The Imperial Shadow has fallen over your world - Galaxy Black

 

The human race is gone but humanity lives on, it’s culture and genome infecting a million worlds. 

Nothing is ever forgotten  Even in a Collapsing Universe; the struggle of Law and Chaos goes on.

 

What is Galaxy Black?

“Galaxy black is a science fiction and space fantasy toolkit for your DCC RPG game.  A lightly gothic semi-humorous fantasy of the space future that was, and could still be, one day.  With magic, bright colours, and deep implications.  For everyone. 

 

With Galaxy Black you should be able to fake your way through your favorite SF franchise without any problems at all – from golden age space opera to grotty modern post-cyberpunk, from the gutter to the stars, and all points in between.  

Galaxy black is also, for those who want it, a setting, showing one example of how using all the elements in the book (and there are a lot of them!) together can work, using a traditional golden age Galactic Empire as a model.

Galaxy black is generators!  Make worlds, cultures, aliens, gods, and technology, use the campaign frameworks and adventure generators to inspire or map out a whole adventure, a whole campaign! 

Galaxy black has character classes, psionics, weird alien magic, demons, daemons, and terrifying new vistas of reality “

Fully compatible with the DCC RPG and its many spawn, available from Goodman Games.  

 

 Galaxy Black I Characters & Classes introduces the core classes of Galaxy Black to supplement (not replace) those used in DCC, from the undead slaying space knights of the celeste numina to alien bounty hunters who stalk their prey with biotech  

EXTENSIVE alien creation tables allow you to create a single alien or a whole world of them, customized and tweaked with the shaper tables, and all manner of options. Over 4300 combinations are possible!  Judges can create whole alien armies and players distinctive gene tweaked unique entities with the same system. 

Legacies tables to get the band of voyagers together quickly with common bonds they have inherited.

Extensive background about some of the more alien clades of the Empress Imperium, the engineered Insectivroids, the sun castes of the Saurids, and much more!

Use as much, or as little, as you wish in your campaign. All options are full compatible with one another while remaining modular.

Note: this is only the first book of Galaxy Black. You will need the DCC RPG rules to play;  Those seeking a highly psychic or magically oriented game will need Galaxy Black II Magic, Metaphysics, and Psychic Powers, coming in April.  

 

Now Available from the Dreaming Gynoid store and Drivethru RPG

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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