Sauropolita - A City Lost To Time
A downloadable game
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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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 :)