After RPG

After is a game about telling a shared story in both the past and the present. The main arc of the story takes place in the present, with short, explanatory excursions into the past. Each player handles two versions of their character. In the present they are a relatively complex and powerful character. In the past they are a relatively simple but capable adventurer whose story has only just begun.

After is setting-agnostic, but offers an optional setting, a strange world of its own: Extempore. After takes place in the world of Extempore. Extempore is a world of fleeting landmasses, called domains, seemingly plucked from countless fantastical worlds. The result is a maximalist landscape where almost any genre of story can be represented and, most likely, smashed together without further ado.

These domains could hold a neon-soaked film noir where hackers clash with an orcish mafia, a haunted landscape populated only by orphaned shadows, or the entire state of Rhode Island circa 1978.

It follows that the population of Extempore is just as chaotic: AIs with a fondness for necromancy, punk rock medusas, or an accountant who grew up in Rhode Island circa 1978 but now runs an orcish mafia.

This means that whatever stories the players and the Narrator set out to tell, they should feel at home in this strange and chaotic world.

• After is light on rules and heavy on story. Conflicts are resolved quickly with a handful of d6s and a few rules.
• Success or failure will push the story and the characters in new narrative directions
• Full campaigns typically take around 5 sessions to unfold
• The combination of 23 origins, 8 past legends and 8 present legends creates countless character options
• Full Narrator section so the Game Master can get started quickly
• Heavy weird-little-folk vibes