Cosmic Connections

WHAT IS COSMIC CONNECTIONS?

Cosmic Connections is a cooperative story-telling a role playing game for 2 or more players.
It is played with or without a Game Master.

In Cosmic Connections, you  take on the role of spacers tasked with the construction and maintenance of a new space station. You will also be going on a variety of diplomatic, scientific and just plain weird missions.

The game’s sources of inspiration include:

• Star Trek: Enterprise,
• Deep Space Nine,
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,
• and The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet.

It is both a spiritual and mechanical successor to previous Four Points games: Come Rain Come Shine, QuestFellows and Outward Bound.

THE CODEX

Cosmic Connections also includes the CODEX.

It is a collection of data on the various other alien species inhabiting your local galactic sector, written in an alien code for you to translate. Your player group can use the provided Codex entries or use the included prompts and art assets to make your own!

• Quickly and easily create your characters and add them to a shared pool, for anyone in the group to pick up and play.
• Use prompts and roll tables to collaboratively flesh out your game’s setting, including your home world and space station.
• Complete Missions, overcome Complications, get out of Tight Spots, Trade for Assets, and build new Additions to your station.
• Translate Codex entries, meet new alien species, or even create your own.

FILES OVERVIEW

• Cosmic Connections PDF: Fully illustrated game document, tagged for screen-readers.
• Cosmic Connections (Text Only): printer and screen-reader friendly.
• Character Cards and Station Sheet, both as printable, form-fillable PDFs and tagged Word documents.
•  Codex Resources, including:
  – Fully illustrated Codex documents (Alpha in alien code, Beta in English),
  – Codex Alpha and Beta versions as text-only, printer friendly documents,
  – Blank Codex entry as a tagged, text-only Word document,
  – The “Codexian” alien font (tiff document),
  – A collection of 24 Alien Art Assets (transparent PNG files) for use in creating your own species and Codex.

LICENSING AND DISCLAIMER

You are free to create hacks, supplements and adventure modules based on Cosmic Connections, for personal and commercial use, so long as you include appropriate attribution:

Cosmic Connections designed and authored by Tom Fummo of Penflower Ink, 2023 – www.penflower-ink.com.

Cosmic Connections does not invite or legitimise the introduction of bigotry at the table. There is no discrimination based on colour, species, appearance, disability, faith, sex or gender in a game of Cosmic Connections. You may NOT create supplements or adventure modules based on Cosmic Connections if you also intend it to promote any of the forms of bigotry listed above. The Text-Only documents are tagged for screen-readers, and include the full license information, as well as a link to a curated list of TTRPG safety tools, which you can also find here.

Please note: the included art assets are NOT intended for commercial use.

I have done my best to set everything up correctly, also with regards to accessibility. If there are any issues with the documents, please let me know in the comments.
Thanks and have fun!

Important Information

Please note that the Cosmic Connections is a digital product only. There are no shipping costs, and you will not receive a physical product. After completing your purchase, you will receive a download link for your chosen product. You will get 3 download attempts, so make sure you store your file somewhere safe.

NOT FOR RESALE.