Villages & Strongholds
Small islands of custom and firelight, each protected by traditions outsiders ignore at their peril.
Get the Quickstart A Slavic darkfolk roleplaying game
Your dice are a currency.
Every spell is a debt.
A world of old faith · hungry forests · unpaid debts
The world remembers
A land where belief
leaves teeth marks.
Strigovia is a Slavic darkfolk setting shaped by ancient rites, village fears, and a wilderness that does not recognize human law.
You do not arrive as chosen heroes. You arrive as people with names, obligations, and reasons to risk the road. The things beyond the firelight know the difference.
Beyond the village boundary
The forest
is listening.
Cross thresholds, observe taboos, and learn which spirits can be reasoned with—and which should never learn your name.
A realm shaped by stories
Know the road.
Fear the reason.
Strigovia is not a map to be conquered. It is a web of settlements, old paths, seasonal rites, and bargains whose meaning changes from valley to valley.
Living Wilderness
Forests remember trespass, rivers carry omens, and familiar trails may refuse to lead you home.
Spirits & Monsters
Some can be bargained with. Others are hunger given a name. Knowing which is which is part of survival.
Factions & Faiths
Old gods, new powers, village elders, and wandering orders all claim the right to define what is sacred.
Rules with consequences
Spend what
you cannot replace.
A system built to make every choice visible at the table: tactile, dramatic, and inseparable from the fiction.
Symbolic Dice
Your dice are more than randomizers. They are a finite currency: wager them, lose them, or hold them back for what waits deeper in the woods.
Read the ruleBurnout
Push beyond your limits and your strongest dice begin to fade. Every victory asks what you are willing to spend to earn it.
Read the ruleDebt Magic
Magic answers—but never for free. Invoke old powers, accept their price, and carry the debt into the story.
Read the ruleArbonautics
Travel through a living mythic landscape where paths, seasons, taboos, and spirits reshape every expedition.
Read the ruleHow a test works
Choose. Wager.
Face the result.
- AssembleBuild a pool from what your character brings to the moment.
- CommitDecide how much of your strength you are willing to put at risk.
- Read the signsThe dice decide more than success: they shape the consequence.
A world ready for your table
One realm.
Two ways to enter.
The Original System
The complete Strigovia experience: symbolic dice, Burnout, Debt Magic, and a game rhythm born from its world.
5E Compatible
Bring the setting, creatures, adventures, and darkfolk atmosphere into an existing fifth-edition campaign.
VTT Ready
Play Strigovia online with digital maps, tokens, and automated character sheets.
400+pages of setting and play
144pages in the Quickstart
2rules paths into Strigovia
Your first night begins here
Discover the
Quickstart.
Meet the world, learn the core system, and take your first steps beyond the village lights.