The Adventure

Lots of RPG systems are designed to tell any story. They're broad, flexible systems that you can spend loads of time telling tale after tale in.

That's not RT:0. RT:0 has just the one story: this one. You can change it as much as you like while running it for your friends (or write whatever else you want), but (at least at time of writing), RT:0 is an adventure that just comes with just the one campaign.

The Four Act Structure

The main storyline is divided into four acts.

Act 2: Krater, Things Seem Like They're Going Well

A Few Major and Minor Arcana Get Defeated By The Players

  • Let the players explore a bit and get embroiled in their own nemeses.

Act 3: Florin, Collapse

In this act, players gain access to the seat of Paradisa Lua's power, Florin, just as the story hits its "darkest before the dawn".

  • The Hanged Man reveals themselves and fully corrupts all of the other True Horrors.
  • The Sun gets corrupted by The Hanged Man and the Sun itself goes dark, giving Paradise Lua maybe 48 hours on battery before it, too, goes dark.
  • The Hanged Man is destroyed: Judgement is awakened.
  • If The World wakes up, the universe itself will come to an end.

Act 4: Nadir, Walk Backwards Into Hell, The Surface of the Moon

The final act.

Players start on the run and hopeless in a Paradise Lua that's much less hospitable than even the horrible Paradise Lua from Act 1.

However: any of the hosts that they Saved in Acts 1, 2, and 3, they can shut down their connection to their True Horrors, losing all powers but breaking The Hanged Man's link to them, weakening Judgement.

Running A Smaller Version of the Campaign, or A One Shot

Just run Act 1?

How Does This Work?