WARNING - OUTDATED CONTENT

The version of Barest Bones presented on this store page is outdated. The game is perfectly playable in it's current state, but it does not reflect the official version of the game. Please download and play at your own risk!

DESCRIPTION OF TERMS

In this tabletop role-playing game, step into the shoes of a husk; a person who has traded their lifeforce to settle their debts in a horrific economic depression. To get back these metabolic salts you've had extracted, you need to hustle and scrap in the mean streets of dystopic and chaotic New London. 

Do you try to stay on the straight and narrow, getting money only through righteous means?

Do you join one of New London's many gangs, getting money by feeding the cities war machine of crime?

Do you fight strange and dangerous monsters, putting your life on the line for big payouts?

Or do you say "fuck it" and turn your swords on those cruel masters that made you this way?

In Barest Bones, you decide.

FUN WILL BE HAD

With simple, easy to use mechanics and a wide depth of character customization options, players will find an incalculable amount of 'fun' in the assorted documents. If they do not, then it simply falls upon the gamemaster's failings rather than ours (as all things ultimately do).

On the subject of game masters, Barest Bones is also easy to run! Built with improvisation in mind, you will find a massive toolkit with Barest Bones' wide bestiary of man, beast, monster, specter, and more!

AN INTRODUCTION

Barest Bones is the first of many soon-to-be released glimpses into the maddeningly multi-media world of Starstained. What is the Starstain? Uh... I can't tell you that!

what is the collapse?

I can't tell you that!

what did he do to them?

I can't tell you that!

AN ENGINE OF GREAT RENOWN

In the future, planned updates for Barest Bones are certainly on the way. New classes, perks,  items, monsters... Lots of stuff you know! When? 

I can't tell you that!

RECOMMENDED READING FOR OPERATION OF DEVICE

That brings me to the end of this description, not quite sure what else to put here...

you only need d6's to play! that's fun.

uh...

Oh! Let's talk about the full list of inspirations for Barest Bones.

• Works of Charles Dickens
• Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Cyberpunk 2020 by RTalsorian Games
• Shadow Scar by RTalsorian Games
• Cy_Borg by Free League Publishing
  
• World of Darkness by White Wolf/Paradox Interactive
• Off by Mortis Ghost
• Bloodborne by FromSoftware
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Bioshock by 2k Games
• Dishonored by Arkane Studios
• Skeletons, just in general
• Being poor
• That feeling of unrelenting fear, dread, and unreality you get from reading the news.