Hi!
I'm all for Sci-Fi Nekropol! Originally, Nekropol was sci-fi rather than science-fantasy. Undead sailed the void between stars, going mad from centuries of isolation. It had reanimated planets and haunted space-stations of bone and enamel. The scope was however too big for a zine and I scaled it down to a city.
Inspiration comes from many sources, there’s a little bit of Electric bastionland, Bonepunk, Goblin Laws of Gaming, Frankenstein, Gideon of the Ninth, Lichjammer, Catacomb Saints, Spaghettibastard, Biomega, Phyrexia, Coco and various speculative/real technologies. As I worked on items I had a number of constraints on to help narrow down and focus creativity.
- Items grant new abilities, they don’t make you better at things you already could do.
- Items should have open-ended usage, it should be obvious you could use the item in more ways than one.
- They do not reference any mechanics.
- Some items ended up demanding mechanics, such as the Arquebus. Whenever this item gets brought up, the player will have to ask how much damage it deals as attempting to use it as a weapon is first idea someone will have. Something to work on for sure.
- Skulls and skeletons should combine to create a new unique application area.
- Not entirely consistent with this one.
- Low character limit
- Requires items that are intuitive enough to explain themselves or have flavour text embedded in the mechanics. I did not have room for both.
I wish I had some better guidelines and words for the Setting generators though, as quite a few of them end up with dry or confusing results. I’ve been considering switching over to 2D6 tables instead of 3D6 as those tables usually yield far more consistent results.
If you or someone else wants to use Nekropol in their own work I’m fine with it given the following caveats.
- They abide by the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- It’s not used in a way that harm real people or push agendas that do.
- If they want to use the art, ask Spaghettibastard as it’s their intellectual property. I was generously allowed to use it, it’s not mine. 😊
- (optional) Share it with me! (You can post it here or contact me on discord BaaL#9896)
The best way to support my work is to use it, remix it, break it apart, slap it together, do your own thing and share it with others. That is worth more than any money I could hope to get from this.
Cheers!