26 Letter Publishing’s SCP The Tabletop RPG has been out since 2021, is a Platinum best seller at DriveThruRPG and scores 4/5 review stars.
The core rules are $19.99 for the PDF, and you might not feel you know enough about the SCP Foundation to make the leap from D&D or another game to this.
In a helpful move, 26 Letter Publishing have this week published SCP The Tabletop RPG Quickstart. We’re only getting seven pages, but they’re free.
The virtual shop shelf doesn’t tell us much about the game except where to find the full book. There’s more text spent on showing the appropriate creative commons license, which enables people to work with SCP Foundation content, than there is for pitching the game.
What we get is bounded in the yellow and black hazard tape design the RPG uses. The download dives straight into the rules, explaining attribute checks, exploding dice, the rule of one and versus rolls. Questions like “which dice do I use?” aren’t answered, so SCP RPG’s quickstart might be better suited to gamers with some experience.
There are tables for modifiers, a bit on combat and experience. It might not be enough to let you play a game but it gives you a flavour of the system.
The SCP Foundation contains and documents anomalous objects, entities, and phenomena. It is organized into several specialized departments dedicated to maintaining normalcy and preventing the spread of anomalous knowledge. The Foundation is funded by various sources and operates in secret to protect humanity from the dangers posed by the anomalous.
One of the terrifying monsters from the SCP Foundation is SCP-049, also known as the “Plague Doctor”. It is a humanoid creature dressed in a full-length black overcoat and a plague doctor’s mask. It is believed to be the cause of a strange plague that is affecting people all over the world. It is believed to be immortal and has been known to cause death and destruction wherever it goes. Another terrifying creature is SCP-682, the “Hard-to-Destroy Reptile”. It is an incredibly resilient creature that can regenerate from any damage and is highly aggressive towards any living being it encounters. Finally, SCP-093, also known as the “Red Sea Object”, is a mysterious object capable of altering reality, causing strange phenomena and making people experience vivid hallucinations. All three of these creatures have been contained and documented by the SCP Foundation, but they remain some of the most frightening monsters within its organization.
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