Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Community Setting Project: FROM THE ZONES!


Click image to learn how to participate! 

Exonauts pal and Radstronaut John Till over at FateSF is leading the charge for new cross-blog extravaganza called FROM THE ZONE. This is an OSR community project to create material for a post-apocalyptic setting inspired in part by the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker (1979). 

If you've never heard of the film, he's written a great primer and set up some participation guidelines. This is open to anyone and you don't need a blog to participate. It looks to be a blast so put on your thinking caps and get writing! 


From FateSF:

FROM THE ZONE is a cross-blog project about the Zones. Here are the details:
  1. Write something about the Zones for the system of your choice. Describe a specific Zone, or an artifact, or a location within the Zone, a strange threat or phenomenon found in the Zone, a Zone scenario, a table of encounters, a Stalker character class, or something else.
  2. This project is cross-system. Write for a system you love. I'll be writing for Fate Core/FAE, but you may want to write for a different system, such as Labyrinth Lord/Mutant Future, X-plorers, Diaspora, Stars Without Numbers, WaRP, Open D6,  or something else. System-neutral is also fine!
  3. Post your content to your own blog. You own whatever you write and post to your own blog.
  4. If you don't have a blog you can write a document in Google docs. 
  5. Download the Hereticwerks Zones logo; use it in your blog post or Google doc! We will post the link to download the logo HERE as soon as it is up and ready.
  6. Leave a comment in the comments section of this post (see below) with a link to your blog post or Google doc
  7. We will create a table with all the links and a brief/title description of each item here at FATE SF
We'll start the table collecting the links as Thursday's FATE SF post. This will be an ongoing project, so share a link to your blog post or Google doc whenever it is ready.

5 comments:

  1. Loved all the PC games & really thought the movie was superb.
    I think this idea for a Zone setting collaboration of ideas is awesome!

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    1. Please consider sending something in for "From the Zones"! It would be great to see what you come up with!

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  2. Jay, thank's so much for the plug!

    I just submitted a creature for X-plorers for +Chris Helton's Philippine OSR relief project, so its fun to be dipping our feet into another collaborative project at the same time as "From the Zones" continues!

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    1. My pleasure John! I've also posted it over at Gamma World War. I'll have to check out that other project too!

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  3. The Wikipedia articles on this movie and the book are fascinating. There is a great table of artifacts in the Wikipedia article for Roadside Picnic that is entirely gameable without modification.

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