Sword and Sorcery

Enoch

Tabletop Tuesdays: Grim, Post-Apocalyptic Sword and Sorcery RPG

Type:
Tabletop (Free)
Developer:
Chad Walker

The great virtue of Enoch is its setting. It's post-apocalyptic, but the fall of technical civilization happened so far in the distant past that almost nothing is remembered. The icecaps are long gone, tropical jungle covers the temperate latitudes, the skeletal remnants of skyscrapers poke from the drowned coast, and nanobot plagues still sweep across the world. We have layers of technical civilization, including still-functioning "demon" AIs deep beneath the earth, along with credulous belief in new gods (some of which are beings that indeed possess godlike powers), while the highest expression of remaining civilization are exploitative, slave-owning empires reminiscent of the Bronze Age--and most humans live as Stone Age hunter-gatherers.


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The Shadow of Yesterday

Tabletop Tuesdays: Vancian Roleplaying

Type:
Tabletop (Free)
Developer:
Clinton R. Nixon

The Shadow of Yesterday is an narrativist tabletop indie RPG set in a world reminiscent of Vance's Dying Earth or Gene Wolfe's Shadow of the Torturer. A hundred years ago, the world of Near had a terrible catastrophe, the "Sky Fire;" as a consequence, part of the planet became a moon, when there had never been one in the sky before, and the civilized world, once united in the Empire of Maldor, fell into a long dark age. You play characters as trade and civilization begins to renew -- a setting reminiscent also of Moorcock's Young Kingdoms.


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