WAKE UP, OMENS. Welcome to the open playtest of TITANOMACHY: Dreams of the Hue, an upcoming queer southern cyberbiopunk roleplaying game by Jackrabbit Collective!
WAKE UP, OMENS. Welcome to the open playtest of TITANOMACHY: Dreams of the Hue, an upcoming queer southern cyberbiopunk roleplaying game by Jackrabbit Collective!
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> This place was once known as Houston, but it is now known only as the Hue. It is a cancer, one of the few cities of the Old World still standing, and like a cancer it only grows as the rest of the world dies. It is in the Hue that the Titans sit, secure in their wealth as they water the twisted stump of the Old World with blood and greed.
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> It is here the New World will be born. Revolution has been crystallizing in the alleys of the Hue, like the sharp-edged pillars of salt that grow from the dying brine of the Gulf. They call themselves Omens, revolutionaries that carry with them the spirit of the New World and the sins of the Old. They meet in Dreams to plan our destruction and our salvation. They are you and me.
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> And our time is now.
T:DotH is a Cyber/BioPunk Trillionaire Boss Rush Tabletop Roleplaying Game, where you create and play as Omens: freedom fighters, saboteurs, and revolutionaries fighting to free the world from the grasp of omnipresent Titans, trillionaires choking what remains of the world to death. You live your daily lives, trying to foster Hope and preparing yourself for the work to come; you gather together in secret, hidden within the dark web realm of your Dream; and you make Strikes against the Titans of the Hue, missions to weaken a Titan’s grip on the Hue until they’re frail enough for their final Felling.
The game itself is a sawn-off, rules-light TTRPG with an emphasis on powerful characters in a changing world. On the surface, TDotH’s tone and setting will be familiar to everyone who’s read or played with traditional high-octane Cyberpunk tropes; but they’ve been blended with a biopunk edge and refracted through the prisms of queer, southern life to create something new and bizarre. It is Transmetropolitan by the way of Kill Six Billion Demons wearing a cowboy hat; How To Blow Up a Pipeline flavored by Borne and Oryx & Crake. It is a world rich with nanomachines and abandoned military tech, crumbling from a glorious almost-utopia destroyed by nature and greed. It’s not a documentary – not yet – but it’s a cautionary tale and proud act of rebellion, passed down from a near future that we must not let come to pass.
The quickstart’s available at pay-what-you-can rates at https://sillionl.itch.io/titanomachy-dreams-of-the-hue-demo-edition, and we’re always looking for playtest feedback in our active discord!
So what are you waiting for?
This game RULES! Where else can I play a down-and-dirty journalist stringer who will do at nothing to get a story out, hailing from the Blue coolant lakes and rivers of the city’s underbelly? Every aspect (character abilities) has massive FUCK YEAH factor 😎
Also, the game doesn’t shy away from the harder questions that come with living in a dystopian hellscape. Everyone’s gotta put bread on the table, so how do you bring about a new world while also working as an aug repo specialist, or saving people as a trauma teamster but putting them into crippling medical debt in the process?
Playtesting this game has been a blast, and I’m so excited to see where it goes from here!