Die Achte Welt

n der Ankündigung zu Red Bricks Plänen, Blue Planet wieder aufzulegen habe ich auch schon über das Rollenspiel Equinox geschrieben. Damals waren die Informationen eher spärlich gesäht. Nun ging die Website zum Spiel online und wartet mit ein paar mehr Informationen zum Rollenspiel auf. Equinox: Long Shadows of Earth wird das erste Produkt sein und beinhaltet Einführung in das Setting, Regelmechaniken, fertige Charaktere und ein erstes Abenteuer. Ich bin gespannt wie es sich nach Earthdawn und Shadowrun in dieser Welt zu spielen sein wird. Befindet sich Equinox doch laut Maya Kalender in der Achten Welt und ist somit für mich der Shadowrun Nachfolger.
Neben weiteren Informationen ist dort zu lesen:

Enough teasing. What can you expect from this game? In a nutshell: Equinox is a future fantasy space opera game. If your jaw dropped while watching Star Wars and you enjoyed the grittiness of Serenity, and the pulp of The Ice Pirates, then this is your game … on steroids. The characters in this game are larger than life, outcasts wielding mystic powers and nethertech artifacts, perfect Hollywood action heroes playing parts in a fantastic saga set in space in a faraway future.

The setting of Equinox focuses on the war-ravaged and lawless Sol system and the shattered remains of Earth, now known as the Earth Belt. The characters are restless outcasts and misfits living on the fringe of galactic society. They use their own ship (which tends to be a large vessel with a crew of dozens or even hundreds of people; and often a living entity in and of itself) as a base for their adventures into the former warzones and possibly even the great unknown beyond the Veil.
The basic setting considers them being rebels and pirates, encouraging stories with an emphasis on space battles, fighting the forces of evil, and carving out a living on the edge of the universe. For you and your friends, Equinox will be a hell of a ride.

Despite us steering in a pirate-focused direction initially, the vast Equinox universe combines a wide range of classic science fiction styles and ideas, and despite its inclusion of the fantastic and mystical, provides rationales for many tropes of the genre. Many of the ideas we have incorporated in Equinox are quite common in science fiction, and draw from such famous movies and shows as FarScape, Firefly/Serenity, Aliens, Babylon 5, Deep Space 9, Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars, Dune, Pitch Black/Chronicles of Riddick, and others. While the introduction of mystical energies takes the world into the fantastic, these obey rules and fit in a ’scientific‘ way shared with other FASA games. All this and more combines to make Equinox a world that is vibrant and tangible, a unique blend setting it apart from other games out there.

Gekauft!
Equinox soll noch dieses Jahr evtl. auch zu Beginn 2009 veröffentlicht werden soll.
Weitere Infos auf der Spielwebsite