The Curse Lingers

A TTRPG of Temples, Curses and their Keepers from the Copper Compendium.

This TTRPG was first released for free for Free RPG Day 2024.

Welcome to the wastes. We scavenge what the Old Gods left behind and build in the devastation they wrought. Most simply scrape by. There are some few, however, who seek out the forbidden places, the monuments to the hubris of those Gods. These are the Keepers, desecrators of the Temples.

The Curse Lingers follows these Keepers, the few who dare to venture near or into the Temples of the Old Gods, tainted places of worship and caged corruption. You delve in search of Relics, the sources of the Curses afflicting each Temple. Once cleansed, they can grant powerful boons... if you can survive their Curses long enough to find them.

The Relics are hidden deep within each Temple, within a fragment of the Old World, anything from a busy city street to a school or a hospital. These places are pale reflections of the real thing and, like a reflection, can warp and change. Best to tread carefully and move fast. The clock is ticking, the Curse building, and your Mutation growing.

The Curse Lingers is based on Caltrop Core by Lex Kim Bobrow, using a d4 pool system with tiered success and failure. The concept of the game is inspired by nuclear semiotics, the ideas of how to convey the dangers of nuclear waste sites to future peoples, with no guarantee of shared language or symbology.

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