Can Faith
Outlast Hope?

You play adventurers who have returned from your long journey in the ruined World Beyond to the last paradise on earth: the Glade, with a seed that may restore the World to the Way It Was. But upon your return, you learn that the World's corruption has reached your home, too. In this solarpunk adventure about loss and renewal, it's up to you to keep the future bright.

In the Cancerous Wastes...

There, You Feel Free

In the Long Ago, we ruined the World Beyond. But the Guardians saved the last seeds of life in a special vault within the Glade, the place you call home. As a Guardian, your mission is to seek out new seeds and bring them home, in the hope that one day their germination might heal the World.

April is the Cruellest Month...

Breeding Lilacs Out of the Dead Land

The dead land fouls flora and fauna, but life ekes on anyway. You wonder what makes a monster grow, if there's no more hate to feed on in the World Beyond? Perhaps by growing up in paradise, you have never known monsters. Or perhaps you've known monsters all along, but could never tell the difference.

Uncover the Mystery...

Of What Went Wrong Back Home

What secrets have the eldest Guardians kept from you? You find the Glade overrun by corruption, and MOTHER is silent. Perhaps they sent you away to hide the truth? But you know one thing is for certain: the truth always pushes up from the dirt, seeking a little life with dried tubers.

As a Hex Crawl

If you prefer to conduct play on a map, each peril in the World Beyond is best treated as a hex, whether you run it as an exploration, encounter, or downtime. A region of hexes would then be the span of a venture.

As a Series of Journeys

Alternatively, you can represent ventures via our dungeon crawl or journey mechanic, which condenses the adventure by taking advantage of abstract time.

About Adventure Length

Guardians can be run as a series of ventures tied together to create a lengthy journey that climaxes in the Glade, or as a one-shot that skips the World Beyond and starts just outside the Glade after years of presumed traveling prior to the start of the adventure.

As ventures, you can build a web of interconnected scenes per our adventure design advice; as a one-shot, treat each scene as hold toward the final confrontation.

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