Unnamed Worlds 1-4

WORLDS FOR ROLEPLAYING

Unnamed Worlds is a collaborative collection of new and twisted worlds suitable for roleplaying, It includes:

• quick start scenarios;
• fiction and art as inspiration;
• roleplaying tools useful at any table; and
• detailed worlds and adventures to explore. 

CURRENT ISSUES

• Issue 1 is the Launch, with Paulo’s Wreckers!, the Open Licence and more.
• Issue 2 is about Magic, with Brine’ A Magic System and The Steep Mage,  Wightbred’s A Study of Goblyns and Modern Magic, and more.
• Issue 3 is about Conflict, with Pete Jones’ Dogs of Hell,  Paulo’s Beast of Gevaudan, and Wightbred’s WW2 Blood & Toil.

MINIMAL MECHANICS

We trust and expect the players to bring the world to the table, so we simplify our own mechanics when roleplaying.  Mechanics will be minimised in this zine so you can play using whatever system or approach you desire. There will be ideas for generic tools and occasional notes on using simple trait based toolkits like my own Named toolkit.

(IN)FREQUENCY

We will put out a new free PDF issue whenever we have enough content. After we get to 250 pages or so of content, we’ll put it into a consolidated document and make it available as print on demand at cost.

GETTING INVOLVED

Reach out if you are interested in contributions or collaborations of words or art that fit the concept of focussing on worlds. They need fit the vibe, be accommodated in the A5 form factor, and not use AI in their creation. All contributors will retain copyright and can have already or choose to later publish their content elsewhere, but agree for their input to be made available on an ongoing basis as part of this free PDF zine, the consolidated version, and an at cost printing of the consolidated version.

CURRENT CONTRIBUTORS

At present these people have contributed:

• Wightbred has boiled decades of roleplaying design and experimentation into the Named Toolkit.
• Paulo wrote Paleolythic Voyages.
• Brine writes about roleplaying at brine.dev.

Current cover image for this project is Suite d'un bal masqué by Jean-Léon Gérôme, which has been flipped left to right and cropped.