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Title: Out to the Black Footer: Numenera, the Cypher System, No Thank You, Evil!, Invisible Sun, and their respective logos are trademarks of Monte Cook Games, LLC in the U.S.A. and other countries. All Monte Cook Games characters and character names, and the distinctive likenesses thereof, are trademarks of Monte Cook Games, LLC. Content derived from Monte Cook Games publications is © 2013-2022 Monte Cook Games, LLC. Full Disclaimer.
Out to the Black
Out to the Black is space sci-fi campaign run in a homebrew fictional universe, run in the Cypher System.
Campaign Synopsis
- Likely to steal liberally from...
- Firefly
- Star Trek
- Farscape
- Alien
- ...mashing up elements of hard sci-fi and space opera under an advanced technology rating (space travel inside a 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?
Character Creation
At their basic level, characters are defined as NAME is a [adjective] [noun] who [verbs]. Adjectives are descriptors, nouns are types, similar to character classes, and verbs are foci.
Chapter 4 of the Cypher System Rulebook details character creation, with description of the mechanical elements, and a small sidebar summarizing the steps to take to create a character.
Sources
The majority of the options below are found, and best described, in the Cypher System Rulebook, with an open gaming version available via the Cypher SRD. Most others come from The Stars Are Fire. Anything homebrew we'll write up and link to here.
I skipped listing a lot of the core content, because there's no point in repeating that everything in the core book/SRD are fair game --- the exception to this are the foci, which are tailored below.
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