Post-Apocalyptic RPG Onyx Sky is Out in PDF

Aug 31, 2021

A new post-apocalyptic roleplaying game has arrived from Hero Forge Games. In Onyx Sky, the world has been rocked back into the stone age and the player characters are remnants of humanity’s past glory. You can grab the free edition at DriveThruRPG while the 183 page deluxe edition can be had for $14.99.

About the game:

Onyx Sky explores our world after a devastating global war and environmental collapse plunge humanity back into the stone age.

In Onyx Sky, players create characters who’ve been safe inside a military bunker, government facility, fallout shelter, or scientific vault. After decades hidden away, they emerge from their haven.

They find a world in ruin, its communities struggling to endure against roaming marauders, autonomous battle droids, and metal-eating nanites.

The players’ characters, armed with contemporary knowledge and ideals, are thrust into a world in technological and cultural freefall.

Onyx Sky, from the ENnie award-winning designer of Hero Kids, Forge Engine, and Heroes Against Darkness, is:

All In One RPG: Everything you need to play a campaign; Player Content, Game Rules, GM Guidance, Campaign Guide, and Adversaries.
Relatable Future: Onyx Sky’s post-apocalyptic setting is a possible future; grounded, plausible, and terrifying.
Full Color: Over 100 full-color illustrations.
No Wasted Words: Tightly written and jam-packed with gameable content.

Onyx Sky includes:

Game Rules: The game rules cover character creation and development, attribute tests, skills, exploration, combat, downtime, and travel.
Player Content: Everything players need to create, develop, and run their characters; traits, general skills, martial skills, and equipment.
GM Support: Instruction for game mastering Onyx Sky campaigns.
Adversary Templates: Onyx Sky includes 28 adversary templates for Grunts, Strikers, Tanks, and Commanders.

Onyx Sky’s Game Rules use a streamlined, refined, and optimized iteration of Hero Forge Games’ engine:

Attributes and Skills: The simple attribute and skills system allows players the freedom to create their character.
Flexible Character Building: Flexible character building and development, with general and martial skills, as well as skill specializations for extra customization.
Step-Die Progression: Character attributes use step-die progression, starting at d6 and progressing through d8, d10, d12, d16, to d20 and beyond.
Dice Pool Resolution: The opposed resolution system gives meaningful degrees of success.

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