Build your House Holdings
Before each game, build new Facilities or expand and upgrade existing ones to unlock new House benefits, Models, Equipment, and Abilities. With limited capacity, facilities shape the House Retinue's power.
tabletop tactical
wargame
A Dark Fantasy Tabletop Skirmish Wargame by Grimworldz
World(s)End Overcome. Rise. Conquer.
Build your House, command its Retinue, and fight for influence within the Domains. Complete Battle Scenarios and manage your Retinue through Ranking, Looting, Casualties, Losses, and Reputation with limited resources and lasting Consequences. When you find yourself at the World(s)End, Will you overcome or become just another victim? The choice is yours.
Targeting Kickstarter · February 2027
Every battle changes your House.
Your Retinue gains rank, carries injuries, and suffers losses. Your Reputation shapes 16 Hidden Outcomes whose consequences follow your House and Characters into later Campaign Phases.
Start here · Gameplay overview
Build. Battle. Consequences.
Set within the dark and unforgiving World(s)End Universe, the Escalation Campaign Mode plunges players into a grim battle for sheer survival. Beginning as a desperate underdog, a player will have to combine tactics, strategic cunning, and a touch of luck with limited resources to forge a formidable force capable of dominating the Ring Continents.
Battle for the objective
With options from 7 types of Models, choose to Move, Charge, Attack, Shoot, or Cast Abilities to gain tactical or strategic advantage towards completing the Scenario Objectives. In-game Models are pre-equipped with weapons and gear that may be customized with a wide selection of abilities, weapons, items, and armor options.
Manage the Consequences
Manage Casualties, Rankings, secure your Loot, and update your Reputation. Allocate your earnings, choose the destiny of captured Prisoners, and ready your House for the coming battles.
Coming to Kickstarter
World(s)End
Campaign: Hostilities Season 1 | Episode 1: The Blood Syndicate Domain
Build your House Retinue from shared Core Models and three exclusive units for each of the Factions. Featuring more than 30 unique, Artist-sculpted miniature designs Models with customizable multi-pose options, this set brings over 100 miniatures to life. Track your campaign progress in the App; explore Syndicates in the Lore Book with dark hand-drawn Art; or follow a continuous story within World(s)End in a Novel of more than 300 pages. Physical miniatures and digital STL files offered separately.
First release · Six factions
Your House. Your Story.
Blood Syndicates opens World(s)End Season One with the Hostilities Campaign and six playable Factions. Build your House and bring its Retinue to the tabletop with physical miniatures or get digital STL files for 3D printing.
Choose your Retinue with 7 Types of and 6 Classes of Models, and customize your equipment.
The Miniatures
Prior to the Kickstarter campaign launch, every miniature will undergo sculpting, pre-supporting, test-printing, and full painting. With over four years of hands-on 3D printing experience and in-house capacity to produce the physical miniatures, we are preparing World(s)End for fulfilment from the outset, approaching Kickstarter as a developed range entering crowdfunding with production preparation already underway
Lore Book and Novel (Find out more)
The Lore Book
A premium, physical volume featuring hand-drawn artwork, hidden lore, and the brutal history of the Blood Syndicates unlocks the secrets behind the setting of your next tabletop campaign. This stunning physical book is your definitive guide to a universe of predatory power, broken empires, and eternal conflict. Follow the bloodlines, study the factions, and discover the true price of immortality.
The Novel
Dive into a sprawling, 300+ page dark fantasy epic that chronicles the brutal evolution of a survivor. Follow Noa from the fractures of his mortal childhood to the apex of a shadowy secret society. Born into a troubled household, Noa’s early life is a crucible of neglect and survival. As a teenager, the harsh lessons shape him into a weapon, scarred, resilient, and desperate for an escape from his own fragile reality.
The Lore Reveals The World's Pieces, The Novel Shows How They Collide. The narrative Lore Book & Novel will be a physical release for your bookshelf, and the Game Rules will live digitally and be free to download. Digital rules allow the game to evolve through immediate balance updates while keeping the physical Lore Book and Novel permanently relevant
Follow the road to Kickstarter
Miniature reveals, artwork, campaign previews, and launch updates.
Blood Syndicates Domain·Six playable Factions
Which Syndicate ambitions will you serve?
Your Faction dictates your starting force, unlocks unique Models, Abilities, and Facilities, and shapes the development path of your House. Every Syndicate draws from a common pool of Core units while offering its own distinct playstyle.
The Nightstrings
Hemorphia · Hemamorph Constructs
Masters of Hemorphia, this Faction shapes living blood into weapons and expendable servants. Their Holdings teem with Vats and hidden Chambers of Silence, while fallen enemies fuel the creation of fresh Bladgrinz on the battlefield. Necrosouls and Ghul Constructs are rare among them, for they favor blood over dead flesh, and every act of sanguine mastery risks violent backlash.
Faction Perks
• Starts with a Vats Facility in addition to a Nightquarters Facility. • Chamber of Silence Unique Facility. • Spawns temporary Bladgrinz Models directly onto the field mid-combat. • Risk: Sanguine Hemorrhage Ability critical failures.
The Bloodrose
Phaging · Predatory elegance
Many are beguiled by the exquisite elegance of Bloodrose members, foolishly mistaking them for harmless or playful attendants. Yet this alluring appearance is merely a meticulously crafted facade. Beneath their striking beauty lurks an apex predator. As one of the oldest Houses, the Bloodrose possesses the rare talent of phaging, an uncommon gift that enables them to shrug off wounds that would spell demise for most others.
Faction Perks
• Starts with a Dormitory Facility in addition to a Nightquarters Facility. • Chamber of Devotion Unique Facility. • Nobless keyword Models are immune to critical damage from ranged weapons. • Risk: Phage Instability Ability critical failures.
The Scarlet Moon
Bloodforging · Ranged firepower
As the most commercially driven Faction, the Scarlet Moons view humanity with an attitude other Syndicates see as, at best, naive and, at worst, downright contemptible. Though they remain neutral and trade with all syndicates, their mercantile focus should not be mistaken for vulnerability; they represent one of the most heavily armed forces in the realm, fielding powerful ranged weaponry and unleashing destructive power.
Faction Perks
• Starts with a Sanguine Chambers in addition to a Nightquarters Facility. • Redforge Chambers Unique Facility. • Model Luminaries and Faction equipment bonuses increased. • Risk: Bloodlash Ability critical failures.
The Crimson Reign
Martial · Ruthless strength
Rarely is the Crimson Reign spoken of lightly, for even the slightest provocation can provoke a bloody response. Though many see this lethal code as mere barbaric cruelty, it stems from the profound, fanatical devotion bound to the Crimson Reign Creed, where individual power is honored and respected. Survival of the fittest shows its true meaning.
Faction Perks
• Starts with a Nightquarters Armory Upgrade in addition to a Nightquarters Facility. • Chambers of Defiance Unique Facility. • Dreadsworn and Nightblades Model limits and stats enhanced. • Risk: Overheat Ability critical failures.
The Blackthorn
Thanaturgy · Necrosoul Constructs
Forged through relentless treachery, the Blackthorn endured and adapted in the brutal era following the Syndicate's inception. Though held in contempt by rival major Factions, they spent centuries perfecting their mastery over Thanaturgy. Despised as they remain, governed by a monarch with less than 3 centuries of rule, few dare to challenge their devastating prowess on the battlefield and their Necrosoul Constructs.
Faction Perks
• Starts with a Crypts Holding Facility in addition to a Nightquarters Facility. • Chamber of Souls Unique Facility. • Duskwarden Model enhancements and empowered Deadpool ability mechanics. • Risk: Vortex Rebound Ability critical failures.
The Mortician Syndicate
Fleshcraft · Ghul Constructs
It is often said that a razor-thin margin separates absolute madness from brilliant genius, a sentiment that perfectly captures the essence of the Morticians. Master sculptors of living flesh, they reshape subjects into terrifying battlefield abominations. They occupy a contentious position among rival syndicates, equally revered and reviled for their profound mastery of human and kin physiology.
Faction Perks
• Starts with a Flesh Ward Facility in addition to a Nightquarters Facility. • Chamber of Flesh Unique Facility. • Ghulgard, Vennetrix, and Ghul Constructs stat and trait bonuses. • Risk: Bio Rejection Ability critical failures.
The Retinue
Made for the battlefield.
Choose from 6 Model Classes to fill your ranks with Nobless, Strigga, and Dhampir Vampires, or deploy their unique Constructs: Necrosoul, Ghul, and Hemamorph, across 7 Model Types: Troop, Raider, Vanguard, Elite, Inner Circle, Leader, and Monster.
From House to a Domain
The Escalation Campaign
Your story isn't a series of random fights. It is a persistent narrative arc structured across three escalating phases. Dive into the Escalation Campaign, set in the dark and cruel World(s)End Universe! Players must navigate a challenging landscape where the battle for survival ignites fierce competition. Start as an underdog and, with clever strategies, raw tenacity, and a touch of luck, rise into a powerful force capable of conquering the known lands. The Campaign consists of three distinct phases, each playable as a standalone campaign.
Phase I
Hostilities
Overcome
Your campaign journey begins as you carve out a unique House identity and rise to prominence, transforming your starting Retinue into a formidable, dominant power within your tabletop skirmish Faction. Hostilities Skirmish Scale: 5 to 25 Models
You command: Your House
Phase II
Conflict
Rise
Your rapid growth has attracted dangerous attention and challenging new foes. As you command your expanding Faction, you must launch strategic strikes to bring rival Houses to heel and consolidate your brutal hold over the Domain. Conflict Battle Scale: 25 to 75 Models
You command: Your Faction
Phase III
Conquest
Conquer
Through sheer determination and perseverance, you have consolidated your power and united all rival Factions under your command. Your hold over the domain is absolute. Now, launch your grand campaign to venture out and conquer the rest of the known lands. Conquest Warfare Scale: 75 to 125 Models
You command: The Domain
You will break the world
Isometric Law
In the world of World(s)End, tactical combat is lightning-fast, and the magic laws governing reality are brutal and absolute. By using their own life force, models can harness powerful abilities to change the course of battle.
Explore the Isometric Law
Casting abilities strains reality itself. In this game, magic isn't restricted by "mana points"; it is limited by how much fracturing your characters and reality can withstand. Every dice result of 1 or a failure during an ability cast roll increases the Isometric Law counter by +1. Starting at 0, if any Model causes this counter to reach or exceed 3, 7, or 12, that Model must roll 3d6 and consult the table.
Fracture Thresholds
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At 3 and 7, the player who triggers the threshold rolls 3d6 for an effect.
At 12, both players roll, and the counter resets.
Each Fracture can disrupt Models, equipment, or the flow of battle and can alter conditions across the battlefield.
Effects may be temporary or leave lasting consequences for the Game.
Power has a price. Each Faction has a unique Critical Failure
Violent Feedback: If a character rolls multiple "1"s simultaneously, reality snaps. The character takes immediate, un-saveable damage, risking permanent mutation or instant death.
See a consequence from the beta rules
As their physiology violently tears open, the caster instantly suffers D2 Damage. Furthermore, with their form enduring an agonizing, chaotic process of rapid scarring and knitting, the caster receives a -1 penalty to Reflex through the end of the following round and is prevented from using regeneration throughout the following round.
between games
Manage your House
Invest battle rewards in developing potent new units and equipment. After each match, you can construct new facilities or upgrade and expand existing ones, increasing the limits of your House's forces.
01
Build your Holdings
Your buildings determine what your House can recruit, develop, and equip.
Explore the details
Your available facilities, upgrades, and expansions determine which units and abilities you can unlock. Because each stage of your House Holdings features limited capacity, every construction choice is critical to strengthening your forces and triumphing over your opponents.
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Shape your Characters
Choose starting Lineage, Legacy, equipment, and abilities for your Character Models.
Explore the details
Character Models offer several narrative options with different in-game benefits and abilities, making each character unique and never feeling the same, while other powerful Models must be developed from existing ones, giving you various tactical options for the campaign.
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Ranks, Traumas, and Losses
Survivors gain experience. The wounded can carry physical and psychological trauma into later battles.
Explore the details
Your House Retinue earns rank points with each game, letting them choose a trait with each new advancement. At the same time, those incapacitated during battle can be lost or carry physical and psychological trauma, changing how they play for the rest of the campaign.
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Mutation & Evolution
Develop new forms and mutations. Without the facilities to contain them, evolved creatures can escape.
Explore the details
Instead of ranking advancement, some Models can use points to progress their evolution. With enough evolution points, they can unlock powerful mutations or evolve into even more formidable creatures, making them increasingly challenging opponents. However, tread carefully! Without the right facilities to contain them, they will easily escape and vanish into the wild.
shape your house campaign's outcome.
Reputation leaves a legacy
During the Campaign, shape your House's Reputation by choosing between Authority, Doctrine, and Infamy. Each Reputation option unlocks different equipment choices and affects the narrative's Campaign Phase Ending Outcome.
The fate of your Prisoners
- Infamy
- Execute them.
- Authority
- Hand them to the Syndicate.
- Doctrine
- Give them to the Keepers.
Keep Prisoners for income, or exchange them for Reputation. Each choice strengthens a different part of your House’s future.
Choose your future
Campaign Outcomes & Gear
With 16 Hidden Outcomes, Reputation is more than a system score; it’s the narrative you use to shape your House's and Character's future across other Campaign Phases.
How you distribute your battle-earned Reputation plays a key role in improving your limited armory.
Season 1 The Lands of Vestering
Episode 1: Gods Are Dead
Blood Syndicates · Six factions · 30+ Models · 7 Types of Models · 6 Classes · 7 Classes of Abilities with 4 Tiers · Character & Models Customization · 12 Unique Scenarios · 16 Campaign Ending Outcomes
A House that connected the Syndicates has been reduced to ashes. Its destruction severs a network of information and trust, turning old grievances into open hostilities. Your weakened House must find a way to survive the struggle that follows.
Read the opening story
Beneath the shallow pride of false kings and deceitful self-proclaimed saviors, deep in the area spared by battle and conflict, a House once thought to be a sanctuary for all Syndicates was discovered one day, reduced to ashes, with no witnesses or survivors to tell the tale. The House's position and ties to other major Houses made it a hub for information and exchange between Syndicates. The collapse of this network spawned a surge of misinformation and rumors. Shadows of doubt quickly spread through every house's halls. Long-standing distrust and resentment emerged, providing Houses the perfect excuse to openly engage in violence against one another. What began with accusation and suspicion rapidly escalated into a struggle for power and control, one that threatens to shatter the centuries-old foundations upon which the hidden Syndicates were built. While a new threat rises in the east, Houses, old and new, perish with each passing day as hostilities continue to mount. Will you emerge victorious, or will you simply become another record?
Interested in testing the game?
Read the Beta Campaign Excerpt and Join the Early Playtest.
This excerpt offers a preview of the v1.0.0 Beta Playtest rules, featuring selected pages from the full manual. This document represents the Public Beta edition and may differ from the final rules released with the Kickstarter launch.
JOIN THE EARLY BETA LISTOpen the Beta Rules ExcerptActual pages from v1.0.0 Beta Playtest. Rules remain subject to playtesting. Game Rules will live digitally and be free to download. Allowing game mechanics to evolve, balance patches are instant, and your physical books never become obsolete.
Isometric Law ExcerptIsometric Law Excerpt Actual pages from v1.0.0 Beta Core Gameplay Rules.
Model Profile and Stats ExcerptModel Profile and Stats Excerpt Actual pages from Domain Archive: The Blood Syndicates Rules
The Blood Syndicates ExcerptThe Blood Syndicates Excerpt Actual pages from Domain Archive: The Blood Syndicates Rules
World(s)End FAQ
How many people can join a campaign?
The Campaign supports 2 or more players. Larger groups create more rivalries, alliances, and opportunities for Houses to influence the campaign.
How large is a starting Retinue?
The six Factions begin with five Models, including a Despot and Inner Circle Models. The first Campaign stage allows up to ten Models, with later stages increasing that limit to a maximum of 25 Models.
How long is Hostilities?
Hostilities consists of 16 battles across four stages. Each Escalation Turning Point expands your Holdings and opens further development options.
How long does a battle take?
Beginning and Early Stage battles typically last 30–60 minutes. Late and Final Stage battles generally take 45–105 minutes as Retinues grow and additional options become available.
What do I need to play?
Miniatures for your Retinue, six-sided dice, an inch-based measuring tool, some terrain, and the rules and scenario you are playing. Battlefield dimensions are specified by the scenario.
Must I play all three Campaign Phases?
No. Hostilities, Conflict, and Conquest can each be played as a standalone campaign. Together, they also form the larger persistent World(s)End campaign structure.
Does the first release include every Domain?
No. The first release focuses on Blood Syndicates, six playable Factions within the Blood Syndicates Domain, and the Hostilities campaign. Vestering includes 10+ Domains; future releases will reveal more of the wider setting.
Does signing up grant immediate beta access?
The main list is for game news and Kickstarter updates. The optional playtest checkbox records your interest in participating; it does not guarantee a place or immediate access.
Season 1 · Vestering Continent
Beyond Blood Syndicates.
As the opening Domain in a larger setting, Blood Syndicates introduces World(s)End and Season One. Season One charts the narrative and development across more than 10 Domains throughout the lands of the Vestering Continent, including 30+ distinct Factions, each defined by unique Models, armaments, powers, goals, histories, stories, lore, and conflicts. Subsequent releases will continue to unfold the overarching story and expand upon the world.
Designed for those who love the grit of deep campaign miniature wargaming
A Grimworldz game
From the workbench to the battlefield
World(s)End is being developed before it is crowdfunded. Miniatures are sculpted, supported, test-printed, and painted; rules are already undergoing closed beta testing; and production preparation is underway ahead of the February 2027 Kickstarter. From hand-drawn concept art and precision 3D digital STL to rigorous tactical rules playtesting, our group is committed to delivering a deep, consequence-driven campaign experience for the tabletop community.
Our First Release: Blood Syndicates. Kickstarter target: February 2027. Product contents and timing remain subject to development changes.