Godslingers

Long ago the Old Gods lorded over the Fourth Galaxy, these cosmic deities held great power and made their domain amongst the stars themselves. One day they all died. Now, well over three thousand years later, on the fringes of Outward Space, desperados hold the power of the dead gods soul in revolver chambers; they are Godslingers.

What is Godslingers?

Godslingers is a space fantasy western. This is a game for playing out the dangerous lives of Godslingers, cosmic cowboys wielding divine weapons whose destructive nature threatens to consume and transform them. It’s designed with multi-session play in mind but the book does suggest some modifications that could be made to suit one-shot play. The majority of players will play the titular Godslingers, while at least one other player acts as the Referee; and takes responsibility for framing scenes, playing supporting characters and making rulings and judgements. 

The game begins with a Storytelling Phase where you create some of the long dead Old Gods. You’ll then create a posse of Godslingers who now carry the power of these same gods in weapon form. After creating your Godslingers the rest of the game is in Roleplaying Phase, where you’ll describe what your characters do in their fictional circumstances and roll dice where appropriate to determine how key things play out.

Running a simple bespoke multiple-d6 system with rolls for dangerous actions and unleashing divine power, much of the way this game is played involves negotiating how things might go based on the fiction you’ve established. The game doesn’t have hard mechanics for things like health, currency or equipment. We simply take the fiction we’ve established around those elements into the negotiation. The spirit of the game is collaborative, not combative, you’re all telling a story together and the focus of any negotiation is about serving the story, not trying to “win” versus each other. 

Featuring

• Useful tools for devising your table's Old Gods; selecting their concepts, their domains and three tales from before the Great Disaster
• Eight evocative picklists for building the personal history of your Godslingers
• A unique sub-system reflecting how the Godly Ember graduals warps your very being
• Silver Age sci-fi comics smashed headfirst into a weird west worold
• Five kinds of posse; deadly Outlaws, relentless Bounty Hunters, ruthless Freelancers, strange Stormchasers and lonely Drifters
  
• Flying Saucers!
• Extensive advice for the Referee on running the game
• The introductory adventure Bullet for a Dragon which takes the Posse to the imposing mountains of Agathos, where a local dragon has been disturbed and is rampaging out of control
• Three d66 tables for professions, traits and names of spaceships
• Four d6 tables for building locations
• Unique adventure hooks for each posse type
• Rules variations including a GMless version of the game and modifications to facilitate one-shot play
• A comic book inspired layout making use of a six-panel grid style and public domain comic book art from sci-fi, western and fantasy comics
• Insightful examples of play throughout

The World of Old Gods & Young Guns

This game is written within the setting first featured in the system agnostic guide Old Gods and Young Guns and further explored in the storytelling/map-making game Thirty Foes OR Once again, we are defeated. Neither game is neccessary to have a full and fufilling Godslingers experience but if you enjoy this book you might enjoy exploring the wider world it's linked to.

Credits

• Writing, Design and Layout by Kayla Dice 
• Krackle Frame B/W and Half Tone used throughout is JN Butler CC by 4.0 
• The comic book art is sourced from the Public Domain, sourced via Comic Book Plus 
• Fonts Used: Alegraya, JDK Vindil, Too Many Cowboys, and Baloo 2