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FARSIGHT - 5E Evolved Explorative Sci-Fi RPG Core Rulebook

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FARSIGHT is a pen & paper role-playing game designed to bring science fiction to your table, allowing you to explore pristine worlds, roam the cosmos, and confront with unknown species, alien civilizations and prodigious technologies. Well, provided you can survive the dangers lurking just beyond the edge of the known!

Its game system, evolved from the 5th edition of the most popular rpg of all time, is simple and easy to learn, but capable of giving you all the depth and details that science fiction demands.

With an extremely flexible character-building system, players will be able to create the heroes they want and forge their own destiny, while game masters will have at their disposal fine-tuned tools for creating endless worlds for their adventures and campaigns.

FARSIGHT RPG is based on the 5E EVOLVED game system, a carefully designed adaptation of the 5th edition rules of the world's most popular RPG to science fiction. But don’t get it wrong, it is not a simple hack!

While retaining the essential style of 5E, the 5E EVOLVED implements new basic mechanics, major changes and several features designed to best fit a more sci-fi oriented game style, going as far as to change the canonical ability scores and even to abandon the iconic d20 by changing the basic ability check mechanic (WHAT? Well, yes).

But it doesn’t stop there! Here's some key features:

 

  •  Double twelve craziness: Instead of using a single dice (d20) to perform most checks, you will use two twelve-sided dice (2d12). Such a roll creates variety in the outcomes, with a wide range of exploits and setbacks instead of simple critical successes or failures. But don’t think that’s all: advantage/disadvantage, EDGE Cards and other new mechanics will bring bustle and fun on your table!

 

  •  Fully customizable characters: Character creation and progression is handled in a modular and versatile way, allowing players to fully customize their characters
Several playable species and lots of different backgrounds.
Three fully customizable classes: the tough DELTA, the reliable SIGMA and the enigmatic PSI.
  •  Characters who grow with the story: Gain fame and wealth, weave important connections, or instead mess with the wrong people and fall into misfortune! Interludes in between adventures will allow characters to use their “down-time” to pursue their personal goals, to build relationships, work, trade, do research or simply to recover.

 

  •  Tactical and deadly combat: Combat is frenetic and merciless. Surely you are heroes, but weapons are deadly and enemies are fighting for their lives as much as you are. Strategy is key: cover, distance, position, weaponry. All of this and countless other tactical choices can make the difference between victory and defeat.
Tactic and strategy are the key to survive. Well you will also need gear, weapons... and luck!
  •  Gear, vehicles & starships: Can a sci-fi game don’t take into account technology in all its applications? Of course not! You'll have advanced and customizable weapons, armors and tech gear of all kind, and specific rules to create and customize any kind of means of transport, from the smallest planetary vehicle to the most huge starship!
An old and rusty spaceship is better than no spaceship at all... Well, maybe.

And if you are wondering, yes, all the 5E EVOLVED core system is released under OGL! So, if you want to learn more about it, come visit us on our WEBSITE!

Farsight RPG is designed to adapt to any sci-fi setting you want, but its main focus is the ultimate frontier of science fiction: space exploration

To give you a glimpse of these frontiers, the Corebook will include an introduction to Chronicles of the Edge, a space opera setting that we hope to expand with your help, through a series of modules and adventures unlockable as stretch goals! Here’s a brief presentation of what awaits you on the verge of the Known Space!

Centuries ago, the Collapse forced the Union to retreat to the Central Systems, forsaking large portions of the Orion Arm.  After an era of oblivion, the now called Outskirts are finally slowly re-flourishing under the influence of new interstellar nations.

The 79 Suns Confederation claims the title of heir to the ancient Union while the Nargor Empire expands its domain by ensuring protection and civilization under an iron fist. Meantime, the traders of the Arkead Cross roam the old stellar routes seeking for deals and the envoys of the misterious Concordate bring reason and aid wherever they can.

While the Known Space is shaken by tensions and turmoils, remote planets and unreached frontiers await to be explored. Artifacts emerge from ancient times, forgotten mysteries awaits to be revealed and unknown threats lurk just beyond the Edge, where every knowledge fades into the depths of uncharted space.

 
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