Dawnsbury Days
a level 1-8 turn-based tactics game based on the rules of PF2E
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Factsheet (Dawnsbury Days)
Shpiel: Lead a group of childhood friends through their first adventures in a turn-based tactical RPG played under the rules of PF2E, the second edition of a powerful OGL ruleset. Customize their builds, acquire loot and level up, and ultimately defeat the sinister enemies who threaten your hometown.
Developer: Petr Hudeček (under the name Dawnsbury Studios)
Release date: March 8th, 2024
Platforms: Windows (Linux and Steam Deck are supported under Proton emulation)
Store page: Steam
Price: $4.99 (regional adjustments apply)
Factsheet (The Profane Barrier)
Shpiel: When a child disappears from your hometown, you initially suspect a hag, but soon you find out the truth is far more sinister. This DLC contains a level 5–8 adventure path that continues where Dawnsbury Days left off.
DLC release date: April 11th, 2025 (please don't publish reviews, let's plays or other visual content until release date)
DLC store page: Steam
Price: $4.99 (regional adjustments apply; there will be a 10% launch discount)
Trailer (Dawnsbury Days)
Trailer (The Profane Barrier)
Features (Dawnsbury Days)
- A complex OGL-based rule system which makes for strong strategic gameplay, highly faithful to the tabletop rules
- Extreme character customization
- 9 ancestries (Dwarf, Elf, Gnome, Goblin, Halfling, Human, Leshy, Oozekin, Orc)
- 16 classes (Barbarian, Bard, Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Champion, Kineticist, Magus, Monk, Oracle, Psychic, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, Strategist, Wizard), each with different play patterns
- 300+ feats and 250+ spells to further customize your characters
- More available through mods
- 20+ encounters in the main adventure path telling a story of childhood friends braving their first serious challenges in adventuring, and 10+ additional scenarios in free encounter mode
- Full voice acting for every single line, with cutscenes at the beginning and end of every encounter
- Character level cap is 4. (It increases to 8 with the Profane Barrier DLC expansion.)
- Highly moddable: Support for custom maps, encounters, campaigns, portraits, rules, classes and more
Features (The Profane Barrier)
- Character levels 5-8, including 100+ new spells and 60+ new feats
- 24 encounters, including noncombat encounters, multi-stage encounters and exploration encounters
- 30+ new monsters, hazards, subsystems and other obstacles
- Fully voice-acted cutscenes bookending each encounter!
- Narrative continues just after the end of the original story — you can even import your characters from the previous adventure
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FAQ
What is the level cap?
The main adventure path in Dawnsbury Days goes from character level 1 to level 4. The DLC adventure path (The Profane Barrier) goes from character level 5 to level 8. You can also play free encounters at any level from 1–8, but each such encounter has a specific suggested character level.Where can I download screenshots?
From the Steam store pages of the game (base game and expansion).Is it a cRPG?
Dawnsbury Days is a turn-based tactics game with cRPG elements.The combat rules are faithful to the PF2E tabletop roleplaying game and you can build and level up your party and manage your inventory as you would in a cRPG, and the game's tone and atmosphere give the vibe of playing a roleplaying game with friends around a tabletop. However, there is no overworld or exploration mode: you only directly control your characters on a battlemap during combat encounters.
Is it official content?
Dawnsbury Days is set in its own original fantasy world of Our Point of Light, where a group of young adventurers must protect their town from a sinister enemy. It uses the content and rules of the PF2E tabletop roleplaying game only under the terms of the Open Game License.Does the game use the remastered rules?
Dawnsbury Days uses the terminology and framework of the original PF2E released under the Open Game License, but makes some of the same streamlining decisions as the remastered rules, such as refreshing all focus points in 10 minutes and ignoring spell components.
The remastered rules are released only under the terms of the ORC license, and ORC and OGL are incompatible: Dawnsbury Days can either use OGL content or ORC content, but not both. Much of the content in Dawnsbury Days is available only under the OGL and not under ORC (e.g. psychic, kineticist and many monsters, spells, items and feats). For this reason and for other legal reasons, Dawnsbury Days must use only OGL content.
How moddable is the game?
Dawnsbury Days is very moddable.
You can create your own adventures or add new ancestries, classes, spells and more. There are already almost 50 mods available on the Steam Workshop, including many mods which add new classes, some mods which add new campaigns, and even a total overhaul mod which adds a roguelike mode to the game.
What is the timeline of development?
I originally created Quest for the Golden Candelabra, a freeware precursor game to Dawnsbury Days, in February–May 2023.
Then I took a year to develop Dawnsbury Days itself, which was released in March 2024.
Then I continued to improve upon Dawnsbury Days post-release for the next year while also working on the level 5–8 expansion, The Profane Barrier, which will release in April 2025.
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If you're a journalist or influencer and would like a Steam key of the game and its expansion, please send me an email at dawnsbury@gmail.com or contact me on Discord where I'm dawnsbury.