The Academy Chrysalis

Did you miss the Kickstarter? You can buy a digital version of the game right here. Physical copies are available for order at Exalted Funeral and A Room of One's Own.

Explore the ruins of a magical school tucked deep within the forest. 

The Academy was once on the verge of discovering magic that could pierce reality. To protect its hard-earned knowledge from the outside world the school sealed itself within an immense, opalescent bubble, waiting for the day when it could unveil the culmination of its progress. 

But that day never came, 

and the school was left to molder 

within its impenetrable cocoon. 

The game

• A dangerous world of Dark Academia, experimental magic, and barriers to knowledge.
• An interrogation of ways of knowing as systems of power.
• An exploration of what it means to treat knowledge as a thing to be treasure-hunted.
• An adventure module for the ground-breaking game Trophy Gold, including all the rules you need to play (as well as monster conversions for 5e and Old-School Essentials).

What you will find inside

• A fully-illustrated, 60+ page PDF with core ruleset.
• Guidance and tools for playing and running the game over a full campaign.
• Two separate character creators, each one able to generate hundreds of different characters in minutes.
• Random tables of items, magic, secrets, and strange events.
• New and innovative rules about magic and knowledge.

Actual play

Check out the videos below for a campaign of The Academy Chrysalis run by the phenomenal Jason Cordova, founder of The Gauntlet and publisher of Trophy Gold.

Part 1 of 4:

Part 2 of 4: 

Check out the Jason's YouTube page for links to parts 3 and 4.

Podcast

TAC was featured on Fear of a Black Dragon, an award-winning OSR podcast. Check it out here: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/fear-of-a-black-dragon/the-academy-chrysalis

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