The book is available for sale directly now. The price is $40 CDN or US (alternately $1200 NTD) plus shipping. It's a 256 page 8.5” x 11” softcover in full, high-gloss color. Every spread has original never before published art.

To buy the book in the US or Canada, contact Nathan Leeson at natetesl@gmail.com to arrange payment and shipping details. For payment we cannot deal with credit cards but either Paypal or a money order is acceptable.

To buy the book in Taiwan, contact Nathan about payment, but also get in touch with me via tonypace@gmail.com to arrange group shipping and personal delivery.

Venus 2141 is a science fiction tabletop roleplaying game set in the year 2141. The solar system has been partly colonized. While Mars is locked in a war of independence, Venus has become the hot new colony from people fleeing Earth's anthropogenic global cooling..

People live in what are essentially balloons floating 50 km above the surface of the planet, where Venus's pressures and temperatures stabilize at nearly earth-like levels. These balloons, known as rafts, are themselves a form of engineered lifeform.

As you might expect the world has powerful biotechnology, and indeed other forms of manufacturing technology, but general nanotech and artificial intelligence have not yet been achieved. Human society and culture have changed, but not unrecognizably so.

For more details about Venus's colonization, culture and history, take a look at the Venus tab above.

A healthy supply of six sided dice and the book. This website and some paper should come in handy as well. You also will need the character sheet, which by some terrible accident was not in the book. character_sheet.pdf

While this site has most of the system information and nearly all of the technology creation details for your convenience, the book has a wealth of additional setting details and information. We guarantee it's a good read, full of fun interesting stuff that you can use to run Venus or any other near-future game. It also has lots of fantastic art, never seen before anywhere else.

At any rate, we strongly suggest you take a look at The Future is Covered with Goo, the campaign started by me just before publication. It has a good starting scenario, some sample characters, and links to descriptions of both the actual play of the session and my notes from before the game ran. And the later session notes should give you some ideas as to where you might want to take a game after the first session should you have player interest. Or heck, you could just run them like a series of modules, whatever works for you.

Soyuz Arts is our publishing company - Our meaning Tony Pace, the writer guy (aka me), and Nathan Leeson, the artist and designer. It's very much a collaboration between us, so we chose the name both for the space connotations and for the fact that it means alliance in Russian.

Also, Soyuz. 10 times more launches than any other rocket. Pretty much built the ISS. Actually works. Battle tested, battle scarred. Awesome.

We can't believe we're the first game company to think of it.

This site is a wiki that smoothly links together all the interlocking parts of the game. All the skills, lifestyles, technologies and features that you would want to look up during play are available at the click of a link. Having gone through the hard slog of putting it all up, I would be hard put to run a game without it.

We are considering limiting future registration to people who have shown some sort of proof that they have the book. If you are a pioneer of whatever sort, consider yourself 'grandfathered in' for the small price of clicking 'Login' at the bottom of the page and then registering.

There are a variety of errors in the book - some minor, some not. If something there confuses you, please take a look here. It may well have already been fixed by an army of gremlins. More likely, me.

I would be very happy if you helped out in any way you could - one great thing to do would be to make a 'campaign' page even if you are just messing around with some ideas a little. Once you are registered just click 'Edit this Page' and from there click on the 'syntax' link for some basic instructions. I would love to see what you come up with!

This site is under continual reconstruction and with luck that will not change soon. If you do get into editing the site in any way, keep in mind that:

• We are already planning a second edition - any registered user who has made any edits will be credited in the book but probably no more. If you fix something or add something minor, tell us if you don't want us to put it in the next edition. We will probably still want to charge you money for the book since this is not exactly a big money maker here. We fervently hope to cover our printing and marketing costs.
• Anyone can comment on any page, registered or not. If you just have a question about something, it's probably best to do it that way. I reserve the right to delete stuff. If it's not just spam, we'll try to tell you why in an email.
• It's OK to print off stuff for your character or to help arrange a game (skill and gear lists and the like). In fact, when I get a little less harried, I plan to add some tools to aid in doing just that. But don't be a jerk, OK?
• If you have any suggestions for cool additions, I'd love to hear them.
• Deep links from off the site will quite likely get broken. The software I am using is called dokuwiki, and it's pretty good stuff. Of course, being me I made lots of errors setting it up at first. I plan to fix them, and when I do certain addresses will change (not the main page, but some other things like gear and lifestyles for sure).
• Any other questions? Anything? Email me via tonypace@gmail.com.