The Nonscape
A downloadable zine
An unshaped expanse of everything and nothing.
Formless potential, an infinite canvas.
Be like Those That Waver and open your awareness to the Nonscape.
This 8-page 4" square zine provides the framework for a cosmology of pocket realities drifting in the malleable expanse of the Nonscape. It is designed to be usable in TTRPG play, and is fully system-agnostic.
FEATURES:
- 6 pages of worldbuilding ideas outlining a versatile cosmology
- Suggestions for types of stories to tell with it
- Digitally painted watercolor art
This was made for the Tiny White Book jam, where the goal was to make a TTRPG-compatible cosmology in the form of a tiny zine. The jam was inspired by Nobilis and Season 3 of Play to Find Out, but I also took inspiration from my interpretations of some worldbuilding elements in Anodyne 2: Return to Dust.
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A beautiful, evocative zine! Does a great job of capturing the tone and something of the language of Nobilis while introducing a dream-like quality that makes it distinct. I’m a sucker for this kind of thoughtscape, and here you’ve taken the consensual reality of Mage and dialled it up to eleven. The mystery of the non-things is great, and the story seeds at the end really sell this as a place(?) you could play in. Plus the watercolour illustrations are gorgeous!
Thank you so much! Yeah with a concept that felt this loose and "out there" it def felt important to me to include examples for how I envisioned a story set in the Nonscape could look, glad they work well!
I love the illustrations! The Nonscape sounds a little like Ninuan as described in Glitch. But... maybe a nice, more dreamlike version of it.