Sauriana

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Sauriana is an upcoming indie tabletop wargame by Fossilpunk Foundry that asks a very simple question: "What if Cattlepunk, but Dinosaurs?"

...No, it's not a furry game. Taking inspiration from the massive fossils & dinosaurs craze that swept British and American society in the 1800s, which led to two of the world's greatest paleontologists fighting a literal war to claim fossils, Sauriana runs with that craze and adds a heaping helping of steampunk to it.

The story? Well, we'll quote that right from their website:

In 1888, the fabric of space and time was torn apart - The Interstice, a gap in the universe - rippled in the air over what was once Richmond, Surrey. Scientists soon discovered that this bizarre temporal anomaly could act as a sort of “fountain of youth” - prehistoric fossils could be deposited into its swirling vortex, and through much engineering and experimentation, it was found that a human being’s life could be rejuvenated and extended by years or even decades when bathed in the energies released.

The Great Dinosaur Rush was born- Paleontology became the new world power, fossil beds became the new gold mines. People from all corners of the world flocked in annual pilgrimage to the Interstice, sacrificing their hard-won fossils to gain the smallest sip of immortality promised by the wondrous phenomenon.

A new economy was born out of the ashes of the antediluvian age...and with it, new conflicts arose...

If this sounds kooky to you, remember that settings like Deadlands, Mordheim and Malifaux exist.

There are four factions in Sauriana; the Othniellians are "Darwinian Cowboys of Science", a mad cult who seek to fuse human and dinosaur together to become something greater; the Cope Collective are rifle-toting gentleman scholars backed by "automatons" built of fossils and machinery; the Explorer's Club are adventurers and explorers backed by trained prehistoric beasts and tribal thugs, and the World's Fair are a ragtag band of mercenaries who can be taken either as their own warband or as backup in other factions.

External Links

• https://fossilpunkfoundry.com/pages/sauriana - The homepage