Exilium is a sci-fi RPG from Greg Saunders/Fire Ruby Designs that uses the Open D6 system (made popular through a sting of games from West End Games such as their version of Star Wars). Exilium is a new, revised and updated, edition of the In Flames RPG that was previously published in partnership with Cubicle 7 in 2011. This volume merges content from the original In Flames rulebook and the Uplifts and Chimera supplements in to a single book.
Exilium is a science fiction role-playing game set in a distant future in a solar system known as the Flame system. The Flame system is filled with genetically modified humans, robotic Puppets, and uplifted animals of bewildering forms.
The game centres on a group of seemingly ordinary people that have been possessed by the feeling of being trapped in a body not their own, and haunted by memories of a bizarre and beautiful place. This forms a disconnection to the material world, making these individuals increasingly feel like lost souls. Only the thing calling itself the Envoy offers any explanation. It tells them that they are of the Numina – a race of post humans who inhabit a realm called Elysium, a paradise, majestically isolated from the material universe. The player characters are Exiles – banished for a crime they committed on Elysium.
Players must appease the Envoy to earn the right to return to Elysium. They do this by hunting others of the kind who have become obsessed with the material world – Numina who are termed Shadows.
The Envoy gives Exiles black pills that help to dull the dreams of Elysium. These drugs also allow Shadows to be identified by sight, surrounding the Shadow’s host with a dull red glow that marks them out. If the Exiles perform well, and do all that is asked of them, they might find a way to resolve the guilt of their barely-recalled crimes. If they do, the Envoy can bestow the greatest gift of all – forgiveness, and a return to Elysium.
Exilium - A Science Fiction Roleplaying Game is on Kickstarter until Saturday 15th April.
Exilium is a science fiction role-playing game set in a distant future in a solar system known as the Flame system. The Flame system is filled with genetically modified humans, robotic Puppets, and uplifted animals of bewildering forms.
The game centres on a group of seemingly ordinary people that have been possessed by the feeling of being trapped in a body not their own, and haunted by memories of a bizarre and beautiful place. This forms a disconnection to the material world, making these individuals increasingly feel like lost souls. Only the thing calling itself the Envoy offers any explanation. It tells them that they are of the Numina – a race of post humans who inhabit a realm called Elysium, a paradise, majestically isolated from the material universe. The player characters are Exiles – banished for a crime they committed on Elysium.
Players must appease the Envoy to earn the right to return to Elysium. They do this by hunting others of the kind who have become obsessed with the material world – Numina who are termed Shadows.
The Envoy gives Exiles black pills that help to dull the dreams of Elysium. These drugs also allow Shadows to be identified by sight, surrounding the Shadow’s host with a dull red glow that marks them out. If the Exiles perform well, and do all that is asked of them, they might find a way to resolve the guilt of their barely-recalled crimes. If they do, the Envoy can bestow the greatest gift of all – forgiveness, and a return to Elysium.
Exilium - A Science Fiction Roleplaying Game is on Kickstarter until Saturday 15th April.
