60 Years in Space

“I’ve spent the last 9 years creating a crunchy hard sci fi TTRPG that runs to 2000+ pages, based on  the board game, High Frontier. The first 113 pages are free to download.

It’s not necessarily for you, but you’ll probably know a person who it’s exactly for.”

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You are a High Frontier crew: 4 astronauts in a 40 tonne crew module, equipped with on board chemical rockets and prospecting gear for in situ resource utilization (ISRU) recovery of water from ice frozen in the regolith on high hydration sites like Mars and Ceres. Water is the key to unlocking the solar system: it can be used as rocket propellant and fuel, as well as supporting industrialization on extraterrestrial sites to build new technologies which cannot be constructed on Earth.

The best sites have already been claimed by the first wave of explorers, and you will travel through a solar system in the midst of rapid change as the high frontier becomes colonized. Your crew will be supported by a mission control back on Earth, which acts as a common pool of recruits to replace lost or stranded astronauts, as well as provide remote finance, research and engineering assistance. The 60 Years In Space role-playing game is as much about the evolution of your Mission Control as it is your crew: you will be responsible for defining how you react to the changing social and technological milieu of the 21st century, as well as the frictions experienced by returning to a Mission Control which may no longer recognize or support you following your decades of isolation in space.

While this is happening, you and the rest of the crew are aging and atrophying, drifting away from the Earth-side. You must push beyond the outer limits of known space, holding onto or letting go of your humanity to survive.

The 60 Years In Space is the officially licensed TTRPG of the High Frontier board game.

What you can get:

• Sixty Years In - core (Crewed) rules - 317 pages. The first 113 pages can be downloaded for free.
• This Space Intentionally - Missions and colonies in the Baseline and Upported eras and beyond - 337 pages. Includes Mission, Site, Colony and Spacecraft designers. The Infrastructure chapter can be downloaded for free.
• (A)-Base (D)-Landing - Exploration and exploitation on the surface of extraterrestrial worlds in the Colonization era and beyond - 257 pages. Includes Site Map and Robot designers and a base building system for new colonies.
• A Facility with Words - Technologies, societies and species from the Exoglobalization era and beyond - 318 pages. Includes Advanced Map, Ecosystem and Species designers.
• All Errors are My Own - Mission control and social trends and factions for all eras on Earth and beyond - 614 pages
• A Lot of Zeroes - Journeys from the edges of our solar system in the Mission era and beyond -  206 pages. Includes Star and Solar System, World, Life, Megastructure and Virch designers.

Sixty Years in Space has the highly coveted Atomic Rockets Seal of Approval. You can read more about it here.