Our Vale of Discontent

Community-based RPG setting featuring sentient oozes, solarpunk vistas, rioting union workers, and a story telling fungi with no name.

Designed to be droppable into almost any campaign, this is a setting that focuses on being evocative over exhaustive. This will be broadly usable with any old school system as well as 5e. The focus is not just on the fantastical world, but on what that means to the players and how it interacts with their emotions. If you wish to see what is in store, check out our free one sheet adventure set in the lead up to the war that rents the valley apart!

Our Vale of Discontent details a community on the brink of war with itself. Two tribes brought to conflict over their legacies. While the players may choose sides, the focus is not on war but on community. Will the adventurers ally themselves with the Pingks and Silico’s vanity project, band together with the Drpock with their ooze-merchandising enterprise, or join forces with the discontent uprising from both tribes?

Our Vale of Discontent is a 36-page self-contained adventure with no fixed settings. It is designed to be dropped into an existing campaign or run as a one-shot. Broadly compatible with most fantasy or modern settings, the zine contains:

•  XP systems centered around building community
• Descriptions of both tribes, the ooze harvester union, and the
  bubbling resistance
• A dynamic escalation system to make the events that unfold your own
• Oozes, given character and life
• A guide to unions and organizing within RPG worlds
• Methods of introducing solarpunk technology to your game
• Random tables for NPC relationship generation, flora,  and more.
• Stats for NPCs and creatures compatible with OSR / 5e game

Funded through Zinequest 2020!

Artwork done by the highly talented Logan Stahl: https://www.artstation.com/lil_tachyon

The map was created by the wonderful Ben Smith at: https://www.instagram.com/the.subterranean.ocean.survey/