Bunker is an enviro-metal post-apocalyptic OSR adventure series that imagines the rebirth of high fantasy in the next age of Earth
Bunker is an ongoing RPG worldbuilding project inspired by fear of climate catastrophe, and by a shared hope for a heavy metal environmentalist utopia. This utopia is populated by earth witches and druid circles, by lordless knights who pledge to serve the woods, by smiths crafting reclaimed plastics and e-waste into magical armor. The forces of evil in Bunker are inspired by the facts of man-made climate disaster: habitat destruction, mass extinction, hubris, and greed. Rivers of necromantic goo erupt from the fractured earth. Trans-planar baddies arrive, lured to feed on emergent magic like so many extraction capitalists unearthing a new vein of coal.
Bunker is system agnostic, which means it is made to run with any system! It offers a few optional bespoke mechanics, but is primarily setting, story, and other worldbuilding elements.
In Bunker #1, the party begins their adventure in a small town called The Mounds, where civilization has begun to rebound from cataclysm, but awareness of the greater earth is still a mystery. The growing settlement, surrounded by the eight huge grassy bulges, teeters toward civic advancement and progress, ignorant of the strange secrets that lay dormant beneath their feet.
The party’s quest begins when a regional diplomat arrives in search of assistance uncovering a hidden resource that could give humanity a new chance at thriving. The adventure will begin to reveal the secret history of the world, only to find that all that has been lost has been replaced by a new power, and paradigm-changing remnants of the last age of humanity, both terrible and wondrous.
The estimated average play-through time is 7 hours.
Bunker #2 is available here!
Published by Haunted Meat
USA Import
Staple-binding
55 b/w pages
A5 zine format
Bunker is an enviro-metal post-apocalyptic OSR adventure series that imagines the rebirth of high fantasy in the next age of Earth
Bunker is an ongoing RPG worldbuilding project inspired by fear of climate catastrophe, and by a shared hope for a heavy metal environmentalist utopia. This utopia is populated by earth witches and druid circles, by lordless knights who pledge to serve the woods, by smiths crafting reclaimed plastics and e-waste into magical armor. The forces of evil in Bunker are inspired by the facts of man-made climate disaster: habitat destruction, mass extinction, hubris, and greed. Rivers of necromantic goo erupt from the fractured earth. Trans-planar baddies arrive, lured to feed on emergent magic like so many extraction capitalists unearthing a new vein of coal.
Bunker is system agnostic, which means it is made to run with any system! It offers a few optional bespoke mechanics, but is primarily setting, story, and other worldbuilding elements.
In Bunker #1, the party begins their adventure in a small town called The Mounds, where civilization has begun to rebound from cataclysm, but awareness of the greater earth is still a mystery. The growing settlement, surrounded by the eight huge grassy bulges, teeters toward civic advancement and progress, ignorant of the strange secrets that lay dormant beneath their feet.
The party’s quest begins when a regional diplomat arrives in search of assistance uncovering a hidden resource that could give humanity a new chance at thriving. The adventure will begin to reveal the secret history of the world, only to find that all that has been lost has been replaced by a new power, and paradigm-changing remnants of the last age of humanity, both terrible and wondrous.
The estimated average play-through time is 7 hours.
Bunker #2 is available here!
Published by Haunted Meat
USA Import
Staple-binding
55 b/w pages
A5 zine format
