Based on Italian tradition, folklore, history, landscapes, literature, and pop culture, Brancalonia is a Campaign Setting for the 5th Edition of the most famous role-playing game ever.
Enter the Kingdom of Brancalonia, a land full of pitfalls and money-making opportunities. Create your own band of Knaves, enlist in a free company, get yourself some well-paid jobs, deliver a fifist-and-knife buffffet to those who have it coming. Once you have collected a tidy sum and somewhat climbed the ranks of your company, you’ll be ready to try your luck in that fifinal job that could enable you to go out in a blaze of glory…
2021 ENNIE Awards
2021 ENNIE Awards
2021 ENNIE Awards
2021 ENNIE Awards
Fellas, let’s take a look at what’s in store for you:
Brancalonia - Setting Book
The Basic Manual of Brancalonia consists of 192 richly illustrated full-color pages, with maps, characters, antagonists, monsters and other images evocative of the Kingdom. This features:
- A general description of the Kingdom, its history and main regions, from the Pale Mountains in the north to the Charybdean Sea in the south, from the barbaric city of Tergesta in the east to the coast of the Zigane Sea in the far west.
- Five new playable races, in addition to the Human, taken from Italian tradition and folklore: the Gifted, the Malebranches, the Marionettes, the Morgants and the Sylvans.
- Twelve new subclasses, one for each of the basic classes, each adapted to the Kingdom and strongly characteristic of Italian history, tradition and folklore: hence we have the Benandante and the Superstician; the Sword-player and the Brigand; the Miraculist and the Friar.
- New Backgrounds, Character Traits, Ideals, Ties and Defects typical of Brancalonian Knaves.
- New Feats, Spells, Treasures, Diseases, and Poisons.
- Secrets, threats, curiosities, places of interest, rumors, monsters and game suggestions for the Condottiero, including a generator of Dives, one of Memorabilia, and one of Roads that go nowhere!
- New Setting Rules: Moves and Whacks (full version); Poor Equipment and Stolen Equipment; Companies, Cronies, and Den management; Bounties, Revels, and Prophecies; Long Rest and Gritty Realism; Dive Games.
- The Introductory Solo Adventure The Son of the Eagle.
- The In Search of Fortunecampaign, in six Episodes.
- Twelve new monsters and twelve antagonists typical of Italian history, tradition, and folklore.
In Brancalonia, all player characters are Knaves, i.e. members of a company of mercenaries, rogues, and similar rascals, engaged in questionable jobs across the various domains of what is left of an ancient kingdom, now in ruins.
This rabble, this throng of gallows birds, of which you are such worthy examples, is also identified in its entirety as the Bounty Brothers: the network of bands, companies, and Knaves on whose heads a Bounty – large or small – was placed at some time by one of the King dom’s fief lords.
You will start off as third-rate scoundrels in a vile, dangerous world, clawing your way up through dirt and blood. Eventually, if you prove yourself up to it, you will rise to the rank of leader of your company, and shake the thrones of kings and lords.
Are you ready? Um, right: you were born ready…
Brancalonia - Macaronicon
The Macaronicon is the first official expansion for Brancalonia, the Spaghetti Fantasy Setting for the 5th Edition of the most famous role-playing game ever.
This module collects every stretch goal unlocked during our crowdfunding launch campaign, in Spring 2020.
In this book you will find:
- New options for the Knaves, such as the new Puppeteer class and subclasses, ten new subclasses, three new races, two new subraces for the Marionette, and many new Background options.
- A wagon-load of new equipment of any kind.
- A ton of new spells and invocations to the Saints.
- Rich insights about many Brancalonian topics: from the Extravaganza to the Relics, from the nature of Marionettes to monster cooking.
- New creatures and adversaries, such as Relic and the Hob.
- Seven new jobs unlocked during the campaign
- Insights on four cities in the Kingdom, including detailed maps, secret locations, and adventure hints.
- And so much more...
The adventures of Brancalonian Knaves take place in what its inhabitants refer to as “the Bounty Kingdom”, or simply “the Kingdom”.
The territories of the Brancalonia Peninsula and neighboring islands are but a minor possession of the Empire of Altomagna, ceded to Queen Menalda of Catozza as a vassalic benefit a hundred years ago and never recovered, even after the dynastic line of the Catozzi was broken by intrigues, plots, and a dozen suitors.
The Bounty mentioned by Pomponius was for the head of Buemondo the Fat from Aurocastro, who – from the bottom of the peninsula – had set up a confederation of bandits, lords, and brigands. These villains
raged from Piccadora to Falcamonte, assaulting each and every imperial army, and refusing to pay taxes, tithes, and levies. In exchange for the head of Buemondo, said to weigh eighty pounds, Menalda was given the regency of the Kingdom on behalf of the Emperor. A century has gone by: the entire peninsula has eluded Altomagna’s control – and no-one is keen to reclaim it.
With the Iron Crown of Menalda gone missing, and the succession’s heraldry undecided, the Kingdom is now split into over a dozen independent regions; in turn, these are fragmented into local potentates, fiefdoms, counties, villages, marches, duchies, baronies, alliances, knighthoods, municipalities, and commercial leagues; not to mention the uncertainty of the domains’ boundaries, and surrounding no-man’s-lands…
Given the wide variety of themes and tones that can be used when playing Brancalonia, each of these regions can be the scene of odd jobs and situations with a highly specific atmosphere.
Brancalonia - Master's Screen
The Game Master Screen – A luxurious screen for the Condottiero of Brancalonia in three horizontal A4 facades and in full color on both sides. Featured on the front is an original illustration by Lorenzo Nuti, and there are tables and summaries of the main setting rules on the reverse side.
