
Opera
A downloadable game
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=...
| Status | Released |
| Category | Physical game |
| Release date | 47 days ago |
| Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (4 total ratings) |
| Author | Troy R |
| Tags | cairn-hack, gm-friendly, hard-science, nsr, OSR, Print & Play, rules-lite, Sci-fi, Tabletop role-playing game |
| Asset license | Creative Commons Attribution_ShareAlike v4.0 International |
| Average session | A few hours |
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