Machine Gods of the Noxian Expanse - Core Rules

Machine Gods of the Noxian Expanse features:

• Quick character creation: roll your Attributes, pick a feat and a couple of proficiencies, spend your starting funds on gear, and you’re ready to go. Lazy to think of a proper background and motivation? Roll on the many tables the book includes and learn who your character is! 

• Familiar yet innovative mechanics: The core mechanic involves rolling a D20, adding modifiers, and comparing the total to a Target Number, making it familiar to anyone who has ever cast a die with friends. What makes the game different from other OSR rulesets is the inclusion of both static and dynamic TNs, allowing the game to self-balance and enemies to remain a threat regardless of character level by simply referencing a single table.

• Detailed solo and GM-less rules: whether you’re going to play this alone or run it for your friends, the expansive random tables and solo rules included will ensure that you don’t have to spend a minute wondering what happens next. Random landmark generation, ruin generation, settlements, NPCs, enemy creature behavior… Everything you need is here. Furthermore, the game is fully player-facing, meaning that the only ones making checks are the PCs. Even during combat!

• Magic & spellcasting: As the old adagio goes, “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. The Age of Technology might be long gone, but powerful relics of that time remain, many still fully operable. All “spells” are cast using these relics, and “magic items” that grant their wielders powerful abilities are always sought after by all factions and powerful individuals. 

• Exploration: The game includes rules for exploring the Noxian Expanse, with procedures for navigating, encountering events, and interacting with the environment, and the Noxian Expanse’s inhabitants. Find an interesting, old arcology you want to explore? Use the random ruin generation rules to fully create everything you need on the fly.

• Rules-light & modular: this is a very simple and straightforward game, built with the intent to be easily hackable and expandable. Future official releases will be coming on a regular basis, with more places to explore, modular rules to deepen the game’s mechanics, and much more!