THE WORLD AFTER Rulebook

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The World After is a Tabletop Roleplaying Game formed through collaborative sessions across the UK, specifically influenced by the wildlife and landscape of Canvey Wick; a post-industrial nature reserve located on Canvey Island in Essex, UK. The project aims to create a game space where community is created through diversity in a post-human world, challenging the euro-centric vision of conventional high-fantasy. Taking on the lessons from the worlds of Ursula Le Guin, particularly the Earthsea saga and the Left Hand of Darkness, North European Male is not the default character choice. Instead, The World After offers a wide range of societies, ethnicities and genders to roleplay, as your characters strive to rebuild a world torn apart by catastrophic man-made ecological collapse.  

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“The World After is a new indie rig, created by tabletop gamers from Essex who wanted to create a game that was open to everyone, reimagining fantasy through the work of authors Ursula Le Guin and Octavia Butler, where race and sexual orientation were acknowledged as integral to the gameplay experience. Released from Euro-centric legend, acknowledgding the implications of human impact on our planet, and inspired by the site of Canvey Wick , where nature has reclaimed the site of an oil refinery, everything in the game springs from nature, from the “Essence” magic system to the enlarged organic forms of the flora and fauna. The World After is being built around an open world, called Fain, where danger lurks in the form of magically enhanced flora and fauna and a shadowy “Corporation” that seeks to exploit its untapped riches.

Have you ever wanted to play a game where you could

  • create a character that can change gender every Lunar cycle?

  • Be part of a lost underwater civilisation founded by People of Colour?

  • Play with magical Essence, letting you manipulate Blood, Bone, the Elements and Time itself?

  • Set the world to rights while learning about a fascinating deep-future version of our world, where our flora and fauna have adapted into incredible and terrifying forms?

The World After is is your game!”