Beyond: Adventures in Hazardous Space
– And going to Steampunk!
Hi, here’s the latest version (A1.71) of Beyond: Adventures in Hazardous Space – everything has had work!
Key changes are:
– new, more comprehensive setting creation
– new group and character story rules
– changes to Basic moves and several new Universal moves
– new ‘assistant’ mechanics
– 4 new classes, 1 new race, changes to all the existing classes and races
– lots of clarification and playtesting tweaks
There’s some work on using ships and bases, more classes in he wings, however the biggest thing that’s coming is Beyond is taking a sideways step into Steampunk!
My long term plan for Beyond had been to do sci-fi first then expand it into steampunk (I love both genres and the rules are designed with that in mind). However with relatively empty sci-fi PbtA space suddenly filling with great games like The Sprawl and Uncharted Space, rather than thread on their toes, I’ve decided to flip things around and focus on steampunk.
What you have here, therefore, is possibly the last sci-fi version of Beyond for a while (though I may roll out the ship/base rules and sci-fi versions of new classes just for the benefit of anyone who’s using these rules).
As for Steampunking this, apart from needing a more steampunk name, there’s a bunch of flavor to change and social mechanics to add, new classes, revised races, etc. (No, I won’t just be putting gears on it!)
I would still love any feedback you may have on the sci-fi version.
And, if you’re interested in joining the Steampunk journey I’d love to hear from you.
p.s. I will continue to support the sci-fi version, so if you need or want anything in it, or have any feedback let me know.
– Michael D
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzRDxotrnPmTT2dHRU9LT3dfeEk/view?usp=sharing
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p.s. I will continue to support the sci-fi version, so if you need or want anything in it, or have any feedback let me know.
Michael D Any chance we could get access to the word doc or what ever you used to create this? I see tons of SF potential here…
Brennan OBrien The sci-fi version is still very much alive, just on the back burner while I focus on the Steampunk version.
If you’re interested in helping with sci-fi version, let me know. It’s on a slower path atm, and changes are likely to hit the steampunk version before being rolled across to the sci-fi one. However, all feedback, comments, criticism, suggestions and requests are being noted and addressed as and when I can get to them.