VALOROUS - A Heroic Fantasy Role-Playing Game: Barebones Edition

VALOROUS – HEROIC FANTASY (Barebones Edition)
A Complete Role-Playing Game of Courage, Conviction, and Destiny

VALOROUS is a bold return to heroic fantasy — a world where light still matters, courage still costs, and every choice shapes the soul. Built on the HEROIC RPG Intensity Engine, this Barebones Edition delivers a complete and playable rules set designed for stories of valor, sacrifice, and triumph.

Within these pages you’ll find everything you need to create and play legendary heroes in the Kingdom of Keldara — a fully realized fantasy setting filled with history, faith, and conflict, with whispers of the wider world beyond its borders.

Inside the Barebones Edition:

• The full Core Rules, including FEATs, the Colour Chart, and the Intensity Engine.

• Complete systems for Virtue & Corruption, Boons & Banes, and Advancement.

• Dozens of Proficiencies and Talents — Combat, Mystical, and General.

• Fully realized Races and Cultures: Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes, and Hauflin.

• A complete magic framework, from Sorcery and Spellbinding to Cogwrighting and Channeling.

• Ready-to-use Profession Overlays for instant hero creation.

• The Bestiary of Keldara, filled with monsters, horrors, and wonders.

• Guidance for Judges on social play, exploration, travel, downtime, and legend-building.

VALOROUS is not grimdark. It’s not nihilistic. It’s about standing back up.
When the world falls to shadow, heroes rise.

Live Valorous!