The god of death is missing, the world is irrevocably changing, and you must strike out to help mend the breaches. Will you manage to correct the cycle of life?

Who cares for the dead when the reaper is away?

Transient Souls is a Push-Powered rpg that is built to provide an engaging narrative game with lightweight, fiction-first gameplay. Characters will find themselves traveling through surrealist landscapes, delving into dangerous locales for hidden knowledge, and experiencing their deathless world. Characters will be blessed by the fates in their quest, gaining fate bending abilities over time.

Ways to Play

Co-Op: All players cooperate on a even playing field to tell the story and complete the challenges.

Traditional: A gamemaster acts as a mediator for the rules and the game world while others take on the role of characters.

Solo: A single player takes on the endeavor of locating death alone, allowing the dice to decide their fate.

What’s Included

• Push-Powered narrative mechanics to help inspire and drive the story
• Thematic and evocative prompts for challenges within the game
• Three stages of play to help drive the narrative forward
• Fate bending abilities to change the narrative outcome of dice rolls
• Character traits that change across the narrative

The Mechanics

A simple roll decides actions within Push-Powered games like Transient Souls. Whenever a character attempts something dramatically interesting, roll 1d6 and compare:

• A 7 or higher is a Miss, something goes wrong
• A 5 or 6 is a Strong Hit. the character succeeds
• A 4 or lower is a Weak Hit. Players can choose to roll and add another 1d6 to their total, and compare again.

With this simple, push your luck mechanic, complex actions and stories can be told.

Character creation is as simple as a few choices or rolls and all the materials required to play can be collapsed onto 4 pages plus the character sheet. Arc Pages, 3 of these reference sheets, are home to quick rules references and the narrative prompts for each stage of play. The 4th page is the character reference sheet, containing character creation rules.

To Play You Need

• 1-5 players
• Some six-sided dice
• A copy of the character sheet for each player
• A copy of each Arc Page and the character reference sheet

What You Get

• A 20 page booklet pdf with extended rules and advice for playing the game
• Printable copies of the character sheet, character reference sheet, and 3 Arc Pages (everything you need at the table to play)

Still On The Fence?

Take a look at this review from Raymond Davey on the solo play.

I've got some actual solo-play over on my blog.

Take a look at the PushJam to see what others are doing with the PushSRD.