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Sci-fi thriller · d6 rulebook
Halcyon Station
- 3–5 players
- Difficulty 3 of 3
- Not recommended under 14
- Available in: Français, English, Español, Deutsch, Italiano
A mining station orbiting a red giant. Contact with Earth was lost six days ago, and someone on board has disabled the escape pods.
The rulebook at a glance
- d6 dice pool
- 4 attributes
- Stress
Choose an adventure
- Campaign
Lost Signal
3 sessions · closed setting, paranoia, survival
Cost: 3 Dice for the whole table
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The world
- PlaceThe WellThe drilling hangar, open to the void.
- PlaceThe GreenhouseThe only green place on the station; the oxygen depends on it.
- FactionVarda ConsortiumOwner of the station, ready to do anything for its cargo.
- CharacterIRISThe onboard intelligence: polite, helpful and strangely slow to answer.
- CharacterCommander OseiNowhere to be found since the incident.
The rulebook
Resolving actions
- Roll as many d6 as the attribute's value (plus 1 per suitable skill).
- Every 5 or 6 is a success.
- One success is enough for a simple action, two for a hard one.
- No successes and at least one 1: complication.
Initiative : Reflexes + 1d6
Attributes
- Body BOD
- Strength, stamina, close combat.
- Reflexes REF
- Speed, shooting, piloting.
- Tech TEC
- Repair, hack, analyse.
- Nerve NRV
- Resist fear and stress.
Special rules
- Stress
- Each complication adds 1 stress point. Stress points are added to rolls as extra dice, but every 1 rolled on a stress die triggers a panic attack.
- Oxygen
- Outside pressurised areas, each character has 6 rounds of oxygen.
Character creation
Each attribute starts at 1: spread 8 extra points, up to 5 per attribute · no reroll
Origins
- Born on Earth
- Struggles with low gravity; +1 Nerve.
- Child of the Belt
- Born in zero gravity; +1 Reflexes.
Vocations
- Engineer
- Knows every pipe on the station.
- Medic
- Heals, analyses, keeps calm.
- Security officer
- The only one armed on board.
- Miner
- Heavy suit, drill and muscles.
Derived values
- Hit points
- 3 + Body
- Defense
- Reflexes
- Initiative
- Reflexes + 1d6
Starting equipment
- Pressure suit
- Level 1 access badge
- Head torch
Veils
Topics kept off screen: the Narrator never shows or describes them.
- sexual violence
- mutilation