Radiant Tactics
Your stories, your heroes, every battlefield.
Radiant Tactics is a cross-format tabletop tactics system where you create a hero once and take them anywhere: tense roleplaying scenes, tactical skirmishes, or fast-paced card duels. Your investment in characters, gear, and story never goes to waste.
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What’s Special about Radiant Tactics?
Most tabletop games lock you into one style—an RPG campaign, a miniatures army, or a card deck. Radiant Tactics breaks those walls.
Create once, play everywhere. Forge a legendary archer in our RPG, and they can lead troops in a wargame or appear as a rare card in your deck. The stats carry over. The story continues.
Here’s what that means for you:
- Never start over: Your RPG characters can continue their stories in CCG and Wargaming formats. Same hero, new challenges.
- Learn once, play many: The core rules get you 80% of the way to any new format you want to try.
- Every purchase multiplies: Cards, models, and assets work across all formats. Less wasted shelf-space, more play options.
- Endless variety: Every new format Radiant supports adds utility to everything you already own.
- Create your own games in different styles: Everything you need to create your own games for a variety of experiences. Want to build something that plays like Fire Emblem? D&D? Gloomhaven? Heroes of Might and Magic? Warhammer 40k? We support that DIY!
Try Radiant Tactics and help shape a better tabletop gaming system! You’ll find free demos and scenarios on our Digital Rules & Products page.
What Makes Combat Unique?
- Initiative by Unit Weight Class: Light units seize ground early, mediums respond, heavies anchor. An intuitive initiative system creating distinct tactical rhythms and windows of opportunity.
- Burst Weapons and Conditions: Attacks inflict battlefield effects (bleed, disarm, immobilize) that change how both sides play.
- Multiple Victory Paths: Win through maneuver and objectives, not just eliminating enemies.
- Detailed Positional Play: Flanking, height advantage, and terrain hazards make every move matter.
- Flexible Resource Management: Focus economy for items and abilities toggles strategic depth for scales of play.
Try Out Combat with Free Training Scenarios!
See Cross-Format Play In Action!
Play your Radiant characters across all the genre’s best hits
| Your Favorite Games | Radiant Tactics Plays Like |
|---|---|
| Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy Tactics | Single Squad Tactical Battles |
| Warhammer 40k, Warmachine | Multi-Squad Skirmish Battles |
| Magic: The Gathering Duels | Card-Based Micro Battles |
| D&D, Pathfinder | Exploration and Adventure |
| Civilization, Heroes of Might & Magic | City vs City Strategic Battles — Coming Soon! |
The World of Phoibos
A Sci-Fantasy Setting for Radiant Tactics
The world of Phoibos is a living sci-fantasy setting full of magical ideology clashes, ancient mysteries, and factional intrigue. Whether you’re uncovering lost-tech from ancient wreckage, or debating gods in a city-state council, your actions shape the tale.
“There are no heroes, only heroic peoples.”
Clara Tryfar, Traveller and Novelist
Latest Updates:
Rex Sanguines Faction Page
Necrotic Faction Page
Alpha Classes & Mastery
Factions of Phoibos
Northern Fleet Faction Page
Developer Q&A
Radiant Tactics’ RPG System
Radiant Tactics is a single game system that enables characters to interoperate among multiple modes of play: TTRPG, CCG, Wargame, 4x and more.
Do you need separate products for each format? No—start in your favorite format, then expand later. The same core rules drive them all, so your investment grows instead of resets.”
What Unique about the RPG System?
Play your way, your schedule, your group. Can’t make weekend sessions but want to continue your character’s story? Group size changed? Switch to a format that fits. Your character keeps all progression, customization, and investment.
Every asset works everywhere. When your wargaming collection can play in CCG styles and traditional RPG narratives, every purchase has multiplied utility. Lower switching costs, higher value.
Continuous Progression, Limitless Customization.
Radiant Tactics aspires to an unprecedented degree of customization and continuity. It’s not just that our world is grand, with an enormous variety of species, classes, and distinct equipment supporting exploring builds and rosters.
Flexibility. Can’t make weekend sessions but want to continue your character’s story and progress? Group size is bigger because new friends want to join in? Not an issue in Radiant Tactics.
Who is Radiant Tactics for?
Fantasy and Sci-Fi Enthusiasts, Gamers who Enjoy Tactics Challenges or Roleplaying, and Hobbyist Game Designers.
Start Playing Today!
Download our free Quickstart Rules & Training Scenarios—everything you need for your first battles, including printable maps, unit tokens, and cards.
Available Now
• Tactical Battle Core Rules
• Training Scenario Demos
• Crossplay Demos
• Setting Context
Coming Soon
• Interoperable Card Format Demo
Built by Hobbyist Gamers, for Hobbyist Gamers
Radiant Tactics is designed by Michael Vossen, who’s been developing this system since 2015 with one goal: support the hobbyist creator who wants to make fun characters and adventures to play with friends—just like his 12-year-old self did with D&D.
Your support and feedback help shape development toward a better system for RPG hobbyists.
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