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La Famiglia
A game of one Family, three generations, and the year it all comes due.
New York, 1897 to 1963.
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We will not sell the list. You can leave it whenever you want.The trailer
One Family, sixty-six yearsLa Famiglia is a tabletop roleplaying game about one New York crime family, played across three generations, from the pushcarts of 1897 to the Senate hearings of 1963.Every session is one year. The crew pulls a Job: a shakedown, a hijacking, a hit. Then the whole Family sits down at the kitchen table to count the money, pay the cops, baptize the babies, and bury the old men. That's The Sit-Down. Then the year is over.The city is real. The streets, the papers, the prices, and the big names are real, and they do what they really did, when they really did it. Everybody you deal with up close is made up: the Lo Biancos, the Scarpas, the Mulqueens, the cop on your payroll, the priest who buries your dead.It runs on a Pendragon-style engine: a d20, rolled under your number. A man is five attributes (Muscle, Quick, Vigor, Wits, and Face) plus skills, Traits, and the Passions he'd kill for.What's in the betaFour PDFs, Beta 0.9, Playtest Edition:• The Rulebook, 53 pages: how a man rolls, how a Family sits down once a year, and a ready-to-run first night.
• The Long Way Down, 53 pages: the Lo Bianco campaign, 1897 to 1963.
• The GM Playtest Packet, 16 pages: the first night scene by scene, a GM screen, and a three-session arc.
• Player Handouts, 13 pages: four pregenerated 1897 characters, a blank sheet, and the Family Ledger.You need a d20 per player, one d6 for the GM, and three or four players plus a GM. This is a playtest, not the printed book. Share the files; don't sell them.The look of the books
Watch it playedGrail Country is running La Famiglia as an actual-play series. New episodes to be announced.
After the beta, a printed bookGive the playtest away, hear from tables, then crowdfund a print run of the finished game, announced to this list first. If you want that book, stay on the list.Epic Beard GamesEpic Beard Games is Nate Hile's design company. La Famiglia is the first title.© 2026 Epic Beard Games / Nate Hile. La Famiglia Beta 0.9 is free to share and not for sale.
