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Alpha Cephei

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A bright star shines in the Cepheus constellation

Introducing Alpha Cephei: a complete, fully-featured space exploration adventure role-playing ruleset.

  • Embrace an advanced science fiction RPG that aims at being approacheable and playable for people with no previous experience of sci-fi roleplaying.
  • Space travel, ship-to-ship combat, off-world trading, vessel design, psionics, aliens, world generation and more… in a concise package.
  • Comfortable layout for the best accessibility at the tabletop—fully cross-referenced, including a thorough keyword index.
  • A deep yet very streamlined abstraction of staple sci-fi scenarios such as space warfare, starship design, interstellar trading, and the creation of worlds and alien creatures.
  • Revamped signature career-based character creation mini-game.
  • Four playable alien races.
  • 24 fully-statted and illustrated alien creatures to provide encounters for Alpha Cephei or any Cepheus-compatible game. (NEW)
  • Compatible with pre-existing content for classic systems such as Cepheus Engine or Traveller SRD (no affiliation, based only in OGL content).
  • Full Foundry virtual tabletop support! Uses the TwoDSix system module. (NEW)
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Why play Alpha Cephei

The aim of Alpha Cephei is to provide an easy, approachable entry point to sci-fi and space-based roleplaying adventures, based on the advanced rules systems found in the Cepheus Engine, with the support of additional information to make the game understandable to newcomers with no previous knowledge of classic sci-fi gaming.

Mechanically, this game is similar and compatible to Cepheus Engine and most of its derivatives. That is to say, it is ruled by a simple, skill-based 2D6 core mechanic, with a rich character creation experience, enhanced by extremely flexible options for science fiction adventuring, albeit tweaked for ease of play, with a flatter learning curve.

Alpha Cephei is based on and inspired by Open Game Content mainly from the Traveller RPG SRD, the Cepheus Engine SRD and the (original) Cepheus Light RPG.

Digital goodies included

  • Four original deckplans for startships, fit for use on virtual tabletops, print in large format or however you like!
  • Ship design spreadsheet utility.
More to come, so stay tuned!
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In the making

Expect these items as free updates to your purchase in the near future.

  • Complete System Reference Document, open-licensed under the same terms as Cepheus Engine.
  • Sharing of all AI-generated art from the book, completely free to use anywhere, for personal or commercial purposes.
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August 20th, 2024
A blend of D&D and GURPS, but better than both. xx [...]
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Author(s)
Rafael Lopes Vivian
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Dane Celestia
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274
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978-65-01-17050-3
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203.87 MB
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