Defy Fate

OMEN is a TTRPG all about defying fate. Designed as a one shot, you and your friends will come together, create a doomed world, and do what you can to save it.

Defy or doom, either way it's a good time.

How It Works

OMEN is designed to be played as a oneshot, so you'll tell the whole story of your doomed world in one session.

You'll start by coming together as a group and learning a little bit about this world. There is no implied setting in OMEN, so you can be anywhere! Whatever genre fits your vibe, it's doomed to die.

To play, each Fated will roll a giant pool of d6 at the start of the session. The results of those dice are what they have to work with the entire session!

As characters attempt risky actions, the DM will call for them to be resolved with those dice. A difficulty value (DV) to the action is decided, between 2-6. The Fated chooses a die from their current supply and spends it, succeeding or failing depending on if they meet or exceed the DV.

That's right, you know whether or not you succeed! Sometimes you might need to choose to fail, saving some of those higher valued dice for riskier actions in the future.

Fated have an edge though: Omens. Omens allow them to manipulate their pool of dice at crucial moments in the game. For example, you might have an Omen that allows you to add another die to your pool whenever you willing fail a DV 3 or lower action. Or maybe you have an Omen that lets you reroll a die in your pool whenever you defy fate!

Ticking away during the session are two clocks: Doom and Defy. The segments of these mark how much closer the Fated are to their world ending, or a defiance of that fate. When either clock fills, the session ends with an exciting epilogue!