"Welcome to a collapsing universe"... yes, but what about the game?
March 29, 2022
[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Game Developer and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press]
Author: Free League Publishing
The world is broken. In a collapsing universe, your crew is your only family. DEATH IN SPACE takes you to a grimy blue-collar future in a universe filled with risk, but also opportunity. Free League Publishing and Stockholm Kartell today announced a publishing partnership for the upcoming DEATH IN SPACE RPG, set to release April 26.
DEATH IN SPACE is a game about adventure and uncertain journeys out into the darkness of space, where the void whispers to the unlucky and imbues travelers’ bodies with strange powers. It is about you and your crew making a home of your spacecraft or station, your only sanctuary in a dangerous universe. Most of all, it is about surviving in an abandoned frontier system where resources are scarce, and competition is fierce.
Engage in power struggles and build your crew’s reputation. Salvage and steal to endure a ruthless universe. And above all, do anything you can to get that next job. Your life will depend on it.
Find out more about DEATH IN SPACE RPG here.
DEATH IN SPACE RPG is now available for pre-order in the Free League Webshop. Pre-order will give immediate access to the PDF.
DEATH IN SPACE RPG Trailer:
https://youtu.be/2DBqwd-aIAM
About DEATH IN SPACE RPG
In DEATH IN SPACE RPG, you and your crew are a rag-tag bunch of hard-working explorers and laborers hoping for a big score. Your only hope of surviving is to take any contract you can find, sometimes having to put your fate in your enemies' hands.
The default setting is the war-torn Tenebris system, a system of planets and objects revolving around the star Tenebris. It is a stellar system ravaged by war and strife, where the greed-fueled mining of precious gems started a conflict that left the system wrecked into pieces.
The game has its roots in the OSR scene and follows similar design principles. The rules are intended to be easy to use and hack but also meant to support and introduce the game world. As for setting and tone, inspiration comes from the gritty future of early 80’s science fiction movies as well as classic westerns.
DEATH IN SPACE RPG is created by Christian Plogfors and Carl Niblaeus of Stockholm Kartell. Like MÖRK BORG RPG, the game will be printed and distributed by Free League Publishing (ALIEN RPG, Tales from the Loop RPG, The One Ring RPG) under the Free League Workshop sub-label for independently designed games.
The core game book contains everything you need to start playing:
● Light-weight rules, intended to be easy to use and quick to learn
● A system for quickly generating player characters & their spacecraft or space-station
● 60+ different modules to make the spacecraft or space-station your own
● An introduction to the Tenebris system, its main locations and history
● A system for repairs, where you collect spare parts to repair your stuff
● 20 cosmic mutations, representing physical manifestations of the void
● A system for spacecraft confrontations and boarding
● An introductory scenario to jumpstart your campaign
● 40+ tables and generators packed with setting flavor
In addition, there is an official soundtrack for the game, available at all the major streaming services. The soundtrack is packed with 90 minutes of atmospheric music that sets the tone and gives life to the themes present in the game.
There is also an online character generator – the DEATH-BBS. It lets you generate characters for the game in no time, with all the flavor from the core book.
Link: https://death-bbs.makedatanotlore.dev/
A creative coven of writers, designers, and idiots. Stockholm Kartell manifested in 2015 and has been a key player in the Swedish old-school RPG scene as an organizer of events and publisher of game material ever since. In 2020 they entered the international stage when MÖRK BORG RPG swept the ENnies. Death in Space marks the second major release, and the MÖRK BORG cyberpunk spin-off game CY_BORG is planned for release in 2022.
www.stockholmkartell.com
Free League Publishing is a Swedish game creator and publisher dedicated to speculative fiction. We have published a wide range of award-winning tabletop roleplaying games and acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds.
Our upcoming games include the official BLADE RUNNER RPG, Ruins of Symbaroum 5E RPG, Into the Odd RPG and CY_BORG RPG. Our game portfolio includes THE ONE RING™ roleplaying game, Tales From the Loop - The Board Game, the official ALIEN RPG (Gold ENNIE for Best Game 2020), the Gothic horror game Vaesen (winner of three ENNIE Awards 2021), the pitch-black fantasy RPG Mörk Borg (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2020), the alternate '80s Tales from the Loop (winner of five ENNIE Awards 2017, including Best Game), the retro-fantasy Forbidden Lands (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2019), the postapocalyptic Mutant: Year Zero (Silver ENNIE for Best Rules 2015), the science fiction game Coriolis - The Third Horizon (Judge's Spotlight Award 2017), the dark fantasy game Symbaroum, and the just released new edition of the RPG classic Twilight: 2000.
We have also published the art books Tales from the Loop, Things from the Flood, The Electric State and The Labyrinth by internationally acclaimed visual artist Simon Stålenhag, as well as the illustrated edition of the Lovecraft classics At the Mountains of Madness - Volume 1 and The Call of Cthulhu by the praised artist François Baranger.
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