This is a tool for RPG story design
Nolan Locke's Exquisite Corpse is a fully illustrated book that introduces you to RPG story design. You'll explore story components and elements that you can combine in any order to craft an exciting and unique game for your players. You can use this book regardless of what game you play — it's about the story; not the rules.
The mad mariner Nolan Locke guides you through this book and his flooded world known as Weiroads. What he remembers is often clouded — you'll get to decide which of his stories are true. You'll get to build your own version of Weiroads and a fully developed story within this grimdark world.
What's inside
In addition to the story design guides, this 277-page book includes:
39 Highly detailed ship battle maps for 8 unique ships
30 Interconnected characters with illustrations and backgrounds
30 Unique items with illustrations and lore
30 Monsters with illustrations and lore
3 Cities unique to Weiroads with cultural, political, and religious backgrounds
3 Unique environments with illustrations, lore, and hex-crawl maps
A new world to explore and customize
Tons of rollable tables for more world-building
The world of Weiroads
The broken continents and disparate islands of Weiroads are cursed by dead gods and heretic kings. Folks dwell in ancient cities clinging to the last of the high ground or else cleave to their ships to survive.
You can explore environments like The Breathing Stones and sail to Vadaros for a bounty.
The ship battlemaps
The book comes with 8 ships with unique lore, tons of illustrations, and 39 detailed battlemaps ready for VTT or print.
Characters
You'll get 30 interconnected characters with backgrounds and illustrations. You can use these characters as written or customize them for your own story.
Items
In Weiroads, magic items are called "relics," and this book includes 27 of them. Each is illustrated and includes lore written to inspire your next quest.
Monsters
No RPG is complete without something lurking in the dark — this book includes 27 monsters like the Zin Kibaru that you can customize to fit into your story.