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

Free roguelike RPG · Discord and browser

Your hero is going to die inside Discord

A turn-based roguelike RPG from Ashsquare to Zenterlaw, 26 cities down one long road. Death is permanent. Your legacy isn't, which is the whole reason to keep going.

Free to play. Cosmetics only: nothing you can buy makes you stronger. That part's on you.

One character, everywhere

One hero, three places to lose them: a server, your DMs or a browser tab

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. Losing has never looked this good.

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; the spider is still waiting on its final portrait.

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.


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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, so everyone sees your best moment and your last one.

How a life goes

Town is safe. The road is not. You're going anyway.

  1. 1

    Gear up in town

    Gather, fish and craft with account-wide life skills. Trade on the market, take bounties and pick your 4 abilities. Nothing in town can kill you, which is exactly why you can't stay.

  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. Bravery is non-refundable.

  3. 3

    Die, and leave something behind

    Level, gold and gear go with you. Legacy, life skills, an heirloom and everything you learned stay for the next hero, who will be told you were brave.

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. 23 cities are open so far. Nobody has won yet, partly because we're still building the last 3.

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

Classes

Start as a Warrior. Earn everything else.

Most classes unlock by beating a gate boss, and they stay unlocked for every life on your account. Even if that life ends a minute later. It happens.

  • 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

5 more classes stay under wraps until someone earns them. We're not spoiling them here, and neither is the wiki.

Better with friends

Parties of four, and a server that never forgets

  • Run any expedition with up to three friends. Gate bosses scale with the party.
  • Loot rolls Need, Greed or Pass. Most friendships survive it.
  • 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, where friends can pay their respects or screenshot it. Usually both.

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

We sell looks. Never power.

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

Cosmetics only, never pay to win. Your stats stay exactly as good as you made them.

Themes

  • Thunder · free
  • Ember
  • Tidewater

Portrait frames

  • House
  • Silver
  • Bone

Ashsquare is waiting. So is your first obituary.

Add RPG Thunder to your server or your account, or start in the browser with your Discord login. It's free, and nobody has to know how the first one went.