MEATSACK SPAWNER

The Wen— a still-twitching carcass of a city that hasn’t yet realized it’s already dead. A population forever laboring beneath the dead weight of the Companies. All that remains is meat. Bodies are grafted together pieces of shit that solely serve as meat-machines to perform labor. It doesn’t matter anymore who you are. Nothing matters. The system never changes, only demands more. For meat is all, and all is meat.

Will you be the one to kill this cancerous cyst of a city? Or will you join everyone else in submission and death?

Lichoma (pronounced Laikoma, meaning body, or alternatively a portmanteau of lich and carcinoma) is an upcoming artpunk tabletop roleplaying game, centered around the miserable lives of the inhabitants of the Wen; a megacity grown beyond its own control.

Lichoma is a political, dystopian RPG defined by ecological collapse, social strife, and body-based economics and technology. Character concepts and abilities are based on their cards but are otherwise freeform and interpretive, not bound hard and fast by classes or mechanics. This creative aspect is complemented by an intuitive, streamlined system. The core rules fit on a single card and include fast procedures for non-combat Challenges and violent Conflicts. Additional, optional rules allow groups to add more depth and nuance to fit their preferred play style.

It is designed by Strega Wolf van den Berg, with additional writing by Tessa Winters, Walton Wood and Michael Mars, and editing by Walton Wood, Ian Long and Ashley Kronebusch. It can be found here: Lichoma: A Meatpunk TTRPG.