From publisher blurb:
Onyx Sky explores our world after a devastating global war and environmental collapse plunge humanity back into the stone age.
In Onyx Sky, players create characters who've been safe inside a military bunker, government facility, fallout shelter, or scientific vault. After decades hidden away, they emerge from their haven.
They find a world in ruin, its communities struggling to endure against roaming marauders, autonomous battle droids, and metal-eating nanites.
The players' characters, armed with contemporary knowledge and ideals, are thrust into a world in technological and cultural freefall.
Onyx Sky, from the ENnie award-winning designer of Hero Kids, Forge Engine, and Heroes Against Darkness, is:
All In One RPG: Everything you need to play a campaign; Player Content, Game Rules, GM Guidance, Campaign Guide, and Adversaries.
Relatable Future: Onyx Sky's post-apocalyptic setting is a possible future; grounded, plausible, and terrifying.
No Wasted Words: Tightly written and jam-packed with gameable content.
Onyx Sky includes:
Game Rules: The game rules cover character creation and development, attribute tests, skills, exploration, combat, downtime, and travel.
Player Content: Everything players need to create, develop, and run their characters; traits, general skills, martial skills, and equipment.
GM Support: Instruction for game mastering Onyx Sky campaigns.
Adversary Templates: Onyx Sky includes 28 adversary templates for Grunts, Strikers, Tanks, and Commanders.
This DELUXE FULL VERSION of Onyx Sky also contains 72 extra pages of Setting, Campaign, and Adversary content (144 extra pages in the upcoming print book).
Campaign Guide: The deluxe version of Onyx Sky includes an extensive campaign toolbox overflows with setting background, campaign design guidance, adventure seeds, unique encounters, hazards, locations, groups, and companions.
Adversaries: The deluxe version of Onyx Sky includes 78 illustrated human, animal, and droid adversaries.
Onyx Sky's Setting takes players into our near-future:
Our World: Thirty years from now, global war and environmental collapse have decimated the world's population.
In Decay: Microscopic nanites consume metal to replicate themselves, stripping the world of metal piece by piece.
Naive Newcomers: The players' characters emerge into this world after three decades sheltering safely in a fallout shelter, military facility, survival bunker, or research.
Relentless Droids: Military battle droids roam the land, seaching indescriminately for targets.
Depraved Adversaries: Communities of survivors struggle to survive in this degraded world, struggling against opportunistic raiders, brutal warlords, and mercilous autonomous battle droids.
Onyx Sky's Campaign Guide includes content and prompts to support game-masters running an Onyx Sky campaign:
Campaign Bible: The Campaign Bible introduces Onyx Sky's broken world, including its themes, tone, and denizens.
Character Origins: Varied examples of the government, scientific, medical, and civilian facilities where the player characters have sheltered.
Character Goals: Guidance for building an engaging Onyx Sky campaign by matching player preferences with an appropriate narrative style.
Campaign Elements: Hundreds of elements to fill out your world; unique encounters, hazards, locations, groups, and companions.
Adventure Seeds: Seeds to inspire you with grounded and open-ended adventures
Onyx Sky's Adversaries section includes 78 challenging and versatile animals, droids, and humans:
Animals: With the human population greatly reduced, animal predators are resurgent, including big cats, bears, snakes, wolves and dogs, hyena, and more.
Droids: During the great war, the military-industial complex perfected autonomous battle droids; simple workhorses, experimental hunter-killers, drones, and huge titan-class units.
Humans: In the devastated world, other survivors might be allies or enemies, with adversaries including bandits, ferals, cannibals, slavers, reavers, nutes, neonates, militia, and cultists.