The Veil: The Lucidian Narrative Engine

Bys: Mirecourt, Serai, Academy, Tarbix, Fleck, Shaun

A Narrative Tabletop Roleplaying Game
Designed for 1-5+ players
Playable out of the book

The Veil: The Lucidian Narrative Engine is a narrative-focused tabletop roleplaying game built around consequence, record, and adjudication rather than combat.
Players take on roles within a fragile world where authority is contested, information is incomplete, and public trust is already strained. Through structured Cycles of play, players collect vectors, declare actions, interfere with one another, trigger Cases, and resolve outcomes that permanently alter the game world.
This book contains: a complete, playable tabletop game systemclear rules for cycles, cases, and adjudicationextensive writable and removable play pagescharacter sheets, asset records, precedent logs, and tracking toolsa full illustrated example showing a Cycle from start to resolutionEvery decision leaves a trace.
Every ruling becomes precedent.
Every session changes what is possible next.
Set within the Lucidian Library universe, The Veil can be played as a standalone tabletop game or used as a powerful worldbuilding and narrative design engine. It is ideal for players, writers, and game masters who want stories to emerge from pressure rather than plot.
This is not a game about heroes.
It is a game about what survives.
If you enjoy: tabletop RPGs with heavy narrative focuspolitical intrigue and moral consequencegames like Blades in the Dark, Burning Wheel, or Microscopestory systems where choices matter more than combatthen The Veil belongs at your table.

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Tarbix Academy LLC
Unshyft Global Holdings LLC

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GHP46XRP
• ISBN13: 9798244576382
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"