Update - Jan 23 2022 - Balance and Legacy Fallout

Today's update is perhaps the most important system in BEHEMOTH — the Behemoth's Song, the system for Balance and Legacy Fallout. Balance and Legacy are special Resistances that are tracked by subsectors within the Orphede Sector; stress inflicted on Balance and Legacy represents the short and long-term impacts of the player's actions.

This system reframes the entire game, moving the spotlight onto the terrible reality that the player characters are an invasive presence within the Orphede Sector — that they are disrupting whole civilizations, taking resources and lands that do not belong to them, and sowing chaos on a massive scale. 

Balance fallout shows the immediate consequences for your trespassing where you don't belong — the backlash from the local populace, the unexpected trouble that you stir up, and the factions that would use that disruption to further their own agendas.

Legacy fallout shows the radical long-term consequences for your actions — major shifts in the balance of powers, depletion of resources, erasure of whole cultures, the distortion of temporal reality, or the ultimate destruction of whole worlds.

Expect to see further updates to this section . In particular, I'd like to flesh out the Legacy Fallouts much further than I already have, including more narrative prompts.  But for now, it's sufficient.

Enjoy!