The Voidrunner’s Codex Wants you to Play 5E (and A5E) in Space
Take your tabletop group to the final frontier without having to leave 5E behind, thanks to En Publishing’s new Voidrunner’s Codex.
Space is many things. The final frontier. The one place that hasn’t been corrupted by capitalism. It’s also one of my favorite settings for a roleplaying game; a sentiment echoed by many a gamer. There’s no shortage of space-located games. From Beam Saber to Lancer to Starfinder, there’s plenty of ways to play an RPG in space.
But there aren’t many ways to play 5E in space. In fact, outside of the excellent Star Wars 5E conversion, there’s precious little in the way of 5E sci-fi stuff. And absolutely nothing official, unless you consider the meager offerings in Spelljammer as D&D in space.
Enter EN Publishing with the Voidrunner’s Codex, a new take on both 5E and A5E that puts you into space. Pilot starships, use psionics, and all that other sci-fi goodness in one easy ttrpg boxed set, crowdfunding now.
The Voidrunner’s Codex – Kickstarting Now
The Voidrunner’s Codex is a sci-fi expansion for D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition, compatible with both rulesets. The boxed set itself contains three different books, the Voidrunner’s Codex itself, which is the hardcover campaign book.
Inside the hardcover book are new classes: the Psion, Scientist, Scout, Psyknight, and Trooper, with new subclasses for each. There’s also new gear, new heritages, rules for hacking and psionics, as well as a set of rules on how to play in a sci-fi setting.
Then there’s the Star Captain’s Manual, which is the big book of starship rules. Whether it’s making your own starships, finding a monster manual’s worth of starships, or, of course, the rules for playing with those starships (whether traveling through space or fighting other people in starships), you’ll have everything you need for space.
Finally there’s a big adventure that introduces the whole suite of concepts of stuff in the Voidrunner’s Codex, so you can see how they function in actual play. In Escape from Death Planet, you’ll escape from a death planet. Find space pirates. Explore derelict space stations. All that kind of thing.
And that’s just the surface. There’s a whole crowdfunding campaign’s worth of stretch goals to unlock, exclusives to snag, and so on. Check out the campaign below.
