# Loner: Rocketpunk tags: #game/rpg/loner-rocketpunk ![[Loner - Rocketpunk (cover).jpg|300]] **Loner: Rocketpunk** is the retro-future dial on **[[Loner]]** — an alternate 2026 where the space race never ended, hard science fiction wears a retro aesthetic, and the Cold War just kept going, now in orbit. Same Chance-vs-Risk oracle and tag-based chassis, now strapped to a spacecraft and pointed at the stars, with NASA's public-domain imagery doing the artwork on the way up. It's the line's love letter to the era when the future looked like chrome and rivets. ## Setting The setting is the Retrofuture Solar System: a world where the rockets kept flying and the superpowers never stopped treating the high frontier as a theater of the Cold War. There's a solar system to roam, factions and organizations and political entities to bump against, and hazards and foes waiting in the dark between planets. Characters are built and spacecraft are designed and customized to get them around, with navigation and travel as the connective tissue of a session. It's earnest retro optimism wearing a hard-sci-fi harness. ## Mechanics The core is the shared Loner Oracle — roll a Chance die against a Risk die for yes/no, read ties as "Yes, but…," tick the Twist Counter. Rocketpunk adds the spaceflight layer: spacecraft design and customization, rules for navigation and travel across the solar system, and the factions and political bodies that give the vacuum some friction. The blend of retro aesthetic and hard rules keeps the romanticism honest — you get the chrome-and-rivets dreams, but the Oracle still decides whether your burn actually puts you where you meant to be. ## Editions A single 2026 supplement (released July 2026). *In the library.* ## References - [Loner: Rocketpunk - DriveThruRPG](https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/577907/loner-rocketpunk) - [Loner SRD (free full text) - Zotiquest Games](https://lonersrd.zotiquestgames.com/) - [Loner - Official Website](https://loner.zotiquestgames.com/)