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.
