An Android sourcebook for the Genesys Roleplaying System!

In the not so-distant future, humanity has spread 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.

Enter a cyberpunk future and take on the roles 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, a guide to New Angeles, and advice for Game Masters running a campaign in the cyberpunk future of Android. Even better, all of this comes accompanied by beautiful art and elegant mechanics that can be used in any science-fiction setting for the Genesys Roleplaying System.

Escaping the Shadow
Shadow of the Beanstalk starts by redefining character creation in the Genesys roleplaying system, giving it an unforgettable neo-noir tinge. In the first part of the book, you'll be introduced to new rules as well as unique talents and skills to tailor your character to the Android setting.

In Shadow of the Beanstalk, you play a (nearly) normal character living out their life in New Angeles. As a citizen of the largest and most metropolitan megalopolis on three worlds, you probably live somewhere between the ultrawealthy in their kilometer-high arcologies and the homeless, penniless disenfrancistos who live in the city’s seedy underbelly. You may have been an average person struggling to get by, a wealthy ristie fallen on hard times and looking for a big score, a roughneck working to build civilization in space, or a hard-nosed private investigator who makes their living dealing with the worst society has to offer. You may even be a criminal trying to cheat the system, or a veteran working hard to forget the war you fought in just a few years ago.

Shadow of the Beanstalk gives you plenty of ways to develop a character with a storied background, but that’s just the beginning of your journey. You’ll have to select a character archetype next. Shadow of the Beanstalk offers a full set of tailored options, including Clones, Naturals, Bioroids, Soldiers and more. Each of these archetypes has access to a variety of new skills and talents that set you apart from the swarm of other citizens living in the shadow of the Beanstalk. After all, in the world of Android, having deep pockets and corporate connections are just as valuable as combat training and heightened awareness.

But extraordinary skills can be exploited, and in the near-future, everyone owes something to someone. Shadow of the Beanstalk also introduces a new mechanic called the favor economy, allowing you to boost your starting credits or XP during character creation at the expense of owing a favor to one of New Angeles’ factions. Various factions constantly engage in a silent war in New Angeles, from biomedical cloners Jinteki, to artificial intelligence juggernaut Haas-Bioroid, to the NAPD just trying to hold it all together. While taking favors may provide an initial boost of power, they'll always weigh on your mind, and you never know when one of these factions may show up on your doorstep, looking to cash-in on their previous generosity.

As your campaign progresses your character may even find themselves owing favors to several factions, becoming embroiled in the corporate war engulfing New Angeles.

A Dark and Brilliant Future
In the second part of the book, the focus shifts to fleshing out the Android setting, including complete rules for running the net! In the future, the successor to the internet helps define every aspect of daily life, linking the world to a web of data. Manipulating this network opens up great benefits, and Shadow of the Beanstalk can guide you on exactly how to do that.

You’ll also find a detailed section breaking down New Angeles' various locations. Look for an example of a typical New Angeles neighborhood, as well as the various districts that make up the megalopolis, ripe with challenges and adventure hooks. You'll even get a breakdown of Heinlein, humanity's foothold on the Moon!

While this gives a great background to New Angeles, the world of Android is so much bigger. If you're interested in running a campaign set in the Android universe, an unmissable supplement for Shadow of the Beanstalk is The Worlds of Android hardcover book, which offers a complete overview of the Android setting. While The Worlds of Android does not have mechanical rules for the Genesys Roleplaying System, it still provides an in-depth look at every aspect of the Android universe, even stretching out to the far-flung colonies of Mars.

Behind the Curtain
The final section of the book the Game Master, providing a vast wealth of resrouces for your games, such as a list of adversaries appropriate to the setting. As a nexus of trade, culture, and politics, New Angeles draws all sorts of people from all over the worlds. From Principled Runners to Megacorp Executives, over 70 adversaries are statted for your use in campaigns.

Alongside these NPCs to populate your games, you'll hack into a whole section detailing how to run a campaign in the Android setting. Running a Shadow of the Beanstalk game can be very different from running a “traditional” RPG, where wandering bands of heroes roam the countryside, cutting down monsters with swords and taking treasure. The Android universe is grounded in a certain amount of realism, and the struggles of your players' characters aren’t too far removed from our own. The characters need money to survive, and many campaigns can center around just trying to survive in a megalopolis. Within this section, you'll find advice on how to develop a living world, and how to present complex and interesting challenges to your player.

Finally, the book offers a complete “Adventure Builder” that can help even the newest Game Masters to develop an exciting adventure for their players. With modular hooks, escalations, and climaxes that can be combined in any way, it's easy to produce an adventure dripping with theme and excitement. A job may start with your party hunting down an escaped clone, but may escalate when the media picks up on the story, and reach a climax when your employers decide to cover up the mess by eliminating everyone involved. Or maybe your employer becomes dissatisfied with your investigation and hires a rival gang to complete the job, only to leak the story to the press, blaming your party and your rivals for any negative consequences.

Shadows of the Beanstalk gives you the tools to run a successful campaign in the Android setting—but you don't need to stop there. The information in Shadow of the Beanstalk can easily be extrapolated to your own cyberpunk setting or even stranger brands of science fiction.

To the Stars
The citizens of New Angeles live in the shadow of the Beanstalk. While humanity has stretched its reach to the stars, most just struggle to get by. You may have exemplary skills, but in this world, standing out can get you killed. Do you have what it takes to survive the crowded streets of New Angeles?

The Keleres were established by the Council in the wake of the discovery of the Mahact Kings, and the realization that not one, but two existential galactic threats had arisen in a matter of months.

In theory, the Keleres are empowered by each of the members in the Galactic Council to investigate matters that concern the Pax Imperalis, enforce the rulings of the Council, and stop threats to the galaxy as a whole. Each of the Great Civilizations of the Council provides personnel and equipment to accomplish this. In practice, however, the Keleres are underfunded and understaffed. They are distrusted by the various peoples they must investigate, blocked at every turn as the Great Civilizations pursue their own agendas, and riven by factionalism and infighting. However, they are often the only ones who stand between the galaxy and threats that could end the lives of billions of innocents.

This book explores the Twilight Imperium setting as established in TI 4th Edition and Prophecy of Kings. It provides a canonical, in-depth look at the setting in the way that only a roleplaying game can do.

Fans of Genesys, fans of Twilight Imperium, and fans of thrilling and heroic adventures in a sprawling and rich space opera setting should all love this book.

The Expanded Player Guide contains a wealth of knowledge for players eager to equip their characters with interesting new gear, vehicles, and spells as well as Game Masters designing their own settings. This is the first expansion book that is for Genesys as a whole, rather than focusing on a specific setting.

This 112-page book features three exciting new example settings, a step-by-step guide that makes creating your own settings easier than ever, new rules for creating your own vehicles, quick rules for creating your own adversaries, and new spells and talents for the Genesys Magic System to further customize your games.

Some of these systems will assist players, others will help Game Masters, and others will be useful for everyone! Basically, the Player's Guide expands on key concepts from the Genesys Core Rulebook, making them easier to implement in your own games.

The first section of the book introduces the three new settings for use in your games. Game Masters can utilize this section to help create their own world, while players can take a look at the new character creation options, equipment, and skills found in each setting!

From the time of humanity’s first words, we have told stories of epic heroes, magic swords, dire monsters, and treasure hoards. Real-world mythology provides richly detailed settings filled with exciting characters ranging from superpowered demigods to quick-witted tricksters. The Age of Myth setting brings these classic tales to your tabletop, bringing in tropes and legends from around the world to thrill your players.

Horror has been a part of human storytelling since the time of cave paintings. In the 1800s, a new form emerged featuring a series of monsters whose legacy has echoed across the years, most importantly in film. Today, nearly everyone is familiar with these terrors: stitched-together corpses reanimated via chemicals and electricity, beings neither dead nor alive and damned for eternity to drink blood, shapeshifters cursed to dread the coming of the full moon, and many more. These are the horrors your players face in your Monsterworld setting, facing their darkest nightmares in a world where just surviving is a monumental achievement.

The post-apocalyptic genre is a setting in which a world’s society has collapsed, and the remaining populace must survive in a strange and dangerous new world. One of the oldest fiction genres, post-apocalyptic stories can be found throughout the founding myths and religious stories of various real-world cultures. As far back as the Babylonians and the ancient Judaic cultures, people were telling tales of the end of the world. Can your players survive in a world that has already ended in your Post-Apocalyptic setting?

Each of these profiles introduces new setting-specific adversaries and player options, as well as general advice regarding the tone of these three unique settings. Play as a Demi-God in a world of heroes, hunt vampires in a campaign focused on the horrifying creatures of Monsterworld, or gear up with a crossbow and whatever you can scavenge in a Post-Apocalyptic wasteland! If none of these pre-made setting appeals to you, the Genesys Player’s Guide also contains a guide on creating your own setting!

Creating your own setting is challenging but enjoyable, as you decide exactly what kind of game you want to play. While you do, there are many factors to consider. What does your world look like? What items can players find? What elements and situations will you and your players have fun using and exploring? This can range from building your world completely from scratch to taking an existing setting and modifying it to better match your vision. This section breaks down what can seem to be an overwhelming task into smaller steps, guiding you on your way to setting creation.

The second part of the book has rules for creating your own vehicles and an extensive list of premade vehicles for you to use. It also has quick rules for building adversaries that work with our new challenge level system and an extensive list of adversaries for your game. This expands on the rules found in section III of the Core Rulebook, giving you more options to populate your setting with various characters and vehicles, ranging from chariots to rocket ships.

The final section of the book contains alternate rulesets to help you further customize your games. This includes new talents and spells designed to work with our magic rules, some alternate rules for character advancement and social encounters, and new tones. This section can be used by either Game Master’s or player to expand your options in Genesys like never before!

Speed up your adventures, hide your notes, and impress your players with the Genesys Game Master’s Screen! This three-panel screen has the most commonly referenced rules and charts to keep your games flowing quickly and smoothly.

This screen will help you keep your notes, dice rolls, and plans hidden from your players while also providing handy information. Immerse your players in your world with the Genesys Game Master’s Screen!

Up Your Game
Are you ready to take your games of Genesys to the next level? The Genesys Expanded Player’s Guide and Game Master’s Screen allow you to dive into roleplaying like never before. Are you ready to enter a world of boundless possibilities?

Players expand their Genesys roleplaying sessions with the Mutant Invasion! roleplaying supplement, designed to complement the Secrets of the Crucible sourcebook.

This card pack offers an assortment of tools for both players and Game Masters—from a new playable species, to location cards that can be easily dropped into games, to over thirty adversary cards for Game Masters to keep the stats at their fingertips, to adventure builder cards that make coming up with an adventure fast and easy.

A new campaign sourcebook for the Genesys Roleplaying System!

Terrinoth is a land of forgotten greatness and lost legacies. Once ruled by the Elder Kings who called upon mighty magics to perform great deeds and work marvels, the land has suffered greatly at the hands of its three great foes: the undead armies of Waiqar the Betrayer, the demon-possessed hordes of the bloodthirsty Uthuk Y’llan, and the terrifying dragons of the Molten Heath. Many of its great cities have been cast down into ruins, and many wondrous secrets and powerful artifacts have been lost.

For hundreds of years, Terrinoth slipped into gloom and decay. But heroes arise just when their lands need them the most. Courageous adventurers brave the ruins of past ages and the foul creatures within to uncover the treasures of their ancestors. The Daqan Barons, inheritors of the ancient kingdoms, rebuild their walls and muster their armies, while the wizards of Greyhaven gather runes of power to awaken guardians of stone and steel. These preparations come none too soon, for the ancient enemies of the lawful races are stirring again, and Terrinoth needs champions of courage and cunning to stand against the rising darkness.

Realms of Terrinoth explores the world of Mennara featured in Runewars Miniatures Game, Legacy of Dragonholt, Descent: Journeys in the Dark, and Runebound. As a fantasy campaign setting for your games of Genesys, Realms of Terrinoth also features many races, weapons, gear, careers, and more—all of which can be found in the world of Terrinoth and expanded to any fantasy setting you create as the Game Master.

A World of Adventure and Magic
The Realms of Terrinoth book is split into three sections, opening with a dive into the history of the world of Mennara. From the earliest history of the known species to the Age of Courage, from the primordial fall of the Elves to the fiery invasion of the Dragonlords, Realms of Terrinoth not only gives you a full view of Mennara across the ages—it can also inspire you with morsels to populate your own adventures.

The second piece of the book introduces a variety of new and expanded mechanics that you can add into your Genesys adventures. While the Genesys Core Rulebook provides archetypes and careers for fantasy characters, Realms of Terrinoth adds substantially more options. Not only are races like Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs represented, but the book even gives sub-classes that allow you to become a Deep Elf or a Dunwarr Dwarf, giving them unique starting abilities and skills.

For instance, you may choose to dive into the role of a Sunderland Orc. While the species of Orc is present in the Genesys Core Rulebook, taking on the role of the Sunderland Orc gives you a deeper understanding of where your character comes from and a new set of skills to supplement their history. Living in small, secret villages, studying magic and medicine with equal diligence, the Sunderland Orcs’ skills at potion-making are famed throughout the world of Mennara. Because of this, starting a game as a Sunderland Orc lets you begin the game with one rank in Alchemy, and adds a boost die to your combat checks against characters that you have already hit with a successful combat check.

While many of the races found in Realms of Terrinoth are featured in the fantasy section of the Genesys Core Rulebook, Realms of Terrinoth expands the resources available to characters for these species while introducing brand-new ones, like cat-folk and gnomes. New careers like Mage and Scoundrel bring a true fantasy flavor to your Genesys adventures, alongside rules for mounted combat and Heroic Abilities that let you perform singular, wondrous feats! Realms of Terrinoth also introduces a full armory of new gear, weapons, skills, talents, and more for your fantasy setting. Everything from crossbows to halberds to great axes are introduced in this book, and each of them can be used in a variety of settings. Look for a deeper look at these customization options in future previews of Realms of Terrinoth!

Another new addition to the Genesys system found in Realms of Terrinoth is rules for crafting and alchemy. Assuming you have the proper tools and equipment, your character can make a mechanics check to craft a new item. Surrounding circumstances—like suprior materials or crafting under pressure—may add boost and setback dice, and a chart within the Realms of Terrinoth book details the various effects of Triumphs and Failure symbols. Alchemy can be used in a similar manner to prepare elixirs, poisons, salves, unguents, and other concoctions detailed in the Realms of Terrinoth book.

Realms of Terrinoth also greatly expands on the magic options already present in the Genesys Roleplaying System. While the Core Rulebook gives an overview of magical skills, Realms of Terrinoth delves deeper into these concepts and introduces the runes skill. To cast a spell using runes, a character must use a runebound shard (powerful artifacts spread across the realm of Terrinoth) as their implement. This is an important difference from other magic skills, for which the use of an implement is optional. Of course, runes have their own distinct power that can outweigh the need for an implement if your character is prepared to take advantage of it.

A Larger World
Terrinoth is just one land of many in the vast world of Mennara, and all across the realms, good and evil muster for battle once more. To the south, the Elves of the vast Aymhelin forest call forth the spirits of the trees and the powers of light and air to fend off the demonic hordes that would despoil their woodland realm. In the Dunwarr Mountains of the north, the Dwarves muster to face their hated nemeses, the great wyrms who nearly destroyed them twice before. And to the east, the Orc tribes of the Broken Plains prepare to honor their ancient pacts and fight alongside the armies of humanity once more.

The rest of Realms of Terrinoth takes you on an engaging tour through the world of Mennara, from the towering trees of the Aymhelin forest to the cold darkness of the Mistlands. Each individual entry gives you a full breakdown of the area as well as a list of NPCs that can be found there. These characters call Mennara their home, but could be extrapolated to any fantasy setting, giving you plenty of ways to populate your adventures in Terrinoth or your own setting.

The Age of Courage
Realms of Terrinoth gives you all the tools you need to create or dive into adventures set in the world of Mennara. Between unique character options, a hoard of new gear and weapons, and enough background information to populate any play session, no one can say for sure what awaits the brave adventures who dare enter the realm of Terrinoth!