souls with a Tale of Sorrow?

Small Town Fairies

Use the supernatural blessings of your Tale and the elemental magic of the fae to solve your town's problems without alerting your neighbors.  Keep your shroud tightly bound around your soul to hide your fae nature, yet learn to deceive your neighbors while never speaking lies.

What stories will you tell in your small town at the edge of the woods? For although everyone's a little strange in remote parts, few are as strange as you.

To play the Gloaming Diaries You will need either a twenty-sided die (d20) or a deck of Tarot cards. 

What's Included:

• An  overview of the setting of the Gloaming Diaries. 
• Twenty seven human Paths that led you to the woods, from conspiracy-minded Seekers to bully-escaping Persecuted.
• Fourteen fae Tales that embody the different stories that fae lives tell, from horrifying Terrors to capricious Loves.
• Two courts, the Unseelie and Seelie, each with two retinues and the principles that guide them.
• Multiple lores of magical cantrips, and the rituals of sorcerers.
• A quick combat system geared for ease of use in either tabletops or LARP, with customizable combat schools.
• And more!