Get Ready for Children of Time: The Roleplaying Game

Rowan, Rook, and Decard have just announced the Children of Time Roleplaying Game, based upon the fantastic science fiction novel series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

(From Rowan, Rook, and Decard):

Children of Time: The Roleplaying Game is a tabletop roleplaying game based on Adrian Tchaikovsky's award winning science fiction novels where societies embark on epic, era-spanning journeys of growth, endurance, and self-discovery.

In the wake of global annihilation, the desperate remnants of humanity abandon a dying Earth aboard colossal ark ships in a desperate bid to find a new home among the stars. Their journey will last thousands of years: as they follow ancient star charts that promise terraformed paradise worlds, just waiting for humanity to claim.

But paradise is already occupied. Unknown to humanity, the terraforming process deployed millennia ago had unforeseen consequences – an animal species imported from a pre-collapse Earth has gained sentience and seeks to master their home planet.

In Children of Time: The Roleplaying Game, you become the authors of this grand tale. Construct an ark ship of your own and embark on an uncharted exodus towards a planet of your own making, where you uplift and nurture species of your own choosing. Or retell the epic saga of the ark ship Gilgamesh and the evolution of the Portid spiders on Kern’s world. The choice is yours.

Build the legacy of twinned societies across millenia, switching focus from your ailing ark ship to your evolving planet and back again as you face existential crises that forever alter the course of history. All to answer the greatest question imaginable: when your beaten ark ship limps into orbit around your history-rich planet, what will these two civilisations do when they finally meet?

Time and fate are in your hands.

The game is an evolution of various systems from previous Rowan, Rook, and Decard titles. The sci-fi worldbuilding and multi-generational storytelling of Legacy: Life Among The Ruins are combined with the beloved fallouts and beats systems from Heart: The City Beneath, which centre player agency and turn failure into a dramatic storytelling moment. 

A crowdfunder for the game is planned to launch this summer, and you can sign up for more information on their backerkit page.

Images and text courtesy of Rowan, Rook, and Decard.