Welcome to the System

A clarified science-fiction ruleset for 5e, with new rules for futuristic adventures and solo roleplaying!

Move over world, Sci-Fi-V will be the Galaxy's Greatest Roleplaying Game!

(Depending on the galaxy. This claim gives us a large amount of leeway.)

This book - THE SYSTEM - includes the core rules of Sci-Fi-V as well as a complete basic setting. It features:

• Two Lineage Options: Human and Android

• Six Trained Classes

• Premade Backgrounds

• A brutal, but rewarding planet to explore

• Rules for sci-tech, ballistic weaponry, and futuristic travel

• Solo player rules, GM-free options and oracles

• Extensive adventure and planet hex generation system

• 100+ unique weapons, equipment, and machines

• Dozens of cyber upgrades

• Alien creatures, plantlife and habitats to explore and survive

• You'll create your Player Citizen, using a rich step-by-step character creation system. Level up, specialize in a focus area, upgrade equipment and weapons and expand your inventory to become a sci-fi hero, trader, bounty hunter, explorer or anything you want to become. The system allows for thoughtful, careful creation or quick randomized character options.

The Book Details:

Sci-Fi-V: The System is a compact, easy-to-navigate book that contains everything you need to create and play a game.

• Measures 8.5"x11"

• Black and white interior pages

• Over 300 pages

• POD available in softcover or hardcover from DTRPG

• Design by MJ and artwork by Kris McClanahan

Explore Atlan's Beacon and Beyond!

Additional Content For SCI-FI-V

THE SYSTEM

The original core rules. Built on 5e, created for space exploration.

MEGATROPOLIS

A massive city-planet.

Coming soon!

SMUGGLER'S GUILD

Create and publish content and adventures for SCI-FI-V

DOWNLOADS

Character Sheets and other downloadable supplements for the game

Smuggler's Only:

SRD, System Elements, etc...

Sci-Fi-V Digital Aids

Character sheets, etc...

Welcome to the Smuggler's Guild

We want YOU to aid in the creation and expansion of the system!

Sci-Fi-V is written using the framework and open game license from D&D 5e and, as such, is very friendly to the creation of additional content, whether that is your own adventures, modules, worlds, stories, or adventures, and we want to actively help to finish, promote, and bring them to life!

Sci-Fi-V was originally published via crowdfunding, using a digital PDF and At-Cost Print-on-demand model that we are big fans of. It allows the funds from the project to go to the creators while backers select their preferred format and delivery of the game. We would like to continue to expand the game’s content using the same model, but promoting new creations from you!

First and foremost – if you are comfortable running a campaign, publishing books, or anything else – please do! Send us an email so we can admire and promote your creations, but apart from a few third-party logos/restrictions, we have a very permissive license for making games around the Sci-Fi-V framework. We make games for the love of playing, not to restrict creativity and fun. You can find the System Resource Document and useful assets in the Downloads section of this page.

However, if you are a creator who hesitates when it comes to those aspects – REACH OUT TO US! We have created a system where we work with you to finish your game, get it ready for crowdfunding and fulfillment, and get it out into the world. We call it The Smuggler’s Guild.

How does it work?

Create something cool. Write an adventure, world sourcebook, monster manual, robot user’s guide – anything you’d like.

At any point past this, reach out to us at getinkygames@gmail.com for our assistance and support for the rest! We will be happy to source or hire artists and layout designers for your product – Or we might do it ourselves here at Squid Ink headquarters!

Draw or source artwork for your creation. You must have the rights to the art, or they must be in the public domain. You’ll usually need at least a cover and a few good interior images, but there is no hard and fast rule for that. Typically, the more awesome artwork you have, the better the book does.

Design your book: We firmly believe that graphic design, good book layout, and print preparedness are just as important as art and words when it comes to the final product.

When it is ready for us to take it into our tentacles, send us a message, and we will start any finishing work we need and work with you on creating a crowdfunding page that we will launch and manage.

ALL SMUGGLER’S GUILD projects published through Squid Ink Games will be launched with a digital book and at-cost print-on-demand physical copy model. This system allows us to release a project and keep creating, rather than dealing with the back end of shipping and fulfillment. Those will be the only rewards we offer for the crowdfunding project.

At the conclusion of the crowdfunding period, after the site takes out its fees, the funds raised for the project will be distributed evenly in four ways:

25% to the writer/s

35% to the artist

15% to the layout designer

25% to Squid Ink Games

After completion of the project and successful distribution of the game to backers, you, as the creator & writer, will retain ALL PUBLISHING RIGHTS for the creation if desired. You can go on to reprint, do a traditional print run, or anything else you’d like with the game, art, and final formatting of the book. If you would prefer to remain hands-off, we can also publish and manage it through Squid Ink Games’ DTRPG page and send you your cut of post-campaign sales.

Our main intent with the Smuggler’s Guild is to aid and encourage people to make more cool content for the Sci-Fi-V world, not be swimming in credits or lord control over the third-party books. They belong to you – we just want to add the booster rockets to your launch.

The Smuggler’s Guild is a human-led establishment. We will not promote or publish any games that utilize generative artificial Intelligence in the creation of artwork or writing in any major capacity.