Arcane Exercise Core Rulebook
A downloadable Movement Game
**SECOND EDITION HAS NOW BEEN RELEASED**
The updated second edition comes with bonus content including:
-Pre-generated character sheets with workouts based on the archetypal character classes Fighter, Rogue, and Ranger
-Companion game Aloft: a dice-based exercise game that uses the ideas presented in the Arcane Exercise Core Rulebook to build on a simple prompt: how many different ways can you lift an object from the ground to overhead?
-Updates, corrections, and additions to the original text
Arcane Exercise Core Rulebook
The Arcane Exercise Core Rulebook is the center piece of the Arcane Exercise expanded universe: it contains all the central tenets and principles that can be applied to any of the related properties (Ability Score Improvement, Hoard of Random Exercises, Pre-generated Characters, Groundwork, 100 Movement Mini-Quests, and Oblique Movement Strategies). Each of the aforementioned expansions can be used alone, but the Core Rulebook offers philosophical and methodological underpinnings that can greatly enrich the user experience. Consider it to be the Players Handbook of the series.
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What is Arcane Exercise?
Arcane Exercise is a system and tool agnostic lens that uses game design theory to simplify the process of understanding exercise-based movement. It uses common TTRPG vernacular, game mechanics, and an old school fantasy aesthetic.
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What’s in Arcane Exercise Core Rulebook?
- 64 page PDF covering the core aspects of the Arcane Exercise series
- Simplified explanations of common exercise language
- An introduction to using Ability Scores to guide training (further explored in the expansion Ability Score Improvement
- Movement and Modifiers: a series of variables that can be manipulated easily to adapt exercises for individual goals and needs.
- In-depth breakdowns of how to structure exercise sessions and programs using the TTRPG mechanics of turns, encounters, and campaigns to streamline and contextualize the process.
- Case studies for each step of the process
- Guide to common exercise equipment
- Reference tables: movement patterns, modifier interactions
- Exercise spark table
- Quick start guide
- Blank character sheet PDF for recording exercise sessions
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Expansions and Supplements
The Arcane Exercise series is intended to be a simple, accessible way to interact with exercise and movement. I hope to release future expansions on the idea with drills, games, tool-specific iterations, and more. It is also intended to be a collaborative project, so different interpretations of the idea are welcome.
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Print Copies
Find print copies of Arcane Exercise Core Rulebook and other writing here:
Arcane Exercise Core Rulebook and other resources in print
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Art and Design
- Layout and design: Goblin Archives
- Art: Nate Treme and JN Butler licensed under CCLA 0.3
- Layout: “EXPLORERS DESIGN” by Claytron Notestine (CC-BY)
Status | Released |
Category | Book |
Author | Tyler |
Genre | Role Playing |
Tags | arcaneexercise, Exploration, Fantasy, movement, movementgame, Retro, Tabletop role-playing game |
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Development log
- Second Edition updateOct 10, 2023
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