Imaginary Empire Games

Imaginary Empire Games Making award-winning tabletop roleplaying games.
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Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington) Aotearoa, New Zealand, Imaginary Empire produces critically acclaimed character-driven tabletop roleplaying games. These games aim to find new, innovative, ways to align the rules of the game with the intended experience of the players.

Sign up today for the Arcane Crimes Division at Kapcon, January 20-21 in Wellington, New Zealand. Five different cases f...
08/12/2023

Sign up today for the Arcane Crimes Division at Kapcon, January 20-21 in Wellington, New Zealand.

Five different cases for Arcane Crimes Division are available in a dedicated stream over two days. Play just one case or sign up for several.

Which detective team will cause the most Collateral Damage over the weekend? There's only one way to find out...
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In the spirit of the season, Winterland a new case for the Arcane Crimes Division tabletop roleplaying game, has just be...
01/12/2023

In the spirit of the season, Winterland a new case for the Arcane Crimes Division tabletop roleplaying game, has just been released. For the month of December 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Unicef Ukraine and Refugee Response Appeal.

This is a complete case for the Arcane Crimes Division roleplaying game. A new Detective Background for the Yeti Anarchist is also included with Winterland.

Winterland - A Case for the Arcane Crimes Division - For the month of December all the proceeds of Winterland will be donated to the Unicef Ukraine and Refugee Reponse Appea

It's the final few days to back the Casebook for Arcane Crimes Division.  Fully funded and upgraded with lots of amazing...
25/11/2023

It's the final few days to back the Casebook for Arcane Crimes Division. Fully funded and upgraded with lots of amazing art, secure your copy today:

New cases and detective backgrounds for the Arcane Crimes Division tabletop roleplaying game.

Launching December 1, Winterland is a Holiday Special for the Arcane Crimes Division RPG.  All proceeds for the month wi...
24/11/2023

Launching December 1, Winterland is a Holiday Special for the Arcane Crimes Division RPG. All proceeds for the month will be donated to the Unicef Ukraine and Refugee Response Appeal

Imaginary Empire Games has contributed Wicked Lies and Alibis, the ENnie Spotlight Award winning murder mystery game, to...
17/11/2023

Imaginary Empire Games has contributed Wicked Lies and Alibis, the ENnie Spotlight Award winning murder mystery game, to a bundle in support of Doctors Without Borders. The bundle is only $10 and comes with a number of other great products as well:

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Had a great day running Arcane Crimes Division at Roll for Hope, a local Tabletop Roleplaying Convention in support of t...
02/09/2023

Had a great day running Arcane Crimes Division at Roll for Hope, a local Tabletop Roleplaying Convention in support of the Make a Wish Foundation. Lots of on offer!

28/08/2023

A thank you to another wonderful sponsor Imaginary Empire Games

Dale from Imaginary Empire Games will be running their very own Arcane Crimes Division at Roll for Hope, and one lucky winner may score an Arcane Crimes Division prize!

http://imaginaryempiregames.com/

Want to play some great games and support charity at the same time?  There are just a few spaces left for Roll for Hope ...
26/08/2023

Want to play some great games and support charity at the same time? There are just a few spaces left for Roll for Hope on next weekend: https://rollforhope.wordpress.com

09/03/2023

Danger roams the streets of Polarity, lawlessness threatening the innocent. When magical crimes happen, it is up to the brave detectives of the Arcane Crimes Division to be a bastion of hope, to right wrongs, the put criminals behind bars, to...well, you get the idea.

Join us on Friday, 3/10/23, at 9pm EST as we try out Arcane Crimes Division, a new TTRPG by Imaginary Empire Games, now on Kickstarter! 🤩

"Move over Miami Vice, we've got cops with dice!"Check out this review of Arcane Crimes Division by CritStarter:
24/02/2023

"Move over Miami Vice, we've got cops with dice!"

Check out this review of Arcane Crimes Division by CritStarter:

Another detective background from Arcane Crimes Division:Night Elf Stalkers are expert at striking without mercy and dis...
20/02/2023

Another detective background from Arcane Crimes Division:

Night Elf Stalkers are expert at striking without mercy and disappearing without trace. Play a detective with a Stalker background if you want to speak with insects, step through shadows, or take down enemies with your dual crossbow pistols.

Back the fully funded campaign today:
https://kickstarter.com/projects/imaginary-empire/arcane-crimes-division-rpg

Here's a look at detective background from the fully funded Arcane Crimes Division Kickstarter. Tree Folk Sentinels are ...
17/02/2023

Here's a look at detective background from the fully funded Arcane Crimes Division Kickstarter.

Tree Folk Sentinels are emissaries of the Green Heart that resides beyond the city and patient shepherds of the short-lived who live within the city walls. Play a Sentinel if you want to speak with the trees, including long-dead timber, grow and hurl jagged wooden spears or protect your partner with Armour of the Ages.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/imaginary-empire/arcane-crimes-division-rpg/posts

14/02/2023

Arcane Crimes Division brings light-hearted buddy-cop style action to a fantasy city bursting with magic and thick with scheming villains and ruthless scoundrels. The focus of the game is the relationship between detectives, as they crack cases, engage in thrilling chases, and confront criminal masterminds.

Back it now on Kickstarter and you'll immediately receive A History of Magic, the Arcane Crimes Division Quickstart, which contains all the rules needed to play the game and a full scenario to explore the setting and system.

Join the Arcane Crimes Division today on Kickstarter.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/imaginary-empire/arcane-crimes-division-rpg

Are you ready to crack intriguing cases filled with magic and mystery?..Navigate twisting city streets, back-alleys and ...
31/01/2023

Are you ready to crack intriguing cases filled with magic and mystery?
..Navigate twisting city streets, back-alleys and rooftops in thrilling chases?
..Unleash devastating powers and matchless skills to bring villains to justice?

Arcane Crimes Division is a new roleplaying game that takes the buddy-cop genre, adds a massive dose of fantasy, and brings it to your tabletop with a straightforward, entertaining, game system.

The Kickstarter campaign launches on February 14, 2023. Sign up today! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/imaginary-empire/arcane-crimes-division-rpg

Written for the Game Chef competition, Fragment is a free science fiction roleplaying game where players develop stories...
10/12/2022

Written for the Game Chef competition, Fragment is a free science fiction roleplaying game where players develop stories about the increasingly complex relationship between machine and human. Art by Jeff Brown. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/191951/Fragment

You are a detective assigned to the Arcane Crimes Division in the sprawling, fantasy, city of Polarity. Together with yo...
03/12/2022

You are a detective assigned to the Arcane Crimes Division in the sprawling, fantasy, city of Polarity. Together with your partner, you investigate magic and supernatural crimes, engage in thrilling chases and confront monsters and scoundrels. All while trying to keep your Captain’s blood-pressure from boiling over and consigning you to paperwork hell.

Detectives in the Arcane Crimes Division have exceptional skills and abilities; born from battle, scarred by magic, or drawn from long criminal experience. These abilities provide detectives with unique advantages when working a case, conducting a chase, or resolving a conflict. During each shift, teams of detectives battle the clock, pursuing leads across the city to unravel crimes, and bring the guilty to justice, before it’s too late.

Play as a Siege Automaton, powered by magic and steam; a Spell-Runner, skilled at navigating deadly dungeons, a Crimson Court Vampire, ageless and unnaturally attractive; a Blade, acrobatic and fearless and many more. More details soon.

EPOCH is a game of character-driven survival horror. The goal is to deliver a tense and scary experience in a single gam...
19/11/2022

EPOCH is a game of character-driven survival horror. The goal is to deliver a tense and scary experience in a single game session. But how does it work?

An EPOCH scenario will try to eliminate characters 6 times; that's a certainty. Each player has 3 cards, each allowing their character to survive elimination once. No dice or GM fiat are involved – but with only 3 cards and 6 elimination rounds, are they all doomed?

After each elimination round there’s a secret ballot for the ‘most interesting’ character. The winner returns a card to their hand boosting their characters survival. Everyone else gets a Flashback card, interrupting the game to describe a small part of their backstory

These flashbacks can drive amazing stories, as each player stives to win the ballot. Often these make for the most memorable parts of the game as people let their creative ideas flow. But there’s another feature that also drives the drama…

Each player also gets a Hero/Zero card allowing them to either save another character by playing an extra on of their cards, or save themselves, costing another character one of their cards. The way this unfolds in every game is different and compelling.

These elements combine in a way that in every game it’s almost certain that some characters will be eliminated, and that some will survive. This puts the focus of the game on the characters as they try and survive the horror rather than monsters or villains who threaten them.

Finally, we need to know if the surviving characters will have a happy ending, or if the horror looks poised to strike as the credits roll. At the start of the game the GM lays out the Horror Track face down. These 10 cards reveal what’s needed to secure a happy ending.

Check out the full EPOCH range here, including more than 20 horror scenarios:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/3531/Imaginary-Empire/subcategory/6113_22953/EPOCH

Kia ora and welcome.  Since 2012 Imaginary Empire Games has published tabletop roleplaying games that aim to find new, i...
19/11/2022

Kia ora and welcome. Since 2012 Imaginary Empire Games has published tabletop roleplaying games that aim to find new, innovative, ways to align the rules of the game with the intended experience of the players.

These include EPOCH (nominated for ENnie Awards in five categories), Wicked Lies & Alibis (ENnie Judges Spotlight Award winner), Death of Legends (winner of an Indie Groundbreaker Award for Best Rules), Instruments of the Chrysanthemum Throne (winner of a NZ Games Award in the category of Excellence in Narrative) and more.

The full catalogue is here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/3531/Imaginary-Empire

Stay tuned for some exciting new games, currently in development.

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