Arcana Familia Expanded Edition

We are in the future – a future where everything is already decided. Men live their lives in vertical cities of glass and steel, lulled by alchemical technology in an apparent order. A divinity has descended on the Earth, offering humanity the peace and tranquility it so desperately wanted in exchange for the freedom to determine its own destiny, making the world a set of perfectly aligned gears. 

More precisely, we are in the Earth Union – the broken dream of a planet united in a single nation that only managed to unify old Europe and US. Technology and religion here are one and the same, with priest-scientists preaching the digital word of the one and only god of the future, The One Who Has Many Names, in an increasinly uneasy alliance with Basileo, immortal ruler of the Earth Union.

The well ordered existence in the Earth Union has cracks at its edges though: other entities, sneaked in hidden from the merciless gaze of The One Who Has Many Names, have contacted from the shadows desperate people who were eager to become their own masters once again. The Aos, creatures of a place/non-place called Wonderland, offered these rebels to break the golden chains of the new divinity and to grant them powers unthinkable for a man of this world, even if the price to be paid in exchange was very high…

Gathered under the aegis of the para-governmental organization Arcana Familia, the Lost Children protect society from both mundane crime and the malevolent influences of supernatural creatures who, one way or another, have penetrated the barrier between this world and… other worlds. This includes the Aos themselves, whose alien interests may diverge considerably from the interests of humanity. The latter must remain oblivious to the events that unfold before its eyes, to avoid, as prophesied by Basileo, the opening of the Door that separates the various worlds and the consequences that this event would unleash.

Arcana Familia system is based on Blackjack. No dice required, but you will need a playing cards deck to play it. This will turn every challenge or combat into an exciting Blackjack match!

The Blackjack System makes the player responsible for balancing the potential and accuracy of an action through what can be considered a subgame. It is an addition that we consider useful to define the so-called "intimate" tone of our game.