A downloadable TTRPG

.// THE GAME

Tabletop RPG.

Six Sided Dice, Paper + Pencil is all you need. Print and Play. 8 pages long full ruleset.

Inspired by, Hyper Light Drifter, Traveller, Numenera, OSR TTRPGS, Risk of Rain, Transistor, Ghost in the Shell, Nier automata, ASCII ART, and Breakcore.

Scavenge powercells and loot from G District hoping to SLASH some Drones along the way and meet friendly fellow ARGONAUTS. 

[#ERROR_ARGONAUTS_aren't_all_nice.]

.// WARNING! PUBLIC DOMAIN SYSTEM

[Please don't just repost. Atleast HACK it]

.// What's included?

  • Rules, Creatures
  • Adventure generator
  • Building Generator
  • Room Generator
  • Exploration procedure
  • Profile Sheet for your player ARGONAUTS [that is the Profile Sheet PDF].
  • Some other PDFs [different ways to print/read]

FOLLOW SETUP FOR EACH PLAYER AND GM GENERATES A SESSION USING TOOLS ON THE LAST PAGE.

.// Premise:

No Credits. No Hope. No Safety.

Only Guns, Hard Light and Hacking.

An ARGONAUTS life. Adventure & Agony.

Get out there and Get some moola.

The GLIGHT has corrupted major infrastructure and the Drones of civilisations past. So it ain’t easy. Scavenge powercells and loot from G District hoping to SLASH some Drones along the way and meet friendly fellow ARGONAUTS.

Hack’n’Grab through abandoned zones in the G Districts. Loot it for some easy credits. Actually scratch that. Hard earned credits. That is what you tell the clients.

This message costed 100 credits to deliver. Pay at the nearest terminal.

.// Download versions:

*UPDATED FORMAT, SPELLING, PAGE NUMBERS and NEW VERSIONS

NORMAL PDF Document. Full page.

DARK MODE PDF is same as normal PDF but black background white text.

NEW* EASY READ FONT is same as normal PDF but no dot font [Courier New Prime Font] and slight reformatting taking advantage of gained space.

ZINE VERSION  is a single page print. Fold to make zine.

FOLD GUIDE is a picture helping you make zine.

HALF SIZE VERSION you need to print on both sides, flip on small side, staples needed in middle.  will make a booklet easily. Pay attention to PDF order.

NEW* SINGLE COLUMN is same as normal PDF each column is a seperate page. Good for phone and most likely is good for a thermal printer [not tested]

Profile Sheets PDF. The basic ARGONAUT proflie sheet . 2 per page. 

Profile Sheet + Cheatsheet PDF. 1 ARGONAUT proflie sheet + Cheat sheet. 

.// SCI FI MAP MAKING

If you want to make sci fi maps feel free to use some free public domain art.
https://markgosbell.itch.io/classic-science-fiction-symbols

I recommend Dungeon scrawl or Photoshop equivalent with these symbols.

Updated 24 days ago
StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorMarkGosbell
GenreAdventure, Role Playing
Tagsascii, Board Game, OSR, Print & Play, public-domain, Sci-fi, Tabletop, Tabletop role-playing game
Asset licenseCreative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
Average sessionAbout an hour
LanguagesEnglish
AccessibilityColor-blind friendly, High-contrast

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HARD LIGHT ARGONAUTS 1.1 .pdf 4 MB
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HARD LIGHT ARGONAUTS 1.1 DARK MODE .pdf 3 MB
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HARD LIGHT ARGONAUTS 1.1 EASY READ FONT.pdf 2.7 MB
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HARD LIGHT ARGONAUTS 1.1 SINGLE COLUMN.pdf 2.7 MB
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HARD LIGHT ARGONAUTS 1.1 ZINE .pdf 1.5 MB
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HARD LIGHT ARGONAUTS 1.1 HALF PAGE.pdf 2.6 MB
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HARD LIGHT ARGONAUTS PROFILE SHEET+CHEATSHEET.pdf 271 kB
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HARD LIGHT ARGONAUTS PROFILE SHEETS.pdf 245 kB
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ZINE-FOLD-GUIDE.png 21 kB

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