Narrative dice system
Exodus NDS Core Rules
The core rules site for the Exodus Narrative Dice System.
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Books and roleplaying works by Paul Davis.
I write fantasy, build playable worlds, and create tabletop supplements for players who like myth, magic, strange places, and rules that stay out of the story's way.
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Explore the original books and projects, five Exodus NDS universes, and an expanded sourcebook library.
Fantasy world
World of Dort
A living campaign world with lore, lands, history, and maps for Dort.
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Dort Species Guide
A playable species guide for Dort campaigns, with 21 species and 57 lineages for Exodus NDS characters.
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5E supplement
Dung & Dragons
Wyrmdust, waste, and wonder for fantasy tabletop campaigns.
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Fantasy supplement
Fey Dragons
Dragons touched by the Feywild, built for memorable encounters.
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Fantasy supplement
Everyday Enchantments
Useful magic and small wonders for everyday fantasy play.
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Fantasy supplement
Infernal Law
Adjudication and interpretation for contracts, devils, and dangerous bargains.
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Exodus NDS settings
Five universes. New stories.
Explore complete settings, read their books online, and find PDFs, character sheets, and table aids on each universe’s site.
Exodus NDS universe
Ix
Fantasy in the world of Dort, with eleven playable peoples, three traditions of magic, and a world of gods, planes, and souls.
Universe book
Ix Player's Guide
Eleven playable peoples, backgrounds and careers, and Arcane, Divine, and Primal magic.
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Universe book
Ix GM Guide
The world of Dort for the GM: its gods, planes, and soul economy.
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Table companion
Ix Creature Catalog
Dragons, devils, demons, undead, and more, with stat blocks for the GM.
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Void Drifters
Spacefaring crews, rival powers, distant systems, and a ship to call your own.
Universe book
Void Drifters Player's Guide
The setting, five playable species, careers, skills, talents, starter gear, and common ships.
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Universe book
Void Drifters GM Guide
The full universe for the GM: systems, rival powers, hidden politics, campaign tools, and faction clocks.
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Adventure
Void Drifters Starter Adventure
A quickstart first job: a pregenerated crew, a starting ship, and the rules needed to play it.
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Universe book
Void Drifters Vehicles Manual
Ships and vehicles: builders, ship construction, modules, weapons, and defenses.
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Universe book
Void Drifters Equipment Guide
The deep gear catalog: weapons, armor, tools, ship gear, trade goods, and the black market.
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Universe book
Void Drifters Sector Atlas
Sectors, routes, systems, freeports, hazards, and map-facing adventure hooks.
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Table companion
Void Drifters Adversary Catalog
Pirates, syndicates, corporate security, imperial agents, and alien threats, with stat blocks.
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Ink & Mayhem
Cartoon physics, studio chaos, Shtick-driven characters, and dangerous punchlines.
Universe book
Ink & Mayhem Universe Guide
The complete cartoon universe: Toon types, Shtick-driven play, cartoon physics, and a cast of ready-made adversaries.
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Table companion
Pressure Trackers
The five Season pressure timers from Chapter Ten, on a per-PC sheet and a Season-master sheet.
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Division 5: Classified
Espionage across three eras: occupied Europe, the Cold War, and the digital present.
Universe book
Division 5: Classified
Espionage in three eras, from occupied Europe to the Cold War to the digital present.
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Table companion
Operational Packet Forms
Cover sheets, mission packets and handout forms for the GM, a table aid for Division 5: Classified.
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The Hollow
Modern occult investigation, hidden factions, cursed objects, spirits, and bargains.
Universe book
The Hollow Universe Guide
Modern occult investigation: investigators, cursed objects, spirits and bargains, hidden factions, and GM tools.
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The Hollow Case File: Lot 214
A one-session introductory case for two players and a GM: an artifact recovery in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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Exodus NDS sourcebooks
Thirteen new sourcebooks, from fantasy weapons and mounts to cyberware and starships. Read each book online at Exodus NDS. Crown Meridian and Openframe expand the Void Drifters ship catalog.
Exodus NDS sourcebook
The Fantasy Armory
Eighty melee and thrown weapons across ten families, each with a full stat line, price, availability, and qualities that make it play differently from the weapon beside it. Twenty-four new weapon qualities and a pricing model any GM can rescale to their own setting.
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Exodus NDS sourcebook
The Ranged Armory
Forty launchers across five families, from a shepherd's sling to a counterweight trebuchet, and a two-axis ammunition system of nine shafts and nine heads combined into quivers. Switching quivers is a maneuver, so one bow covers several roles.
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Exodus NDS sourcebook
The Armourer
Twenty-eight armours, helms, and shields from the padded jack to the bomb suit, with two qualities that make damage types matter: mail turns an edge and gives way to a mace, and a concealed vest stops a bullet and parts for a knife.
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Exodus NDS sourcebook
The Stable
Seventy-one mounts for narrative dice games, from donkeys and warhorses to riding bears, raptor-runners, pegasi, wyverns, and hippocampi, with rules for riding, mounted combat, flying and swimming mounts, training, upkeep, and barding for every body plan.
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Exodus NDS sourcebook
The Apothecary
Poisons, drugs, and chemical agents for narrative dice games: a hundred and one substances in four periods, from hemlock and viper venom to truth serum, combat stims, and nerve gas. Every poison is a clock of resist checks with time to treat it, and nothing kills on a single roll.
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Exodus NDS sourcebook
The Black Powder Armory
Fifty-five weapons and nine armours from 1400 to 1938: matchlocks, the flintlock pistols and boarding weapons of the age of sail, the revolvers and repeaters of the frontier, and the trench gear of 1915. Every lock reloads at its own pace, measured in maneuvers.
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Exodus NDS sourcebook
The Modern Armory
Eighty-three firearms and explosives in twelve families, from a .22 pocket pistol to a shoulder-fired missile, covering 1939 to today. Calibre sets damage, the heavy calibres need Might, and concealment is a number. With twenty-five ammunition loads and fifteen attachments.
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Exodus NDS sourcebook
The Heavy Armory
Sixty-five crew-served and vehicle weapons from the battering ram to the guided missile: siege engines, the great guns of the age of sail, artillery, tank guns, bombs, and torpedoes for narrative dice games. With rules for crews, broadsides, indirect fire, and sieges, and thirty-nine ships, tanks, and aircraft to use them on.
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Exodus NDS sourcebook
The Chrome Market
Near-future and cyberpunk gear for narrative dice games: smart weapons, armour, thirty-eight implants and twelve pieces of bioware that cost Strain Points for good, hacking run as a clock, drones, a watched city with Coverage and Heat, and street prices for all of it.
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Exodus NDS sourcebook
The Stellar Armory
Sixty-six personal weapons in six technologies (kinetic, beam, plasma, disruption, gravitic, and ordnance) and sixteen armours built to meet them. Every technology has an armour that stops it and an armour it goes straight through.
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Exodus NDS sourcebook
The Starship Armory
Forty-five vehicle and starship weapons for space opera games on narrative dice: kinetic, missile, beam, plasma, ion, and gravitic weapons in four mount sizes from fighter guns to capital batteries, with firing rules, point defence, personal and vehicle damage scales, and a chapter of defences.
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Void Drifters sourcebook
Crown Meridian Ship Catalog
Eight ship lines and eighteen hulls from Crown Meridian Shipworks, the armored shipbuilder of the Irnan Directorate, from a marine boarding craft to a convoy carrier. Every generation of every line with validated stats and prices, two Classic older ships, eight components only Crown builds, and the rules for buying, servicing and upgrading them.
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Void Drifters sourcebook
Openframe Ship Catalog
Eight ship lines and nineteen hulls from Antaean Openframe, the modular shipbuilder of the Antaean League, from a one-crew work pod to a container hauler. Every version of every line with validated stats, prices and license fees, two Classic older ships, eight components only Openframe builds, and the rules for buying, licensing and upgrading them.
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About Paul
Author, writer, game master, husband, father.
For decades, I have been immersed in tabletop roleplaying games, bringing characters, lands, and legends to life as a dedicated game master. That love of storytelling and worldbuilding has grown into novels, sourcebooks, and tools for other tables.
Outside of storytelling, I am a PHP programmer, proud father, and devoted husband. When I am not writing, coding, or preparing the next campaign, I am usually planning the next cruise.
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