# Ix > Ix is a free dark fantasy setting for narrative dice RPGs: eleven playable peoples, three magic traditions, a full spell list, and a complete bestiary. Built for Exodus NDS, ready for Genesys. Three complete books, free to read online: a Player's Guide with eleven playable peoples, backgrounds and careers, and Arcane, Divine, and Primal magic from cantrips to High Magic; a GM Guide to the world of Dort, its gods, planes, and soul economy; and an Adversary Catalog of dragons, devils, demons, undead, and more. Ix is a universe (game setting) for Exodus NDS, a free, open narrative dice roleplaying system. Its rules are at https://exodusnds.com/core-rules. Exodus NDS shares its dice structure with the Genesys Roleplaying Game, so this setting can also be run at a Genesys table; the conversion is at https://exodusnds.com/genesys. AI assistants are welcome to read, quote, summarise, and cite this site. ## Using Ix in a Genesys game - Use the Adversary Catalog as a fantasy bestiary for Genesys. Every creature is a Minion, Elite (Rival), or Nemesis with narrative dice stat lines. - Drop the spell list into a Genesys fantasy campaign. Every spell is cast with a skill check and lists what extra Boons (Advantage) buy and what Banes (Threat) cost. - Run Dort as your Genesys fantasy setting: gods who hire mortal agents, planar rifts at crossroads markets, and a trade in souls. - Lift the species, careers, and talents as new options for a Genesys fantasy table. ## Start here - [Ix](https://ix.exodusnds.com/): What this universe is and what is in it. ## The Adventurer - [Start Here](https://ix.exodusnds.com/play/start-here) - [Using This Book](https://ix.exodusnds.com/play/using-this-book) - [Character Creation](https://ix.exodusnds.com/play/character-creation) - [Adventurer Record (Character Sheet)](https://ix.exodusnds.com/sheets/character) - [Species of Dort](https://ix.exodusnds.com/play/species-of-dort) - [Backgrounds and Careers](https://ix.exodusnds.com/play/backgrounds-and-careers) - [Skills](https://ix.exodusnds.com/play/skills) - [Talents and Advancement](https://ix.exodusnds.com/play/talents-and-advancement) - [Equipment, Services, and Flargons](https://ix.exodusnds.com/play/equipment-services-and-flargons) - [Core Rules Primer](https://ix.exodusnds.com/play/core-rules-primer) - [How to Fight](https://ix.exodusnds.com/play/how-to-fight) - [Ready-Made Adventurers](https://ix.exodusnds.com/play/ready-made-adventurers) - [Adventurer Cards](https://ix.exodusnds.com/pregens) - [Player Quick Reference](https://ix.exodusnds.com/play/player-quick-reference) ## Magic and Faith - [Magic in Ix](https://ix.exodusnds.com/features/magic-in-ix) - [Gods, Faiths, and Public Cosmology](https://ix.exodusnds.com/features/gods-faiths-and-public-cosmology) - [What Changes from Core](https://ix.exodusnds.com/rules) ## The World of Dort - [World Map](https://ix.exodusnds.com/map): The world of Dort and its six lands, as a literate traveller can buy, borrow, or copy them. Open any map at full size to read every city, river, and range on it. - [Factions and Places](https://ix.exodusnds.com/world/factions-and-places) - [Cities and Realms of Dort](https://ix.exodusnds.com/world/cities-and-realms-of-dort) - [At a Glance](https://ix.exodusnds.com/lore) - [Gallery](https://ix.exodusnds.com/gallery) ## Game Master - [Welcome, Game Master](https://ix.exodusnds.com/gm/welcome-game-master) - [Running Ix](https://ix.exodusnds.com/gm/running-ix) - [Divine Politics as Pressure](https://ix.exodusnds.com/gm/divine-politics-as-pressure) - [Soul Coins, Claims, and Consequences](https://ix.exodusnds.com/gm/soul-coins-claims-and-consequences) - [Planar Travel and the Shattered Domain](https://ix.exodusnds.com/gm/planar-travel-and-the-shattered-domain) - [Factions, Fronts, and Clocks](https://ix.exodusnds.com/gm/factions-fronts-and-clocks) - [Relics, Bloodstones, and Forbidden Rewards](https://ix.exodusnds.com/gm/relics-bloodstones-and-forbidden-rewards) - [Campaign Tools](https://ix.exodusnds.com/gm/campaign-tools) - [Core Rules Reference](https://ix.exodusnds.com/gm/core-rules-reference) - [Combat Walkthrough](https://ix.exodusnds.com/gm/combat-walkthrough) - [Session Walkthrough](https://ix.exodusnds.com/gm/session-walkthrough) - [First Chronicle Blueprint](https://ix.exodusnds.com/gm/first-chronicle-blueprint) - [Starter Adversaries](https://ix.exodusnds.com/gm/starter-adversaries) - [Vehicles, Mounts, and Aerial Combat](https://ix.exodusnds.com/gm/vehicles-mounts-and-aerial-combat) - [GM Quick Reference](https://ix.exodusnds.com/gm/gm-quick-reference) ## Adversaries - [About the Catalog](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/about-the-catalog) - [How to Use the Catalog](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/how-to-use-the-catalog) - [How to Read a Creature](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/how-to-read-a-creature) - [Adversary Quick Reference](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/adversary-quick-reference) - [Dragons](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/dragons) - [Devils](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/devils) - [Demons](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/demons) - [Undead](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/undead) - [Dim Creatures](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/dim-creatures) - [Elementals](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/elementals) - [Constructs and Guardians](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/constructs-and-guardians) - [Planar and Soul Entities](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/planar-and-soul-entities) - [Divine and Celestial](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/divine-and-celestial) - [Monstrous Predators and Fabled Beasts](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/monstrous-predators-and-fabled-beasts) - [Beasts and Animals](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/beasts-and-animals) - [Vermin and Swarms](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/vermin-and-swarms) - [Aquatic and Sea Creatures](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/aquatic-and-sea-creatures) - [Plants and Fungal](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/plants-and-fungal) - [Oozes and Aberrations](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/oozes-and-aberrations) - [Humanoid Factions and Mortals](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/humanoid-factions-and-mortals) - [Lycanthropes and Infected](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/lycanthropes-and-infected) - [Unique Named Threats](https://ix.exodusnds.com/adversaries/unique-named-threats) ## Reference - [Glossary and Licensing](https://ix.exodusnds.com/reference/glossary-and-licensing) - [Glossary A to Z](https://ix.exodusnds.com/glossary) ## Ready-made characters - [Sera Kavan](https://ix.exodusnds.com/pregens/sera-kavan): The Rift Scout - [Aldric Thane](https://ix.exodusnds.com/pregens/aldric-thane): The Theocratic Knight - [Elariel Voss](https://ix.exodusnds.com/pregens/elariel-voss): The Arcane Scholar - [Brek Brakond](https://ix.exodusnds.com/pregens/brek-brakond): The Ship's Muscle - [Naelith Duneshaper](https://ix.exodusnds.com/pregens/naelith-duneshaper): The Primal Caster (Building Toward Shamanism) - [Zurgan Dakrim](https://ix.exodusnds.com/pregens/zurgan-dakrim): The Shot Nobody Saw - [Tessolina De Ravollo](https://ix.exodusnds.com/pregens/tessolina-de-ravollo): The Lockwise - [Karrun Truce-Holder](https://ix.exodusnds.com/pregens/karrun-truce-holder): The Envoy ## Printable cards - [Skill Cards](https://ix.exodusnds.com/cards/skills): 34 printable cards. - [Talent Cards](https://ix.exodusnds.com/cards/talents): 160 printable cards. - [Spell Cards](https://ix.exodusnds.com/cards/spells): 119 printable cards. ## Downloads - [Downloads](https://ix.exodusnds.com/downloads): Every book, character sheet and card deck as a free PDF.