Sauropolita - A City Lost To Time
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Sauropolita – A City Lost To Time is a “Dino-Solarpunk Tabletop Roleplaying Game” inspired by utopian fiction from authors like Ursula K LeGuin, classic adventure tales, and the works of author-painter James Gurney.
The rules of Sauropolita are designed to let players create colorful humanoid/dinosaur characters (and other creatures from Earth's prehistory) who've been plucked from disasters, sacked cities, and extinction events across the span of time and dropped onto a mysterious continent, shrouded by mist and lit by two suns.
With this system, players can collectively design their own custom version of "Sauropolita," a multi-species utopian city, and immerse their characters in exciting adventure narratives such as:
- Thrilling expeditions to uncharted lands and mysterious caverns.
- Making a splash at a performance, exhibition, or other festive occasion.
- Movments to reform or improve aspects of Sauropolitan Society.
- Protecting the ecological diversity of the land and waters they live in.
- Rescuing people from natural disasters, time storms, and predator attacks.
- Keeping the peace between the established clans and newly arrived temporal castaways.
To play Sauropolita – A City Lost To Time, players will want a copy of this rulebook, printouts of each Character Playbook and Neighborhood Sheet, and a few twenty-sided dice (D20s).
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Version 0.1 of Sauropolita – A City Lost To Time is a rough draft thrown together last-minute for the Applied Hope: The Solarpunk & Utopias Jam. Feel free to chime in with feedback as I work to refine and streamline these rules for a more engaging roleplaying experience!
Version 0.2 0.3 0.4 of Sauropolita – A City Lost To Time is a revision of the rough draft thrown together last-minute for the Applied Hope: The Solarpunk & Utopias Jam. – specifically, one that fixes the fairly messy layouts of the Character Playbooks. Feel free to chime in with feedback for this new version as I work to refine and streamline things for a more engaging roleplaying experience!
Sauropolita – A City Lost To Time is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Share, use and adapt as you please while citing the original source!
Status | In development |
Category | Physical game |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (3 total ratings) |
Author | Aldo Salt |
Genre | Role Playing |
Tags | Dinosaurs, solarpunk, Tabletop |
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Development log
- Sauropolita v4.0 Update!Dec 01, 2021
- Sauropolita v0.3 UpdateSep 14, 2021
- "Sauropolita" Version 0.2 UpdateSep 02, 2021
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I revisited this game again today while needing game design inspiration and I just wanted to drop by again and say that this is my favorite of your games, the simplicity of the mechanics and the ideas behind them are very elegant, one of my favorites on itch
very successfully draws out the same feelings and thoughtforms i used to get as a child when i stared at the Dinotopia books; pleasing, blissful adventure
it loses nothing and gains a lot (in terms of allowing players latitude to shape the fiction/places themselves—it is GMless after all) by not actually being a Dinotopia game, though
fun and evocative!
What you described was exactly what I was hoping to make with this game :)