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RPG Thunder
Painting of a warrior, an archer and a wizard on a burning battlefield under a lightning storm

Free to play · Discord and browser

A roguelike RPG you play inside Discord

Fight turn by turn from Ashsquare to Zenterlaw, 26 cities away. Death is permanent. Your legacy is not.

Cosmetics only. Nothing you can buy makes you stronger.

One character, everywhere

Play in a server, in your DMs or full screen in the browser

Your hero lives on your Discord account. Start a fight on your phone in a server channel and finish it at your desk in the browser, with painted portraits, a route map and screen shake.

A battle in the browser: the Warrior Brannoc against a Forest Spider and a Forest Wolf, with HP bars, rage and four abilities
The browser and Discord Activity version. Screens show early art.

RPG ThunderAPPToday at 8:42 PM

Forest Spider · Lv 2 · Round 3

Intent: Web (slows and weakens you)

Forest Spider portrait

Spider ████░░░░░░ 11/27 · Poisoned (2)

You    ███████░░░ 143/201 · Rage 45

You Rend the spider for 11. It bleeds.


StrikeRendShield BashExecute
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In Discord, your screens are private and every click updates them in place. Deaths, boss kills and rare loot post to the whole server.

How a life goes

Relax in town, then commit and see if you come back

  1. 1

    Gear up in town

    Gather, fish and craft with account-wide life skills. Trade on the market, take bounties and pick your four abilities.

  2. 2

    Commit to an expedition

    A route map of 6 to 10 stops: fights, elites, events, camps and treasure. It ends at the gate boss, and beating it opens the next city.

  3. 3

    Die, and leave something behind

    Level, gold and gear go with you. Legacy, life skills, one heirloom and everything you learned stay for the next hero.

The road

26 cities, Ashsquare to Zenterlaw

Every city has a gate boss between you and the next one. Reaching Zenterlaw in a single life is the win, and almost nobody does it.

Browse the cities
Painted world map with Queensbay, Birchfall, Ashsquare and the other cities along the roads

Classes

Start as a Warrior. Earn the rest on the road.

Beating a gate boss unlocks a class for every life on your account, even if that life ends a minute later.

  • Warrior crest

    Warrior

    Tank · Rage

    A shield-bearing bulwark who grows angrier with every blow. Builds Rage by dealing and taking damage, then spends it to protect allies and crush foes.

    Every hero starts here

  • Cleric crest

    Cleric

    Healer · Faith

    A devout healer who mends wounds, purges curses and smites the wicked with holy fire. Spends Faith to keep the party standing.

    Unlocked by Ashsquare's gate boss

  • Mage crest

    Mage

    Damage · Mana

    A scholar of fire, frost and the arcane. Fragile, but nothing in the realm hits harder or melts groups faster. Spends Mana, which slowly regenerates.

    Unlocked by Dayfal's gate boss

Better with friends

Parties of four, and a server that remembers

  • Run any expedition with up to three friends. Gate bosses scale with the party.
  • Loot rolls Need, Greed or Pass, the way it always should have.
  • In a party you go down before you go out. Lose the fight, or get left behind, and it's permanent.
  • Every death gets an obituary in the graveyard channel.

Obituary · Day 4

Here lies Brannoc the Warrior

Level 12 · Birchfall

Killed by a Forest Spider. He had a potion. He was saving it.
Three days later, the ghost of Brannoc blocks the path. He still has the potion.

Fair play

Cosmetics only. Never pay to win.

The game is free. What you can buy changes how your screens, portrait frames and obituary cards look. It never touches stats, stamina, loot or odds.

Themes

  • Thunder · free
  • Ember
  • Tidewater

Portrait frames

  • House
  • Silver
  • Bone

Ashsquare is waiting

Add RPG Thunder to your server or your account, or start in the browser with your Discord login.