Into the Black [$10.00]

Into the Black [$10.00]:

You don’t ever remember signing a contract, but The Company owns you now, body and soul. You have a debt, and they’re coming to collect. Whatever you were before, this is your purpose now:Finding a way to keep the creditors at bay.Finding a way to get back...

INTO THE BLACK is a sci-fi adventure game using the PINKHACK system. Somewhat of a personal love letter to the Mass Effect franchise, Into the Black is a picaresque adventure game where the players must navigate and explore a strange and wonderous galaxy while deeply indebted to an interstellar corporation. Life among the stars, then, is about treading the razor's edge of struggling for survival and finding joy and love where one can.

This is currently an ASHCAN EDITION. I churned this out over the course of a weekend, tinkering with the PINKHACK system (a blend of Jared Sinclair's The Vanilla Game, Christian Mehrstam's Whitehack, and Chris McDowall's Into the Odd).

Inside this 97-page book you'll find:

• A series of tools for safe play, for Chroniclers and Travelers both
• A lightweight 3-stat, 3-class OSR system requiring only a few d20s and d6s
• A randomized character system that provides compelling starting points for your adventurer
• 50 creatures to encounter on your interstellar journey
• A miscellanea section including ancient data-disks, clothes, drugs, corporations, space pirates, wandering star-nomads, space caravans, a technobabble generator, and strange sci-fi discovered items
• A die-drop-based mapping system that allows for the collaborative creation of interesting adventure sites, settlements, planets, encounters, and cosmic anomalies
• List of desirable goods to barter, buy and sell across the galaxy to pay your debt, as well as complications that might arise on the journey
• Powerful telekinetic abilities and technological wonders
• Rules for starship combat and a selection of vessels to battle, steal, avoid, and strive for
• Art by the fabulous Evlyn Moreau, and Mike Winkelmann (aka Beeple)

Reviews:

"The result is a homespun corner of space full of potential. An emergent story of local warlords or ancient tech can play out, or the group can soak in the emotional melange of finding a series of barren, if beautiful, landscapes while they watch the twin suns dance below several horizons."
-Chase Carter, Dicebreaker

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If this game is something you'd like to try but isn't in your budget right now, please grab a community copy, or contact me.