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Conspirators Dark States

Civilization on Earth is dying a slow and painful death.

Avarice and fear rule the masses whilst the political establishment crumbles around them.

Wars rage over dwindling resources but Mother Nature wants her revenge.

Somewhere beyond human reckoning the eyes in the darkness have opened.

Welcome to Dark Times. Welcome to DARK STATES.

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The Dark States Conspirator’s Handbook provides everything you need to run a game within a dark dystopian future where conspiracies are abound. Within this book you will find:

  • A detailed history of the world of the near future
  • Rules for Arcane Backgrounds, including Black Conduits, Dark Science and Xenotech
  • Rules for handling Environmental Disasters such as floods, hurricanes and dust storms
  • Detailed rules on Singularities, the supernatural cause of many nightmares around the globe
  • 30 Factions to use in your game, from government agencies to corporate entities and secret societies
  • A bestiary with over 50 folks, cryptids and xenomorphs
  • Advice and options for running your game, including play styles, variant plots and an adventure generator
  • A Gazetteer of the United States, with overviews by region, environmental disasters and factions that might be encountered, and adventure seeds to use
  • A detailed Gazetteer of the city of New York and it’s surrounds, including overviews of regions, notable locales and adventure seeds to use in your game
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Daniel I June 01, 2023 7:46 am UTC
CREATOR
Hi All,

Just an update on the POD status, unfortunately the layout guy who was doing this has been going through some things so that, along with the two new products for Dark States (Dark States of the Nation and Revelations: A PPC for Dark States, have meant the POD has taken a backseat. We will get back onto it but it will take time I'm afraid.

Apologies Clint M. I was trying to reply to your comment but can't see it anywhere in the discussion!

Dan
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Clint M June 05, 2023 7:33 pm UTC
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Thanks for the update and explanation. Some things are simply out of your control. When do you anticipate the two new products being done?
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Daniel I June 05, 2023 7:53 pm UTC
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Both of the new products are done from a writing perspective, they're literally just waiting on the layout and art to go in. But the artist is also struggling with some things, so it's a little out of my hands. Working on the final map for Revelations, a New York nightclub with horrors in the basement, but apart from that it's with others to do things. Really not much longer I hope, I've been desperate to get these out for a couple of months now!
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Clint M June 08, 2023 1:53 pm UTC
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Looking forward to seeing what you develop for this game.
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Xavier N April 03, 2023 8:52 am UTC
POD???
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neil T January 09, 2023 6:31 am UTC
Pod
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Luc L October 22, 2022 1:01 pm UTC
is the POD book will contain every info for this setting ?
because I see 2 pdfs

thanks
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Neil T September 30, 2022 5:27 am UTC
Hows pod going
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Neil S March 16, 2022 2:07 am UTC
ANy word on POD
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Daniel I March 16, 2022 12:20 pm UTC
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Waiting on a low res version to send to Pinnacle, need their approval, then need to submit to DTRPG for their approval.
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Luc L March 11, 2023 12:59 pm UTC
any news on the POD ?
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Neil S February 17, 2022 4:34 am UTC
Hows POD going?
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Neil S February 16, 2022 5:46 am UTC
will this be 8.5 x 11
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Daniel I February 16, 2022 6:41 am UTC
CREATOR
Yes.
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Neil S February 10, 2022 12:37 am UTC
How long till POD
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Daniel I February 10, 2022 9:10 am UTC
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A few typos and other errors have been fed back to me by readers so I would want to fix those first and re-release before I start considering the POD option, hopefully that can be done in the next few weeks and then we can look at a POD option.
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Neil S February 07, 2022 12:53 am UTC
Whats the difference between a cryptid and a xenomorph
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Daniel I February 07, 2022 6:49 am UTC
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A Cryptid is something that exists on Earth, created by a Singularity. Xenomorphs are Extra-Terrestrial beings that have been drawn to Earth, primarily by Singularities and what is causing it. However it should be noted that some Xenomorphs are actually Cryptids (see Greys at beginning of Cryptid section) and ultimately some Xenomorphs are here to invoke Singularities (see Wulong Shen), in fact ultimately the cause of Singularities (the Substrate) once used to be an alien species (the Arkon). So whilst there's a difference, it's not a clear-cut line.

That's all assuming you want to stick to plot as written and not use on of the variant plots as outlined in the Game chapter.
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Neil S February 06, 2022 9:59 pm UTC
POD
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Daniel I February 06, 2022 10:10 pm UTC
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It's next on the list, along with a Plot Point Campaign.
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Marcos M June 09, 2022 9:52 pm UTC
What is POD?
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Daniel I June 10, 2022 5:22 am UTC
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Print on Demand, basically a hardcopy version of the books.
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