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Again, depends on your needs. You can play solo, duo, or a decent sized group of five to eight players. 

Depends on your GM philosophy: You can run it with two players up to dozens using an open table or West Marches style game play. 

More teasing...

This is The Standing Dead, a hard science-fiction roleplaying game set in the near future, focused on exploring beyond the veil of human-controlled space.

In the near future, the stars appear to be ours for the taking. Amidst the new stars, planets, moons, and asteroids our species now calls home, humanity is changing, becoming something infinitely more alien than those who left Earth and its star, Sol, behind.

As humanity spreads out into the larger universe, we are confronted by a graveyard’s silence: There are no other sophonts like us. Only lifeless ruins, abandoned constructs, and eerily silent graveyards and fossils.

This hasn’t stopped our insatiable need to know more, to see if we’re truly alone in this vast, indifferent universe.

You work under the authority of the Expeditionary Command Council (ECC), a decentralized and highly disciplined organization founded on the fringes of human space. Human expeditionaries push just beyond the veil of human space, traveling at relativistic speeds, hoping to answer those questions we all have and to find new homes and new opportunities for humanity.

Your reasons for being an expeditionary are your own. You must trust your teammates, your ship, and yourself to survive the harsh, indifferent universe around you.

Survival is not guaranteed.

Act accordingly.

Working on my submission for Songs & Saga's Game Jam: It's called The Standing Dead, and it tries its hand at hard(ish), heavy on the -ish, science-fiction roleplaying game.   Working to develop starship mechanics, space combat, cool tech and post-human intelligence, and some sandbox tools.

The Cover (Rough Draft)

Interior Setting Intro (Art by Liuzishan on Freepik.com)

Expeditionary Command Council (Onboarding Screen)

No worries. Let me know if any of the other files give you trouble. Enjoy!

It's about 219 MB in size, so, depending on the connection, it could take a bit.

I've added the PDF directly to the page. Zipped helped, as it is a large file.

Which file? The core rulebook is zipped, I believe. 

We're working on the Discord server for No One Owns the Sky to help build the gaming community around this game. With that said, what would you like to see offered to this community in our official Discord? What resources would you like to find there? 

Also: Feel free to grab a legacy copy. I just refreshed the stockpile.

Thanks for the heads-up. Darn links.

Thanks! Also: Thank you for the system idea. I’ve bastardized the thing, but I love it a lot! 

Hey, all, 

I am curious about something: I've been exploring Rebel Crown, and I love how you all brought a new spin on Forged in the Dark. Does Rebel Crown follow the same license as Blades/Forged (CC-BY)? Can we hack what you've made here?

Hi, all,

To celebrate Rapture Roleplay System's launch later this week, we are asking folks to share their character ideas. In other words, what sorts of characters do you all want to build using this system?

Available for pre-order and launches Friday, December 15, 2023!

Quick Pitch: Rapture offers players a compromise between rules-light, exciting action and conceptually crunchier story-centric games, with deeper characters without resorting to hundreds of pages of rules, overly complex mechanics, and dozen-page character sheets. While this game does offer a system for tabletop roleplaying, Rapture also offers a number of specific gameplay opportunities: Sandbox philosophies, balanced roleplaying opportunities, and collaboration between players and their referee.

Itch Project Link: https://free-radicals-press.itch.io/rapture-big-red

Pre-Order Here: https://free-radicals-press.itch.io/rapture-big-red

Rapture Roleplay System ( Big Red Ugly Edition) offers players a compromise between rules-light, exciting action and conceptually crunchier story-centric games, with deeper characters without resorting to hundreds of pages of rules, overly complex mechanics, and dozen-page character sheets. While this game does offer a system for tabletop roleplaying, Rapture also offers a number of specific gameplay opportunities: Sandbox philosophies, balanced roleplaying opportunities, and collaboration between players and their referee.

Pre-Order Here: https://free-radicals-press.itch.io/rapture-big-red

After two years of working on Rapture Roleplay System, a successful Kickstarter, and tons of new design and development experiences, I’m excited to announce today that Rapture’s on preorder now!!! The game releases Friday, December 15, and it’s here on Itch: https://free-radicals-press.itch.io/rapture-big-red

The Big Red Ugly is looking to be released, in full, sometime during late April or early May. If you're interested in getting more updates, consider following the devlog for Rapture.

The game is a rummy-style hack, complete with runs, books/sets, and tricks. Easy to start, addictive as hell, and best with large groups.

A game near and dear to my heart: Llano Estacado. Created this when I was in grad school to pass the time and goof around. Now bringing it to the public. 

https://free-radicals-press.itch.io/llano-estacado-a-rummy-hack

Your home country has been invaded by its northern, fascist neighbor. While the initial months didn’t offer much change, the newly installed puppet government has begun rounding up dissidents and patriots alike. One day, a childhood friend warns you that the secret police are looking to arrest you for crimes against the newly formed fascist state. You are left breathless and must escape joining the growing resistance in your country. Your reasons for joining the partisans are yours alone, and they may be more complicated than simply running away from possible arrest and detention. Nevertheless, you must survive, you must fight, and, one day soon, you must liberate your people from the jackboot of fascism

https://free-radicals-press.itch.io/bella-ciao