The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game
Published on 30. September 2025
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-949160-48-2 (ISBN)
Description
Green Ronin brings N.K. Jemisin's Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth trilogy to tabletop roleplaying.
N.K. Jemisin's multiple Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth trilogy comes to tabletop RPGs in The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game! Enter the Stillness, a vast, furious land that is home to thousands of Comms, settlements large and small where people gather for safety in a dangerous and unpredictable world.
Each member contributes according to the dictates of their use-caste, and all with one goal: to prepare for the next Fifth Season, those cataclysmic events when Father Earth himself rages against humankind. It is only through the wisdom of the ancient Stone Lore that the people of the Stillness stand a chance of survival. The game gives players a chance to portray the folk of the Stillness, working together to deal with the problems that face their Comm to better prepare for the coming of the next Fifth Season.
Players build a Comm together, create characters of that Comm, and face the challenges that the Stillness has to offer. The Fifth Season RPG is powered by a customized version of Green Ronin's popular Adventure Game Engine (AGE), the same rules system as The Expanse, Modern AGE, Blue Rose, and Fantasy AGE RPGs. If you've played any AGE RPG before, you already know the core of the rules. Can you survive in the Broken Earth? Find out in The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game!
N.K. Jemisin's multiple Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth trilogy comes to tabletop RPGs in The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game! Enter the Stillness, a vast, furious land that is home to thousands of Comms, settlements large and small where people gather for safety in a dangerous and unpredictable world.
Each member contributes according to the dictates of their use-caste, and all with one goal: to prepare for the next Fifth Season, those cataclysmic events when Father Earth himself rages against humankind. It is only through the wisdom of the ancient Stone Lore that the people of the Stillness stand a chance of survival. The game gives players a chance to portray the folk of the Stillness, working together to deal with the problems that face their Comm to better prepare for the coming of the next Fifth Season.
Players build a Comm together, create characters of that Comm, and face the challenges that the Stillness has to offer. The Fifth Season RPG is powered by a customized version of Green Ronin's popular Adventure Game Engine (AGE), the same rules system as The Expanse, Modern AGE, Blue Rose, and Fantasy AGE RPGs. If you've played any AGE RPG before, you already know the core of the rules. Can you survive in the Broken Earth? Find out in The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game!
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Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 16 years
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
510 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-949160-48-2 (9781949160482)
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Steve Kenson (he/him) joined Green Ronin Publishing in 2003. For more than twenty years he has worked as a developer and designer for games like Mutants & Masterminds, Blue Rose, DC Adventures, Song of Ice & Fire Roleplaying, The Expanse, and many others. Steve has over 200 game product credits to his name as an author, designer, and developer over the past thirty years.