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BLACK MARGIN
If you thought the Company was bad…
A corporate cosmic horror roleplaying game of manufactured people, collapsing colonies, and things mankind was not meant to monetize.
YEAR 2190
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THEATER OFF-WORLD
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ICA STATUS RESTRICTED
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FIELD TOTTENHEIM
YEAR 2190
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THEATER OFF-WORLD
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ICA STATUS RESTRICTED
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FIELD TOTTENHEIM
FILE 001 // ORIENTATION
What Is Black Margin?
Black Margin is a science-fiction cosmic horror tabletop roleplaying game set in the year 2190. It is a hard and bleak science fiction setting where corporations dominate human civilization, manufactured beings serve alongside humans, and deep-space research has opened the door to something older than humanity...and far more sinister.
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FILE 002 // CORE PILLARS
Three Pillars
Pillar 01
Corporate Dystopia
Eight major megacorps own the contracts, the medicine, the ships, and the future. The Earth Compact maintains the seblance of law. You are the difference maker in that bleak reality.
Pillar 02
Manufactured Humanity
Artificial Persons run the machines humans cannot survive. Biological Persons bleed, dream, remember — and obey. Many never learn what they are. But when they do, there is usually blood.
Pillar 03
Cosmic Contamination
Corporate research and profit motive systematically produces -- or uncovers -- bizarre Lovecraftian horrors and consequences Man was never designed to expereicen, let alone overcome.
CMC // DEPLOYMENT BAY
Brief defiance, expensively purchased, against a bleak backdrop that doesn't change…unless you make it change.
CMC // DEPLOYMENT BAY
Campaign Modes
One ruleset, six ways to die. Black Margin supports radically different tables — from marine deployments to noir investigations to lonely frontier survival.
Mode
Military Horror
Compact Marine Corps against the unknown. Standardized gear, expendable squads, things the briefing did not mention.
Mode
Noir Investigation
Auditors, Runners and ARAs working rain-slick colonies and corporate facilities where every answer costs more than the question.
Mode
Frontier Survival
Homesteaders, junkers and salvage crews living beyond regulated space, where help is never coming.
Mode
Corporate Espionage
Internal security, sabotage and the quiet wars between Tier 1 megacorps that the public is told were "resolved through negotiation."
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Synthetic Identity
Play an AP or Bio uncertain of their own directives. Discover what you are. Decide what to do about it.
Mode
Cosmic Horror
Anomalous Knowledge, Drift, and the slow contamination of everyone who studies what the Tottenheim Field really is.
FILE 004 // FIELD ARCHIVE — SAMPLE
Recovered Imagery
FILE 004 // FIELD ARCHIVE — SAMPLE
FILE 005 // RESTRICTED REGION
The Margin & the Tottenheim Field
Beyond regulated space lies The Margin — the boundary around the Tottenheim Field, where physics fails, ships disappear, and corporate research continues anyway.
Publicly, the Field is a beautiful astronomical curiosity. The operational reality — ship losses, anomalous physics, researcher psychological effects, and the Progenitor remains buried at Lothos — is hidden behind the public framing.
▣ ICA INTERNAL // EYES ONLY
"The wage slaves really do have something to bitch about… and it is far worse than they know. But there are vastly worse things out there. The corporations are the local face of cosmic indifference."
— Consolidated Design State, Setting Thesis
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