Candela Obscura is 1 Year Old!

We recorded our Candela Obscura Live Show from our Los Angeles event on May 25th! Come check out this special one-shot with players Matthew Mercer, Laura Bailey, Marisha Ray, and Khary Payton with a story led by led by Game Master Spenser Starke. The inimitable Taliesin Jaffe also joined us as our Master of Ceremonies!

Candela Obscura is a tabletop roleplaying game that places you in the roles of investigators working for an esoteric order.
In this game of investigative horror, individuals of varied talents are brought together under the organization Candela Obscura. You’ll pursue strange occurrences and encounter dangerous magicks, fighting back against a mysterious source of corruption and bleed.
Candela Obscura is the first to use the Illuminated Worlds System, a system that uses 6-sided dice and lends itself to narrative, arc-driven play.

The Circle of the Silver Screen

Alternate Front End VoD

Credits
  • Lead Game Design: Spenser Starke and Rowan Hall
  • Written By: Rowan Hall and Spenser Starke
  • Editor: Karen Twelves
  • Managing Editor: Matthew Key
  • Production: Ivan Van Norman and Alex Uboldi
  • Proofreading: Jacky Leung
  • Additional Game Design: Christopher Grey, Tracey Harrison, and Taliesin Jaffe
  • Layout: De La Rosa Design
  • Cultural Consultants: Basheer Ghouse, Pam Punzalan, Erin Roberts, Christine Sandquist, Liam Stevens
  • Military & Political Consultant: Anthony Joyce-Rivera
  • Game Development Consultant: Mike Underwood
  • Additional Editing: Jared Deiro, Darcy Ross
  • Additional Writing: Carlos Cisco, Tracey Harrison, Anthony Joyce-Rivera, Sam Maggs, Mike Underwood
  • Graphic Design: Aaron Monroy, Bryan Weiss
  • Artists: Shaun Ellis, Jamie Harrison, Allie Irwin, Amelia Leonards, Lily McDonnell, Justin O’Neal, Sunga Park, Gustavo Rodrigues Pelissari, Doug Telford
  • Map Design: Marc Moureau
  • Cover Artist: John Harper (Limited Edition), De La Rosa Design (Standard)
  • Artist / Ancient Languages / Spell Design: Stevie Morley
  • Original Concept Created By: Taliesin Jaffe and Chris Lockey
  • Illuminated Worlds System Design: Stras Acimovic and Layla Adelman
  • Illuminated Worlds Preliminary Design: Daniel Kwan, Eloy Lasanta, Matthew Mercer

Purchase Available in:

  • Critical Role shops (US, UK, CA, AU, and EU, standard & limited, bundled with a PDF)
  • Darrington Press Guild stores (standard & limited)
  • Other friendly local game stores (standard only)
  • Demiplane’s Candela Obscura Nexus
  • Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I made a Weird: Medium on Demiplane. Chor (derivative of Petrichor) and their abilities are tied to an electric event that ended the war.

    Style
    There is a pulsing quality to Chor’s body movements that makes most people stay away out of instinct. It reminds them of a convulsing or rabid animal. Playing it off as dancing has only gotten so far. The reality is not too different, unfortunately, in that there is an involuntary contraction of muscles to such an extent as to twist them into unnatural poses. Chor appears normal when viewed directly, but in periphery, the muscle contractions are viewed more violently/accurately (twitches become pain-wracked poses in extreme moments), lending to even more unsettling perception from peers and the like. They have a linked piercing from septum to left ear lobe and the chain between is very thin. It normally rests on a temporary bandage because the chain has been sharpened. When the bandage is removed, the chain cuts into Chor’s cheek and keeps focus in times of distraction. The locals claim to hear music coming from Chor’s place of business (an unadorned curiosities shop with a noticeable residency of a number of local cats), though there are no musical instruments to be seen. The music has no source, though some claim it comes from underground, and they would be right. Chor has furnished what might be best described as a sound coffin rather than a sound booth. When the sounds and voices in Chor’s mind need competition, Chor gets into the sound coffin and has some powerful speakers within to sing back and bring equilibrium.

    Catalyst
    “Newfaire doesn’t care.” has been Chor’s motto for as long as it’s mattered.
    Born an orphan with supernatural abilities, Chor found a grand total of ZERO people who were able to resist the temptation to exploit Chor’s abilities and risk their execution as a heretic (such as The Pyre and the Esoteric Order of New Sciences (EONS) have nearly done). The Red Hand has expended the most effort to recruit Chor for their adept abtilities at scrying the essence of objects and persons magical.
    Fortunately for Candela, the Red Hand’s capitalist ethos keeps them from being truly trustworthy.
    Fortunately for Chor, being able to sense the betrayals has provided ample routes of escape.
    The Candela Organization is the only place where Chor feels human, seeing past all the trauma that has warped their life. For Chor, it’s easier to support a faceless thing that can’t be read for fear and deceit.