Terraforming Mars has already colonized many a best board games list since its release almost a decade ago but now the beloved strategy game is expanding its territory into the world of tabletop roleplaying games with Terraforming Mars: The Official TTRPG.
The Terraforming Mars TTRPG project, which launched on Backerkit yesterday, has already reached 900 backers and raised €170,012 after hitting its €9,000 funding goal in just 5 minutes. With writers Kenneth Hite (lead designer of 5th ed. Vampire: The Masquerade) and Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan (of the ENnie award-winning game, The Laundry), this is going to be one to keep an eye on.
In a pretty exciting shift from your usual experience playing tabletop RPGs, the Terraforming Mars TTRPG won't have players playing one character over the course of a campaign. Instead, the game will feature intergenerational roleplay, where you take up the mantle of playing descendants of your previous PC.
This way, players can experience everything from the early days of colonization to the peak of their thriving settlements in gameplay sectioned into Projects, Generations, and Ages. Sure, you can lovingly craft your player character but (in a way that is bang-on-theme) they are ultimately just a pawn for whatever corporation you choose to represent: "Individuals will live and die on the red sands, cities rise and fall, the world around you will be utterly transformed - but the corporations continue on, dominating Martian culture and society for generations."
