Cybergothica

Cybergothica is a Tabletop Roleplaying Game set in a Cyberpunk Earth intertwined with English and American Southern Gothic themes such as a sublime and surreal atmosphere, decayed and derelict locations, the focus on the morbid and grotesque, the supernatural and ancient encroaching on the rational and new, and the overarching theme of the Darkness of the Human Soul.

 

Set primarily in the supercity of the Nu-Orleans Ark and its surrounding areas, the Player Characters and the Game Master undertake adventures across both Urban and Rural areas, solving mysteries and uncovering dark truths of both their objective and themselves. Most adventures will blend standard science fiction and Cyberpunk missions and tropes, but colored with the Archaic and Arcane, where urban legends and strange phenomena colored into the adventure.

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Adventures can include-

1. -Delving into an (mostly) abandoned district of a ghost city for treasure and finding a container with a living person hibernating inside.

2. ​-Tracking down Data Smugglers across the Louisiana bayou, now littered with half-submerged buildings of unknown origin and purpose. ​

3. -Investigating a murder You committed.

4. -Being stalked in the lowest levels of Nu-Orelans by something large and hunched over.

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They may be delving for treasure in an (mostly) abandoned level of a ghost city one day, and then chasing data smugglers across a bayou littered with towering half-submerged buildings and flooded roadways. There are rumors of strange creatures and phenomena that would seem out of place in a rational world, and these anomalies will color most adventures the players undertake. 

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Player Characters can be a variety of races, both transhuman and nonhuman. They include-

-the Cybernetic masses, upgraded both mind and body to face the challenges of the 24th Century.​

-the Hydeans, humans with animal parts and souls grafted on, fighting to maintain balance between civilization and animalism.

-the Unchained, machines with free will and hoping to find a home in this mad world.

-The Reborn, the living dead created by a mix of Science and Voodoo. Nu-Orleans export. Government Property.

-The Xenokin, shapeshifting aliens fleeing from something beyond the stars and the new colonialists of Africa and parts of South America. 

-The Neo-Luddites, shunning both the strengths and weaknesses of the Cybernetic edge.

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A variety of hardware is available for use. From simple tools to hi-tech Nanomachines that are fueled by blood, the characters have a whole playground in the palm of their hand. Weapons and Armor are highly customizable and even 

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A character can wield and wear-

-Powered Armor fueled by miniature Nuclear Reactors

-Weapons that use blood to power and load itself

-Ultra Lightweight Machine Guns that can be used with one hand

-Cursed talking Swords

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Cybergothica uses a modified Opend6 System under the OGL 1.0a license. The OpenD6 is versatile, detailed, and can use the common six-sided dice found anywhere. While Cybergothica takes almost all the core rules from the OpenD6 system, there also have been many modifications to add more flavor and nuance to the rules as well as clarify certain rules. 

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Additions and Modifications that Cybergothica make to the Opend6 system include-

-Customizable Weapon and Armor

-Sanity System

-Streamlined Magical Rules

-A Cybernetic System expanded upon from the D6 Space module. 

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Cybergothica will come out in PDF form on Halloween Day, October 31, 2023. A physical print will follow shortly afterwards. 

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A link to the Open Gaming License 1.0a 

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A Link to the D6 Space PDF

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