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RIVER OF HEAVEN - Science Fiction Roleplaying in the 28th Century


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river-of-heaven.jpgIt is the dawn of the 28th Century. The Third Renaissance, or Bright Age as future historians will call it, is at its zenith. After the catastrophic first contact with extra-terrestrial life that led to the horrific Solar System war, humanity clawed its way back from the brink and finally reached the stars. For millions of people, Earth’s sun is no more than another star in the night sky, a mote of light, a spiritual birthplace that they will never visit in their lifetimes.

It has been over a century since the Machine Civilisation gifted humanity technological marvels such as the Visser Cube, allowing wormhole travel across the vast chasms of interstellar space. Now interstellar distances grow ever shorter. How the myriad of splintered cultures view this gift varies. Some see it as a blessing, a way to draw humanity into a united whole. Others see it as a curse, robbing them of their individuality. And then there are those who would use it as a means to subjugate humanity and impose their own will upon all…

Across the river of heaven, humanity clings to a scattering of islands in a sea of stars. Players can take on a multitude of roles in this future: a crew member on an interstellar trader, a member of the mysterious Engineers’ Guild, a body-hopping Intercessionist agent – out to manipulate human cultures to its own secret ends, a Renouncer Zealot – intent on destroying Artificial Intelligence in all its forms, or perhaps one of the Reclaimers – planetary engineers dedicated to terraforming any viable planet they happen upon…

In the core rulebook you will find:

The OpenQuest rules engine - tailored to a hard sci-fi setting, making River of Heaven a self-contained game.

Simple Character generation: Enabling you to go from concept to fully finished character as quickly as possible.

Augmentations: Humanity has found many ways to improve upon what nature created. Quickly augment your character with the latest biotech/nanotech upgrades.

Equipment: All the weapons, armour and other types of equipment your character might need to go adventuring in the 28th century.

Transportation: Information on how to get around the River of Heaven universe, be it lowly pack animal on a frontier dirt farm or an interstellar trader equipped with exotic stellar-tap drive.

Background: In addition to a timeline spanning 1000 years of future history, River of Heaven includes an introduction to the Bright Age, the default play setting for the game. It also includes a campaign setting – the Kentauran Hegemony – and information about all the colonised star systems at the start of the 28th century.

An example adventure: Reunion is an introductory adventure designed to get you up and running River of Heaven as soon as possible. It can be played as a one-off, or as the start of a campaign.

Adventure Seeds: Ideas for adventure ideas set in the River of Heaven universe, covering a wide range of styles and themes.

By John Ossoway. To be published by D101 Games.

Edited by Trifletraxor

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I think you should allow a reasonable thaw period, or the thrill power overload might shatter your cellular bonds.

I hope so. I'm beginning to feel jaded, and would like nothing more than a setting that knocks my socks off!

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I have to say that this is definitely a setting that I want to see more about...

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This also looks like a great setting, and I'll grab it fure sure as there's not much actual sci-fi settings for BRP (and BRP related systems). I'll be interested in how biotech/nanotech is handled, as well as having a large sci-fi equipment list. The setting itself sounds fascinating as well.

I wonder if this will be a hardcover. I picked up "The Book of Glorious Joy' recently from D101 Games and I was impressed by the hard cover and internal presentation of that book, certainly one for the gaming bookshelf. Hopefully this one will have similar production standards.

Looking forward to it.

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I'm glad that you liked the Book of Glorious Joy, its the first book that I've done as a hardcover and I'm very happy with the results myself.

In answer to your question, YES River of Heaven will be availble in Hard-cover, as well as softcover, pdf and print/pdf bundles. The art is being handled by a proffessional artist so will be up to the standards of BoGJ :)

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Head Honcho of D101 Games
Publisher of Crypts and Things/Monkey/OpenQuest/River of Heaven
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I said it before and I'll say it again - I'm very, very excited by this book. Who does one have to - kill/bribe/tickle (select one) - to get involved in this project (playtesting?)

Cheers!

Marcus

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