Basic Orcus

All Basic Orcus content, including Heroes of the Borderlands, is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

• Basic Rules (PDF)
• Twisted Space (PDF)

Heroes of the Borderlands

Character and adventure playbooks and power cards.

• Heroes of the Borderlands rules (PDF)
• Condition tokens

Heroes

• The Grim (PDF)

Coming Soon

• The Haunt (PDF)
• The Mindfire Adept (PDF)
• The Seraph (PDF)

Adventure Starters

• Castle Death (PDF)

The books

Orcus Heroes’ Handbook

Download the Orcus Heroes’ Handbook PDF or buy a print copy on Lulu.

Orcus Game Master’s Guide

Download the Orcus Game Master’s Guide PDF or buy a print copy on Lulu.

Orcus SRD

• Rulebook (PDF)
• Player Options (ancestries, feats, deities) (PDF)
• Classes and Powers (classes, kits, disciplines, powers) (PDF)
• Monsters (templates, monster traits, monsters, threats, traps, afflictions and terrain) (PDF)
• Advanced Options (advanced options, species, combat maneuvers, magic items, backgrounds, arts, extended challenges, bonds) (PDF))
• Character sheet (XLSX)
• Open Game License (PDF) and Artwork Credits (PDF)

Other content

• Media release announcing Orcus

Campaign resources

• Fires in the Crypt (PDF) - first level adventure
• Ancestral Voices (PDF only) - second level adventure
• The False Necromancer (PDF) - second level adventure
• Death and Chaos (PDF) - third level adventure

Experiments

• House Rules
• 3-by-4 Sublime Classes (PDF)
• Tiles (PDF only)
• Monster sheet (PDF only)
• Warrior

Older versions

• Pre-gens (PDF) - five first-level characters

Related games

• Petit 4 (PDF)

Background

Dedicated to the hobbyists, designers, developers and publishers who have released their work under the Open Game License.

Orcus is a work in progress. All feedback is welcome.

How to contribute

Join the discussion on RPGnet (most active), The Piazza, EN World or GiantITP.

Here’s some of the things that would help Orcus grow:

• People contributing homebrew material - either stuff they’ve already written for other games or stuff that they write especially for Orcus.
• Experienced players going through monsters, powers, etc., and tweaking the balance, even removing and replacing underwhelming powers.
• An En5ider-style ongoing crowdfunding campaign, creating new material every month that would get added back in to the Orcus database.
• An Orcus character generator, perhaps using PCGen.
• An Orcus online reference database.