Valiant Horizon
A downloadable crystal fantasy game
Softback copies are now available below and at IPR!
Tell Us A Tale...
Of legends, both ancient and those yet unwritten.
Of magic and steel, of souls and crystals.
Of loyal friends, deadly foes, and terrible creatures.
Of the legacy of heroes in a world yet to come.
Tell us the tale of those beyond the Valiant Horizon.
A Heroic Crystal Fantasy Game
Valiant Horizon is a game that features:
- Lightweight, fast-paced tactics powered by Total//Effect.
- 12 unique classes representing archetypes of ancient heroes, each with their own unique traits and powers.
- A Relationships and Bonds system that ties you to to the friends you make along the way.
- A Reputation system that tells you what kind of heroes your characters are seen as.
- A strong emphasis on retelling the memories of ancient heroes to create a setting at your table.
The team on this project is:
- Myself on writing, layout, and game design;
- Illustration by Charlotte Laskowski; and
- Editing by Marx Shepherd.
Soundtrack
Media
Spencer Campbell of Gila RPGs flipped through the itchfund version of the game here!
Purchase
In order to download this crystal fantasy game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $20 USD. You will get access to the following files:
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Softback Copy (USA)
Print copies are here! It's a perf-bound, 5.5" x 8.5" softcover with uncoated pages and a soft-touch cover. If you're in the USA, grab this reward* if you want one. If I run out of rewards here I'll add more, the number listed is solely to limit responses so I can process them properly. Price includes shipping.
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Softback Copy (International)
Print copies are here for people not in the US as well now! Ships to the above countries, price includes shipping.* As above:
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*Itch will discount rewards when the game is discounted, which this game may be in the future! If you pay less than $45 towards this reward, though, you're not going to receive a book.
Community Copy
If you want to check this out without paying for whatever reason, help yourself to a copy here.
Development log
- v1.1 released!Jul 09, 2024
- Valiant Horizon is out for real!Jan 23, 2024
- Class Overview #6: Meet the Tactician and Windmagus!Jan 21, 2024
- Class Overview #5: Meet the Knight and Ranger!Jan 18, 2024
- Class Overview #4: Meet the Earthmagus and Frostmagus!Jan 16, 2024
- Class Overview #3: Meet the Commander and Dark Knight!Dec 21, 2023
- The sixth backer class is here! Meet the Shaman!Sep 26, 2023
- The fifth backer class is here! Meet the Arcane Knight!Sep 06, 2023
Comments
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Bought this just about an hour agao and it does seem all well, but I have noticed none of the Hero classes have enough Reactions or Standards to choose from past 4th level. Nor do they have enough Powers to choose from past 6th level. Is this to say that you should create your own at that point, choose from other Hero Classes, or that the book is still in early production? Otherwise, great book, and very interesting ideas, a solid buy that I do not regret.
Thank you!
This is intentional because it ties in with the Relationship system. At those levels, you should have some relationships with people - those Relationships let you take their powers, reactions, and standards instead of your own!
Indeed indeed, I really should have noticed this beforehand! Thank you for the reply.
Valiant Horizon is super cool! Lots of cool tactical options but use abstracted range bands.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for your kindness and generosity in providing community copies of your game. I’m a disabled pension who can’t afford much so these free gifts really help me out in playing games and keeping my mind active.
I really appreciate your hard work and kindness
Hi I'm sorry to bother, but recently you sent out the Age of Heroism content and when I try to claim it, itch tells me the promotion is no longer active even though it should still go on for about 4 days :/
This has cropped up a few times and I don’t know why. Send me an email (binary.star.games@gmail) from the email tied to your itch account and I’ll send you a key.
Greetings from Brazil!! I have a small doubt about "Call for Aid" (perhaps caused by the fact that English is not my first language).
To determine the Total, do I use the value rolled before applying the Effect or after applying the Effect? Let's say the narrator determines Inverse High Die and I roll 4-1-3. Would the Total be 8 (4+1+3) or would the Total be 7 (3+1+3)?
Sorry if the answer is a bit obvious, but I really don't understand the rule. If you can help me, I would appreciate it!
Total is based on what you rolled - so in this case it would be 8. Inverse effects don’t change the original total.
Thanks for answering! I think the part explaining Inverse Effect may have confused me a little, but having read the entire book I now see the separation of Total and Effect more clearly (and also understand the Dark Knight class more lol). Again, sorry for bothering you with the question. I only recently became a fan of your games, but I also wanted to thank you for all the time you dedicated to developing the game and also in the development log posts. I'm eagerly awaiting your next releases ^^
No worries at all! Thank you so much!
I love the game lore! It's such a strong opening to the book. And feels reminiscent of the gacha game Brave Frontier, which I used to love as a kid. Also, maybe very specific, but I really like the layout choice of having examples and notes in the margins.
Excited to get people to play it with me!
Thank you so much! Hopefully you can get a group together!
I hope you can add more community copies soon!
Ok.
Wow thanks so much, i cannot wait to try it and spread the word to my dnd groups.
Hope you enjoy!
Hello there! First of all, congratulation on the developing of this fantastic game, it works really well and have tons of potential! I have two questions to the designer, tough. Since HP are always full at the start of a combat and they usually reset from one to another, how would make sense to mechanically handle traps or obstacles outside of combat that makes sense to inflict some kind of penalties/euhastation to the characters? These are few of my own ideas:
- Start the next combat with fewer HP than normal.
- negative Escalation (so that it instead subtract from the Total, and slowly reset and eventually become normal).
- Disadvantage on all rolls in the first round of combat.
- Inflicting temporary Burdens (this is probably more fitting for representing penalties outside of combat).
And how to determine if the players can avoid it or not? I presume by using Asset to avoid them in case the Asset makes sense for the obstacle/trap in question, but I'm afraid it willl feels punishing since Assets can be used only once per session each.
Thank you for reading it and very curious about your answer (hopefully)!
Hi, thank you!
If I had to do traps as a thing I’d probably do Asset-spend to avoid them, yes. (This isn’t so bad, players can use Determination to get it back if they really want and they can always just choose to succeed but gain a Burden.) Generally speaking I’d probably just avoid the standard “generic dungeon trap” thing: if I were going to use traps, I’d probably treat it as like, a big setpiece.
If you do want to give some sort of minor penalty for it, starting combat with a few less HP, having disadvantage on round 1, or acting after enemies on round 1 sounds about right.
I did a flip through of this game on stream, and it is so dang cool!