The First 24 Hours in the Broken World - Broken Weave

The Broken Weave Kickstarter campaign went live this Wednesday at 3pm GMT. Within one hour, it was fully funded — much to the excitement and celebration of the Cubicle 7 team! 

There’s plenty more to come in the Broken Weave Kickstarter and we’ll be adding more Stretch Goals very soon (as we are quickly running out!). So head over to the campaign page if you want to keep up to date with everything we unlock.

Let’s dive into the Broken World.

New Class: The Harrowed

Our first stretch goal comes in the form of a new class: The Harrowed.

The Harrowed do what few people can: they manipulate Decay. 

They are a disparate group of cursed individuals who have uncovered a unique gift: by willingly taking Decay into their bodies, they can temporarily resist its corrupting effects. This lets them use arcane artefacts that would corrupt others, absorb decay to protect their allies, and some can even wield strange reality-warping powers no mortal could possibly boast. Thus, a Harrowed can turn the most dangerous aspect of the Broken World into a powerful, if unpredictable weapon. 

But the true tragedy of the Harrowed is that even they are not completely immune to the Decay they wield. Every time they use their powers to take Decay into themselves, they walk upon a razor's edge — risking horrifying backlash and their irreversible slide towards the point of no return, and a monstrous transformation. 

As a result of their ‘gifts’, many Harrowed characters are shunned or outcast by Havens, becoming wandering nomads in search of a home willing to accept them. This means that, in most cases, when Harrowed finds a community that accepts them, they protect it at all costs.

With this stretch goal met, that means the Decay wielding Harrowed Class will be added to all versions of the Broken Weave book.

Broken Weave Digital Wallpapers

Our second stretch goal was a collection of Digital Wallpapers featuring art from Broken Weave. These will cover a range of resolutions to ensure you can cover your desktop and phones in the most striking imagery from the Broken World.

Here are just a few of the pieces you can expect to enjoy:

Custom Character Sheets

Our third stretch goal was a set of custom character sheets. These sheets not only feature thematic flourishes that match the Broken World aesthetic, but will have dedicated space to track all the vital information your characters need, including mechanics unique to Broken Weave, such as Hope and Despair.

New Lineage: The Forgotten

Our fourth Stretch Goal was a brand new Lineage added to the Broken Weave book: The Forgotten.

For the most part, Humans, Dwarves, Elves, and Halflings are the only non-decayed Lineages left in the Broken World, but it was not always so. Countless Lineages have been lost to time, their people so infused with magic that they had no hope of surviving the Breaking, or too rare and disparate to form lasting communities. 

The Forgotten is a scion of one of these lost Lineages — a unique individual who has somehow survived the death and decline of their people. During character creation, a Forgotten character can pick from a number of bonuses to represent the myriad different species and cultures that have been lost to time. 

One Forgotten may have a bonus to their Armour Class, to represent a reptilian hide or robotic shell, while another may have natural weapons to represent as claws, horns, or razor sharp teeth. As such, the Forgotten is the perfect Lineage to represent any strange and unique Lineage you can imagine.

Yet the Curse of all Forgotten remains the same: your people are gone, spoken of only in half-remembered folktales and crumbling tomes. As knowledge of your lineage and culture slips from memory, your physical form crumbles and fades away with them. 

To be a Forgotten is to treasure your fading heritage, to share it with others, and hope that in doing so you can save yourself, and your people. 

This particular Forgotten Speaker claims to be from a Lineage of god-touched mortals. An abundance of Memoria decorates her antlers, acting like metaphysical tourniquets against the gradual Decay that eats at her very existence. She travels the Broken World, gathering and sharing folktales of her Lineage and culture, in the hope of bringing them back from the brink of extinction.

Broken World Map Markers

Our fifth Stretch Goal is a set of Broken World map markers.

Travel in the Broken World is no easy matter. Time and distance are malleable under the influence of Decay. Yet despite this, mapping the land is an important part of most Havens. Walking the same path with Hope in your heart can give it permanence, shorten distances between your Haven and a valuable resource or ally. 

As a result, Seekers and Sages work together to chart the Broken World as best they can, regularly updating maps as the landscape and its features shift. 

The Digital Map Markers let you replicate this experience at the table. Rather than working with a static map, this collection of evocative icons can be used to represent Havens, Titans, Monsters, and Waymarkers.

As a GM, you can use these assets in a Virtual Tabletop, or simply print and cut them out to hand to your players as they discover the wonders of the Broken World. Then, as reality shifts, you can move them freely around your map in time with the effects of Hope and Decay. 

What’s Next?

There’s plenty more to come in the Broken Weave Kickstarter and we’ll be adding more Stretch Goals very soon (as we are quickly running out!). So head over to the campaign page if you want to keep up to date with everything we unlock.