Salvage & Sorcery: Scraphounds of Cygnus Paperback – September 20, 2024

Welcome to Salvage & Sorcery: Scraphounds of Cygnus! In it, you play as a Scraphound working for the Reclamation Corps aboard the giant pile of junk known as Thanatos Station. Your home is Oblivion’s Edge, a dying star system choked by warp storms and populated by fractured spacefaring factions. Humanity, once a dominant force, clings to survival on decaying space hulks and shattered moons. Fortunately for the millions of souls living aboard Thanatos, the station orbits Cygnus, a ravaged planet where techno-barbarians and mutated creatures lurk, all vying for scraps in a broken world. Those living on the station can do little else but organize raids down to the surface in an attempt to find ancient tech and resources to survive.As a scraphound, your job is to go out on missions and complete them as efficiently as possible, be it rescuing a captured civilian, sabotaging an enemy operation, or simply ransacking some old facility. In the process, you’ll find tons of loot, enemies to kill, and challenges to overcome!Salvage & Sorcery: Scraphounds of Cygnus features:An original setting, mixing elements of grimdark science fiction, aetherpunk, and science fantasy from the 70s and 80s.A simple D6 dice pool ruleset, easy to grasp and fun to play!Squad-focused gameplay: whether you’re a solo player or a group of friends, you can play with one of the four available Careers (Tech-Knight, Warp-Weaver, Gunslinger, Scrapper) and forget about having to micro-manage NPCs! As you progress through the game, your character will gain new abilities, allowing you to personalize their powerset through a selection of talents. Will your Tech-Knight focus on reinforcing their control over their ancient Exoshell, or will they choose the path of the Eldritch Archblade?Fast, simple gameplay focused around randomly-generated missions, fighting your way through randomly-generated facilities that range from ruined cities, to decaying terra-forming stations, derelict spaceships, and more!Loot, loot, loot! With over 100 unique pieces of loot to find, you will always be excited to see what the next big baddie drops!RPG guidance: although the core experience and gameplay loop aren’t a true RPG, there are rules to run your own RPG campaign in the Oblivion’s Edge setting, with many different tables to help you plan your scraphound’s next adventure! Read more