This game is Emerging via EMERGE8

Created for #RPGenesis 2026

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Pantacosm

Greetings, Astrologer.

It is good that you have arrived. Your skills are sorely needed here.

What you see before you— the intricate interlinking of constellations, the planets in their courses, the formless clouds of nebulae— is the Cosmos, projected here upon the "Astrological Sphere." This is the tool which we Astrologers use to track the many and varied celestial bodies of the cosmos and their impact upon the ebb and flow of the magical tides here on Earth. Throughout history, these celestial objects have been reliable and constant, lending us magical energies, each in their season. However, of late, that has changed.

As with many things on the cosmic scale, it happened slowly at first. Slowly enough that we, here at the Pantacosm, believed that our tools must have become faulty. We believed that the fragile tools of man must surely be more fallible than the very stars themselves. Alas, that has proven not to be the case.

Over the past decade, there has been an accelerating cosmic shift. The planets no longer lie upon the ecliptic plane. The constellations shift, their seasons becoming longer, or shorter. The tides here upon the Earth change, as the Moon has lost her lockstep with us. Even the Earth tilts upon its axis, bringing longer, hotter summers, and colder, darker winters. If something is not done to put the cosmos to rights, I am afraid that it will spell humanity's doom— if not doom for the entire universe.

Ah. I can see in your eyes the question you must surely be asking. "How can we, mere humans, change the universe?" A fair question, indeed. But there is a reason you have been called here. Watch a moment— There. Do you see it? That dark mark upon the celestial background? That is not a black hole, Astrologer. That is an anomaly. A… creature, of some kind. Immense enough to pull stars from their orbits and consume them. It is not the only one of its kind. One need only look closely, and you can see that all the greatest shifts pull towards these creatures.

In the millennia that our kind have spent studying the stars, we have never seen such a thing before. We have concluded that they must come from somewhere beyond our universe. We intend to send them back, or destroy them.

You are possessed of a rare gift, Astrologer. Our kind have been employed throughout human history with the bringing of rain to parched crops, healing wounds, blessing families with fertility, transfiguring lead into gold, and even as tools of war. But your magic cannot merely change the world around you. Your can change the very fabric of the cosmos itself. Only one such as you can travel to those distant corners of our universe to face this threat to all existence.

So, tell me, Astrologer. Are you ready?

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The game itself is done and completely playable, but I've still got Playbooks I want to fill out for it, as well as an adventure module and some enemies I want to make to facilitate GMs actually wanting to try it out. I'm really enjoying working on this one, so I hope to have it updated with all of those things soon! I just wanted to make sure I got it submitted in time for the jam.