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Oh. Wow. Awesome.

I had this idea the other day, about a really awesome new setting for a game. That idea then led me to another idea, involving a continuous series of versatile, off-kilter, and system-independent game settings, with hooks and leads and possibilities galore. I’m gonna try my hand at working on something like that here: the Desolate Destinations project. Each Desolate Destination is a self-contained game setting which has no specific system in mind, intended to be portable to just about any genre- appropriate campaign setting you currently use.

I’ll kick this project off with the setting idea that got my mind wandering in this direction in the first place: the Great Galactic Graveyard, or “Yesterday’s Armada.” The basic premise: somewhere out in deep space is a massive graveyard of ships and space stations. Hundreds of thousands of them, perhaps even millions, all floating around in the dead of space. The ships vary greatly in age, some decades old, some recent, some hundreds, even thousands of years old. No one really knows. Some ships have inhabitants, some have horrors, some have cultural treasures of civilizations no one understands or even remembers anymore. Perhaps this massive floating graveyard is all that exists of the great civilizations of the ages, all of which are now reduced to little more than the crumbling husks of wasted hubris. Read more