Sword Opera is a roleplaying game of action and melodrama best suited for 2-6 players. It takes between 2-4 hours to play a session of Sword Opera, and the game is designed to be played over a campaign of several sessions. It's The Three Musketeers meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It's John Wick meets Fast and Furious. It's swords... meet opera! In Sword Opera, you play as skilled paragons balancing their own ambitions and their loyalty to a circle of allies who seek to dominate a wondrous underworld that you build as you play. You’ll play out grand romances, tense banter, strange powers, dramatic twists, and harrowing finales. We play to find out if the circle can shine in a world full of danger: rival circles, determined nemeses, fatal flaws, imminent peril, and the tension between desire and duty. What's an Ashcan? This PDF is an ashcan of Sword Opera. That means it’s playable, but barebones and incomplete. More art, better layout, even additional rules and guidance is all coming in a future, more polished release.