The World Didn’t End
The world didn’t end. It was close. Some things fell apart, others took their place. This is the post- without the apocalypse. We should be celebrating, but we are too busy orienting ourselves in this new world, finding a place to live in, or even an identity, we can live with. Not just surviving.
We hit the road, or stayed nearby. We sought out solitude, or community. We connected, created, copulated, conceived of the fact that we were not dead, or even dying. We were rootless, and weary, out of the storm, but still struggling to find steady ground.
The world is mending, after all. But are you?
About A World Mending
A World Mending by Martin Ackerfors is a table-top RPG loosely based on Into the Odd by Chris McDowall.
36 fully illustrated 6″x9″ pages.
Complete rules for creating characters, generating a setup and two adventure places.
Buy your copy of The Stories Book
Frequently Asked Questions
What is A World Mending about?
The stories told in A World Mending concern the people of the inbetween, the time between the cancelled apocalypse and a future ready to be shaped. Who you were before hardly matters to anyone but you, but then, to you it matters an awfully lot.
What do the Player Characters do in the game?
The Player Charcters are all people who are taking to the road in order to search for a place or context to call home.
Before starting, the players and the GM collectively decide with support of the rules what happened to the world and in what way it differs from our world. The GM are then assisted by lists and tables to create the situations in which the characters find themselves.
Along with the game come two adventure places: The Inlay which is a small stead where people come and go, and The Tribunal which is about the reckoning after the end.
What are your inspirations for A World Mending?
The World Broke by Svante Landgraf
Into the Odd by Chris McDowall
ARC: Doom Tabletop RPG by momatoes
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
After Us by Weeping Willows
Hopelessness by Anohni
Break free by Xiuhtexcatl
Everything not saved will be lost. Part I and II by Foals
i,i by Bon Iver
When we all go to sleep, where do we go? by Billie Eilish
2040 by Damon Gameau
Captain Fantastic by Matt Ross
Into the Wild by Sean Penn
Greta Thunberg, Fridays for Future, and all who fight for a sustainable tomorrow
What are the rules of the game?
The rules are light-weighted and inspired by Into the Odd.
About the creator
Martin Ackerfors is still breathing, even though it hurts in this day and age. Amidst the fire of our world, he’s trying his best to act as if another world is possible.