The following pages of Spectrum Core represent the efforts of a four-person creative team with nearly a century of gaming experience between them. Thousands of collective hours have gone into developing our product, which we unironically refer to as our beloved child. However, we recognize that the document in front of you is far from the ultimate form of our vision. There are doubtless flaws – contradictions, ambiguities, over- and under-complications, typos, omissions, and any number of other shortcomings. These are issues that we are not capable of fixing on our own: theorycraft and internal playtesting can only get us so far. You and our other playtesters are the only ones who can help us through the final stages of development.

As you carry us up the slope of our proverbial Mount Doom, please know that providing blunt and honest criticism is the kindest and most valuable thing you can do for us. If you love something about our work – and we are confident that there is plenty here to love – we will be ecstatic to hear about it. But we also want to know what you hate. We want to know what you find frustrating, clunky, illogical, or otherwise antithetical to fun. Our feelings are unhurtable in this regard; our desire to create the best possible TTRPG system far outweighs our capacity to be offended by the illumination of our flaws. Though we have spread our dreams under your feet, there is no expectation that you tread lightly. Please stomp as if you are pressing grapes into wine.

Again, we thank you beyond measure for the gifts of your time and attention. Our sincere hope, and our unshakeable commitment, is that you will one day look back on this experience as your contribution to something great.

– Black Coffee Games