The implants used to be exotic. They’re common now. Things changed after the government secretly dumped chemical waste into the ocean and experimented on people. There were subterranean shocks, and the flood destroyed the factory areas. Thousands of people lost their limbs. The world has become crippled. Now everyone survives as they can: re-assembling themselves, looking for details, replacing flesh with metal. Their goal is to avenge the system that made them like this.
Augmental is a table-playing role-playing game about people with disabilities who are on the side of progress. They learned to recreate themselves using metal, skin, wires, and spirit. Their actions are shaped by a intersection of logic and intuition, emotion, and analysis — between the two poles of the inner moral values scale. It is this inner compass that leads them to solve the world’s main mystery: the nature of Subman is a mysterious disease that affects human bodies.
Heart or Mind?
The value scale is at the centre of the whole system. Each character is moved by it when he or she acts with an emotional or rational color. The closer the character is to the edge of the heart, the more successful it will be with emotional tests, and the more intelligent it will weaken.
In the eyes of the general public, persons with disabilities often determine their physical form. But what’s inside is just as important.
In this world, implants have become a social marker. «Girhead» bioimplants are a sign of belonging to the elite, a symbol of luxury. They despise the Hazardians and their implants, considering them unworthy of existence. Those who wear the steel prostheses made at Hazzard both admire and despise those who wear bioimplants, believing that they are using the real blood and flesh of innocent people to create their prostheses. However, religious fanatics do not accept any interference in the body, considering it a desecration of God’s creation.
6 basic classes of subspecies disability:
— Hand amputation; — leg amputation; — Blindness; — Respiratory disorders; — Engine function failure; — Derma-sensitiveness. Each has its own powers and its own weaknesses.This world is not without a struggle.
The situation on the value scale also determines the damage that the character will cause:
— Closer to Razum — 2d4 + fashion. Assaults. The attacks are more precise and often get medium, low. — The center is 1d6 + fashion. Assaults. Less scattering, little ceiling. — Closer to the heart is 1d8 + fashion. Assaults. Equal probability of fall, high ceiling.But not only does conflict take the lives of thousands of people.
Subman.
It’s a mutation disease where a person grows extra limbs. These limbs are usually distorted and unable to perform their functions fully. They develop quickly, but soon they die, leading to the death of the patient.
The disease runs into four phases. It can be stopped if the player amputates the infected organ in phase two or phase three by taking on a new disability. Or, starting with phase one, the player can take care of the infected growth and leave it for good. Then this process is adapted and a new part of the body appears. Subman puts people at risk, choosing between death and one of the improvements to his own body.
A man is what he is outside. But he is what he is inside.
The images are generated by Recraft and Chat GPT and are processed in Adobe Photoshop.
