LEVIATHAN

LEVIATHAN is a work-in-progress biopunk TTRPG inspired by Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME!, Stanislaw Lem's Solaris, and Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. 

Players take on the role of mercenary explorers operating out of a post-human settlement  in the depths of a vast biomechanical labyrinth. Survival depends not only on scavenging and foraging the supplies and technology to sustain your people, but seeking out and destroying the threats waiting at the periphery - predatory flora and fauna, ruthless marauders, and the lethal mechanisms of the megastructure itself.

Features

Streamlined Tactical Combat: Battle the strange and hostile denizens of the megastructure in tactical grid-based combat, incorporating a dice pool system inspired by Liberigothica's Panic! At the Dojo and Gila RPG's RUNE. Roll your dice at the start of your turn, then spend them on your actions; the higher the spend, the greater the effect. Supplement your dice with limited-use Gear scavenged and traded for each Expedition.

Diceless Narrative Resolution: For narrative play, Leviathan uses a diceless  system based on managing your character's Traits and Backgrounds. Achieve your aims with compromise, expend resources to get what you want, or invite complications to strengthen your resolve.

Born by Chance: Assemble your character by rolling their Background and two posthuman Traits, creating hundreds of potential combinations of abilities.

Build Your Home: Acquire resources and allies as you explore and scavenge the dangerous Peripheries of Leviathan and invest them back into your Outpost, gaining facilities and advantages for future expeditions.

Embrace Change: Your post-human genome reacts to fatal trauma with life saving transformations; space and time bends to restore you from a parallel timeline; the alien intelligence permeating the megastructure resurrects your failing flesh by blending it with machinery. Live, die, live again.