Within Cold Stars

Within Cold Stars is a tabletop roleplaying game using a unique system that requires a standard tabletop dice set. In this game you will travel the galaxy both civilized and wilderness on adventures pursuing ends such as power, fame, wealth, or the betterment of the galaxy for yourself, your party, or factions you're allied with. You'll interact with the galaxy through Civil gameplay like talking and trading, Combat gameplay allowing you to fight a large variety of enemies with many different approaches, and Exploration gameplay involving navigation and the surpassing of obstacles and hazards.       

    We seek to offer you a detailed galaxy entirely separate from our own at a point of highly advanced technology allowing interstellar travel and tons of other fantastical abilities, but in both lore and gameplay we wanted to be as grounded as we could in a galaxy spanning science fiction setting. We wanted to be as realistic as possible without bogging down the fun or getting caught up on grandfather paradoxes.

 With our technology we tried to come up with things by branching off modern technology, science, and theoretical things in both. Some of our most advanced tech probably comes up towards science fantasy. But with our factions, characters, and societies we wanted to make them feel like they were made of real people reacting and forming to this advanced technology and new understandings in realistic ways. Deriving our factions from real a mixture of world history, science, psychology, religion, and philosophy and the question of how the differences in our universe would change these ideas or bring them about in different forms. 

  Our game mechanics have been built from the ground up to work in a realistic and dynamic way. Making it possible, but unlikely, to achieve things you're unskilled at. This game is heavy on lore which aims to give you a vivid setting in which you can create and play out many different roles that fit within the galaxy in an interesting and unique way. 

Our Create a Class system provides flexibility allowing you to make distinct and varied characters through combinations of our Stats, Skills, Perks, Items, and more. While flexible there is still structure to our character building systems. Completely nonsensical combinations won't end up doing all that well, but most characters can solve issues in their own ways. Combining with the party to play a role amongst the group. 

 Bolstered by the lore and stories, our mechanics can allow you to truly feel like a part of your desired faction (or like a lone wolf struggling to stay out of faction issues), and this faction will have enemies and allies. Helping an enemy could provide an olive branch between groups or it could get you marked as a traitor. 

Within these factions (or as a lone wolf) there's a varied set of roles one can fulfill. Scientists, Diplomats, Soldiers, Tech Experts, and much in between. Depending on where your loyalties lie or who your character is these roles may be quite different. A combat expert could be in a nation's military, a mercenary group, a criminal enforcer, or just a wandering nomad who happens to know how to kick ass. A scientist could work for a college studying to help the understanding of the universe or he could be developing drugs for a corporation or crime syndicate. 

There are many roles to play in Within Cold Stars and many combinations of these roles that can lead to unique party dynamics and gameplay solutions. Some of these roles include: Soldier, Scholar, Diplomat, Explorer, Criminal, Tradesman, and Mercenary. You'll build characters together with the players and Game Master talking about the experience each individual is looking for and how to build characters that fulfill those experiences and work together while also remaining accurate to the lore of the world. 

Our goal is to give you the tools and foundation to choose a place and your own unique role in the distant and detailed galaxy of Eradonis for an experience that takes notes from RPGs old and new to hopefully give you an engaging and memorable experience. Welcome to Within Cold Stars.