A grimdark d20 tabletop system for far-future warfare, faith, corruption, and survival — built for DMs, player parties, and campaigns that leave scars.
A familiar adventure system dragged into the far future.
Bolt & Blade uses d20-style play as its foundation, then rebuilds the experience around brutal firefights, impossible odds, Fate, Corruption, wounds, psychic peril, and wargear that feels dangerous to carry.
Humanity stands at the center of Version 1.0.
Start with Imperial Humans, Forge-Bound servants of the Machine Cult, and Astartes transhuman warriors. Build Guardsmen, Inquisitors, Psykers, Arbites, Sisters of Battle, Skitarii, Techmarines, Librarians, and more.
Designed for actual campaigns, not just lore shelves.
The system is being built around playable character sheets, clean public references, downloadable resources, quick rules lookup, and future Forge VTT support when the rules are ready for the machine spirit.