Lurid Tales of Strange Adventure!
Pure dungeon crawling, without any greater metaphor or metaplot, in the largely unexplored land of Greymoor at the very frontier of the known world.
Dungeons are either apocalypse-derived ruins of ancient kingdoms, or semiliving intrusions from the nightmare realms. (13 the Age, the Nightmares Below.) Or both.
In the seaport city of Nembeth, in the maze of alleys and crumbling brick just east of the docks known as Lowtown, a girl with red hair cut close and ghost-blue eyes carries a sharpened blade and a quickened spell at the ready. One must always be ready to survive in a city of thieves.
Stop me if you've heard this one before.
1965—the Year of the Thunderkiss. Some fat-fingered bureaucrat pressed the shiny red button and set off Armageddon. However, instead of resulting in a grim, gritty wasteland where humanity struggles to survive, the atomic fallout instead warped the fabric of reality itself...
’45 was the year everything changed, the year what seemed like an inevitable defeat for Hitler’s armies became something altogether different and more terrifying. The year the world shattered under the glow of hundreds of atom bombs that swept away everything that
stood before.
Civilisation teetered on the brink of collapse across the world as the superweapons of all sides collided and science thrashed about in frenzy, casting off strange new technologies and weapons on all sides until, finally, the war petered out...
In the fall of 2012, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, embarked on a new series of high-energy experiments. No one knows exactly what they were attempting to do, but a little after 3 P.M. on a Thursday afternoon came the Big Mistake. Something unexpected happened, and in the blink of an eye, many possible universes all condensed into a single reality...
Time and space being relative, of course, these three Events (and others just as catastrophic) resonated across the multiverse, interacting to create the setting known as the Psychotronic Earth, continuity and copyrights be damned.
Or, there are five or six similar rpg settings and I just decided to put them all in the cosmic blender and hit "puree."
