Boundless: Amongst The Ruins

Courage and Horror Role-Playing in a Dying Universe

Set in a brand new sci-fi setting from the minds behind Stoneburner, Nomadic, Songs and Sagas, and more, we are happy to announce our next big project:   Boundless: Amongst the Ruins  .

For over two centuries now, we have been an interstellar species. The gradual evolution from SUBLIGHT VESSELS to BOREAL DRIVES paved the way for the BELL GATE NETWORK. We are now the HUMAN SPECTRUM. We are of nearly infinite variety forms and ideas, and can now gaze across dozens of worlds and moons.Then came the SHELL. Enormous swarming fleets of unknown and insect-like machines poured into system after system, razing, burning, consuming. At first, they were thought to be alien life, so strange in appearance and incomprehensible in communication. We now know that they are the degeneration of early, plutocratic attempts at interstellar colonization. A semi hive mind of infinitely iterating hunger and rage. Biomechanical cancer-forms, spilling out of bone narrow ships to turn every scrap of matter into more of itself. For thirty years, the UNITED NATIONS SPACE FORCE fought bravely, and then desperately, to hold back the Shell tide. A military buildup that came at a staggering cost, with the toll on human lives being even more pro. A mix of conscripted soldiers, fragmented mind patterns, and clones—thrown into the fire in hopes of stopping the inevitable.One by one, the bell gates flickered out, disappearing from the network. The Shell and the UNSF, both exhausted and disconnected, settled into sporadic conflict amid the isolation of distant star systems. There are no victors in this war. The remaining human populations now only know scarcity and must scrabble in the ruins to sustain their settlements with energy, food, and atmosphere. Most habitable planets now lie in ruins, reduced to cinders by the ravages of war. With the relentless Shell still prowling the void, the remaining human communities are either buried deep within the cold embrace of icy asteroids or perpetually on the move, navigating the vast expanse in aging and decrepit freighters.People call you RUNNERS. You plumb the orbital ruins and salvage from the ship graveyards while avoiding the preying forces of two still-powerful militaries. You may very well be the only lifeline remaining to the poor souls of your system.Will you find enough to keep flying, or even begin the task of reconnecting the scattered threads of humanity?WE PLAY TO FIND OUT.

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Boundless will soon be available for playtesting, and then we will launch a crowdfunding campaign to help fund a print run for the game.If you want to be notified when we are ready to share more, be sure to click on the button below!

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