Earned Gratitude
Save a merchant and earn their gratitude — and perhaps a lasting ally.
A persistent world that remembers
Katarra
Break Free From the Traditional RPG.
A World That Remembers.
A Story Only You Can Write.
Enter a persistent fantasy world where your choices shape your life, your actions shape the world, and your story belongs to you.
Katarra Remembers.
The living world
The World Remembers
Katarra doesn't just remember what you've accomplished. It remembers who you've become.
Meaningful character actions can shape personal history, relationships, reputation, discoveries, and the opportunities that open later. The world keeps the record — and responds to it. These are examples of the lived history Katarra is designed to hold.
Broken Trust
Betray an ally and damage their trust — a wound the world may not forget.
Lost Places
Discover forgotten ruins that no other living character has found.
Trade & Supply
Establish trade relationships that quietly reshape a settlement's fortunes.
Craft & Artifice
Craft extraordinary equipment whose maker's name is remembered with it.
Stand and Defend
Defend a settlement from danger and become part of its story.
Design philosophy: these examples illustrate the kind of lived history Katarra is built to remember. They describe a vision for the world — not a claim that every one is already a fully playable system.
Your choices shape your life.
Your actions shape the world.
Katarra remembers both.
A defining moment
The Choosing
Your destiny is not written. It is chosen.
Every character begins with potential. Through exploration, relationships, decisions, and experience, they eventually reach a defining moment. There they choose between two equally prestigious paths — a life of adventure, or a life of craft and influence.
Adventurer
- Explore dangerous lands
- Battle powerful creatures
- Discover Legacy Stones and their abilities
- Uncover ancient mysteries
- Earn renown through extraordinary deeds
Profession
- Master a livelihood
- Develop specialized knowledge
- Build wealth and influence
- Shape commerce and craftsmanship
- Establish a reputation across Katarra
The ten established Professions
- Alchemist
- Artificer
- Blacksmith
- Cook
- Jeweler
- Merchant
- Miner
- Scholar
- Survivalist
- Wayfinder
Neither path is inherently superior. Both offer meaningful long-term progression, and a chosen path determines specialization rather than everything a character is permitted to experience.
Beyond the build
A Life Entirely Your Own
Katarra is more than combat and predetermined quests. A character's life can take shape through work, discovery, relationships, and reputation. The world offers room to become someone specific.
Legendary Adventurer
Live by daring, discovery, and deeds others tell stories about.
Trade Baron
Move goods, build routes, and let reputation become leverage.
Renowned Blacksmith
Let your name travel further than the works of your forge.
Scholar
Pursue forgotten knowledge and turn study into understanding.
Wayfinder
Explore unknown territories where ordinary maps fail.
Alliances
Build relationships, partnerships, and long-standing pacts.
Reputation
Establish a name that opens doors — or closes them.
Collaborative Play
Share a persistent world with everyone else who lives in it.
More than menus. More than combat. More than a predetermined story.
These are possibilities and inspirations, not official progression ranks. Titles such as "Trade Baron" are flavor — they do not grant permissions, statistics, or scripted powers, and not every aspiration is a finished system.
A continuing encyclopedia
The Codex lives beside the world.
The Katarra Codex grows as canon develops and public knowledge expands. Its permanent chapter structure holds systems, peoples, homelands, Legacy Stones, Professions, history, creatures, craft, and discoveries — without turning every mystery into a checklist.
Open the Codex