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 shields through advancement. When you roll a 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!
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Evanescence
A Breathless dramatic sci-fi game about an emotion-altering virus
Status | Released |
Category | Physical game |
Author | The Silent Mage |
Tags | breathless, breathless-rpg, Minimalist, Sci-fi, Tabletop, this-game-is-breathless, Tabletop role-playing game |
More posts
- The "Evanescence" Model: Plug Ins & Add OnsAug 10, 2023
- Evanescence 1.1 (minor edit)Aug 09, 2023
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