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Vesta Mandate

At a Glance

Small Group (3-5)Campaign and 2-4 Hours13+Mechanics (System): Competative and Six-sided dice (Powered by the Apocalypse)Genres: Sci-Fi and DramaComplexity: Intermediate

A Sci-Fi Political Intrigue RPG

Vesta Station stands between Corporate oligarchy and total revolution. Corporate has smashed Earth into its own image, an authoritarian nightmare of endless subsidiary companies and ruined, flooded cities of failed nation states.

Vesta stands alone as a revolutionary project, an asteroid amid the inky black. In the canyon of Rheasilvia, the Council plots and backstabs, dreaming of the power to forge the unfinished nation into polished steel. Yet Corporate looms, ready to shatter the dream into molten slag.

The Vesta Accords have come to a close, The Corporation stands waiting in the wings. Ascend to the heights of executive power on Vesta Station, taking your place as Councilor and working to appease the manifold factions all with conflicting agendas.  

YOU are the Council. The POWER is all yours, what will YOU do with it?

VESTA MANDATE is a sci-fi political thriller TTRPG for one-shots or long term play with a group of 2-4 players. On Vesta Station, you play the conniving mastermind with a secret agenda that will bring the Station to its knees or uplift it to a new era.

Vesta Mandate is inspired by Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA), with mechanics and procedures added to turn the game into a competitive, political drama.

95 pages, 9 x 6 inches, full-color perfect-bound, soft-touch softcover book

Access to digital version included with purchase