Birthing a different kind of game

After a long process involving many discussions of what exactly the floating house of a six-armed nanite-addicted posthuman looks like, we have finally pressed publish on our first Official Venture™!

FYI, there are several other ventures fully written and many outlined, but these take a while to design and illustrate, and we want to keep publishing rules modules, too, since they ultimately make up the Core Rulebook.

This first official venture, "The Sleeper in the Sky," was written as a pretty open-ended hulk-crawl. (Spaceships are dungeons in the sky!) It both serves as an introduction to Stillfleet as well as a hackable setting for any sci-fi game. We hope it communicates the mix of gritty OSR + pure Kirby-esque oddness that we enjoy in our own games. There's nanite-infused booze, beaveroids (RIP), and plenty of redactions...

That said, most of our future ventures will feature even more complex social interactions than this one. "Sleeper" is intentionally shorter than other ventures (although still 25 pages!) and more of an exploration-focused crawl than a spy story. THAT said, we hope ye kindly GMs run this game and run it as a chance for the PCs to not only run away from or kill the titular cryosleeper, but perhaps even "befriend" her. (I.e., make some kind of Faustian bargain with her.) 

Thanks much to Ethan Gould for the art (that poor evil robo-dwarf!) and Erich Lazar for the design (legit love our statblocks)—and to all of our playtesters. Find us on Discord to become one! We love feedback.