Tokyo: Otherscape Setting Book

Publisher: Son of Oak Game Studio

Kitsune power brokers. Oni gangsters. Kami assassins.

Step through the neon-lit torii gate and discover a Tokyo where technology and myth merge and collide in a battle for the future of humanity.

Tokyo: Another Landscape is a setting book for the :Otherlandscape role-playing game that provides the MC and players with everything they need to get started right away in the dangerous, haunted streets of the Tokyo Megacity.

In this fictional dystopian Tokyo, runaway AIs, nanotech disasters, greedy zaibatsus and yakuza mingle with oni, kami, yōkai, onmyōji and other supernatural creatures from Japanese legends.

WHAT’S IN THIS BOOK?

//TOKYO MEGACITY — Information about settings, including trends, locations, organizations, a guide to local Mythoi, unique technology, a language glossary, and more.
//BUSHI/LIFE — New player options with dozens of new theme packs and specials for playing Tokyo Megacity characters, such as an otaku Neo-Samurai, a wasteland-dwelling Yamabushi, or a kitsune power broker, as well as an extensive Tokyo Street Catalog of weapons, enhancements, drones, and magical resources.
//YŌKAI DATABASE — A Yōkai database featuring 60 pre-made challenges and powers from the megacity, with an emphasis on supernatural creatures that prowl the streets, are integrated into cyberspace, and operate in the underworld, as well as non-yōkai opponents.
//KEY PLAYERS — Ten fully fleshed-out factions and subcultures for your PCs to fight, negotiate with, or join, including the sun-powered Taiyō SolarTech, the ancient Bureau of Onmyō, the magic-wielding Yakuza clans, the Oni Motorcycle Gangs, and more. Each faction comes with its own Challenges, themed kits, and catalog.
//VACANCY BULLETIN — A collection of tracks (adventures) featuring five short tracks set in iconic locations in Tokyo’s megacities (a high-tech dream therapy clinic, a cyberspace bullet train, the ruins of a nanotech disaster, yōkai-infested flooded tunnels, and a gang-run bathhouse), as well as one full-length track – A bridge too far – where your crew battles alien forces and faces a transcendental transhumanist dilemma that could impact the future of the entire Megacity