Those Who Came Before

A science-fantasy supplement for Into the Odd by Chris McDowall with a large dose of inspiration from Numenera by Monte Cook Games.

You are not the first civilization of your people. Millennia before, the ancients had a great civilization that achieved works undreamt of by even the greatest minds of our time.

Your group has joined together to form an expedition that will delve into newly-discovered ruins of that civilization in order to recover bits of useful technology (“oddities”) and perhaps uncover the secrets of their rise and fall. The knowledge your ancestors left behind can help protect your people from strange threats that remain.

If you like lateral thinking to solve problems creatively, discovering characters through their actions in the world, and science fantasy that turns away from typical assumptions of a faux medieval high fantasy world, then this game might be for you.

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As with all my Itch projects, any profits beyond the development costs will be matched and donated to the International Rescue Committee to benefit refugees all over the world.