Fated Day

“You must climb up on to the keel,
cold is the sea-spray’s feel;
let not your courage bend:
here your life must end.
Old man, keep your upper lip firm
though your head be bowed by the storm.
You have had girls’ love in the past;
death comes to all at last.”
- Attributed to Þórir Jökull Steinfinnsson, 13th century.
Translation by Anthony Faulkes.

A ttrpg about coming to terms with your own death for one GM and 2-5 players. Based on the Forged in the Dark framework.

This is a game about dying. This is a game about death. This is a game about what it means to accept that your fated day has dawned, and facing it head on. Fated Day is about embracing your pain, and what makes you you, and letting it propel you to greater heights. It’s about refusing to give up - until you can’t anymore. It’s about love, and what we leave behind once we’re gone.

In Fated Day, you play as brave rebels defending your home from hateful cowards. They might have come to your doorstep looking to burn your home down for who you are, or they might hide away in their ivory towers while slowly leeching the life out of your community. They might hide behind accusations that you are the real threat, that they are only defending themselves, as fascists and bigots are wont to do. But the truth of the matter is that you scare them, because you dared to be yourself, dared to burn bright enough that you did away with the shackles they wished to put on you. You dared to live.

But one day, every person must die, and your fated day has come. Do not let it go in silence.