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Campaign Options

written by Thorin Tabor

Fine-tune your campaign for mythic adventure!

The world of Bhurloka is overflowing with the poten-tial for epic deeds. All that needs to be done is for game masters and players to come together and tell these sto-ries. Against the Dark Yogi: Campaign Options is here to help facilitate this, with new options, new systems and new complete campaign arcs, inspired by Indian myth!

Against the Dark Yogi: Campaign Options is a key sup-plement for Against the Dark Yogi. It’s features include:• Allow players to choose from a variety of non-human

races, such as the monkey-like vanara, the snake-like naga, yakshis, suparnas and more.

• Emphasize the importance of reincarnation with a optional reincarnation life-path system.

• Attach consequences to zones for more dynamic bat-tles.

• Send characters into battle with new astras, the god-weapons.

• Swear great oaths that the universe itself will enforce.• Create characters without caste.• Play the game with dice instead of cards.• Multiple fleshed out campaign arcs, and more! Sa

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Written byThorin Tabor

Edited byMegan Turner

Published byTab Creations LLC

Saga Machine system byThorin Tabor

Against the Dark Yogi byThorin Tabor

Art byMkultra Studios, Carlos Jaramillo

Layout byThorin Tabor, based on work by Paolo Bosi

Special thanks toAll of our Kickstarter backers

Exceptional playtesting byKat Davis, Carroll Emerson, Ben Goreham, Micah Hollis-Symynkywicz, Matthew Kamm, Matthew Pennell, Jesse Pingenot, Brian Richburg, Atom Smith, Darin Strouts, Eric Wir-tanen

Tab Creations isAtom Smith, Ben Goreham, Jesse Pingenot, Matthew Pennell, Thorin Tabor

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Designation of Product IdentityThe following items are hereby designated as Product Identity in accordance with Section 1(e) of the Open Game License, version 1.0a: Any and all Tab Creations logos and identifying marks and trade dress, such as all Tab Creations product and product line names including but not limited to Tab Creations, Saga Machine and Against the Dark Yogi; any specific characters and places; capitalized names and original names of places, artifacts, characters, countries, geographic locations, gods, events and organizations; any and all stories, storylines, histories, plots, thematic el-ements and dialog; and all artwork, symbols, designs, depictions, illustrations, maps and cartography, likenesses, logos, poses or graphic designs. The above product identity is not Open Game Content

Designation of Open Game ContentSubject to the Product Identity designation above, the following portions of Against the Dark Yogi are designated as Open Game Content: The entirety of the Game Master Options chapter, Incarnation Options chapter and Cycles of Reincarnation chapter.

Tab Creations, Saga Machine and Against the Dark Yogi are trademarks owned by Thorin Tabor, under license to Tab Creations LLC. All rights reserved. All other content is ©2013-2014 Thorin Tabor. The mention of or reference to any company or product in these pages is not a challenge to the trademark or copyright concerned. This document is a work of fiction.

Check us out at http://www.tabcreations.com

Dedicated to the people who have spent so many hours of their lives playing and testing my games over the years.

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Table of Contents3 Table of Contents

5 introduction7 Cycles of Reincarnation

7 Overview7 The Past Lives Step

8 Pick Caste8 Pick Role8  Stat Modifiers8 Background9 Next Caste9 Example

10 Past Life Options10 Superhuman12 Brahmin14 Kshatriya16 Vaishya18 Shudra20 Dalit22 Subhuman

24 Reincarnation24 Past Lives

27 Incarnation Options27 Playing Without Caste

27 The Human Trait28 Playing Nonhumans

28 Roleplaying Nonhumans28 The Nonhuman Traits

35 Game Master Options35 Playing With Dice

35 Resolving Actions36  Other Effects36 Karma37 Spending Good Karma37 Spending Bad Karma37 Don't Mix Karma38 GM Karma38 Probabilities

39 Epic Stunts40 Great Oaths41 Astras

41 Azhasastra41 Fashanastra41 Neyaastra41 Notraastra42 Prhespatiastra42 Weyuastra

43 Yenaastra43 Zhakraastra

44 Zone Consequences44 Advantageous Position44 Baking Heat44 Cramped Quarters45 Crowded45 Devoid of Prana45 Flowing Water46 Formal Atmosphere46 Freezing Cold46 Hallowed Atmosphere46 Heavy Fog47 Maze-like Hive47 On Fire47 On the Brink47 Rough Terrain48 Slippery Footing48 Smokey48 Spooky Locale48 Storming49 Unclean Grounds49 Underwater49 Well-covered

51 Beyond the Dark Yogi52 Against Raja Ravema

52 A Request for Help53 Defeating the Rakshasas53 A Test of Divine Weapons53 Into Exile54 Interlude in Exile54  The Theft54 Aiding the Vanaras55 Travel to Renka Island56 Attack on Ravema

59 Against the Great Invasion59 Harbingers of the Invasion60 Word of Sassani's Fall60 Marshaling Forces61 Divine Intervention61 Questionable Allegiance62 A Foreign Contact62 Betrayal!62 Battle of the Zondhu River63 Defeating Erexander the Conqueror

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Chapter 1 - Introduction

Almost two years ago, when I sat down to write Against the Dark Yogi, I knew we would need to be selec-tive with the game. Few RPGs on the market had even touched upon Indian myth, let alone placed it front-and-center. Despite the many parallels be-tween the epic actions of Indian myth and the epic actions of adventure gam-ing, few roleplayers I talked to seemed to be intimately familiar with the my-thology. I knew the game would need to cater to both emulating the legend-ary tropes of the genre and introduc-ing the unfamiliar to those tropes.

With this in mind, I approached the game design, I knew I needed to keep the game focused on its in-tended aims—stray to much and the game would lose its way. I needed to pique the creativity of game masters and players without burying them un-der a flood of esoteric concepts. Now, having heard back from many of the game's Kickstarter backers, I think we achieved this.

The focused nature of the game, however, meant many potential av-enues of adventure were left unex-plored. For example, Against the Dark Yogi ended up being a very human-centric game, but what if a player

wanted to play a vanara, a yakshi or a suparna? Nonhuman heroes weren't supported out of the box.

Over the course of the game's Kick-starter campaign, I heard feedback from many fans about what else they wanted to see in the game, and I took notes. I knew I wanted to broaden the potential scope of the game in a supplement of campaign options. I wanted to give game masters the tools they needed to make the game easily fit their vision.

This is exactly what this supple-ment sets out to do. Many of the op-tions presented here are direct results of requests and feedback I received during the Kickstarter campaign. Oth-ers are directions I wanted to explore, but couldn't justify cramming into the base game.

Wherever you're coming from and wherever you want to take your jour-ney into the mythic world of Bhurloka, I wish you the sort of stories that will be told and retold for years to come.

Thorin Tabor May 2014

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