E-Scape is a science fantasy roleplaying game about surviving inside a digital world that is actively trying to delete you.
Players assume the roles of Ghosts — virtual copies of actual people who died in the real world. Untethered from the standard controls of the E-Scape system, they are not only doomed to slowly degrade over time, they are hunted by system authorities intent on purging their avatars before they can undermine VR integrity.
Every session is a negotiation with your own decay. Every test is a chance to buy one more tomorrow.
Elysia — one partition among many
Characters don't begin fragile and grow powerful. They begin capable and erode. Degradation accumulates, Glitches and Bugs carve into your stats, and XP is spent buying back what you've lost rather than piling on new abilities. Barely failed a test? Push it — you'll succeed now and pay for it later.
Most systems let you write a character's past in the margins and then never use it. E-Scape gives those minor, flavourful background skills real mechanical weight — the life your Ghost led before they died is a resource at the table, not set dressing.
Partitions and the Sites they host span the ancient Mediterranean, low-Earth orbit, underwater arcologies — anywhere a GM wants to run. The visuals change completely. The stakes never do.
E-Scape uses a dice pool, count-successes mechanic on eight-sided dice. The stat types are a twist on the familiar ones — they describe how your character approaches a task rather than raw capability, which puts narrative agency back in the players' hands. Every test becomes an opportunity to narrate.
Introducing E-Scape
A primer on the game's concept, conflicts, and setting — start here.
Quickstart adventure · v0.5
A four-to-five hour one-shot and the fastest way into the E-Scape universe. Includes a basic rules overview, nine pregenerated characters, and a seek-and-hide scenario that drops players straight into life on the run in the virtual world. Ideal for 3–5 players.
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“Perspective is everything — the more of it we have the better we are, not only in how we game but in how we see the world.”
Talon Grasp Games is staffed by veteran gamers with decades of tabletop and live-action roleplaying experience. We believe a game's mechanics should embed you deeper into the setting, not distract from it — simple enough to learn, flexible enough that two players reach the same end by completely different narrative means.
RPGs are stories, communally built and nurtured. As producers, our job is to give you the tools to participate in that story without hemming you in.
The Kickstarter for E-Scape is coming. Early backers get the best of it — and we’d rather tell you directly than hope the algorithm does it for us.
The quickstart is free to download — a taste of how the game works and what virtual adventure costs you.
The game has pre-launched on Kickstarter. Here's what the upcoming campaign looks like.
New art, editing complete, and a free quickstart adventure on the way.
