Thursday, 21 September 2023

OUT NOW! SUBMERGED - A RULES LIGHT ROLEPLAYING GAME OF LIFE UNDER THE FROZEN OCEANS

WHEN THE WORLD FROZE

WE WERE SURE WE WERE DOOMED

SUBMERGED - A RULES LIGHT ROLEPLAYING GAME OF LIFE UNDER THE FROZEN OCEANS

But there were a few who thought ahead, who prepared. While the masses above the waves fled to the equator to flee the plunging temperatures, as they fought and killed for resources and land, there were those who knew that our future lay beneath the waves, beneath what would soon be ice covering frozen seas. They did not think about fighting for a plot of land where they could scrape a few more days of life. They adapted, changed and built, so that the human race could live on while the earth healed. They estimated that it would take 30 years.

It’s been forty.

SUBMERGED is a rules-light action roleplaying game set in an alternate history where the sun has dimmed, the environment has been ravaged beyond repair and the globe has frozen. Only the underwater cities, the sub-burbs, can sustain life and the submariners of the world are the new traders between continents.



Wednesday, 6 September 2023

OUT NOW! DEPT. X - A RULES LIGHT ROLEPLAYING GAME OF CONSPIRACIES, MYSTERIES AND COVER-UPS

DEPT. X - A RULES LIGHT ROLEPLAYING GAME OF CONSPIRACIES, MYSTERIES AND COVER-UPS

1995.

DVDs have just entered the entertainment market. The PS1, the internet and Windows 95 were made available to all and the role of technology in everyday life was on the increase. 132,063,047 Babies Were Born. And the world turned.

While the population of the planet was distracted by new tech, TV shows and the cult of celebrity, insidious things were occurring in the shadows; creatures of lore began to take their last steps in the sunlight before the concrete took their homes, ghosts begged for the attention of living souls too busy with the draw of the television, and visitors from other worlds had to try harder to stay hidden as cameras and recorders found their way into every device.

And monitoring all of this weirdness is ‘Dept. X’. An unofficial department of every major government, Dept. X slides closed files and mysteries to agents of all organisations and bureaus – from the Police to the FBI to Interpol to Scotland Yard. Agents they know will investigate on their behalf, using the resources of their own departments.

The governments know that Dept. X exists. They would rather it didn’t, but there are secrets to be kept...

Dept. X is both needed and ridiculed. Their job isn’t to just suppress the truth that is out there, but to verify it and catalogue it. Nobody will believe the agents that do the investigating so they choose pairs with bad records or bad reputations.

Plausible deniability.

A 4-page rules light TTRPG