Indie RPG: Scum & Villainy

The law calls you a criminal. The state-sanctioned cults call you a heretic. The crime bosses see you as a means to an end. But when you look in the mirror, that’s not who you see. Maybe scum — occasionally the villain — but to you and your crew? At least you’re telling your own story. And you get to see how that ends.

Scum & Villainy is a sci-fi, space-adventure roleplaying game in which you, the other players at the table, and the GM, create the story of a crew of space cowboys leaving their mark on the Procyon Sector (the legendary kind — not the kind from burning your ship in atmo or at the blaster of a bounty hunter). You accomplish this by running operations of questionable legality that will always help and hurt certain opposed Hegemonic, Criminal, or Weird (yes, that’s correct) factions vying for control of the sector. Save enough money from your reward to keep your ship fueled and functional, and you’ll maybe have time to plot your own schemes of sudden but inevitable betrayal. Or, just build weird stuff and explore precursor ruins. The choice will always be yours, but you’re gonna carry that weight either way.

If you’ve never played a roleplaying game before, that’s great! All you need to have is a love of story. And if you have played ttRPGs before, note that Scum & Villainy uses Forged in the Dark (FitD) as a ruleset. Although you’re still rolling dice (bring your d6s!), FitD does things very differently from other systems. The game is at its best when players take control of the direction of the story and “play their characters like driving a stolen vehicle” (to quote the community); the GM is simply there to make things interesting. As such, don’t worry about missing sessions or coming in new. This is an open table, telling an ongoing story, and the fiction will always allow new players to join.

For ongoing updates, resources, and notes on the emergent story, head to this Google Doc (here)!

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