In the universe of Project Morningstar, the galaxy is controlled by the Hegemon of a Thousand Empires, a vast corporatocracy built on profit, credit, ownership, and regulated violence across Known Space. Its inhabitants are not citizens in any meaningful sense. They are Consumers, ranked by their value, judged by their debt, and granted rights according to what The Market says they are worth.
The Hegemon of a Thousand Empires does not conquer only through armies, warships, and orbital bombardment. It conquers through contracts, subscriptions, trademarks, licensing agreements, and the quiet terror of insolvency.
As a Consumer in a universe where greed is a virtue, everyone eventually asks themselves, “what is my price?”
For most Consumers, doing their best looks like following the rules and keeping their heads down, hoping for a bonus at the end of every fiscal cycle. For a rare few, gaming the system and climbing the corporate ladder through doing jobs for the Patrons is their get-rich — or die-horribly — plan for success.
Avarice is a 2d20 role-playing game based on Project Morningstar, a science fiction universe set in a distant, unknown future where humanity has united through collective greed and the pursuit of profit. Influenced by the works of Paul Verhoeven, H.R. Giger, Ridley Scott, and James Cameron, Project Morningstar has quickly expanded to encompass deep lore, cinema-quality YouTube animations, comics, miniatures, and now role-playing games.
In Avarice, Players take the roles of desperate professionals called Contractors. They are corporate assets, freelancers, soldiers, debtors, skivers, troubleshooters, and hired killers trying to survive in a civilization that measures them by their Credit Score.
In the Avarice RPG you'll find:
8 Archetypes
50+ Professions
Dozens of Signatures to make your character unique
Empowered Armor, Dozens of Weapons, and more Gear than you'll ever use!
Get MacroCorp Sponsorships and Subscriptions to give your character an edge!
Rules for Augmentation (cyberarms and logicor brains!)
Rules for Vehicle Combat and Chases!
Completely new advancement system based on your character's Credit Rating!
Explore all corners of Known Space thousands of years in the future!
Character Creation Livestream
Avarice game designer Matt "KCRift" Everhart runs Morningstar Community Manager TheHappyTau and Rem Alternis through the process of creating a character in the Avarice system.
Inaugural Actual Play Livestream
The very first live gameplay of Avarice, featuring Boman Modine, Rem Alternis, Jason Charles Miller, David Baxter, and Luke Gygax, with Avarice designer Matt "KCRift" Everhart.
Key Features:
Survive Hypercapitalism: Set in the grim, science-fiction universe of Project Morningstar, players must make hard decisions on how to survive the corporate hierarchy of the Hegemon.
Unique Character Advancement: Characters earn Credit for successfully completing contracts and then use that Credit to both upgrade their gear and advance their character.
Proven Systems:Avarice uses Modiphius’ popular 2d20 system. Straightforward to learn, and players already experienced with 2d20 will feel right at home.
Included in this incredible crowdfunding campaign will be:
The Project Morningstar: Avarice RPG complete sourcebook
Contract: Milkrun - a starter Contract for your players on the moons of Kandia
Custom Avarice RPG Dice
The Index in print!
Miniatures of your favorite Hegemon units and vehicles!
Patches, shirts, keychains, coins, and more SWAG from your favorite MacroCorps
10+ Stretch Goals including a new, Backerkit-only comic book!
Additionally, all backers in the first 24 hours will receive a copy of the Hegemon Patron STL file.
Created in 2011 and owned by Jimmy Duffie and Matt Everhart, Fat Goblin Games is the creator of the Three Die Engine (3DE), Teenage Mutant Dirtbags, and a wide variety of other titles for D&D, Pathfinder, Starfinder, and more. They have also published over 400 titles on DriveThruRPG, including multiple Platinum best-sellers, such as Shadows over Vathak: Player’s Guide and The Gamemaster’s Journal line of tools.
Supported by a growing community, Morningstar Enterprises is inspired to approach franchise creation on an indie level. Formed by co-creators Boman Modine and Joacim Holm, Morningstar Enterprises is the creator of Project Morningstar, a multimedia project combining deep lore, cinema-quality YouTube animations, comics, and miniatures.
The Hegemon needs capable people willing to accept unreasonable assignments under questionable conditions.
Fortunately, those people are surprisingly easy to find.
In Avarice: The Project Morningstar RPG, character creation involves making the Contractor you want to play. There are a myriad of choices to choose from in the core rulebook that will allow you to customize your character in any number of ways with a professional role, a useful history, and enough personal traits to keep the Auditor supplied with material for years to come.
You start building that Contractor by choosing an Archetype, a Profession, and a Signature.
Start with the Basics
Choose your Attributes
Agility
Brawn
Coordination
Insight
Reason
Will
Skills describe broad areas of training, such as Fight, Medical, Observe, Persuade, Tech, and Traverse. Focuses represent narrower expertise within a Skill.
Target Numbers for your rolls will be defined by a combination of Attributes and Skills. The lower your roll on your d20s, the better the results. Rolling a 1 is a critical success.
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