Orb Tyrants

ORB TYRANTS:
A grotesque skirmish game of floating horrors.
 

Create a hideous Orb Tyrant, command its minions, devour wandering heroes, and graft the stolen organs of your rivals onto your own ever-mutating body.

 1–4 PLAYERS • MINIATURE-AGNOSTIC • SOLO & CAMPAIGN PLAY

Cover and interior art by Thad Stalmack

250+ Followers: Unlocked Rise of the Lich Tyrant campain book!

Unlocked! 7 new scenarios in a race against time before the notorious Lich Tyrant rises again!

$5,000: UNLOCKED Orb Tyrants shall be unleashed upon the world!

$7,000: UNLOCKED. A cool full art ruler! 

$10,000: Unlocked! 4 new Heroes and their cards!

Art is just a place holder! Real art is being made for all the cards!

$13,000: Locked. ???

$17,000: Locked. ???

$20,000: Locked. Something very insane! 

Much like the Orb Tyrants, the goals are shrouded in mystery!

What is Orb Tyrants?

Orb Tyrants is a miniature-agnostic skirmish game for 1–4 players. Each player creates a randomly generated floating horror, gathers four minions, and enters the deepest level of an ancient dungeon to destroy their rivals.

Build, or randomly roll, your Tyrant from grotesque bodies, armored hides, slime-dripping mouths, unnatural central eyes, twitching eye stalks, horrible mutations, and crippling weaknesses. Devour wandering Heroes to steal their powers. Tear out the organs from injured rivals and graft the useful pieces onto your own ever-mutating body.

No official miniatures are required. Build your own Orb Tyrant!

• Miniature-agnostic battles on a 2′ × 2′ battlefield
• Random Tyrant creation
• Solo, one-off and campaign play
• Automated Heroes and roaming dungeon threats
• Minion hordes, organ harvesting and permanent grafts

Create your Tyrant

Roll through eight quick steps to create a completely unpredictable floating horror. Your Body Type establishes its BRUTE, DRIFT, GAZE, and GUTS, while its Mouth, Hide, Mutation, Central Eye, and five Eye Stalks determine what it can do on the battlefield. Finally, every Tyrant receives one Horrible Weakness.

Instead of building a perfectly optimized army, you are handed one grotesque Eye Tyrant with one goal: Dungeon Supremacy! Keep your Tyrant through a campaign and watch it become even stranger as it suffers injuries, devours Heroes, and grafts stolen organs onto its ever-mutating body. NOTE: The pages are all still a work in progress! 

EIGHT ACTIONS AND FOUR ACTIVATIONS, YOU MUST CHOOSE, BUT CHOOSE WISELY. 

Orb Tyrants use fast alternating activations. Choose one unused action, resolve it, mark it off, and pass play to your rival. Every Tyrant has eight possible actions, but may activate only four times each Round.

Will you DRIFT into position, tear into someone with your MOUTH, unleash your CENTRAL EYE, or activate one of your specialized EYE-STALKS? Movement is not free, and sacrificing another action may be the only way to escape, claim an objective, or reach something edible.

After every Tyrant has completed four activations, the Minions swarm and the Heroes fight back. Damaged eye-stalks can be disabled or completely severed, stripping away actions before you can use them.

What's in the Rulebook?

A-5, 72 Pages, Fully Color.

• Fast skirmish battles for one to four+ players
• Completely random Orb Tyrant creation
• Five different eye-stalk categories
• Autonomous Heroes controlled by a deck of cards
• Minion hordes that fight, capture objectives, and feed their masters
• Organ harvesting and grafting
• Rules for campaign advancement, injuries, and lairs 
• Solo rules and a full set of scenarios
• Miniature agnostic rules. Use whatever horrors, monsters, and dungeon terrain you already own

Thad Stalmack is hard at work on the true pages! Here is an example of what the final pages will look like. 

Pledge Levels

THE WATCHING EYE $15.00

•  PDF copy of the Rulebook
• All digital stretch goals included

BECOME THE TYRANT $25.00

• Physical and PDF copy of the Rulebook
• All physical stretch goals included

DUNGEON LORD $35.00

• Physical and PDF copy of the Rulebook
• The Deck of all Hero Cards and Boss Cards, including any unlocked in the campaign.
• All physical stretch goals included

The TYRANT'S HORDE $60.00

• A Kickstarter exclusive box big enough to fill with more Orb Tyrant books!
• Physical and PDF copy of the Rulebook.
• The Deck of all Hero Cards and Boss Cards, including any unlocked in the campaign.
• A sheet of 35 tokens.
• All physical stretch goals included
• Box Art by Silvester Wisnu

THE DUNGEON KING $2,000

• A Dungeon King exclusive box big enough to fill with more Orb Tyrant books!
• Everything in the Tyrant's Horde level
• The Neon Lord will come to any location in the lower 48 states to hand deliver and play Orb Tyrants with you and up to 4 friends!
• All physical stretch goals included

The rules have been written, playtested, and all laid out. Thad is working on more art for the inside of the book to match the cover's intensity. 
The work is done; now we just need to pay for more art! Once the final coat of paint gets slapped on the book, cards, tokens, and any stretch goals, we will fire it off to the printers! Easy peasy and out the door quick!

Orb Tyrants at Shirecon 2026!

Orb Tyrants at Pittsburgh Gaming Expo 2026

US Shipping is estimated to begin in Jaunary 2027. Super Savage Systems has successfully fulfilled numerous projects and does not foresee any issues with getting this project out in a timely fashion.

Non-US (Non-Canadian) orders will be fulfilled out of the UK. We will ship all items directly to our international fulfillment partner for shipping. As much as we’d love to ship directly to our neighboring countries, right now it seems like it will be cheapest to ship from the UK.

PDF Fulfillment: PDFs will be sent through both Backerkit and DriveThruRPG

PDFs fulfilled through DriveThru RPG: We will be charging shipping after the Kickstarter ends, based on the costs incurred to ship your specific pledge and choice of add-ons. We will collect this Backerkit after the campaign ends.

Here is are the rough shipping estimates:
United Kingdom: £8 [single zine] ➡ £12-20 [bundles] 
EU: €10 [single zine] ➡ €19-25 [bundles] 
USA: $6 [single zine] ➡ $12-18 [bundles] 
Canada: $12 [single zine] ➡ $24-44 [bundles]  
Rest of World: $18 [single zine] ➡ $35-60 [bundles]

Imports & More: We will ship from two local hubs: UK and US. That means that if you’re in those regions, there will be no import fees for you. Additionally, we'll have EU-friendly logistics, meaning you won't see any additional fees on your packages to your location either.

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