Stations in Life #1

The Seven of Pentacles: Craft.

So it's been a while but you need to know that Chariot is nearly, so nearly done. It's on course for the playtest document to be out in December and the Kickstarter to launch in early January.

I thought I'd share some of the playtest draft this week, and since the most work I've done  on it has been in character creation, well.

So your character in Chariot has a culture, and I've written about cultures at length already, a social station (that is, the economic or social class into which your character was born) and a Fate (the good bit). This week, I'd highlight some of the social stations, which include Citizen, Mystic, Noble, Nomad, Outcast, Priest, Proletarian, Soldier and Slave.

Fated

In Chariot, you play the role of one of the twenty individuals in the world whose destiny is to carry the psychic weight of the human race on your shoulders. 

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Gods of Atlantis

Six of Pentacles: A Black Atlantean Ritual to Akhantuih.

The Atlantean body politic and the religious establishment are one and the same.

The Long Before

Six of Wands.

Time only began with consciousness, and memory, and in the Long Before, the forebears of humanity – mindless, formless, swam in the Astral Sea, the First Root of the Human Race. We evolved; we gave birth to elongated, weightless beings of light-bearing ether, and as the Second Root, we drifted through the ages of the seas and the time of the Greatest Beasts. We learned to dream, unbound by the shackles of time and consciousness and thought, and our dreams shaped the evolution of the world around us.

A Blessing for the Rmoahals

Kyngon the Rmoahal

Remember that I built this city, but in this you were my hands;
Your toil brings my profit, and not one of you is less
For the chains which are the links that bind my lands.
Your loyalty, sweat, blood and pains I bless.
— Rai Gwauxin XVIII's Benefice to the Rmoahals

It's easy to be loyal to someone who can have you burnt to ashes for refusing a command. 
— Kyngon, a Rmoahal 

The Plan, then

One of the final card designs.

So for the last month, I've been more or less silent. What you need to know is that Chariot isn't dead, far from it. We have a Plan.