- GoS

Coming Soon™

Welcome Voyager…

Grove of Stars is a Table-Top Role Playing Game with a mix of unique and familiar features, a great game for RPG newbies and veterans alike. The game is set in the galaxy of Arboreous, a place where civilizations have spanned the galaxy for tens-of-thousands of years. Eras have come and gone: the lost ages; the exciting years of settlement; the post-war expansion; and now, the era of entropy. It’s widely accepted that there is no escape from the galaxy – all attempts have failed – so the eyes of powerful turn inward. Tens of thousands of solar systems, what once seemed a limitless cache of resources, is now all there is, and all that will ever be.

That’s where you come in. In a post abundance society, conquest is back in style, and there’s a market demand for a certain sort of Arborian. The kind who’s willing to risk their life for glory and riches. The kind who’s skilled and willing to leave the comforts of their home for adventure in distant lands. The kind who knows how to use a weapon. Mercenaries, free agents, bounty hunters, vigilantes, thugs, call them what you will, Arborians call them voyagers.

Choose your voyager’s path, combat specialization, and profession, equip them with futuristic skills, items, armor, and weapons, and take on jobs across the galaxy. Dangerous, harrowing, bizarre jobs that no one else wants! Level up and customize your voyager, with thousands of combinations that make no two voyagers the same. Spend your hard earned credits to enhance your crew’s capabilities: special ammo subscriptions, power armor, genetic modification, implants, rail guns, mechs, gunships and more! And discover the secrets of the galaxy – the twists and turns of galactic politics – the ambitions of private armies – the mysteries of alien flora and fauna – the strange going’s on of unique societies across the many systems of Arboreous.

Survival is not guaranteed, but it is certain that a voyager will live a life far more exciting than any of those bound to a station or planet for their hundred, thousand, or even unlimited years of life.

The Rundown:

Awesome Space Stuff: A high-tech setting with space travel, tactical ballistic combat, a deep history, and a near limitless variety of environments, societies, and challenges.
Become a Master: A unique dice engine with progressing dice sets that exponentially increase a voyagers chance to critically succeed as they progress and level up.
Build Your Voyager: A kit-based specialization system makes the term “multi-classing” obsolete, with very little restrictions to how a voyager can progress. Additionally, the profession system give a Voyager a meaningful kit of skills and abilities to tackle complex challenges in and out of combat. Mix and match combat specializations and professions to make a unique voyager that plays the way you want.
Gear, Gear, GEAR!: A swath of weapons, armor, and items give players even more control over how their voyager plays, with an inventory balanced to keep it simple without hurting customization. The armor and weapon modification system adds more depth to give a voyager further utility and capability in combat.
Keep it Simple, Space Cowboy: A system designed to give players and Galaxy Masters control over their game without overly-complex rules. The design behind GoS aims to trim the fat where other TTRPG systems are bloated and add depth where players want it. Also, the combat system is designed with meta-gaming in mind – all that mid-turn communication your players love so much. Don’t fight the inevitable cross-talk, make it a feature!
The New Hotness: While GoS is designed to be played in person, at a table, with “pen and paper” (lets get real, you all use your phones), there are long term plans to fully integrate the system with virtual tabletop platforms, blockchain, and AI large language models.
– VTT: Automated character sheets, dynamic maps, and beautiful tokens.
– Blockchain: a GoS token that can support the creation of non-fungible characters, items, and maybe even world and galaxy states within the GoS universe.
– LLM: Use a chat bot trained specifically for the GoS universe, able to answer questions about rules and mechanics and help create the foundation for lush and canonically accurate environments to tell your story.

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