Project:Ascension

A Sci-Fi TTRPG (In Development) "The Power to Play Your Fantasy" We also have a Community Discord! Just ask! Heck, ask us anything!

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Create a character!

Project:Ascension is a system that has tools to homebrew just about anything.

Our players have found enjoyment from making character sheets using art Adoptables they have. So, while I unfortunately cannot promise rapid responses, I WOULD like to show off the flexibility of character creation. If anyone would like to drop off an image and a blurb about who the character is and what they can do, I will attempt to fill out a starter character sheet for them!

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Update: So, as many of you remember, a few months ago (in February-March) I organized a collaborative megadungeon jam called Delve of the Dark Moon, with the idea that each participant would submit an individual dungeon, and at the end of the jam I would stitch them all together into a megadungeon.

First of all, I wanna apologize for the lack of updates on the full map. Unfortunately, the "stitching together" part ended up being a lot more complex than I originally anticipated, and I haven't had much time to work on it imbetween juggling my commissions, my day job, my studies, and other artistic pursuits.

That being said, I wanna show off what I have of the full map so far:

Color indicates elevation, with lighter tones being higher and darker tones being lower.

I think it's coming along nicely, but there's still a LONG way to go.

If I decide to make this into an annual thing and run another one of these jams next year I'll definitely make the rules a little bit stricter to simplify this process in the end. While it was very fun to see what everyone came up with with so few restrictions, a few choices made with some of these dungeons ended up making this part a little bit harder lol

but it's all good, I loved all the submissions and can't wait to see how it all fits together in the end.

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Ability Showcase

There's a few wonderful ways to support your teammates in Project:Ascension already, but when you've got an Ability to make one of those ways even better? Spectacular. From a Character in our Playtest server: Dr. Ironhand. His Ability: "Ship-Shape": Allies I Heal gain Boosted Attacks until they take damage. Boosted is a special status effect that lets you add 1d10 to your d20 rolls, and if the 1d10+1d20= 20 or 30 or if the d20 is a 20, it counts as a Nat 20. Ship-Shape is a fairly simple Ability, but the player didn't want anything complex anyways, so the Ability fits quite nicely. It's amazing the things you can invent with your friends.

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Ability Showcase

For a Bee-Keeping Villain character named "Tolstoy!"

Tolstoy's Tier4 Mod makes it so he always has a swarm of Robot Bees, or Ro-Bees for short.

Further detail explains the swarm having 10HP, being able to be moved by Tolstoy's command, and dealing 1d4 Acid damage when a Unit is in the same space as them.

He also has a piece of equipment he calls his "Bee-Keeper's Staff" which is listed as a Tool that allows him to create additional swarms of Ro-Bees. Personality wise, Tolstoy is a Doofenschmirtz-like super villain, heck-bent on tying shoelaces together, unscrewing store display lightbulbs, and of course, proving the power of BEEEES!!

and his littol token

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Abilities

In Project:Ascension, our rules allow for Homebrew Abilities. There are cost guidelines, advice on how to discuss an Ability with your Game Master, and a plethora of bits and bobs in the game to piece together to make something truly Unique. We made this game because we felt limited by rules. Because of that, we have guidelines in place to help players build enjoyable and balanced Abilities. In a game where everyone has their own superpower, we never want people to feel overshadowed by others with the same resources they have. Lastly, the amount of expression and 'mastery' of an Ability truly shows how comfortable a player is with the Rules. For example: My own first character's Ability was "I get to pick what Element my Damage is". My most recent character's Ability allows her to spend damage dice to transform her attacks. One player's character essentially plays Poker as an Ability and special things can happen depending on the cards she plays. An amazing sliding scale of "If a Unit has a specific Status Effect, I hit them better" to "I have invented a whole new Game Skill with its own rules and mechanics". To give potential Game Masters peace of mind, we repeat it constantly that Abilities must be reviewed with you so you can check the balance of things yourself.

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The Vanish Skill

Vanish is your stealth skill. Your ability to suppress your presence and remain quiet. Vanishing puts you into a stealth state where Units cannot react to you. It is of course broken after attacking or performing an intensive skill. You can also use Vanish to obscure the origin and identity of an Action. The target is still able to react to that obscured action, but they won't be able to tell what it was or where it came from.

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The Media Skill

Media is your ability to influence people. Whether by intimidating, convincing, or lying, this skill helps determine social successes.

It can be used to convince enemies in combat, to have them attack you instead of your squishier teammate, or the other way around.

You can also use Media to disguise yourself and your stats, which may give you certain advantages ultimately judged by the Game Master.

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I got a new Mausritter adventure site out. It's about a creepy abandoned toy store and it has a bunch of fun toy inspire items and some art I'm really proud of. Go check it out!

The Toy Haus by V For Valensa

A Mausritter adventure site in a mysterious ruined toy store

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I'm really happy with the art in this and kinda just wanna show it off

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The Salvage Skill

Salvage is how nimble your fingers are. Using this skill you can mess up equipment to make it stop working, you can slip between armor plating and deal chunks of damage to even the most tanky targets, and of course you can loot.

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Mod Lyghtnyng (call me Lyght) here, I'm the guy who's been posting the stuff on this blog. Greetings, salutations, and well wishes to all! I am one of the devs of Project:Ascension, and I gotta say, it's been an insane journey doing this. We started putting the first words on paper on July 4th 2024, and our passion about this game has not waned one bit(passion about business stuff notwithstanding). Our main goal in making this system, which still is our goal, is to allow people to match game mechanics to their imagination. We've got a plethora of bits and bobs in the game to click together, all the while writing down our experience in playing it to provide a frame of reference for other players so they too can have a satisfying and fulfilling time playing. Game balance can be difficult, especially when you're trying to find ways for everyone's power fantasy to come to life and not outshine everyone else's. With Action Points and Energy to spend, and enough prompts and examples of other conditions to fulfill, I believe we've got a great foundation for any fantasy to feel great. It's only fun at the beginning if you're overpowered. To have a satisfying time, you need to feel you've earned your power, and that you continue to earn it. Of Course, every table is different. We completely understand this fact. Which is why we've got tools for Code Authors (Game Masters) to reference, and if needed, ignore completely. Project:Ascension was born from a need to homebrew.

Every character is a uniquely homebrewed creation.

I've got high hopes, big dreams, and ADHD. This is how I'm sharing it.

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Project:Ascension Character Sheet

Since D&D is such a large name in the TTRPG space (and, to be honest, what made us make our own system in the first place) I'll explain a few things about our character sheet here using D&D references. Augments are your "Levels". Threat Level is calculated based on your characters stats. Toughness is "Armor Class" where you need to roll higher to "hit". The other defenses are "Active Defenses" that each have a unique way to mitigate damage. "Combat Maneuvers" is where you can summarize your attacks/Abilities for ease of reference. Frame Durability is basically your bones. But if a bone breaks, you lose that limb and everything in it.

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A review for Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy.

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Gaming Dice.

I learned a lot about edges and light and color relationships here.

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SCROLL BACK UP. THIS ISN'T A PHOTO, IT'S ART

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A mech discord server with a vent channel where all the messages are just ‘FWSSHHHHHH -heat level reduced’

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brb putting this in the company server right now

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A whole round up of recent PsychoDriver art from bluesky

[syn4k]

i like the phrases "it's not for me," "it's not my thing," and "i'm not the target audience" because they're the most concise way to express "this thing that you enjoy has merits but idgaf about it" without being aggressive