Evanescence: a Breathless SciFi Setting!


Here we go! After my recente release (check out Breathless Dungeons!), I couldn't wait to share my main sci-fi project Evanescence
As you'll read in the game's page and from the preview image, Evanescence is a dramatic futuristic setting where a weird virus expands through emotions and feelings! 

I will spend more time and words expanding on this universe, but the core concept is working in the sandbox / meta setting zone, giving clues and hooks instead of restrictive names and places. I will certainly add faction based expansions and inputs, as well as special rules for antidotes, possibly a mini setting and a couple of scenarios to allow a deeper delve into this obscure and still inspiring universe! 

The Breathless SRD is the perfect playground for those insomniac weirdos like me: what you need is grabbing the wonderfully crafted engine by Fari RPGs and expand on it with small tweaks to enhance a specific tone. 
With Evanescence I built a solid engine rewarding Misses, expanding on character advancement and providing some guidelines for both narrative and mechanical inputs (like the an alternate rule for med kits and a few concepts about using Roles and out of backpack items). 

SNEAK PEEK TO AN ADVANCEMENT OPTION: DIE SHIELDING! 
As for the basic engine, I decided to go with the traditional polyhedral Breathless approach (as opposed to the decreasing d6 pools I introduced in Breathless Dungeons): I wanted the game to stay as faithful as possible to the SRD for maximum versatility. At the same time, I wanted to give some breath to the protagonists and this comes in the form of shielding: you can buy skills or item shieldthrough advancement. When you roll Shielded die, you remove the shield instead of reducing it!
For Skills you can buy up to three Skill shields, while you can buy a single Item shield, with a simple caveat: you can move the shield to any of your backpack items when you Refocus (aka, catch your breath; thanks to the Renegades Breathless RPG for the nice term!). 

I'm thrilled about this small, yet solid release and I hope you'll get some fun out of it! Let me know what you think and... Breathe

Files

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Aug 09, 2023

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