Thirteen Parsecs
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Thirteen Parsecs: Beyond the Solar Frontier is a new tabletop role playing game from Elf Lair Games that offers all the rules you need to run any sort of sci-fi campaign from gritty cyberpunk to outer space war dramas¸ to science fantasy in the grand planetary romance tradition¸ to hard sci-fi¸ isolationist starfaring horror¸ and beyond! Whether your jam is Asimov¸ Lucas¸ Roddenberry¸ Larson¸ Bradbury¸ Clarke¸ Dick¸ Gibson¸ Heinlein¸ or any other¸ 13P will do the job!
Powered by O.G.R.E.S.¸ the celebrated rules system that drives Wasted Lands: The Dreaming Age and Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars¸ it seamlessly integrates with other Elf Lair Games products and offers fast playing¸ intuitive¸ and fun rules.
Within you'll find:
- Character archetypes ready to take on the stars including the Augmented¸ Blaster¸ Bounty Hunter¸ Diplomat¸ Merc¸ Mystic Knight¸ Psychic¸ and Slicer.
- Unique starship creation and combat rules that focus on the systems of your vessel and cover everything from tiny shuttles to full space stations and beyond!
- Alien species including the Android/Robot¸ Canis¸ Decti¸ Felis¸ Grey¸ Jalex¸ Remoni¸ Saurian¸ plus guidelines for creating your own original species.
- Cultural backgrounds to give your characters a unique history!
- Fate Points to give your players some extra agency - escape hits¸ make saves¸ and even engage in minor scene edits!
- Complete skills system to customize character abilities
- Psionics¸ mystical powers¸ superpowers¸ and custom gear!
- Heroic Touchstones¸ an option to build campaigns around heroes with true destinies
- Solar Frontiers: mini-settings detailing what lies within and beyond the 13-parsec limit.
- A complete GM chapter discussing various sub-genres of sci-fi and how to use them in game
- A custom planetary creation system
- Custom time machine design
- and more! The New Class of Old School takes on the Solar Frontier! Are YOU game?