"After the midnight war, the city of London sat as a smoking crater. In one act of horrifying magic the Archmage, leader of the Hukum Arcana, slaughtered thousands of people. Now, twenty-seven years later, a new regime has risen in the ashes of parliament; the British Bureaucratic Empire. A new city has risen from it's own ashes in turn; the spires of New London choking the gray skies- as if to hide the still smoldering war-wounds."

INTRODUCTION TO ENGINE

Welcome to Barest Bones, a surreal roleplaying game where you play as crumbling husks at the bottom of the social ladder. In the backdrop of a vast economic downturn you have elected to trade your own life force, your metabolic salts, to pay off your debts. And as the rich grow younger and smoother from your sacrifice, your body slowly rots from within.

This document contains everything you need to begin your adventure out into the wild streets of New London, with a game system that prioritizes resource management, careful strategy, dynamic combat, and heaps of black comedy. Now with 25+ paragraphs reminding you that the police are bad.

Fight monsters, commit crimes, join unions, find love, do hard drugs, work for 'the man', do whatever you can to survive.

I'm counting on you.

We all are.

THIS DEVICE CONTAINS

• A detailed lore section- with everything you need to paint this wide,
Starstained world.

• A unique resolution system that combines dice pool and die+stat checks into tense resource management.

• Six character classes:

• The Penniless Noble
• The Grantless Scientist
• The Saltless Alchemist
• The Jobless Worker
• The Warless Soldier
• The Respectless Urchin

• An extensive bestiary, containing everything from people, to hags, to specters, automata, and more!

• It's own starting adventure: A Vile Fairyland.

• Plenty of secrets, easter eggs, and things that have not names.

RECOMMENDED READING FOR OPERATION OF DEVICE

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you only need d6's to play! that's fun.

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Oh! Let's talk about the full list of inspirations for Barest Bones.

• Works of Charles Dickens
• Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Cyberpunk 2020 by RTalsorian Games
• Shadow Scar by RTalsorian Games
• Cy_Borg by Free League Publishing
  
• World of Darkness by White Wolf/Paradox Interactive
• Off by Mortis Ghost
• Bloodborne by FromSoftware
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Bioshock by 2k Games
• Dishonored by Arkane Studios
• Skeletons, just in general
• Being poor
• That feeling of unrelenting fear, dread, and unreality you get from reading the news.