The Waiting is Over

 

From the (new) introduction to Galaxy Black

This…is not the introduction I planned to write. (If you are curious, it largely exists intact as the intro to Colony Black.)

 

The facts are that Dreaming Gynoid is a tiny little start-up operation with very little budget but a lot of ideas and a lot more love, and the last few years have been rough but the last three have just been brutal.  2020 and quarantine was kind of the last straw.  Don’t worry this is neither farewell or epitaph but it is important (perhaps, quite likely in fact, only to me) to get across that this is not the way I intended to release any of this.

But we adapt or the world breaks us.

So thus I welcome you to this, the first volume of Galaxy Black, a full service SF-Fantasy-Horror toolkit for your DCC RPG game.  In the years that it has taken to develop it has gone from being simply a single, one and done SF toolkit to a sprawling wonderous mad thing of it’s own.  Many thanks to Joe Goodman, Harley Stroh, Doug Kovacs and everfyone else involved in bringing the strange weird beast that is the DCC RPG to life and for letting us all play in your backyard.

 

This first volume deals with people – these are (some of the) trillions of zeros that make up the Empress Imperium.  Here you will find zero level character creation rules, character classes, and more tools to mod those character creation rules than you will know what to do with.  It is hoped that the Judge will use these tables to create specialized populations of the various clades and species in the book, unique to the worlds of their campaign.  Here also, these tables allow, in a relatively harmless and (mostly) mechanics free players to specialize the weird aliens they play and the specifics of their characters to an incredible degree.

 

Much like the first fantasy role playing games, the options herein, much like Galaxy Black itself, exist across the whole spectrum of space fantasy, sf, and horror, making a heady space fantasy potpourri.  This is intentional.   While Galaxy Black undeniably has a style and an attitude all of it’s own, there is enough herein (once it is complete) that the Judge and her players should be at home, able to create almost any SF situation from just GB and the DCC RPG rulebook.

 

In coming months, the remainder of galaxy black will release likewise.  I have tried to stage the releases in order of maximum usefulness outside of Galaxy Black itself, both for widest possible appeal and so you wonderful completists don’t have to wait a year and  a half to have the ‘complete game.’   A book on gear and technology will accompany this one, followed by one big book detailing space travel, the sub-ether, and all of that fun stuff (finally!).  Following that a book on the supernatural, detailing the gods, the magic, and (at last) the psionics of Galaxy Black.   Afterward that leaves the bestiary and the Judge’s guide.

 

Gwendolyn Harper, March 5, 2021