The Paragon Universal Role-Playing Game offers greatly expanded and revised rules, as well as a completely revamped combat and damage system. We’ve included a complete magic system, and integrated cybernetics into the core rules. A lot of attention has been paid to revising and streamlining the book and the rules in general.

Paragon is now available as a digital download, with the Paragon Package consisting of the 335-page full-color book, a printable set of the essential Paragon cards, and a separate character sheet. On-demand print options will also be available shortly. In addition, existing HDL game settings will soon be available in revised Paragon editions, including a completely free revision to LUCID: Dreamscape Reality as well as an update to Perfect Horizon, taking place roughly ten years after the original “cyberpop” setting; both will be available by the end of 2011.

As a special sneak peek, check out the wrap-around cover for Paragon, by artist Adrian Reece!

This upcoming second edition of the HDL Universal Tactical Role-playing Game has more than a new name: it’s been rebuilt practically from the ground up, to provide a more fluid and exciting role-playing experience. Featuring all the expanded material slated for the Options Guide, this edition also features:

• Full color interior and illustrations.
• 154 Backgrounds and Weaknesses.
• Revised skills.
• Simplified health and damage systems.
• A completely rebuilt active/real-time combat system.
• Extended rules for special maneuvers, martial arts, diseases, poisons, drugs, and even nuclear weapons.
• More succinct rules for firearms, and more complete listings of weapons and armor.
• Expanded ESPer abilities (now including a total of 46 skills).
• Complete magic system complete with new Backgrounds, skills and 379+ spells.
• Bestiary including real-world and fantastic creatures, including dragons, vampires and werewolves.
• Expanded and revised cards, increasing the variety while decreasing deck size.

Paragon will be available as a PDF download soon, along with the revised and greatly expanded Paragon versions of the Demongate High, Perfect Horizon and LUCID game settings. These will be followed by Infinite Vector, a deep-space sci-fi setting expanding the world and timeline of Perfect Horizon, and The Embers of Pyre, a fantasy setting building greatly on the Paragon magic rules.

More info to come, including how you can enter to receive a Beta copy of Paragon to make sure it’s the best it can be before release!

All of our games will now fall into 3 different categories, or game series. The series are as follows.

Foreshock: Games in the Foreshock series will all be of the board and card game varieties. Nothing too heavy here. Our current game ElementaliS falls directly into this category.

Epicenter: Epicenter games are the core games that Tremorworks will offer. Our HDL System falls into this category, as will all our RPG material from now on.

Aftershock: The Aftershock series is something new for Tremorworks, and very exciting. Games in the Aftershock series will be free to print and play. This can include board and card games, or even smaller RPG sets and modules.

We hope you enjoy our current, and future offerings. We’ll have some major news coming up soon about our next release into the Epicenter series.

I’m glad to say that Sean’s working out the issues and we should have the HDL Cards up in the Tremorworks store, DrivethroughRPG, and the RPGBomb store soon! Keep your eyes peeled!

Write a review of any of our HDL books and post it at drivethroughrpg.com or the RPGBomb Store. You can review the print books or the PDFs. Cover at least half of the aspects listed below and we’ll send you some FREE books!*

Aspects to cover in the HDL Basic Rules:

Character Creation
Cards
HDL dice mechanic
Experience system
Energy system
Combat mechanics
System flexibility
SCom system
And others…

In HDL game settings, consider:

Setting world
Setting playability
Setting characters
Other setting features

Offer details are subject to change without notice.