NearFuture

NearFuture: Shard City is an original tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) set in a sleek dystopian future in which the players take on the roles of urban mercenaries working to undermine a technocratic tyranny.

The project is currently in development alongside LoreFolke: Epic-sized Adventures for Faery-sized Heroes, both using the same original d20-based core system.

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Illustration of three sci-fi adventure heroes.

The finished book will be comprised of two parts:

Part I: NearFuture is a set of rules – including game mechanics, equipment, backgrounds, feats, skills and character classes – for running and playing adventures in a specifically near-future genre setting. These rules imagine a world much like our own, but with just enough advancement to allow for technological wizardry.

Part II: Shard City is an original campaign setting in which to run your NearFuture adventures. The action takes place in a sleek, stylized but deceptively dystopian city-state ruled by a tyrannical corporate oligarchy. The heroes of the story (i.e. you, the player-characters) work to undermine that tyranny. The campaign setting will include history, locations, factions, prevailing attitudes, adversaries and allies, ongoing struggles, and other lore.