The Children of Time RPG is a fully licenced game! Supporting the game also supports Adrian and his work. We work closely with Adrian throughout development and he has final approval on all aspects of the game.

Adrian does give allow us a great deal of freedom, though! Especially around the mechanical side of the game, where he defers to us as a team of experienced game designers.

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That’s a big question!

In short, the individual systems are easy to learn, with simple characters and streamlined action resolution, with complexity coming from what systems you choose to use during each crisis. You don’t need to learn the entire game at once to begin playing!

If you want to see how the game plays, you can check out the free beta test download (specifically the old empire tutorial chapter starting on page 29) or watch the EUphoria Actual Play.

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You can uplift and play as any animal you can think of! During the first session when setting up your planet (see page 78 of the beta playtest), your group can pick any animal you can imagine and assign it a number of specialisations that define how their society might evolve. There are no limits to what animal makes up your uplifted society.

The full game will also provide “Uplift Candidates” which are a collection of curated species that are ready-to-play. You’ll be able to find all your favourite Panspecific members among this list.

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This initial offering focuses on recreating narratives similar to the first Children of Time novel. A dual narrative where an ailing Ark Ship embarks on a desperate journey to a far off planet, while the unexpected life on that planet evolves to a full society, and the final meeting of these two species.

As a team, we would love to dive into the full Panspecific era of exploration. Especially when it comes to some of the outliers like Nodan entity and simulated worlds. However this era is so unique we have decided to wait for a potential future expansion to cover them.

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You’re right! Uplifted Pangolins are an exciting new entry to the Children of Time setting!

When we started developing the game, we spoke with Adrian and realised that it would be great to introduce a new uplifted species to the game. Both to serve as a working example in the rulebooks about how you can make your own species, and also cause Pangolins are cool as heck.

So we worked closely with Adrian develope uplifted Pangolins, how they might evolve and what shape their society might take.

Adrian has even agreed to write a short story to showcase the Pangolins in action! Should we hit our first stretch goal, this will be written and added to the Quickstart, which is where we will shine a spotlight on these wonderful additions to the setting.

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It’s closer to a GMfull game! The game takes the traditional role of a singular GM, breaks them up into different play stances, and lets players distribute and adopt them during scenes. This way, everyone is the GM in some capacity!

For example, during a scene, one player may take on the Viewpoint play stance and roleplay one of their characters much like a traditional player. Meanwhile, another player may claim the Crowd play stance, and take on the role of all the NPCs in the scene. Another player could pick up the often coveted Doom play stance, and describe how something goes wrong!

It might sound odd at first to folk who are used to games with a defined GM, but in action it becomes very natural. If you want to see an example of it in play, you can watch the EUphoria Actual Play linked on the crowdfunding page.

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The core game is fairly solo-friendly, given the crises systems and the GMless nature of the game. However it’s not a true solo game and some work might be required to make it function as you would expect many other solo games.

BUT! We are very interested in adding a solo expansion of some kind. It would take some additional development resources… so keep an eye out on the stretch goals.

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Nope! The game teaches you everything you need to know to play.

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