hix Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 Grab your plasma pistol, load up on sticky bombs, and click on your heat shield in the weird space western roleplaying game about building a legacy in the frontier of the galaxy. Take your crew wherever you want to go in a world where freedom is as close as your starship’s airlock door and show them you're Bound to None. • Eight species and mutants let you play the character you want. • Frontier travel, be an outlaw in one place and a hero in the next. • Ship operation rounds work the same as on foot or in a vehicle. • Tactical, fast combat with hit locations, special attacks, and phases. • Your skills improve as you use them, no levels or classes. • Built to scale from street level thugs to planetary overlords. • Percentile core mechanic means transparent odds and quick rulings. • Asymmetrical stats mean you don't spend forever rolling up mooks. • Classic d100 system with flexible and open-ended structure. • Futuristic equipment, chemicals, weapons, armor and psionics. • Stats for shuttles, submarines, jet packs, starships, tanks, and more. • Psionics excel at creative use written for flexible effects. • Contains an introductory scenario full of mystery and adventure. • Bestiary defines and gives stats for alien creatures found in the wild. • Well defined space travel makes distance and time matter. • No boring scifi, this is wild space like that found in the short stories of the 1930s, the space adventures of the 1970s, and the anime and manga of the 1990s and 2000s. Hot blooded mercs in cold space. Four years of writing, playing, and revising made this happen, playtested by over 50 people ages 14-62. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/486153/Bound-to-None 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsanford Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 (edited) Wow @hix! This looks very interesting! So when you say space western, I’m thinking Firefly. Is that about right? Would you mind providing one or two sentences about what the scenario is about, how many pages it is, and how many sessions it normally takes to run? It’s great that BRP is getting some love! Edited June 29 by rsanford 2 Quote Check out our homebrew rules for freeform magic in BRP -> No reason for Ars Magica players to have all the fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsanford Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 Hey @Hix, I wasn’t sure if you would see my post so I also put it on DriveThruRPG under your product discussion. 1 Quote Check out our homebrew rules for freeform magic in BRP -> No reason for Ars Magica players to have all the fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hix Posted June 29 Author Share Posted June 29 (edited) 46 minutes ago, rsanford said: So when you say space western, I’m thinking Firefly. Is that about right? Western to me means frontier. No galaxy spanning empires, law is local and most places are undeveloped. Firefly and Cowboy Bebop were definitely inspirations, but I pulled more from wilder fare like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Outlaw Star, the scifi stories of Clark Ashton Smith, 70s B-movie space adventures like Battle Beyond the Stars, Space Dandy, and the Instrumentality of Mankind series by Cordwainer Smith. High flying psionics and powerful gear for playing space mercenaries in an untamed cluster. 168 pages, including an intro adventure, bestiary, light setting (we don't need thousands of years of lore), realm building rules, and tons of random space encounters. This is a complete game that requires no other books to play, but is compatible with the options in BRP: UGE. Built for sandbox campaigns that rise from street level to interplanetary conflict, our group just finished a three year campaign where we did just that. Started out gutting mobsters for 500 rho, ended by building the galaxy's first capital ship. Edited June 29 by hix 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsanford Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 Got it! Hitchhikers huh? That was a crazy book and I loved it! Actually I enjoyed all the references you made except Space Dandy, which I’m not familiar with. Quote Check out our homebrew rules for freeform magic in BRP -> No reason for Ars Magica players to have all the fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hix Posted June 29 Author Share Posted June 29 4 minutes ago, rsanford said: Got it! Hitchhikers huh? That was a crazy book and I loved it! Actually I enjoyed all the references you made except Space Dandy, which I’m not familiar with. Gonzo comedy scifi anime made by the guy who made Cowboy Bebop. Wonderfully immature and wild. Good stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Erwin Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 Wow, this looks amazing! Contrats! Added to the top of my wishlist. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Fitz Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 Looks great, I love the illustration style. I look forward to reading through it in more detail, but what I've seen at first glance I like. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hix Posted June 29 Author Share Posted June 29 Fillable PDF character sheet's up. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/486209/Bound-to-None-Fillable-Character-Sheet 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hix Posted July 18 Author Share Posted July 18 (edited) Bound to None hit its earning goal. All my books are now as free as you would like them to be. Thanks folks. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/16792/spaceroadie Edited July 18 by hix 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hix Posted July 21 Author Share Posted July 21 Thanks to Dan and the folks at Randomworlds for a great interview, if you want an in-depth look at some of the things that make Bound to None unique, check it out. I get into the specific BRP changes I made to fit a high-powered action scifi game. https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/2024/07/20/qa-phil-stroud-bound-to-none/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hix Posted August 7 Author Share Posted August 7 Bound to None print version is now available on dtrpg. 168 pages of bad to the bone space mercenary action. Standard color, softcover, the book is as cheap as I could make it, and the pdf is still free. Have fun. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/486153/Bound-to-None 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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