I'm working on a futuristic RPG, and came up with the front and back covers. This thread will also be for design notes. Thoughts and comments, and critiques always welcome.

Sounds pretty interesting. Only issue for me right now is that the text is a little hard to read. I'm not a graphic designer, so I can't articulate the why or how to fix that, but just wanted to point it out.

Either way, I am looking forward to more updates on where this takes you!

Thanks!

I kind of like the fuzziness, but for the final copy it will probably do to make the text clearer.

Quote from: Neoplatonist1 on January 06, 2025, 11:49:23 PMThanks!

I kind of like the fuzziness, but for the final copy it will probably do to make the text clearer.

Please consider a clean black-and-white (black text on a white background) version of your character sheet.  That one will be a bear to print out and read.  Sometimes simpler is better...

Quote from: Eirikrautha on January 07, 2025, 10:33:33 AMPlease consider a clean black-and-white (black text on a white background) version of your character sheet.  That one will be a bear to print out and read.  Sometimes simpler is better...

True. I just wanted to see what it would look like prettied up.

Space Madness

Outer Space is not mankind's natural home. Terrestrial organisms removed from the direct influence of Earth's gravitational field begin to fall apart physically in a host of ways, from calcium loss in their bones to immune system difficulties. To his chagrin, man also realised that the Solar System contained a psychophysical field related to the heliosphere, and people removed from it, as on deep space voyages, begin to suffer a deleterious mental condition: Space Madness.

Space Madness is chiefly characterised by profound amnesia, loss of theory-of-mind, and a blunting of affect, including, mercifully, a diminishment of the fear response. Sufferers typically contract the disease while in hypersleep, fitfully awakening to find themselves in mysterious circumstances shorn of much, if not all, of their knowledge about the outside world. Others, outside of hypersleep, find themselves experiencing nightmares and symptoms of dementia, including psychosis, leading to a short coma, followed by their awakening to the chief condition proper.

There is no known cure for this disease, but sufferers can—often quickly—relearn various latent skills as they explore their environment, including some memories and relearning theory-of-mind. With some it may take years or decades to overcome the condition, with others they can adapt much more rapidly.

Unfortunately, as normal functioning is approached, so is an increasing sensitivity to fear and loneliness. This fear can be rational, fearing privation, hazard, or violence from other astronauts, but it can also generalise into a kind of "cosmic" fear, including both terror of whatever unknowns lurk in the stars, and a bereft realisation of the absolute impossibility of ever going home, leaving him to face the perils and terrors of the universe utterly alone.