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Shadow of the Beanstalk
In the not so-distant future, humanity has spread out across the solar system, unlocked the frontiers of cyberspace, and created millions of intelligent androids in its own image. At the heart of this progress stands a ladder leading to the riches of the stars—the massive space elevator called the Beanstalk. And at its base sprawls the biggest, meanest, and most exciting city on Earth: New Angeles.
Fantasy Flight Games is proud to present Shadow of the Beanstalk, an Android Sourcebook for the Genesys Roleplaying System!
Take on the role of cops, con artists, roughnecks, and escaped androids trapped between greedy corporations, corrupt officials, and vicious street gangs. Outwit your foes, uncover their conspiracies, flee their retribution, and maybe you’ll survive. Who knows? Maybe you’ll even get rich...
Shadow of the Beanstalk is a 256-page sourcebook for use with the Genesys Roleplaying System. In this book, you’ll find new rules for character creation, new weapons, equipment, and adversaries, new rules for running the net, information on the Android Universe, and advice for gamemasters running a campaign in the cyberpunk future of Android. All of this accompanied by beautiful art and elegant mechanics that can be used in any setting for the Genesys roleplaying system.
Fantasy Flight Games is proud to present Shadow of the Beanstalk, an Android Sourcebook for the Genesys Roleplaying System!
Take on the role of cops, con artists, roughnecks, and escaped androids trapped between greedy corporations, corrupt officials, and vicious street gangs. Outwit your foes, uncover their conspiracies, flee their retribution, and maybe you’ll survive. Who knows? Maybe you’ll even get rich...
Shadow of the Beanstalk is a 256-page sourcebook for use with the Genesys Roleplaying System. In this book, you’ll find new rules for character creation, new weapons, equipment, and adversaries, new rules for running the net, information on the Android Universe, and advice for gamemasters running a campaign in the cyberpunk future of Android. All of this accompanied by beautiful art and elegant mechanics that can be used in any setting for the Genesys roleplaying system.
256 pages, Hardcover
Published February 20, 2019
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August 19, 2019
I'm eyeballs-deep in this world right now, and to that end I think SotB is a pretty strong one-volume setting book. Its character creation guide is sort of annoyingly useless without the main Genesys system book -- I get that they need to make sure you're buying all their products, but as written it's so poorly organized that makes more sense to download any of the free fanmade guides that combine all the info you need into one PDF.
What's really innovative here is the setting info in the book's second half -- it's not quite as user-friendly as, say, similar content from Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica, also released last year, but it probably provides more NPCs and plot hooks per capita than Ravnica even though its information is spread across 70 pages of lore rather than Ravnica's series of handy dice tables.
The other thing that I really like about SotB is that it's the first cyberpunk rpg I've read that a) isn't purely dystopic and b) isn't written like the liner notes of black metal album. The world of New Angeles is an uneasy corporate utopia, but it's also not on the verge of systemic collapse -- the fact that it's still a functioning (albeit horribly corrupt) society is....like, weirdly hopeful? About as hopeful as I get, anyway.
While I was reading it I was raving about how it was presenting a version of the future that was revolutionary, and the fact that it presents no conclusion to its narrative is itself a kind of futurism, but my wife told me that might be taking things a bit too far.
What's really innovative here is the setting info in the book's second half -- it's not quite as user-friendly as, say, similar content from Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica, also released last year, but it probably provides more NPCs and plot hooks per capita than Ravnica even though its information is spread across 70 pages of lore rather than Ravnica's series of handy dice tables.
The other thing that I really like about SotB is that it's the first cyberpunk rpg I've read that a) isn't purely dystopic and b) isn't written like the liner notes of black metal album. The world of New Angeles is an uneasy corporate utopia, but it's also not on the verge of systemic collapse -- the fact that it's still a functioning (albeit horribly corrupt) society is....like, weirdly hopeful? About as hopeful as I get, anyway.
While I was reading it I was raving about how it was presenting a version of the future that was revolutionary, and the fact that it presents no conclusion to its narrative is itself a kind of futurism, but my wife told me that might be taking things a bit too far.
October 17, 2021
Shadow of the Beanstalk is a 256-page reference book for use with the Genesys roleplaying system. In this book, you will find new rules for character creation, new weapons, equipment, and opponents, new rules for managing the network.
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February 29, 2024
An excellent supplement book/setting guide. Lots to work with. Lots of world building. Great if you want to play Android. Make sure you get the Core Rulebook first, though!
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