👑Kingsmark: Players Handbook FIRST EDITION is now available in digital format.
One twelve-sided die. A world of danger. A lifetime of adventure.
Enter Sylva, a medieval fantasy world of mighty kingdoms, ancient ruins, terrifying monsters, sinister magic, forgotten treasures, and extraordinary heroes. Here, adventurers accept dangerous Contracts, explore mysterious wildernesses, confront supernatural horrors, and sometimes rise from humble beginnings to become champions of kings.
But heroism is never guaranteed. Every decision matters. Every battle carries consequences. Every victory must be earned.
👑 Kingsmark is a complete tabletop role-playing game powered by ⭐ Jack’s Cinematic d12 (JCd12), an original game system designed to combine cinematic action, tactical decision-making, believable consequences, and extraordinary character freedom.
Whether you are a veteran Game Master, an experienced role-player, or someone discovering tabletop role-playing games for the first time, Kingsmark provides everything necessary to begin an unforgettable adventure.
This massive 556-page PDF contains the complete foundational rules, 17 Character Classes, approximately 108 example Actions, ready-made playable characters, and a complete introductory dungeon adventure. No additional books are required to begin playing!
⚔️ CINEMATIC COMBAT WHERE EVERY ACTION MATTERS
Forget standing in place, repeatedly attacking an enemy until an arbitrary pool of Hit Points reaches zero.
Kingsmark replaces conventional Hit Points with a detailed system of 🩸Physical Wounds, 🧠Mental Trauma, Hit Locations, Armor, Damage, Pain, and lasting consequences.
A sword can cripple an arm. A devastating impact can knock a combatant unconscious. A terrifying encounter can leave psychological scars. Combat is dangerous, unpredictable, and filled with meaningful tactical choices.
🎬 Approximately 108 Example Actions!
Instead of restricting combatants to a handful of repetitive choices, Kingsmark offers an extensive selection of Actions covering attacks, defensive maneuvers, movement, positioning, grappling, teamwork, extraordinary stunts, and much more.
The Action Point system gives every combatant meaningful control over how a Turn unfolds:
- 🟡 Flair Actions — 1 Action Point.
- 🟠 Swift Actions — 2 Action Points.
- 🔴 Starring Actions — 4 Action Points.
Characters possess different amounts of Action Points depending on their Speed, allowing quick and agile adventurers to act differently from slower, more deliberate combatants.
And the approximately 108 listed Actions are examples, not limitations. Players can attempt other reasonable Actions, with the Game Master adjudicating their costs and consequences.
The battlefield is not a place to repeat the same attack. It is a place to fight intelligently, creatively, and desperately to survive.
Kingsmark offers extensive character customization without requiring players to master dozens of unrelated subsystems.
🎭 CREATE A HERO WORTH REMEMBERING
Build your adventurer using:
- 💪 12 Attributes representing fundamental physical, mental, social, and spiritual capabilities.
- 🌈 5 Attribute PRISMs that combine Attributes into meaningful measures of performance.
- ⚒ 24 Skills covering the practical knowledge and training of extraordinary adventurers.
- 🫀 5 Human Types, each with distinctive physical characteristics and possibilities.
- 🎭 17 Character Classes representing a broad range of martial, wilderness, mystical, spiritual, and specialized professions.
- ⭐ Action Star Levels 0–5, emphasizing meaningful growth from inexperienced adventurer to legendary hero.
- 🕊 Favor Points, Burdens, Blessings, and other distinctive character mechanics.
Choose among 17 Character Classes:
Man-at-Arms, Brute, Barbarian, Monster Hunter, Beast Master, Ranger, Thief, Ninja, Monk, Minstrel, Wizard, Witch, Shaman, Healer, Priest, Prophet/Prophetess, and Holy Knight.
Whether you envision a disciplined swordsman, a cunning infiltrator, a wilderness tracker, a spiritual healer, a fearsome warrior, or a mysterious practitioner of forbidden knowledge, Kingsmark provides the foundation.
Character Creation goes beyond mechanical statistics. Develop your adventurer’s background, ambitions, relationships, weaknesses, personal convictions, and reasons for joining an adventuring party.
A Kingsmark character is not simply a collection of numbers. It is a person with a past, a purpose, and a future that may be forever changed by adventure.
🎲 ONE DIE. COUNTLESS POSSIBILITIES.
At the foundation of Kingsmark is the ⭐Jack’s Cinematic d12 system.
Most Tests follow a straightforward principle:
1d12 + 🌈Attribute PRISM + ⚒Skill versus a Target Number or opposing result.
Exploding 12s introduce the possibility of extraordinary successes, while circumstances, equipment, preparation, injuries, and character capabilities influence outcomes.
The basic procedure is approachable. The depth emerges from the decisions characters make and the realistic consequences of their actions.
Kingsmark is designed to be learned through play. Its substantial rulebook offers detailed explanations and reference material, not hundreds of pages that players must memorize before their first adventure.
📜 DISCOVER A WORLD OF MYSTERIOUS MAGIC
Magic in Kingsmark is not simply another weapon. It is an extraordinary force that can heal, deceive, transform, protect, destroy, and reshape the course of an adventure.
The complete Kingsmark magic collection contains 219 Spells distributed across 24 Schools of Magic, from humble supernatural abilities to extraordinary powers capable of changing the fate of kingdoms.
Spellcasting involves magical knowledge, spiritual capabilities, casting methods, Power Levels, and the risk of 🧠Mental Drain. Depending on the Spell, a magician might employ spoken invocations, gestures, enchanted objects, or ritual spaces.
The Player’s Handbook introduces the magic system and includes a selected collection of complete Spells sufficient to begin playing magical characters.
For players who want the entire magical library, the optional 📜Spellbook: A Complete Fantasy Magic System expands the experience with all 219 Spells, detailed traditions, and additional magical reference material.
🩸 SURVIVAL HAS CONSEQUENCES
Kingsmark approaches physical injury, psychological trauma, and supernatural danger with considerably greater seriousness than conventional fantasy games.
Characters do not possess abstract Hit Point reservoirs that absorb one sword strike after another without consequences.
Instead, the game includes detailed systems for:
- 🩸 Physical Wounds and escalating injuries.
- 🧠 Mental Trauma and psychological consequences.
- 🛡 Armor, Hit Locations, and tactical defense.
- 💥 Damage and Critical impacts.
- ❤️ Healing, recovery, and medical intervention.
- 🪱 The Gloom, forbidden powers, supernatural temptation, and horrifying consequences.
An apparently weaker enemy can still be dangerous. A victorious adventurer may leave the battlefield severely wounded. Even the bravest hero can encounter something that genuinely inspires fear.
This creates a world in which preparation, teamwork, negotiation, caution, and intelligent retreat can be just as heroic as charging into battle.
🍺 A LIVING WORLD OF CONTRACTS, ADVENTURE, AND CONSEQUENCE
Kingsmark takes place in the medieval fantasy world of Sylva, where ambitious rulers, wandering adventurers, religious orders, ruthless criminals, supernatural beings, and ancient powers compete for survival and influence.
Adventurers commonly earn their living through Contracts: paid missions involving monster hunts, dangerous expeditions, investigations, rescues, escorts, lost treasures, and other perilous assignments.
As characters grow in experience and reputation, they may eventually receive prestigious royal Contracts bearing the 👑King’s Mark itself.
But the world does not revolve entirely around the adventurers.
Kingsmark does not require enemies to be conveniently balanced to match the party’s abilities. Some battles are simply too dangerous to fight. Political conflicts continue whether adventurers intervene or not. Enemies remember defeat. Allies remember loyalty. Communities can prosper or perish because of the choices made by the player characters.
Your party might begin by investigating a missing merchant, eventually uncover a sinister conspiracy, become involved in a war between kingdoms, and ultimately determine the future of a royal bloodline.
Your decisions shape the story. Your reputation shapes your opportunities. Your actions shape the world.
🗺️ BEGIN PLAYING IMMEDIATELY!
One of the most important features of the Kingsmark Player’s Handbook is that you do not need to purchase another book to begin playing.
The handbook includes the essential rules, equipment, magical options, Game Master guidance, and introductory play materials.
📖 Four Ready-Made Playable Characters
Begin immediately with four prepared Player Characters designed to help newcomers experience the system without first completing the entire Character Creation process.
Learn the fundamentals through actual play, then create your own original adventurer when you are ready.
🏰 A Complete Introductory Dungeon Mission
Take your party into a complete playable dungeon adventure included with the handbook.
The mission gives the Game Master a practical opportunity to introduce exploration, decision-making, danger, encounters, and the core mechanics of Kingsmark through an actual adventure rather than abstract instruction.
🎬 Extensive Examples and Game References
The handbook provides explanations, examples, procedures, and reference material for the game’s most important systems. From Character Creation and conversation to combat, magical abilities, recovery, and advancement, the rules are organized to support actual tabletop play.
Everything new players and Game Masters need to start playing Kingsmark is included in this one book.
📚 EXPAND YOUR ADVENTURES WITH FIVE OPTIONAL BOOKS
Kingsmark is the foundation of a larger six-book fantasy role-playing collection.
Although the Player’s Handbook stands on its own, five additional volumes are designed to greatly expand your opportunities for adventure:
⚖️ The Marketplace: The Fantasy Adventurer’s Guide to Equipment & Commerce
A comprehensive reference to weapons, armor, adventuring equipment, mounts, merchandise, prices, services, and medieval fantasy commerce.
📜 The Spellbook: A Complete Fantasy Magic System
Explore all 219 Spells across 24 Schools of Magic, together with expanded spellcasting information, magical traditions, and the complete magical reference system.
🧌 The Bestiary: Encyclopedia of Fantasy Monsters
Discover an extensive collection of fantastic creatures, dangerous beasts, supernatural entities, terrifying monsters, and extraordinary adversaries for your adventures.
🧭 The World Book: A Complete Guide to the Medieval Fantasy World of Sylva
Explore the kingdoms, cultures, geography, history, factions, religions, wildernesses, ancient mysteries, and legendary places of Sylva.
🍺 The Tavern: The Game Master’s Guide to Heroic Fantasy Adventure
Expand your abilities as a Game Master with guidance for creating and running adventures, dungeons, Contracts, campaigns, and memorable encounters, including introductory adventures.
These additional books are optional but strongly encouraged for players and Game Masters who want to explore everything the Kingsmark universe has to offer.
📖 WHAT YOU RECEIVE
👑 Kingsmark: Player’s Handbook — First Edition
- Author: John Alan Martinson
- Format: Digital PDF
- PDF Length: 556 pages
- Book Pagination: 549 numbered pages
- Game System: ⭐Jack’s Cinematic d12 (JCd12)
- Genre: Medieval Heroic Fantasy
- Character Classes: 17
- Attributes: 12
- Attribute PRISMs: 5
- Skills: 24
- Example Actions: Approximately 108
- Schools of Magic: 24
- Complete Magic Collection: 219 Spells, with a playable selection included in this handbook
- Ready-Made Player Characters: 4
- Introductory Dungeon Mission: Included
- Additional Books Required: None
Designed for both players and Game Masters, Kingsmark provides a complete foundation for beginning and continuing a heroic fantasy campaign.
👑 YOUR LEGEND BEGINS HERE
Some adventurers seek wealth. Others seek glory, vengeance, knowledge, justice, or redemption. A fortunate few eventually earn the respect of kings, command armies, claim ancient treasures, or discover that their own destiny is intertwined with the fate of nations. But every legend begins somewhere. Perhaps yours begins in a humble tavern, accepting a Contract that seems simple enough. Perhaps it begins on a lonely road, beneath the shadow of an abandoned fortress, or at the entrance to a forgotten dungeon where something ancient is waiting. You do not know whether your character will become a legendary hero, die an unremembered death, or survive long enough to tell extraordinary stories about the companions who fell along the way. That uncertainty is what makes the adventure worth playing.
⚔️ Gather your party. Prepare your equipment. Roll the twelve-sided die.
👑 Welcome to KINGSMARK.
A world of danger. A world of consequence. A world waiting for your legend.
Created by John Alan Martinson | Kingsmark.games
👑Kingsmark: Players Handbook FIRST EDITION is now available in digital format.
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