Skellies: an RPG of goofs, liches, and skeletal buffoonery

Skellies: an RPG of goofs, liches, and skeletal buffoonery

Skellies is a gravely unserious d6 RPG where you play as risen skeletons in a lich's thrall. Your undead purpose is simple: use your Bones, Brains, and Goofs to make your lich's immortality as great as possible! And relax, you're already dead.

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Being dead can't stop you from having fun.

Skellies is a low-stakes roleplaying game where you play as risen skeletons in a lich's thrall. Your undead purpose is simple: make your lich's immortality as great as possible—organize their journals by century, knit them a warm sweater, listen to their poetry recitals, and, yes, even fend off the occasional band of so-called heroes. If your skelly perishes, you can always make another to take its place.

All you need is a handful of six-sided dice and a few minutes to get started: the rules themselves are covered in under ten pages (and again on the inside of the back cover).

Get ready to rise to the silliest of challenges and play out the goofy stories behind some of fantasy's most beloved dungeon-dwellers (and the necromancers who make them). Skellies is the perfect go-to game for parties, first-time roleplayers, and anyone looking for a good-humored break from the rigors of traditional heroic fantasy.

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