Immersive Gameplay

In Death & Taxes, the realms of D&D and the video game universe entwine to create a never-before-seen enchanted experience. Traverse through the arcane depth of gameplay where your every strategic choice weaves the tapestry of a legendary saga. Join forces with mystical adventurers to overcome the enigmatic trials of this ever-evolving realm, or go forth as a solitary sorcerer, crafting your own destiny.

Throughout your odyssey, mold your adventurer with each fate-defining decision. Every action taken empowers its corresponding skill, unveiling untold potential as your prowess grows. Skills are bound to abilities that awaken as you ascend in mastery.

In Death & Taxes, every deed echoes across time, in life and beyond. For in this hardcore, permadeath RPG, your character's demise is but a new chapter. Post-mortem, the glory earned will fuel your continuing journey, incubating resilience until you rise again.

Revolutionary Art

Our art team has conjured up a visual masterpiece, seamlessly blending the mystical and enchanting aesthetics of classic D&D with the forefront of digital innovation. Each stroke of creativity is a spell cast upon the canvas, crafting environments and characters that are not only vivid in detail but rich in lore and history. With every design, we strive to weave a narrative that allows players to feel deeply connected to their new, yet hauntingly familiar, worlds. This union of tradition and technology ensures an unparalleled level of immersion, transporting gamers into a universe where magic thrives and adventures never end.

Rich Lore

Deep game lore developed over years of gameplay as a Table Top RPG has built an entire world for new players to discover, explore and develop.

As you don the mantle of a nomadic adventurer, the canvas of this world unfurls before you, steeped in shadows of celestial discoveries and secrets long buried beneath the sands of time. You slowly learn through discovery of artifacts and ruins within the area, the history and the fate of those that came before you, and the place of the adventurers within that story. And very soon after, you may discover that the threat still looms to this day—a harrowing prophecy of doom that calls out to the adventurers of our age, waiting to be rewritten.

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Future Plans

As we continue to expand the Death & Taxes world, expect regular updates including new concepts, in-game events and player/faction cosmetics. Our commitment is to deliver ongoing excitement and fresh challenges for our players.

Death & Taxes Factsheet

Tagline

Elevator Pitch

"Fantasy Eve" "DnD Meets Skyrim"

Target Release

Early Access launch planned for Q4 2026

Summary

Forge your own path and grow via the tools you wield, the skills you pursue and the choices you make. Become a renown explorer, a powerful trader, a respected scholar, noble politician or brave warrior. Anything is possible, but no matter what you desire, you must beware, both the specter of death and the taxman constantly loom. Because in the world of Death & Taxes, only two things are certain...

Graphic Design

In “Death & Taxes” Always use ‘&’ (Alt 38) and never the word ‘and’
Text elements: HTML Color 94b0b1
Background: HTML Color 08111e (Gradient to white)
Title font: Fancy Card Text (https://www.dafont.com/fancy-card-text.font)
Subfont: Olde English

Gameplay

Exploration - discover multiple biomes across a changing landscape. New points of interest added on a regular basis by active Game Masters and other entities.
Gathering and Crafting - Gather resources to create more advanced items and weapons. Craft buildings in your town to increase your production, focus on religion, increase defenses or invite hospitality.
Fight and Defend - Locate hostile dens of enemies or once progressed, defend your town from them.

Peoples to encounter

Adventurers - Neutral - This is the player race. You will come across those of your own and of other factions along your travels.
Goblins - Neutral - This race of mischievous tricksters will being neutral toward players and depending on the actions of the adventurers adjust their attitude accordingly.
Lizard People - Hostile - These vicious and warlike people are openly hostile toward all other peoples.

Unique Elements

Live Game Masters - to be your guide, your inspiration or your foil and make the game truly feel like a table top RPG
Faction System - with unique elements designed to encourage players to work together and build a legacy beyond a single player.
Unique Combat - Play chess, not checkers with a never before seen system. The "Action Staff" allows players to combine their spells and abilities up to 5 seconds in the future for devastating combos.
Random Events - will change your plans for the day, making every play session a unique experience, even if you're just grinding materials.
Passive gameplay - allows players to progress fully through the game without ever having to lift a weapon in anger. You can be a bartender or blacksmith and still be as relevant as a warrior.
Reinvented Endgame - your character will die in this Permadeath RPG...but death is not the end and your deeds in life will lead you to power in the afterlife.
And many more elements AAA MMOs are too uninventive to offer (yeah, we went there!)

The History of Death & Taxes

D&T Spellweaver

Death & Taxes Spellweaver is the current tech demo for the D&T RPG. In this tech demo, we are working on a special networking solution and an early version of the action staff.

Stay tuned for more information on the tech demo or download it on Itch.io

D&T The Last Hold

The Last Hold is a game jam game made as a follow-up to a long time promise made to the community of Death & Taxes Live! It explores the story of the fall of an ancient city and the history of the people that once inhabited it.

The game is available for free on Itch.io

Death & Taxes Live!

For over 2 years, Death & Taxes Live! ran weekly games on Roll20 with the ruleset we created specifically designed to make an Open World TTRPG.

View the history of the world on the D&T Live! Forums

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