Burn Bryte is designed for telling player-driven stories. The players decide where their characters go, what their goals are, and how they attempt to overcome obstacles. The GM presents story hooks and challenges, adjudicates the rules, and interprets the outcomes of the player characters’ successes and failures.

While you can use the game’s rules to tell any narrative you like with your friends, the game excels at telling tales of high action, drama, and hope. In true science fantasy form every adventure should have high stakes, big decisions that result in interesting complications, and victories that make you want to cheer. The designers of this game drew from science fantasy and science fiction stories for inspiration including Star Wars, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jupiter Ascending, The Expanse, Voltron, Gundam, Outlaw Star, Thor, and Saga.

Olaxis' stories have themes of teamwork, defeating impossible odds, struggling to maintain critical resources, and defying the inevitable. The scale of the story is up to your group. You might be a plucky team of adventurers with hopes of saving the universe, or a band of grizzled, good-hearted mercenaries just doing what you can to Survive before The Burn takes you. No matter what story you tell, the game assumes the galaxy never feels like a static or calm place and the player characters are never comfortable for too long. Daily survival takes work for even the most powerful people in Olaxis. The game also assumes the player characters are not perfect people, but that they are more good than evil.

Here are a few ideas of one-sentence missions the player characters might go on, to help give you an idea of the kinds of stories best suited to Burn Bryte: