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"The Watchpoint" is a playbook for the tabletop role-playing game Beam Saber, which focuses on non-combatant support roles in a futuristic war setting. Watchpoints serve as lookouts and sentinels for their squad, providing tactical support and guidance while grappling with the ethical implications of advancing the goals of an empire. The playbook includes 8 moves and 7 pieces of specialized gear to customize your Watchpoint character.

they will give you many names throughout your life. none of them will truly be yours— you cycle through them as you cycle through pilots. war is all the same to you— just flavor text, just background music. the pilots, however. you are their constant, though they will come and go. you will never forget them, though they are fleeting meteors in your lifespan. maybe they will die, maybe they will re…

//DISPATCH: SONG-7-NUIT-ORYX// /Belchior - it happened again. I don't know what to tell you. We've tried everything - confining him to his quarters, a full medical scan - we even sent samples back to R&D, but nobody can explain it. I'm writing to you to let you know that it's happening to me too. And I'm sorry, Belchior. The entity wants us all. Do not send any reinforcements, lest they fall under…

The Partisan is an in-development playbook by Lawson Coleman for Beam Saber by Austin Ramsay, Focused on the relationship between a Pilot and Their own direct superior: The Handler.  Partisans live and die on the battlefield for their handlers, who in return provide them with resources, information, and institutional power.  Many Partisans are prideful of their station, considering themselves prou…

Not all who wander are lost Objects in Motion is a collection of three custom squad playbooks for Beam Saber by Austin Ramsay, published under the Beam Saber Supply Drop license. You can purchase Beam Saber and find out more about the Supply Drop license here.   Objects in Motions contains three brand-new squad playbooks which share a core mechanic and narrative conceit: the squad's forward operat…

You play the game like it’s your job, and that’s because it is. Inspired by pro sports stars, the Athlete is a Beam Saber playbook about a pilot had put their skills to use in the world of professional competitive sports and . The Athlete has tuned their body, mind, and machine to peak performance. Whenever their mech launches there’s something more important than life or death at stake, Winning.…

To some you are a living weapon, an essential asset, an extant myth. To others you are an existential threat, a dangerous liability, a foretold curse. You know that you are something new. Something different. Something called beautiful and terrible alike. Your form is yours to shape. Unfurl until you tower over buildings to destroy great machines of war. For they are inflexible metal and you are c…

Forge empires, incite revolutions, and reshape society in Gilded Destiny, the definitive grand strategy game of the Industrial Age. Take command of your chosen nation and lead it to glory through masterful diplomacy, sweeping industrialization, and decisive warfare. THE GLOBE, REIMAGINED Experience our world as it was from the Nineteenth to the early Twentieth Century, hand-crafted from over a …

There are lots of people involved in a war. Soldiers, fighting for a cause, or their lives. Medics, tending to the wounded, whether they’ll make it home or not. Quartermasters, making sure everyone has the gear they need and the comforts they miss. As far as you’re concerned, though, you’re a wolf among sheep:
 AND YOU’RE HERE TO FLEECE EVERY SINGLE ONE. The Grifter is a playbook for Beam Saber by…

The Wellspring is an in-development playbook by Lawson Coleman for Beam Saber by Austin Ramsay, Focused the exploration of character relationships using plant magic and the mechanics of Beam Saber. In the Face of Endless war and suffering, and in conflict with constantly escalating technology to fuel it, a new sort of magic has arisen. Giant, powerful plants capable of providing for, protecting, a…