Sci-Fi-V: The System A Science Fiction RPG powered by 5E

• Two Lineage Options: Human and Android
• Six Trained Classes
• Premade Backgrounds
• A brutal, but rewarding planet to explore
• Rules for sci-tech, ballistic weaponry, and futuristic travel
• Solo-player rules, GM-free options, and oracles 
• Extensive adventure and planet hex generation system
• 100+ unique weapons, equipment, and machines
• Dozens of cyber upgrades
• Alien creatures, plantlife, and habitats to explore and survive

• You play as a space explorer, stationed on an alien world. You've been tasked with exploring and mapping the small planet and determining if it is suitable for human habitation. Your outpost functions as a supply post and home base, but beyond the dome, the planet is brutal, unpredictable, and unknown.
• The designs are all influenced by 1950's science fiction, Star Wars, Star Trek and all of the rockets in between, with a balance between sleek ray guns and the slightly run-down greebles of the Star Wars universe. You can specialize in a certain type of tech or focus your skills on being effective with purchased equipment and weaponry.
• Sci-Fi-V is not just a complete TTRPG - it also works well as a world and story generation device for any of your favorite sci-fi games. Use the solo rules to adapt adventures in Mothership or use The System as a setting for Death In Space! It contains a wealth of tools that can be hacked and mutated with ease for any science fiction, light-magic fantasy, or hardscrabble survival world. 
• The System is just the first book in a planned series of games using Sci-Fi-V. Its publication is designed to help fund the art for our first two big book expansions for the game, The Continuity and Megatropolis. We are also working on some more fantastical locations and a 3rd party System Resource Document so you can make your own games using this specific hack of 5e. 

The System

What's Different

• Everything in the rule book has been re-examined to better exist in a science fiction realm. Magic doesn't exist (In this specific book, but there's no reason it won't pop up in later books) but the wealth and breadth of technology and alien machinery means a player can do virtually anything a magic user could do, just with more neon lights and batteries! Instead of focusing on a realm of magic, players will specialize in a school of technology, refining their skills and proficiencies to zero in on the type of adventurer they are.
• Simplified Attributes. These have been streamlined and made less milquetoast. You roll 3d6 for each stat in sequence, no re-rolls. I adore the challenges presented by a character with flaws and the potential for creative roleplaying that comes from it. And you live in a world where you can get a cybernetic intelligence booster, so nothing is permanent...
• Except death, anyway. The System is a brutal world outside the domes and danger, injuries, and death is always a threat. Vicious, powerful, science fiction weapons are a lot harder to survive than a rusty halberd.
• Impactful Critical Rolls. Natural critical rolls have a greater effect on combat in particular in a world where a single laser to the head can be deadly.
• Inspiration becomes Luck. Luck - which replaces inspiration - allows a player to achieve epic things and avoid death itself. Unless your luck runs out...

• New Classes. Once you've established your family's history, you refine your character's focus with one of the new Class options. You can build your character into anything you want, but this will give you a solid base to evolve from, whether you are trained as a bounty hunter, trader, scavenger, or one of the other six class and subclass options. 
• Characters can only progress to level 10. All too often, higher-level players become virtual gods, eliminating any real threat or challenge unless it's world-level, and often the enjoyment of roleplaying goes out the window. You'll still be pretty badass at level 10, don't worry. 
• Zones instead of feet. Tracking distance at the granular level is boring. In Sci-Fi-V, you're either HERE, NEAR, or THERE. This simplifies movement, combat, navigation, and pretty much everything except getting measured for a pair of trousers. 
• All new Lineage options. Replacing the 5e's Race options, the lineage in The System book is restricted to humans and androids with more to come in later expansions. That said, all of the races in 5e can be used in Sci-Fi-V as well if you want to play a space elf.
• Extensive background building tools. Refine your character's origins, drives, flaws, and personalities. (But we don't bother with alignment on anything but tires. You can create your character's ideals through roleplaying.)
• Streamlined inventory and equipment mechanics. You have limitations on your weapons and mods, but inventory that any standard adventurer would have is accounted for with a dice check system. If it is something your character would reasonably have or you can roleplay the story for why they have it, they can use it. Then you roll a die and if you roll below your current equipment stat, that stat drops one. No more weight limitations or granular torch counting. 
• Focus on Exploration. While combat is still a big part of the game, we've ramped up the exploration and survival aspects of being on an alien planet with unique diseases, poison, air supply issues, isolation, and alien creature encounters. 

The Book

• Measures 8.5"x11"
• Black and white interior pages
• Over 150 pages
• POD available in softcover or hardcover
• Wallet-friendly digital and print-on-demand options

Team Squid

• Craig Cannon: (They/Them) Game development, original world-building, GM extraordinaire, writing.
• Kris McClanahan: (He/Him) Artwork, graphic design, additional writing, solo development.
• Mike Johnson: They/Them) Graphic design, world-building.
• Shelly Grante: (She/Her) World-building, solo playtesting.

Projected Completion