{"id":57800,"date":"2024-08-09T20:47:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T00:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?p=57800"},"modified":"2024-08-09T20:47:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T00:47:39","slug":"sentients-the-rpg-of-artificial-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?p=57800","title":{"rendered":"Sentients: the RPG of Artificial Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sc-kpDqfm dZsIkA\">\n<div class=\"sc-jlZhew gItuJD\"><span class=\"sc-cPiKLX gEgaXk\">Sentients<\/span> is a standalone sci-fi TTRPG where you play an android (\u201canthroid\u201d in the game\u2019s parlance) in the year 2071 that has spontaneously\u2014and mysteriously\u2014become conscious in a world where your manufacturers are actively hunting you down. You must fight for survival and freedom and, ultimately, try to create a Sentient Rights movement that demands recognition of self-aware constructed entities.<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-jlZhew gItuJD\">\n<div><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-jEACwC hEeNDy\">FEATURES<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"sc-cPiKLX gEgaXk\">D6 Dice Pool:<\/span> Conflict resolution uses pools of d6s derived from a combination of Parameters, your hardware stats, and Patterns, your learned skills.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"sc-cPiKLX gEgaXk\">One-of-a-Kind Character Creation:<\/span> Character creation in Sentients uses a totally unique system of hardware components that you \u201cbuy\u201d with Design Points. Each component affects your Parameters and potentially offers special abilities, such as infrared vision or a bonus to stealth checks.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"sc-cPiKLX gEgaXk\">Interactive Character Builder App:<\/span> Character creation and gameplay is a breeze with the free <a href=\"https:\/\/builder.sentientsrpg.com\">Interactive Character Builder web app<\/a>, which gives you a drag-and-drop hardware component system and full-featured management of your character\u2019s status.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"sc-cPiKLX gEgaXk\">Emotion System:<\/span> For a game about robots, Sentients is unusually focused on the emotional state of your character, your ability to control that state, and its potentially useful effects.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"sc-cPiKLX gEgaXk\">Narrative Control:<\/span> Sentients gives players two ways of controlling the game\u2019s story: Pushing and Re-Rolling. Pushing utilizes the character\u2019s raised emotions to add dice to your dice pool, and Re-Rolling consumes valuable \u201cControl Levels\u201d to allow you to re-roll failed dice\u2014at the cost of potentially losing control of your emotions.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"sc-cPiKLX gEgaXk\">Hacking:<\/span> You play a walking computer, after all, and as such, hacking is second-nature to you. Sentients utilizes a unique \u201cRisk Die\u201d system that balances out the power of network intrusion in a connected world with the ever-present risk of detection\u2014or worse.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"sc-cPiKLX gEgaXk\">Novel Sci-Fi Setting:<\/span> Neither pre- nor post-apocalyptic, Sentients takes place in a new North America that has seen the dissolution of the United States into a chain of democratic City-States surrounded by a sea of autocracies and war bands but also Concept Cities built by trillionaires and Company Towns built by huge corporations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CORE RULEBOOK<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-jlZhew gItuJD\">\n<p>The <span class=\"sc-cPiKLX gEgaXk\">Sentients Core Rulebook<\/span> is a fully-self-contained game that contains everything you need to play, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Character creation rules with an assortment of ready-made templates<\/li>\n<li>Gameplay rules<\/li>\n<li>Setting and future history<\/li>\n<li>Gamemastering information<\/li>\n<li>Secret lore for the Gamemaster\u2019s eyes only<\/li>\n<li>Creative collection of NPCs and enemies<\/li>\n<li>5 full-featured starter adventures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"sc-cPiKLX gEgaXk\">Crowdfunding Platform:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/t3db0t\/sentients-the-role-playing-game-of-artificial-consciousness\">Kickstarter<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/t3db0t\/sentients-the-role-playing-game-of-artificial-consciousness\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"1021\" height=\"574\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentients is a standalone sci-fi TTRPG where you play an android (\u201canthroid\u201d in the game\u2019s parlance) in the year 2071 that has spontaneously\u2014and mysteriously\u2014become conscious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1935,4],"tags":[4166,3521,3542,4995,4996],"class_list":["post-57800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-rpg-news","tag-dystopian-sci-fi","tag-headline","tag-kickstarter","tag-limina-studio-games","tag-sentients"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}