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Why play roleplaying games?Because stories are better when you get to make the choices.Tabletop roleplaying games put people together, give them a world, a problem, and a handful of possibilities — then ask, “What do you do?”Why Nycos?Because NycosRPG is built to keep that question moving.The rules are there to support play, not get in its way. The worlds are made to be explored, changed, broken, rebuilt, and remembered. The resources here are meant to be picked up, used, adapted, and taken straight to the table.Who is Nycos for?People who already love RPGs.People who have always wanted to try one.Directors looking for something new. Players looking for somewhere to go. Friends, families, veterans, students, old hands, first-timers — anybody willing to sit down together and play.Find a table. Bring some people. Let’s see what happens.

What is NycosRPG?

NycosRPG is a suite of Tabletop RPG books designed to enhance your storytelling skills with amplifying material for a wide array of classic TTRPG genres, ready to launch your adventures in a brand new way.

Begin at the beginning with the Masterbook, the anchor work that ties the Systembooks together. Covering the basics of all tabletop RPGs, from story-building to conflict resolution and beyond in one volume.Following are the six genrebooks already in print, with dozens more to come over the next few years.

Dark Shards

Dark Shards kicks off right where all tabletop roleplaying begins. High fantasy and fast-paced, the monster-killing is only the beginning, and soon your stories will flourish in wonder and delight.

Dread Signs

Dread Signs takes up in the immediate aftermath of a nearly world-shattering rift in the weave of the world, and the emergence of a very different kind of engagement, balancing incalculable threats with unlimited potentials brought to bear by immeasurable global conflict.

Dawn Soldiers

Dawn Soldiers picks up at the end of this first cataclysm, and the superheroes and technomancy reaches new heights as nationalism, fascism, and socialism collide in a wartorn world looking for answers.

Deep State

Deep State follows this hectic period with suspicion, espionage and the presence of existential threats are made manifest and must be faced to be overcome.

Down Shift

Down Shift covers the devastation of the collapse of civilization and culture, weaving new tales of heroism, survival, and the hopefulness of new cultures rise from the ashes.

Distant Suns

Distant Suns rounds out these first Iterations, bringing all of the drama and excitement of the franchise into the heady space operas of the past, and giving rise to new legends in the thruster's glow.

The NycosRPG Suite of Products

A Masterbook, suitable for any general RPG format and scenario, and six systembooks, suited to six common genre periods throughout time, all ready to amplify your TTRPG experiences. Choose the one most suited to your world perspective, or mix and match to fulfill your heart's desires. 8.5" x 11" matte finished perfect-bound, and each roughly 150 pages, chockful of useful tidbits and tools to make your game even more than you expect.

Sessions and Pricing

Live-play events occur Monday and Tuesday evening at: Board Game Paradise, in Redlands, CA.
Sessions cost $10, are four hours long, and begin at 6pm Pacific time. Here is the link to prepay for your sessions, always recommended as we do tend to sell out.

Our Patreon play groups meet on Sunday afternoons.
Follow the link to our Patreon account for details on how to participate.

Here are all the cool, free bits to make your NycosRPG experience amazing. Persona Packets, Setting Templates, and the Fastplay ruleset so you can begin your adventure RIGHT NOW!

  • Full Persona Packet - includes everything you will need to play in one place. Persona Sheet, Skills, Stuff, and more. 4 separate pages!

  • Table Tome Director's Sheet - The quick and easy way the Director can set the stages and outline the details of any situation in nearly the blink of an eye

  • Fastplay Rules set - An eleven-page PDF handout that covers all possible conditions the players may find themselves facing in one place.

  • Table tent four-pack - Four-up PDF form for making Persona Name Tags for fast play and easy identification.

  • Roleplay Roulette Wheel - Spin up a random NycosRPG setting for a whole new TTRPG experience. Same easy mechanics, whole new worlds! Some in publication, most in development!

  • HOME/BREW app - Download and use the all-new play app, built specifically to enhance your RPG experience, inside, and out, regardless of your current RPG choice. (Email sign-in required)

New stories are always forming along the edges of shadowed remembrances. Our story so far is of players whose dedication to their pathways blazes trails that the youth fear to tread. Players from eight to eighty walk the paths of stone and steel, bearing each others' burdens on their individual paths to greatness.

Nine times the paths have crossed,
Eight times the banners lost.
Seven times the clock has chimed
Six times heroes arrived in time
Five times the Prism forms a bond
Four time have the heroes won
Three times now the Crystals shine
Twice before three Suns aligned
This time, the clock will finally stop