Welcome to Black Coffee Games
Black Coffee Games champions Spectrum, a universal collaborative storytelling system that provides a gaming matrix that empowers players to weave their imaginations and creativities into inspirational tales and heroic epics that can take place in a myriad of fantastic or mundane worlds.
Spectrum Open Beta Out Now!
Black Coffee Games is absolutely giddy to announce that Spectrum Open Beta is now here. From this moment forward, Spectrum will be available in its entirety as a forever free TTRPG that is designed to grow and evolve in order to allow any and all users the resources to create and play within any story they wish.
It has been nearly two years since our team of developers burrowed deep underground to live amongst the mole people of hollow earth in order to create what, we hope, will be the first and last TTRPG that you will ever want or need. But this is beta, and over the next several months, there will be holes to fill and bugs to shake out. This is where you enter stage right. We absolutely need your feedback. We are tremendously confident that our understanding of game mechanics are near perfect, but would be foolish to not admit that there is the most infinitesimally small chance that we could, possibly, have missed elements to the system that could benefit from refinement before we make Spectrum available in a printed format.
The release of Spectrum Beta marks Black Coffee Game’s first shot across the bow of “other game companies” as they sharpen their tools for the next round of fleece shearing. And whilst our level of self delusions are colossal, we understand that there is a long, exciting journey ahead if we hope to shift the paradigm.
And don’t think that what we are presenting today represents the limit of our imagination. We already have several content additions in development that we hope to usher out over the coming months.
Everything you need to play Spectrum is available for free
Explore the Spectrum Core and gameplay resources below.
Core
Explore the core rules required to use the Spectrum universal collaborative storytelling system.
Compendium of Assets
Review this quick reference tool for all the gear and types of property a character might own, use, or encounter in Spectrum.
Grimoire of Metaphysics
Discover the Grimoire of Metaphysics, a compilation of the metaphysical abilities within Spectrum.
Skills Manual
Uncover the experiences and training that coalesce to form a character’s ability to do things in the Skills Manual.
Traits
Examine the physical or mental characteristics that can augments your character’s capabilities.
Treatise of Techniques
Examine various learned and practiced applications of skills in the Treatise of Techniques.