Ascoleth – The Last Great City

Description

Ascoleth – The Last Great City

The Ascoleth book is a toolkit for GMs to easily run a weird metropolitan city for science-fantasy games such as Starfinder. It is system agnostic and easily fits within your rule-set of choice.

This is a low prep tool which a GM can pull ideas from during a game session. With the help of short punchy tables intended to be improvisational prompts, Ascoleth invites immediate and unique adventure. With the help of district tables, for example, struggling GMs can easily create strange city blocks full of adventure seeds.

The city is also a fully-playable setting on its own. 

There are aspects of this book that are intentionally incomplete. This is so the GM can make Ascoleth wholly their own and give the outcome of every play-through a chance to grow organically. Of course, you can always use this book to spruce up your own campaign setting by rolling on the tables within and/or plucking out the bits you like most.

A note from the authors

The idea to write a book of prompts came from the fact that these humble zine writers are both parents with full time occupations. We struggle with having the time or energy to prep for games that necessitate reading huge blocks of text. There are so many great, intricately-designed games and setting books, but they often require more time and effort than we are able to give them at this stage in our lives. So, we created a player-driven book where the GM—with a minimal amount of preparation—can play in a setting which rewards exploration and imaginative co-creation at the table.

“Ascoleth – the largest city at the end of times.
A place for everyone, for good or bad.
A terrifying and marvellous place where science and magic are one and the same.
A place where you can find, buy, pray to and/or consume anything or anyone.
Please, enjoy your stay.”

Product Details:

• 32 interior pages
• A5 format
• Staple bound
• 150gsm interior pages, greyscale
• 250 gsm cover, matt laminated
• Silver foiled title to front cover
• Created & Written by Rabid Halfling Press (Tobias Tarnvik-Laesker, Felix Dester Hultgren, and Markus Linderum)
• Artwork by Carlos Castilho, Patrik Ollsson, Stor-Thomas.
• Layout & Cartography by Glynn Seal.