u/andrewrgross

Some soon-to-be-friends are looking to run a campaign of Fully Automated! it's a 5e-adjacent indie game set in a grounded post-capitalist future.

Style of play:

Pretty traditional. A questgiver asks a team of adventurers to find something of value; they encounter danger and have to use their diverse skills cooperatively to solve a mystery. You know.

Tone:

Flexible. Like most games of DnD or Cyberpunk, you can play it mostly silly or mostly serious, and the table will likely have a bit of both. The default tone of the story is grounded without being too self-serious.

The table is mostly folks brought together by interest in the game setting. The solarpunk adventure genre is a little unfamiliar to most, but not too hard to get into. Think Star Trek adventures on a planet of hippies, libertarians, and hackers. If that sounds interesting then this game is likely for you.

Basic hook:

Sixty years after WWIII, a broker for a company that converts rare toxic wastes into safe building materials finds evidence of an illegal toxic waste dump site in the hills of New Hampshire. It'll take a cunning team of adventurers to find this cache in the hills and villages that remain of a town left behind by a new era.

There's lots of flexibility for folks to make interesting characters (investigators, fast-talkers, hackers, druids, cyborgs, rangers, housepets, etc.). Welcoming to all. Let me know if you have any questions.

Quick disclaimer: I'm one of the devs for this very small game, posting on behalf of a friend looking to run a story he wrote.

Here's a local story about it:

San Antonio BART station is still a fantasy, but here’s what design students think is possible

The context is that there has long been a desire to add a station to the Bay Area's BART network in Oakland. The system was designed to help suburban commuters get into San Francisco, not to let people into or out of a black, immigrant neighborhood in Oakland. The area is a transit desert. Despite being on a waterfront and surrounded by a public college and working class homes, it's mostly warehouses and a massive homeless encampment. Local activists have been trying for a decade to get the transit system to build a new station here.

This spring, a famed local architect helped put together a class at a design college to imagine what the area could look like if it got a station, along with affordable housing and a rewilded creek to manage flood risk. What they've proposed is pretty dope, and I'm hopeful that it reignite momentum to finally connect this area to the transit system.

[Online][Other][UTC-7 (Pacific)] Looking for an extra player or two for a solarpunk treasure hunt adventure

A design class imagined a new metro station in my town, and it's glorious