A downloadable adventure

SYDNEY, 2045

Your school's mental health AI has depression & just kidnapped your best friend!

Solution?

VR Death Game!

You're going in after him.

HELLO WORLD. is a free, complete, 5e-compatible one-shot for four to five players.

Pre-generated characters included.

No rulebooks required, just a one-page primer is the only rules anyone needs.

Everything you need to play tonight is in this pack.

WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

You can't win by hitting things. Every enemy's health bar is honest and unreachable. Each creature obeys a rule it cannot break, so finding and exploiting that rule is the only door.

Runkiss is an immortal ball of righteous canine fury, run by the whole table.

WHAT'S IN THE PACK

Complete 3 to 4 hour adventure.

One-page rules primer are the only rules anyone needs.

Session zero page with prop tools . Five character cards plus the Runkiss companion card. Full bestiary with the Syntaxia System readouts.

Printable props, the Sweep Tracker, the Coherence Meter, the Napkin.

Fold-tent initiative cards, use-tracking chips, a fold-up d8.

field maps.

Plus variant seats in the Player Handouts: a playable PyPy, a claimable Runkiss, and Leah's Contingency S .

90-minute school or library club mode included Built especially to run it in one club session by skipping one optional scene, pre-assigning characters, and using the printed clock at ten-minute segments.

Recommended ages twelve and up.

THE FINE PRINT

Adapts the opening of the novel SYNTAXIA: HELLO WORLD by TJ Feldman.

This work includes material from the System Reference Document 5.2 by Wizards of the Coast LLC, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Compatible with Fifth Edition. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast.

All Syntaxia characters, art, and setting are the authors' original IP.

Some artwork and drafting in this pack were created with AI assistance under the direction of the human authors.

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