From publisher blurb:
Epigoni is a roleplaying game that pits you as the unworthy scions of Deities, Legends and Incarnations of ideas: common people, hanging in the balance between day-to-day life and a new dimension filled with dark plots and feuding Myth Entities.
Stare down the Incarnation of the Eighties as you sip Ambrosia from a Martini glass. Defend Rap from the slander thrown by Antonio Salieri. Fight in the turf war between King Arthur and the Big Bad Wolf.
Defy Fate. Discover who you really are.
Epigoni runs on an original game system, CopperHead.
In the CopperHead system, players describe their actions by using the Keywords that define their characters to try and make the current Challenge as easy as possible. Dice rolls in the CopperHead System only require the use of eight-sided dice and players only roll when the outcome of an action is uncertain. The result of the roll determines the resolution of the action: will it succed or will it fail? And what negative consequences will it entail? In CopperHead, failing a roll only means you'll pay a higher price!