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From publisher blurb:
The Stygian Library is a creepily genteel dungeon set in an infinite extradimensional library. Each expodition generates its route as it explores, resulting in new locations being iscovered with every visit. Included within:
Systems for generating locations within the library, including Entrance Foyers, Map Galleries, Tea Rooms, Planetariums, Calculation Engines, Phantom Databanks, Paper Beehives, Phantom Pumps, Jarred Brains and the Sheol Computer.
40 monsters tailored to the Library, including Lantern Bearers, Skeleton Crew, Origami Golems, Guardian Shades, Lost Souls, Ink Elementals, Animate Spells, Archivist-Liches, Infernal Merchants, Escaped Fictions, Educated Rodents, Conceptual Wells and the orders of Librarians themselves.
A system for searching for specific knowledge within the library's depths, as well as 30 unusual books and the secret knowledge they contain.
Tables for generating treasure, dreams, rumors, and various other useful details.
A unique class of Mummified Sages, post-human accademics who've dwelled in the Library for decades or more.
It's a big spooky library full of dangerous knowledge, spiritual automata and ghost-fueled computers.
- Simple and easy-to-use point crawl system.
- Rich in flavor, lore, and interesting encounters.
- Features procedural generation for high replayability.
- Compatible with various old-school RPG systems.
- High-quality art and layout.
- The setting involves 'inhuman Librarians' and 'bibliophilic creatures', which might be niche.
- Knowledge, lore, bibliophilic creatures.
- Extradimensional spaces between libraries, guarded by inhuman librarians.
- Procedurally generated expeditions.
- The Gardens of Yin
- The Ship is a Tomb
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Point Crawl — A simple system where players choose to stay, go forward, or go back, rolling a D20 with modifiers to determine encounters.
- Procedural generation — Locations and encounters are generated procedurally for replayability.
- System Compatibility — Written and compatible with all old-school RPGs and suitable for characters of any level.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Loner is an RPG system for solo play that some people have been enjoying and this is a kind of mythical Japanese a Pan Asian kind of Asian fusion setting
- The Loner games they do use all AI art
- man this troa stuff is so clean it's so welld designed it's it's kind of the anti-bg
- this thing is gorgeous this is this is Elegance personified
- mothership is the award-winning sci-fi horror roleplaying game
- dungeon in the extradimensional spaces between every library in the universe
- I hope you enjoyed this kind of showand tell video all kinds of interesting things to look forward to