Seablight® Antilles TTRPG Setting Guide is a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) setting guide designed for the Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine (BRP), copyright Chaosium 1980-2023 and used with the ORC License.
Seablight® Antilles TTRPG Setting Guide is created by Dr James J. Dillon and Gareth Begley, CreatePlay, Australia.
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What the Seablight® Antilles Setting Guide Contains
Seablight® Antilles is set in the BlightHope Epoch, a post-apocalyptic future designed by CreatePlay for the Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine (BRP) published by Chaosium Inc.
The setting guide focuses on the islands of the Antilles Archipelago in 2467 CE, which is bordered by the former Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Ocean. Earth has been suffocated and ravaged by Seablight, a parasitic space virus. Players and GMs will enter a world of post-apocalyptic Pyrate warbands, psychic mutants, and island-based micronations.
The following outlines each chapter within the Seablight® Antilles TRPG Setting Guide. This content is also available as pages and posts on this website (see Content Index for quick navigation).
CHAPTER ONE: CHARACTER CREATION
This section guides players through the character creation process, as outlined in the BRP core rule book (available from Chaosium Inc). The setting guide also introduces modified rules tailored for playing in the Blightdark Epoch.
CHAPTER TWO: CULTURES
This section provides a summary of the four distinct major cultures that comprise the Antilles Archipelago of the Blightdark Epoch: the Hopesail Confederacy, Masqued Guildas, Pyrate Republic, and Blighted Tribes.
CHAPTER THREE: HEROIC PROFESSIONS
The BRP core rule book provides a list of professions considered ‘Normal’ in this setting. In addition, this section outlines Heroic Professions that players can advance into through game play, or select at character creation in collaboration with a Game Moderator (GM).
CHAPTER FOUR: LOCATIONS
This section provides a map that outlines the diverse and dangerous ports of call across the Antilles Archipelago. It also provides detailed information for a selection of locations, including Bosque Fresco, Habaguanex, Hopesail Island, and others.
CHAPTER FIVE: DRAMATIS PERSONA
This section provides a Dramatis Personae of notable characters surviving and thriving in the Antilles Archipelago. It offers backgrounds and characteristics for a selection of faction leaders, influential supporters, and exceptional wanderers that can encountered in the Blightdark Epoch.
CHAPTER SIX: VESSELS
The calamitous upheaval caused by the Seablight Deluge and Century of Deconstruction has resulted in the development of exotic modes of sea, air, and land transportation. The vessels section provides details on the types of craft that players can encounter, purchase, steal and pilot. It also introduces rules for power sources, maintenance, and crew responsibilities.
CHAPTER SEVEN: EQUIPMENT
Exploring and surviving the Blightdark Epoch requires having the right equipment. Currency, gear, goods, weapons, and gadgets unique to Seablight Antilles are detailed in this section.
CHAPTER EIGHT: BESTIARY
This chapter features a bestiary of unique hybrid creatures, ciber abominations, blighted xeno-bioforms, and dangerous groups that inhabit the Antilles Archipelago.
CHAPTER NINE: SCENARIOS
This setting guide provides players and Game Moderators (GMs) scenarios for situations, missions, contracts, dilemmas, and other activities they can undertake in the Antilles Archipelago. The chapter provides a detailed starter job to launch players into the Blightdark Epoch, as well as rumours to kick-start more adventures.
Hopesail Confederacy
Hopesail Confederacy The Hopesail Confederacy, commonly referred to as the Confederacy, is a collaborative alliance of steel-walled atolls, island fortress enclaves, hydrocarbon sea drilling rigs,
Pyrate Republic
Pyrate Republic The Pyrate Republic is a loose alliance of pyrate factions that collectively control the Southern Antilles. The formation of the Pyrate Republic has
Cangrejo Hybrids
As Psychezoa spread across Earth after its planetfall, it transformed and evolved in dramatic ways. Some offshoots shifted from predation and parasitism into altruistic symbiosis
Transatlantica Climate Restoration Coalition
The Transatlantica Climate Restoration Coalition (the ‘Coalition) is a global-spanning research-intensive network of Local Conscious Array Droplets (LCADs). The Coalition was formed in 2312 CE
ThunderBolt
The Thunderbolt is a SkyLance that epitomises the audacity of Blakbard’s Buccanneers. This mini-Lampshade Drive and turboramjet-powered aerial vehicle conceals a range of high-caliber armaments,
SeaSkimmer
SeaSkimmers are fast, silent, and deadly closed-cycle turboramjet air vehicles preferred by military operators. The Hunting Privateer class of Seaskimmer is particularly popular with the
Aletha Fernandez
Investigator Aletha Fernandez is on a personal crusade to help the Blighted Tribes. After a sailing accident took her left arm as a child, Aletha’s
Alejandro Yolexis
Alejandro Yolexis is a seafarer and wandering judge marked for death. The former Directorex of the Bergundi Guilda fled Empresario when his patrons were destroyed
Seehändler
Tansatlantica trade is busy work in 2467 CE. The merchants of the Kontore League Atlantica, known as Seehändlers, bring textiles, grain, precious metals, and animals
Low Blightspeaker
Low Blightspeakers are humans gifted with mutations and psychic Blightsense through contact with a Parasitic Madre Hyve. These mutants possess psychic powers that allow them
Cambiaformas
A Cambiaformas is a human that has been physically transformed by Symbiotic Seablight. Transformations include growing tentacles, chitin skin, claws, webbed feet, feathered wings, horns,
Spindletop Node Controller
A Spindletop Node Controller is a Low Blightspeaker that has been augmented with cibernetic technology by the Spindletop Disciples Markeena Arkana Board. The Node Controller
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