Vekari

The Vekari TTRPG is a lightweight, flexible, and easily customizable TTRPG system that can be adapted for nearly any game, set in an impossible world tucked away into the folds of the galaxy. It places a focus on player creativity, encouraging both players and GMs alike to create custom weapons, items, spells, cyberware, and even classes and enemies to suit their needs and playstyles. Play the cyber-fantasy adventure of your dreams and step into the world of Vekari with all of your custom gear for the fight of your life!

What You Need:

• The free rules posted on the official site alongside the available character sheets, the available bundle of 8 zines, and/or the soon to come full PDF
• 2 or more players
• A full set of 7 polyhedral RPG dice for each player (No dice? No problem! The game includes free spinners to print)
• Pencils and erasers if you are using printed sheets

What's Nice to Have:

• Some form of game board and game pieces to easily see where characters are located in an area

The World of Vekari:

Vekari was once the planet known to us as HD 164922 c, lost to time after a man-caused supernova destroyed its system. Vekari was rescued by a group of beings who would come to be worshiped as gods and tucked into the folds of the galaxy for safety. The gods made the planet habitable and brought life to it, and later would be the cause of centuries of war and destruction. A digital plane rests on the face of the planet itself, home to a phenomenon known as The Glitch which creates strange creatures and glitches buildings sideways and into each other regularly, entirely unknown to those on the physical plane. The entire world is yours to explore using the included rules or any other ruleset you'd like! More information about the world of Vekari can be found on the official site.

The TTRPG:

Players get to create the fantasy characters of the dreams with custom classes, spells, weapons, and even cyberware! Players can level the Technician job to learn to build cyberware and robotics, and then power up their gear with cyber spells and hacks! The possibilities are infinite and in some cases, hilariously broken.

One player will need to be the Game Master (GM). The GM prepares the story, responds as NPCs, creates necessary items and creatures, balances player-made creations, does a lot of the math, and overall sets the stage for the players' adventures as a narrator. Once the adventure is prepared and players have their characters ready, the game can be played!

The GM will narrate the story, describe the surroundings, and speak any NPC dialogue. Players will take turns stating what their character would do in the given scenario, and may be asked to roll dice for skill checks or to engage in combat! The rules are kept relatively simple to minimize the amount of stopping to check what's "allowed" and to simply allow gameplay to move fluidly and players to create what they'd like.

Formats:

There are TWO rule formats available here, for lighter or longer reading.

The first is a set of 8 printable single-page zines containing the entire core rules with roll tables, a world lore booklet, and a one-shot adventure called Forgotten Temple that takes players to visit the mystical waterfall at the heart of the floating city of Griffin Falls. Character sheet booklets are included, containing built in character-building instructions!

The second is a roughly 70-page PDF with more in-depth rules, maps, enemies, Vekari illustrations, the Forgotten Temple one-shot, and a larger adventure called Reign of Disciples that will enlist players to investigate a series of murders around Noxen, thought to be linked to mutant experiments on Asylum Isle. It is horror intense and not for the faint of heart, but will make for a great tale to tell! The PDF will be updated with book cover art closer to when those are able to be printed.

The world of Vekari as well as the core rules (posted on the official site and contained in the files offered here) are licensed under CC-BY. Feel free to make additional content for the game!

Special thanks to my husband for being a backbone to the world of Vekari, my close friends who playtested and read over the game, the super talented artists I am lucky to know who have contributed content to Vekari, my Ko-Fi supporters, and the kind devs here and on Bluesky who have encouraged me in various projects over the past 8 months. Could've talked me down from joking about making a whole TTRPG and then I never would have, instead you went and encouraged me and now here we are. Staring at the page for the Vekari TTRPG. Wild.

INCLUDES FREE RPG DICE SPINNERS! PRINT AND PLAY OR USE THE TEMPLATES TO MAKE YOUR OWN!

Physical copies of the zines bundled with a world map, USB containing all of the files, and some dice spinner stickers inside a cassette case are available here, on my Ko-Fi.