Kosmic: The Bleeding Wheel
Every cosmology says the planes are elsewhere, reached through careful doors. In Kosmic the Wheel turns too close. The planes grind against the mortal world, and where they press hardest, reality tears. Through those tears they don't send armies; they send themselves. A valley wakes as the Forge. A city's color drains. The world is not being invaded. It is being overwritten, one wound at a time, and Hearth, the last warm, ordinary place, is where you stand.
By Lee Richard Berman · the world of Kosmic, the AI-guided party RPG
Free Player Packet
A 22-page, spoiler-safe guide for players: the common knowledge, character prompts, safety tools and campaign records you need to play, without the Game Master's secrets. Send it to your table before session zero. Personal table use and printing are permitted.
- Welcome to Hearth — what everyone knows, and the words for the road
- The four verbs — seal, harvest, worship, or walk
- Make a Kosmic character — six questions and a spark worksheet
- Class and ancestry — familiar classes in Hearth, Kosmic-flavored directions, ancestry quick picks
- Factions at a glance — Wardens, Riftguild, Chorus, Crowns, Wheelwrights
- Lastlight Hold — the people you can know and the rumors you already heard
- Play the first session — questions to ask and spotlight cues
- Bonds and party ties — a d12 bond table
- Safety and tone — lines, veils, pause, open door
- Character and campaign record — Marks, promises, what the world remembers
- Pocket cards to cut out, a player FAQ, and notes from the road
The full campaign book
The complete setting and adventure path: 312 pages, about 91,000 words, in 36 chapters. It is a campaign setting, a shelf of ready adventures, and a memory for a world that changes when the characters touch it.
- The setting: the Spine, the Wheel and its spokes, factions, powers and gods, history, the world, and the named gods
- Lastlight Hold, the starting region, plus notable people and notable locations
- Sealing, Harvesting & Worship — the game's central subsystem
- A bestiary, Kosmic subclasses, spells and feats, ancestries and peoples, and magic items
- The GM's Toolkit, A Player's Primer, and a tear-out player booklet
- The Failing Seal, a complete three-hour adventure for a level 1 party
- The Quickening campaign, Faces of the Wheel, The Grey Court, The Charter's Price, and The Widening
- Four more adventures: Choir-Shrine of Brass Hunger, Tickwork Cathedral, Dunmar Intact Quarter, The Last Feast of Bramblewild
- Beneath Hearth & Beyond the Rim, and The Long Turning — a campaign from level 1 to level 20
- Atlas, maps and table resources, a glossary, and an index
Designed to be compatible with fifth edition fantasy roleplaying rules (SRD 5.1). Not an official product; not affiliated with or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast.
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Play it with an AI Dungeon Master
The Bleeding Wheel is the world of Kosmic, a shared-world party RPG guided by one AI Dungeon Master with honest dice. Kosmic installs through the Dungeon Launcher; invites to the playtest go out in Discord.