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Starter Sets

A Starter Set is a complete, playable game built on the engine. It picks a genre, settles the choices the core rules deliberately leave open, and ships with everything a table needs for a first session.

This is where the engine's vocabulary lives: Skills lists, Origins, Archetypes, Abilities, and gear, all specific to one setting.

Three Starter Sets ship with 1.0, one on each Ruleset, and each one now has a written adventure to go with it — a single session for four players that puts its Ruleset through the thing that Ruleset is actually for.

The Beta 2026-2 starter sets are still readable, but they run on 2026-2's terms and formulas rather than 1.0's. Play them as they are, or port them forward using the conversion reference.

 

The Sets

Wasteland Starter Set The d18 Built on the d18 Ruleset and Basic Combat A Role and no Levels at all, advancement carried on the Road instead, and a crew that wears down and pulls itself back together. Most of the game is not a fight.

Fantasy Starter Set The d20 Built on the d20 Ruleset and Basic Combat A Folk and a Calling, both doing arithmetic on your sheet, and almost every ability paid for in ϟ Energy every time you reach for it. Levels 1 through 5.

Sci-Fi Starter Set The d100 Built on the d100 Ruleset and Basic Combat Grim and granular, with characters assembled out of stacking Protocol and Calibration steps rather than picked from a class list. Levels 1 through 5.

 

The Adventures

One for each set, and none of them is a sampler. Each runs in about four hours for a crew of four, and each is built around the pressure its own Ruleset applies.

Enough for One Wasteland One Journey · three pressures · no Levels A sealed course of antibiotics, ninety miles of valley, and a child at the far end with about three weeks. Eighteen Legs in the deck and a Journey deals six to eight of them. Every Leg has a fast way through that costs somebody else and a slow one that costs the crew, and the harder the road gets the worse the answer gets to who ends up paying.

The Diminutive Tower Fantasy Levels 1–5 · built for 1, 3 and 5 A tower in the fen that is eleven feet across on the outside and is not eleven feet across on the inside. An expert who is a gold wyrmling the length of your arm, and forty years of unfinished projects still dutifully running. Getting in is easy. The floors do not stay where they were put, and you roll for which one you get.

The Great Exchange Sci-Fi Levels 1–5 · built for 1, 3 and 5 Sixty thousand tonnes of other people's property sitting in bond, one lot that ships in nine days, and a buyer who has already paid half to have it sooner. The way in is bought in advance out of eight Angles. After that it is three gates, a customs inspector already standing over the crate, and a number called Lockdown that only ever goes up.