Song of Shadows and Dust is a stand-alone miniatures wargame based on the award-winning Song of Blades and Heroes rules engine. The rules reflect the gritty reality of urban violence while preserving the keep-it-simple, play-as-you-want, no-book-keeping-required spirit of the Ganesha Games family.
- Easy to learn
- The elegant core rules are easy to learn in just one game.
- Fast to play
- Games are designed to be finished in under an hour, allowing small campaigns to be completed in a single sitting.
- Flexible
- Inspired by the breakdown in civil order which plagued the great cities of the Mediterranean in the First Century BC, these rules are suitable for any pre-modern setting from Babylon to Bruges.
- Expansive
- Includes 57 unique character profiles with which to populate your faction or guild – from henchmen, assassins and punch-drunk boxers, to street urchins, elder statesmen, and courtesans. Players are also free to create their own custom characters, choosing from among 46 defining special rules.
- Variable
- Eleven different faction objectives allow for 121 different tabletop scenarios.
- Expandable
- Easily supplemented by special rules and scenarios drawn from the other rulebooks produced by Ganesha Games.
A character/faction builder is also available here.
Song of Shadows and Dust is a $8 USD, 42-page, letter-sized PDF. A paperback version will be available in a couple of weeks. Half of all author royalties will be donated to UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency.