Delver

Delver is a rules-light, minimalistic game of failed knights, fallen priests, sellswords, mad scholars, dirty rotten scoundrels, tomb robbers, double-crossers, backstabbers, cut purses and cut-throats, testing their wits and their luck in dungeons even darker than their souls.

Delver is also an acronym for Dungeon Exploration, Loot, Violent Encounters and Roleplaying.

But, above all, Delver is an attempt to distill decades of roleplaying and hundreds of games into a modest ruleset that offers everything you need in an RPG.

What’s a Delver?

Delver is how respectable people call those ill-reputed men and women who make a living (and “a dying”) by delving into mines, sewers, ruins, caverns, catacombs and dungeons, to get rid of nasty creatures, exorcize undead monstrosities or retrieve forgotten treasures and knowledge, either by contract or by their own volition.

Obviously, nobody chooses this life unless there’s something deeply wrong, tragic, shady, sinister, or outright bad about their past, which drove them to the fringes of society. And that’s why Delvers are feared, loathed, avoided… or secretly admired. Because they go where no one goes and do what others won’t. For the right price…

Roll a d6 to learn one thing about Delver:

1	Character creation is fast and fun
2	Dice rolls are scarce, and swingy
3	Low Hit Points even on higher levels
4	Magic is unpredictable
5	Combat is dangerous, and deadly
6	Critical Hits and Fumbles are nasty