O.D.I.N.

Occult Dynamics Intelligence Network

A free horror tabletop RPG in which you play agents investigating the supernatural in the present day.

For decades, an organisation that officially does not exist has kept the rifts closed through which something comes in. Its agents call it O.D.I.N. It has no flag and no headquarters that appears on any map. It has Holds, files and people who can never go home.

Create an agentDownload the books

Holdings: 24 books in English and the Halloween mission Hop-tu-Naa, plus handouts and character sheets. Over 2,200 pages, all free. New titles follow the German editions.

What it is about

O.D.I.N. is a tabletop roleplaying game about modern investigators, soldiers and gifted people who work in secret against whatever comes through the rifts. It is played with six-sided dice: white for the attribute, coloured for the skill. Any roll can bring wounds, strain or trauma. On top of that, every class demands its own price.

The six branches

Psion: a young man with closed eyes wearing a riveted metal helmet.PsionThe Choir hears what others cannot. Every Psion wears a helmet of Alloy S.Price: ResonanceThaumaturge: an older woman listens, hand to her ear, in a vault lined with drawers and candles.ThaumaturgeThe Collegium keeps the crystals. Every stone has a number, and every one of them whispers.Price: WhisperSoldier: a man in combat gear kneels with a rifle in a pine forest.SoldierThe Hammer of O.D.I.N. They carry silver that others carried before them.Price: EchoAgent: a woman in a dark coat stands on a wet cobbled street at night, a notebook in her hand.AgentLegends like coats. The longer you wear one, the deeper it becomes.Price: FadeScientist: a woman in a lab coat and safety glasses holds a test tube up to the light in a laboratory cut into rock.ScientistThe Institute in the tunnels near Bern. They build what does not exist yet.Price: ContaminationInvestigator: a woman in a trench coat reads a book in front of a wall covered in photos and notes.InvestigatorThe trace readers. Every Hold has a Wall, and the Wall belongs to them.Price: Suspicion

The character generator

The generator walks you through character creation one question at a time, following the Core Rulebook: branch, subclass, background, attributes, skills, powers and signature. At the end you get a finished character sheet as a PDF and a dossier for the cell. After every mission you enter your XP there and advance your agent during downtime: attributes, skills, powers and class tree, with rank and career log on the sheet. It runs in the browser, on phones too.

Open the generator

Where to start

If you …then …
are seeing the game for the first timeread the Core Rulebook. Chapters I to III are enough to get started
want to playbuild a character in the generator and print the sheet
want to run the gamethe Game Master’s Book and the campaign “The Door”
just want to try one sessionthe Quickstart: short rules, four ready-made agents and “The House by the Reservoir” for one evening
want to play onlineFoundry VTT, Owlbear Rodeo or Let's Role, see Virtual Tabletops

Support

All books and the generator stay free. If you would like to give something back to O.D.I.N., you can send a voluntary amount of your choice via PayPal. Thank you!

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