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You and your crew have a ship. You also have debt—crushing, inevitable, inescapable. The galaxy is vast, but survival means taking jobs from crime lords, corporations, and more. It means trading in strange ports, scavenging the ruins of failed colonies, and outsmarting rivals who are just as desperate as you.

Opera is designed for groups who want the tension of hard science fiction with the playability of OSR-inspired systems. It’s a game about taking risks, making hard choices, and seeing how far your crew can push their luck before the void swallows them.

What you'll find inside:

  • Lifepath character & crew creation methods for campaigns, with a lightning fast "quick creation" option for shorter stories.
  • Cairn-like core rules.
  • Streamlined crew-centric starship construction and combat rules based on the Monolith system.
  • Rules for hacking devices.
  • Play examples for exploration, combat, and starship battles.
  • Project Antlion — a dramatic starter adventure that will have the crew exploring an illegal research lab.
  • Lots of random tables!

Opera is a rules-lite sci-fi TTRPG designed for one game master and 1–6 players. It is focused on hard-science futuristic play and based on Cairn by Yochai Gal and Monolith by Adam Hensley. This game is illustrated by Nagy Sz. Attila.

The pdf is fully bookmarked, hyperlinked, and strives to be printer friendly. 

A print-version of this game is available at cost +$2 via Lulu.com. 
NOTE: I’ve received and proofed my Lulu copy. It’s good to go!
https://www.lulu.com/shop/troy-renaux/opera/paperback/product-45yzmw6.html?page=...

StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Release date 47 days ago
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
AuthorTroy R
Tagscairn-hack, gm-friendly, hard-science, nsr, OSR, Print & Play, rules-lite, Sci-fi, Tabletop role-playing game
Asset licenseCreative Commons Attribution_ShareAlike v4.0 International
Average sessionA few hours

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Click download now to get access to the following files:

Opera V1 Pages PDF 3.5 MB
Opera V1 Spreads PDF 3.5 MB
Opera V1 Printer Friendly PDF 4 MB
Opera V1 Character Sheet (for print) 141 kB
Opera V1 Character Sheet (single page) 109 kB
Opera V1 Starship Sheets 635 kB
Opera V1 Crew Ledger (for print) 80 kB