Time Without Tide - new Chaosium game - Quickstart

About the adventure

Time without Tide is a tabletop role-playing game of exploration and adventure during a fog- shrouded faux-Victorian apocalypse. This is a brand new game on Kickstarter. We will try out the Quickstart! The age of decadence: Humanity churns forward through an industrious era of boundless innovation. Throughout the cobbled streets of great cities, wondrous machines appear in showers of blue sparks, carrying well-dressed gentlefolk to sophisticated social engagements. In beautiful terraced parks, dogs chase one another across manicured lawns. Above a clock tower, the pale moon rises to replace the fading amber of the setting sun. The clock tower strikes four. Its painted marionettes lurch forward on rails, farewelling the gently fading day. A crowd forms below the clock face. They murmur, wail, and cry out; building to pandemoniac cacophony. Dark cats wind through the forest of buckling legs, ears aflutter. They crane their long necks up to peer up past the crowd. A tremendous white milk saucer fills the sky. The moon falls... In Time without Tide, humanity lingers among twisted reflections of its former glory. Throughout the fog-drenched streets of ruined cities, jittery scavengers comb through rubble for scraps of supplies. In overgrown parks, grubby orphans race between thorny bushes while their mutated spider-dogs skitter giddily in pursuit. A clock tower falls and strikes four oblivious pedestrians. It swallows their unconscious bodies whole; new marionettes now added to its collection. The Sundering shattered humanity’s illusion of supremacy. Lunar meteors leveled the great cities, undoing millennia of human achievement in an instant. As the old world collapsed, something Unknown dripped from the wound-like empty hollow that was all that was left of the fallen moon. A writhing fog. A creeping mist. It slid through every forest, moor, and darkened street. It sought unwary life outside of the protection of light, then choked and changed it into eldritch abominations. The sun is dim. The night is black. Horrors move in the dark. Soon, they will devour us all! Delvers: Drive back the Unknown; reclaim the lost paths; keep the light and Save Us All! This game promises: SIMPLICITY: Easy rules combine dynamically to create endless unique and powerful characters. Your bonkers build isn’t broken—being weird’s the whole point! LIGHT CONTROLS THE BATTLEFIELD: Your adversary is the Unknown, an evil, endless fog that mutates anyone and anything not protected by warding light. Hoist your lantern to force it back, and keep the light! THE WORLD OF FOG: A uniquely bizarre and wonderfully dangerous world ready to be expanded with pre-written supplements and your own homebrewed material. SHORTCUT HOME: Ancient relay technology lets Delvers teleport home at the end of every journey. Forget about rationing. Take risks, push yourself, and when there’s nothing left in the tank, relay to safety.