Now, to be fair, I have as of yet to actually play a game of Biomodus, but after making a set of test characters and reading the book, I gotta say this seems like a fun and awesome game.

The setting is phenomanal, a world populated by the survivors of weaponized medical nanites, surviving an hostile planet where everything hungers for fresh nanite-fuel and the players take on the role as biomechanical demi-gods trying to carve, shoot and hack themselves a little piece of paradise in this radioactive mecha-hell.

The system is one of those super complex, yet very simple systems, that you might need a few re-reads through to grasp, but once you are there it´s easy enough to understand. You can play pretty much anything you want in this system, I have personally build a character that was an eastern dragon mecha and another that was a four-armed deva with integrated gun-arms.

This game is so wicked cool.

There are some editing errors and some confusing naming errors, but I can forgive the creator this, seeing his dedication to his community on the official discord.

I´d given this book 4 stars alone on the setting and artwork. The game mechanics are, however, also great, so 5 stars it is!

Black Void scratches that old TES: Morrowind itch, that I have had since gamed that ancient classic religiously back in the middle ´naughts, with it´s mystical alien landscapes, vaguely middle-eastern to south asian inspired architecture, spirituality and cultures.

Spice things up with a good dash of cosmic and existential horror, with bronze-age humanity being cast in the role as cosmic refugees on the shores of Llyhn, a city that just might be the bastard child of Mos Eisley and R´yleh, and now has to struggle to survive in.

Throw in a facinating character creation system, that allows you to play as anything from a humble street-begger to a magical human-djinn hybrid, and I could not be more pleased!

Negatives: It´s a big book, and sometimes you have to flip back and forth between chapters for clarification on some of the more involved systems. Bookmarks are your friend here.

The system looks quite interresting, the way that the world has changed is compelling and the idea of the whole second inquisition, that is just superp, gotta admit. I like it. I like it a lot, actually. If only the lay-out had been better, this nearly reads as the old Malkavian clanbook, and if the Sabbat Clans had been included (Pappa needs his Lasombra!) then this game could have gotten 5 stars.

And now for the things that bug me, that has nothing to do with the game, but must be adressed. In this game, we play as monsters. Monsters that were once humans. The very point of this game is to, at some point in time, to kill people. Not just bad people, but just a random stranger and then having to live with the consequences of what you did, all the while you struggle with the fact that you dont feel bad for squeezing every sanguine drop from that poor single mother you ran into on the bus as she was coming home from an 12 hour shift to feed her 3 children (All of which you found out from stealing her purse and looking through her phone after said murder.)

What I am trying to say is, that I am an adult, this game is very much for people with a certain level of maturity and an interest in exploring the darker aspects of life and what it means to be slowly losing your humanity.

What I am getting at, is that people that needs to have triggerwarnings and a cain-be-redeemed article in their book talking about Identity-Politics in a DARK HORROR ROLE-PLAYING GAME, WHERE YOU LITTERALLY EAT PEOPLE, you should probably just stick to more non-offensive games, such as jenga.

I can accept with there being some ways of helping others defining their comfort levels, if people dont know each other before gaming together, this might be an good idea, since V:TM handels some dark themes and I can accept not being okay with rape-scenes and getting. with great, nausiating detail, violently eviscerated by a frenzied, naked Brujah, who just drained a guy on PCP.

Also, I don´t agree with White Wolf dictating what politics are allowed by the players. They are a company and should stick to making books that are politically neutral.

If they were spending more time on lay-out and less on virtue-signaling and appeasing the safe-space demographic, that would have been super.