From 81f19411d3ada1851f9c152df07692bc4b7e7665 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Brian S. Stephan" Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 22:19:51 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] link to Cypher stuff on the main page all this Out to the Black and Adventuring! stuff, it's probably time --- pages/cypher/black/index.md | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- pages/index.md | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/pages/cypher/black/index.md b/pages/cypher/black/index.md index 847b776..f131f80 100644 --- a/pages/cypher/black/index.md +++ b/pages/cypher/black/index.md @@ -11,6 +11,22 @@ Out to the Black is space sci-fi campaign run in a homebrew fictional universe, ## Campaign Synopsis +Humanity has spread to the stars. Humanity has lost record of what happened to Earth, but it is believed to have +suffered a total biosphere collapse, and in its waning days, spaceships were launched in all directions, humanity's +last chance to find survival among the black, abandoning their doomed world. + +Many were invariably lost in the act of desperation, victim to the emptiness of space. The known survivors reached Xi +Tauri, and spread among its many planets. Waking from cyro-sleep, the original explorers staked out humanity's new +future among biomes hospitable and not, establishing agrarian villages, land stations, and basic terraformed lands. + +As time has passed, humanity has salvaged its roots, good and ill. Travel between the stellar system and its planets is +long but commonplace. Civilization resides in hundreds of scattered settlements across the planets, moons, occasional +asteroid or comet, and space stations. The system's government focuses on a core set of planets, exploiting the +resources of the rest of the system for only its settlements. The outer worlds rely on local law, and some remnants of +the initial settlement of the system still drift in orbit, latent. + +### Notes + * Likely to steal liberally from... * *Firefly* * *Star Trek* @@ -20,15 +36,8 @@ Out to the Black is space sci-fi campaign run in a homebrew fictional universe, system is relatively ordinary, but traveling beyond a system is almost never undertaken; FTL travel doesn't exist but gravity generation does; *generally* things follow known physics, but there's always the opportunity for psionics, alien stuff, etc.) -* Looking for ideas on what you guys would like to play, at the moment --- unaffiliated explorers and problem solvers, - organized (government or corp) away team with some kind of goal, scavengers/privateers, rebels on the outskirts - fighting tyranny? - * That'll probably affect the scope of the system/universe, e.g. if there's many uncharted systems in play (with - cryosleep or a *lot* of downtime), our system, a Firefly-like 'Verse system involving many suns and whole - sub-systems of planets and moons. - * Also of course that will affect chargen, what skills you might need to survive, if one of you *needs* to be a - pilot, that kind of thing. -* Actually, on that note, made-up system good, or is our Solar System preferred? +* Characters: "mercs fighting the good fight"? + * Think about if any of you is going to need piloting skills. ## Character Creation @@ -48,3 +57,10 @@ I skipped listing a lot of the core content, because there's no point in repeati are fair game --- the exception to this are the foci, which are tailored below. *...* + +## Science Stuff + +* [Xi Tauri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Tauri) + * The three blue-white B-type stars could form planets, though they don't have a ton of time in main sequence. + Likely require some form of shelter for life. Alien life, lots of meteor strikes and young planet activity. + * The F-type star yields the most earth-like planets. diff --git a/pages/index.md b/pages/index.md index b6ad157..6e888d7 100644 --- a/pages/index.md +++ b/pages/index.md @@ -8,10 +8,13 @@ The tabletop RPG repository of [bss](https://bss.zone/) and friends. * [Adventuring!](13th-age/adventuring/) --- an experiment in a campaign setting built up entirely from nothing but the collective creativity of the gaming group, using the [13th Age](13th-age/) system but assuming none of its setting. + Because it's not tied to the 13th Age setting at all, bss is trying a branch of [the campaign under Cypher + System](cypher/adventuring/)! ## Systems -* [13th Age](13th-age) --- bss's favorite D&D-like. +* [13th Age](13th-age/) --- bss's favorite D&D-like. +* [Cypher System](cypher/) --- a cross-genre general system that bss is starting to mess with. ## Dungeon23