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Dark Metal: Solo SciFi Tabletop Adventure RPG

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A mercenary company is stranded within a star system after a battle, resulting in the destruction of the only wormgate in and out of the system. Not wanting to stick around and get caught up in an unprofitable war, they take a multi decade loop out into deep space and back in stasis. They awake to find no new wormgate, fractured civilizations, and broken cities. The Captain's first order of business is to find some food for the ship to eat. And to figure out what the frak is going on.

Are you looking for an adventure? Dark Metal: Mercenaries in the Deep is a solo or co-op, narrative driven, open miniatures science fiction tabletop adventure RPG featuring tactical combat.
  • Create your own squad leader and allies, or select from one of the 8 premade squads
  • Play through a variety of missions, campaigns, and scenarios as you try to figure out what's happened within the star system since you left
  • Choose whether to actively grow your squad from rookies to elite mercenaries or focus on your squad leader's own self improvement
  • Use either distance or hex based movement on a board created by you!
  • Includes a full set of print and play reference cards for easy handling at the table
  • Set in the Walking Steel scifi universe, where AI, humans, and space travel collide
This base rulebook also comes with three scenarios and the first full campaign, Terradome 39, where your squad sets out to find food for the Captain in a contest spanning several campaigns to become the new Alpha Squad.

This collection contains pdfs featuring the rules, reference material, three scenarios, and the first campaign spanning a total of 219 pages. The game also requires d10 and d6 dice, access to a printer, a measuring device or hex map, standard playing cards, and miniatures (or proxies) to play.

The tutorial pdf is also available for free so that you can preview the gameplay. You can find it here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/300351/Dark-Metal-Tutorial-A-Day-in-the-Life-of-a-Rookie


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Omer J September 18, 2023 7:32 pm UTC
Which scale of miniatures are these rules appropriate for? I have a good collection of 15mm figures I would love to use.
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Dark M October 23, 2023 10:31 pm UTC
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The rules facilitate two movement / placement methods - distance and hex based. You can use any model size using hex based movement as long as the models and terrain are on the same scale. I have a 1" hex mat that I put terrain and the models on directly when I'm playing that way. The distances are based on 28-32mm models and if you wanted to translate to 15mm you could probably get away with halving everything, but I have never playtested this. 'The Day in the Life of a Rookie' tutorial has an example game map. I typically play with hexes. You can talk to me on the discord as well if you have further questions https://discord.gg/XeGxFrGu
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Omer J October 24, 2023 11:50 am UTC
Thanks!
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