SHELL

SHELL: A Hollow Hack of RUNE
by Kaid Brenen Sacander

Nor blade nor claw makes Nomads quake, 
Ruin follows in their shell-strewn wake. 
Death for them is not the end; 
They walk astride it as a friend.

In SHELL, you play as a warrior bug, wandering the tunnels and caverns of a subterranean world. Your path will wind through dying kingdoms, twisted dangers, and the shadow of terrible insectile beasts. Though you may appear similar to other bugs, you are not like them; YOU CAN NEVER TRULY DIE. Some part of you carries power, a power to defy death, to cast down the mighty and bind their own strength to your own.

What's Included:

• SHELL Rulebook (in both singles and spreads): Includes all the rules you need to play, a starter Realm to explore, and optional rules (two-player co-op rules, Hard Mode rules, and how to adapt RUNE and REAP Realms for use in SHELL)
• SHELL Print Assets: Character sheets, a 5x5 combat grid, and item cards
• SHELL Saintsmoor Realm Sheet: All the Realm-specific rules for your first adventure, a printer-friendly map of the Realm, and item cards for the equipment you may find while adventuring.
• Saintsmoor Realm Map: A full-color image of the map of the starter Realm

What's New?

SHELL has made a few changes to RUNE's rules to make it feel more like the bug adventuring video games it was designed to emulate:

• Shells: Choose one of eight ancestries from whence the source of your ability to defy death originates. Each has their own unique ability and rules for what happens when they die and resurrect.
• Masks: A category of gear that have both advantages and drawbacks for customizing your combat build. They're like classes in other TTRPGs, or the Crests in Silksong.
• Multi-Region Realms: Just like how the maps in the Hollow Knight games are separated into separate areas with distinct environments and foes, the Realms of SHELL are separated into multiple Regions, each with their own rules and clocks that interact with those of the whole Realm.

SHELL is heavily inspired by and an unapologetic love letter to Hollow Knight and Hollow Knight: Silksong, by Team Cherry. This TTRPG would never have been made if Team Cherry hadn’t poured such love and passion into making Hallownest and Pharloom such fascinating settings. Please support them by purchasing their video games.

This product was Carved by RUNE, based on the RUNE TTRPG by Gila RPGs. This product is not affiliated with Gila RPGs, or Spencer Campbell, in any way.