Children of New Rome

Children of New Rome is a tabletop RPG set on the road between Constantinople and Baghdad in the year 838. You play soldiers, priests, merchants and healers — not heroes — moving through a country that has used everyone hard. The rules are elegant by design: one core mechanic, light bookkeeping, deep choices. The period does the heavy lifting. The first campaign book, Amorium, walks the year of the great Anatolian sack; the second, Cappadocia, is a year of small seasons in the country that has hidden armies before and will again.

"Two empires bleed along a thin road. Between the lion and the crescent, the small people walk — and you play them."

• Publisher: Children of New Rome (independent)
• Designer: see bio below
• System: bespoke d6 / d20 hybrid
• Players: 1 GM + 2–5 players
• Session length: 2–4 hours
• Campaign length: one-shot to year-long
• Page count (rulebook): 240
• Format: hardcover + PDF; boxed set in development

• The Rulebook — in print. The core game: faith, wounds, travel, coin and time.
• Amorium (AD 838) — in editing, late 2026. Full campaign book on the year of the great sack.
• Cappadocia — in editing, 2027. A calendar-as-dungeon campaign in the country of the underground cities.
• Boxed set — in development. Rulebook + Amorium + six pewter figures + double-sided A2 map + dice + handouts.

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RULEBOOK

AMORIUM

BOXED SET (CONCEPT)

We send physical and PDF review copies to outlets covering OSR, indie, and historical RPGs. Email below with your outlet, audience, and intended coverage window. We can post a hardcover anywhere in the UK, EU, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand; PDFs go everywhere.

The game is written by a historian and software designer based in the UK, with two decades at the GM screen and a long interest in the Byzantine frontier. Bio and headshot available on request.

Playtester pull-quotes will be added here as they come in from the open playtest. To get them yours, the fastest route is a review copy and a tag on social.

For press, review copies, interviews, and convention bookings:

hello@childrenofnewrome.com

We answer within two working days. UK-based; replies are in English.