Gather your Party. Heed the Narrator’s word. Wielders attain their Artifacts to bear them into great tests of strength, wit and will.
Wielder TTRPG (Tabletop role playing game)
Wielder is a conceptual, collaborative storytelling game which derives from the great adventure role playing games of the past half century.
Each new adventure begun is an opportunity for the collected Party and Narrator to bring to the table, unique, inspiring ideas from their personal experience, history, popular culture, mythology, science and literature. The product of the group brainstorming session guided by the Narrator, culminates in a first outing into a unique, exciting, possibly dangerous world which the Party investigates, interacts with and changes through their choices. Each Party member keeps their personal notes and carries a set of multi-sided dice which they use to roll on attempted actions their character may succeed or fail at.
The creation of an original, inspired character, made in part from the mechanics and rules of the game, and the imagination of the individual is the essential piece which allows each Wielder player to experiment, investigate and build a proxy adventurer that will change over time.
The Wielder game set will include the rulesets, Player documents, Narrator documents, 15 Class Archetypes, Bestiary 1, Citizens 1, the Twain and Easterly Realm storyarcs, maps and supporting documents.
Wielder has been created by a committed group of TTRPG gaming enthusiast and friends who came together from quite different backgrounds and experiences to play, experiment with and write new adventures with existing RPG game models.
While teaching as a fulltime High School Visual Arts instructor in Harlem, New York and working with students with social and anxiety disorders, the benefits of collaborative story telling, character development and in person social gaming, particularly with existing TTRPG game systems, became apparent and inspired the creation of Wielder. There is great potential in this type of social, immersive, intellectual investigation and game/puzzle play dynamic that may be wielded as a way to inspire and engage with those individuals who seek different avenues of creativity and expression in their hobbies and pastimes.
Please join us > Reach out if you have an interest in working with us as content creators, play testers, or if you wish to set up a play session using the Wielder Game Model and materials. > Jason/JEstrin jestrin37@gmail.com / Queries, comments, thoughtful insights.
Thanks to: Grandmother Hova, Dekaider, Tikinagi, Grinner, Lucy, Arthur, Kallisto, M-19, Kin
Keep Checking in > We are aiming for more playtesting with wider groups and parties.
Reach out to JEstrin at jestrin37@gmail.com for info about Wielder, playtests, hosting a demo session and discussions about potential for TTRPG work in educational settings, social anxiety disorder work, addiction recovery work as an outlet for creativity and adventure and other avenues of change.
Order a Wielder game set > Reach out to jestrin37@gmail.com / Materials may be shared digitally or shipped at this stage of the process. We are currently in development, but wish to get new Parties and Narrators playing!