Dawnsbury Days

Dawnsbury Days is a 2D turn-based tactics game with CRPG elements that's based on the rules of PF2E, the second edition of a powerful tabletop ruleset originally published under the OGL.

You play as the Dawnsbury Four, a group of four young heroes from a small town. You choose their class, feats, spells and other abilities as you lead them through a quest to save their home town from a multitude of dangers.

You will fight monsters and face dangers, yes, but you will also make friends, acquire loot and level up, and eventually — hopefully — you will defeat whatever sinister force is behind all the dangers that have beset Dawnsbury for the last seven years.

The main adventure path can take about 4 hours for a single playthrough, but you can then replay it with different party compositions and besides the main adventure path, you can also try and defeat some of the powerful foes in additional scenarios in free encounter mode.

Features

• A complex OGL-based rule system which makes for strong strategic gameplay, highly faithful to the tabletop rules
• Extreme character customization

9 ancestries (Dwarf, Elf, Gnome, Goblin, Halfling, Human, Leshy, Oozekin, Orc)

• 17 classes (Alchemist, Barbarian, Bard, Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Champion, Kineticist, Magus, Monk, Oracle, Psychic, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, Strategist, Wizard), each with different play patterns

• 300+ feats and 250+ spells to further customize your characters

• More available through mods

• 20+ encounters in the main adventure path telling a story of childhood friends braving their first serious challenges in adventuring, and 10+ additional scenarios in free encounter mode (more available with the Profane Barrier and Good Little Children Never Grow Up DLC expansions)

• Full voice acting for every single line, with cutscenes at the beginning and end of every encounter

• Character level cap is 4. (It increases to 9 with the DLC expansions.)

• Highly moddable: Support for custom maps, encounters, campaigns, portraits, rules, classes and more

Tactical combat

Each turn, you get three actions to spend on moving, attacking, casting spells, taking combat maneuvers, drinking potions and defensive or other actions.

You can preview the effects and success probability of all actions before you commit and weigh your options. All combat encounters are balanced, but many are difficult: To win the game reliably and consistently on the harder difficulties, you will want to make use of almost all of your options.

Every +1 matters: Buffing your allies, and demoralizing or flanking your enemies are often better options than making a third attack in a turn which would be affected by a very punishing multiple attack penalty anyway.

A cinematic experience

This game is a cinematic experience, where you fight one combat encounter after another, and these fights are interspersed only with (fully voiced!) cinematic cutscenes. The game doesn't waste your time: animations are lightning fast, cutscenes skippable, and you can really focus on the engaging combat experience.

Or you can choose an easy difficulty, and enjoy the story of the Dawnsbury Four, young adventurers full of hope and optimisim grappling with their first real challenges.

Story of the Dawnsbury Four

Ever since the Night of the Shooting Stars seven years ago, the small town of Dawnsbury has been beset by dangers. The nearby volcano hasn't ceased erupting, support from neighbouring towns has lessened and kobold brigands terrorize the countryside. What's more, the Golden Candelabra, an artifact that protected Dawnsbury for generations, has been lost that same night.

But now new heroes may rise up: you play as the Dawnsbury Four, a group of childhood friends who have trained for years under the tutelage of the town mentor Roderick, and you are now finally ready to embark on your first quest: to find and retrieve the Golden Candelabra and bring it back to Dawnsbury where it belongs.

But even that may only usher in further dangers and provoke whatever sinister force is behind all these woes...

Accurate to tabletop

Dawnsbury Days uses the rules of PF2E, the second edition of a powerful tabletop ruleset originally published under the OGL, and strives to remain as faithful to them as possible, so that the gameplay of Dawnsbury Days mirrors your experiences when playing with friends around the table.

You play exclusively in turn-based mode on grid-based battlefields, and you can preview and review all dice rolls required to make attacks, saving throws or to deal damage.

The game also tries to replicate the elusive 'feel' of a tabletop roleplaying game, with story, characters and encounter design all in service to that goal.

Deep character customization

You choose your characters' ancestry, heritage, background, class, subclass, ability scores, skills, feats, spells and items — and that's just at level one.

On each level up (up to level 4, which is the level cap for the main adve