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Esper Genesis Master Technician's Guide

An Add-on Module by Skydawn Game Studios

Zero AI Publisher: Skydawn Game Studios Purchase: Publisher or Marketplace Foundry Versions 14+ (Verified 14) Last Updated 2 days, 23 hours ago

Master Technician's Guide Title

Forge Your Own Sci-fi Universe!

The Master Technician's Guide is the third core rulebook for Esper Genesis — the comprehensive sci-fi rules system for D&D 5th Edition. This module provides you with the tools to create fun, exciting, heroic adventures and run them in your own sci-fi galactic setting.

Combined with the Core Manual and the Threats Database, the Master Technician's Guide provides you with everything you need to craft an immersive, versatile, expandable sci-fi story and setting compatible with Foundry's D&D 5E system.

Feature Summary

Create, Expand, Upgrade

This product provides you with rules for tailoring game mechanics, new options and customizations for gear and starships, tools for creating galactic locations and heroic encounters, guidance on adapting to alternate sci-fi genres, and much more.

New Gear Options

Take your gear to the next level! The Master Technician's Guide is packed with a variety of options for upgrading and modifying your weapons, armor, and equipment.

  • New armor types and properties. Apply armor upgrades to gain additional features on existing armor.

  • New weapon customizations and variant rules for grenades and special ammunition.

  • Attach mods to your equipment to unlock new activities and active effects.

  • Enhanced gear rules adapts the magic item system for sci-fi, including gear utility mods and item affinity.

  • Core-forged items introduce customizable templates for scalable weapons, armor, and foci. Your gear grows as your character does, using item grades to improve more powerful variants using item grades.

Increase an item's grade to unlock dormant features and traits.

Advanced Technologies

What's a sci-fi universe without state-of-the-art future tech? Deck out your character with a wealth of high-tech utilities and features.

  • Become the weapon! Cybernetic augments provide your character with innate traits, skills, and enhancements.

  • Explore the virtual expanse with expanded options for digital devices and rules for creating virtual reality environments. Use your persona to take on the SIM's denizens in Matrix combat.

  • Get behind the wheel in your custom ride. Vehicle customizations let you personalize and modify ground, air, and water vehicles with parts upgrades and weapon mounts.

  • Not all robots are the same. Explore new options for customizing drones and other mechanical companions.

Customize your vehicle with weapons, engine upgrades, armor plating, and more.

Design Starships and Starbases

A shipyard at your fingertips! Use the expanded options in the compendium to build spacefaring vessels or starbases of your own design. Rules for grand scale ship combat allow for thrilling space battles between ships of any size.

  • Run encounters between grand scale ships. Bolster your ship's crew with the captain and commander crewmember roles.

  • Design any ship or starbase by choosing a hull type and adding propulsion, weapon systems, and optional upgrades.

  • The Starship Codex provides customizable stat blocks for NPC ships and vessels used by the galaxy's major spacefaring cultures.

  • Tailor your adventures across the stars with new rules and tables for space exploration and celestial navigation.

Choose a hull template and design your own ship from the ground up!

Infinite Tales in an Eternal Expanse

The entire book has been adapted for Foundry and presented as a stunning, interactive journal. The entries are designed to guide you through the major aspects of creating and running any sci-fi themed game using the Esper Genesis rules.

  • Use the GM's Toolkit to add character creation options, build encounters, and tailor the theme of your campaign.

  • Create any environment using rollable tables for structures, settlements, and hazards. Generate a star system on the fly with quick tables and guidelines for interstellar civilizations and technology.

  • Additional rules and tips are provided for adapting your campaign to alternate sci-fi genres.

Use the star system generator to build galactic systems on the fly.

This product requires the Esper Genesis Core Manual and Foundry's Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition game system.

Supported Game Systems

  1. Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition

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