Biomes: science fiction, game genres and ways to travel

2026-10-09

Choose your table's genre: medieval fantasy, afrofantasy, Asian fantasy, Middle-Eastern, western, steampunk, Cthulhu Mythos, modern, post-apocalyptic or science fiction. The same genres as in the MGS Audio catalogue.
The genre decides everything the expedition comes across: the events of the road (the stagecoach at the relay, the peddler, the gold seekers' trail, the wireless that picks up a name, the drone that does not come back, the scrap town behind its wall), the encounters (the bestiary's creatures in fantasy, only aberrations in Cthulhu, animals in western and modern, mutants in the wastes), what is found on the way (alchemy's ingredients only where magic is) and the ships (sailing ship, dhow, junk, steamer, liner, cargo ship or survey craft).
The marvellous really happens: the jinn's palace is there, the fox-woman pays her debt, the spider comes and sits at the fire, a dragon-king sends his envoy.
Variants, sites, planes and the world below all have more events of their own.

Every leg has its way of travelling: on foot, on horseback, by camel, elephant or yak, by wagon, by stagecoach, by river boat, by dog sled, by train, by airship, by bush plane, by car, by truck, by motorbike, by bicycle, by 4x4, by snowmobile, on a flying mount, by flying carpet, by sand skimmer, by rover, by armoured buggy.
Each changes a day's distance with the ground, meets the weather its own way (an airship stays moored in a storm, a sled runs on snow) and has its own mishaps: a thrown shoe, a cracked axle, a portage round the rapids, dogs fighting in the traces, a forced landing.
An upkeep line says what to bring: the animals' fodder, grease for the axles, fuel.
The SRD 5.2.1's travel pace: slow, normal or fast, fast only where the ground allows it.
Sites and planes become legs of a journey: explore a crypt, a city, or cross the Astral's silver sea by astral ship.

Every day opens on something to play: an offer, a price, a danger, a lead. Atmosphere comes after.
Events no longer decide for the players: they set the situation, the table chooses.
"Someone in the party" is a player character or a companion, as the GM chooses.

Nine worlds read off real bodies (a red desert like Mars, an ice moon like Europa, a methane world like Titan, a hothouse like Venus, a lava world like Io…), with their facts checked: gravity, day length, air, temperatures.
Twelve places among the stars: orbital station, derelict, outpost, precursor ruin, asteroid field, nebula…
Threats play on an SRD stat block, with their Starfinder Second Edition equivalents when you choose the Pathfinder rules.
An expedition on a world goes in suits, by rover or by buggy.

New plants and animals for the thinnest milieux: flooded grassland, mangrove, barrens, reef, kelp forest, springs, caves, mines, the deep sea. Their products join Rerum.
Nearly every animal and plant now has its photograph, and the landscapes that showed a road, a quay or a house have been replaced.
Milieu pages say how they can be crossed and how far a day goes.
A search in the rail: milieux, places, animals, creatures and plants by name, accents ignored.

The up and down arrow keys walk the rail's pages from anywhere, except in a field or an open window. In Metals and Rerum they walk the entries. Rails no longer slide sideways.
Windows announce themselves as windows to screen readers, take the focus and give it back when they close, and Escape closes the top one without opening the game menu. Symbol-only buttons have a name, and the last English-only texts in MGS Audio and the Hub are translated.
Lighter pages: MGS Audio, the Crafting Table and Biomes load faster. After an update, a page that can no longer find its files reloads instead of staying blank.
Crystal, Metals and Rerum show their links to Hearth and Biomes again. Passage's places link to Bearer's passports of their country, and Bearer's authorities to their Passage ports. Crystal's minerals say which Crafting Table colours they cut into.

The Freebies Collection is free for every signed-in account, in MP3, OGG and FLAC.
Desktop app 1.3.3: switching format or folder makes tracks downloadable again, and a re-sync no longer duplicates files. On an album no Patreon tier unlocks, the app offers "Buy" instead of "Subscribe".

An expedition sent to Foundry carries its genre, its pace and its upkeep line. A journey through a site or a plane carries its page.