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The Empire Never Ended

A surreal, GM-fluid RPG inspired by the works of Philip K. Dick

Play time
A few hours
Format
Print book + PDF
Built on
What’s So Cool About Outer Space? (Jared Sinclair)
Price
$10
PDF on itch.io

“What’s it about?”

Either talking to a God-alien-computer intelligence and breaking free of the Black Iron Prison that has enslaved all of mankind between the time of the Ancient Romans (which is also right now) and a vast space dictatorship 100 years in the future (which is also right now), or doing drugs and going crazy. Or both.

Weird things are happening, man.

The Empire Never Ended is a hack of Jared Sinclair’s What’s So Cool About Outer Space?, drawing on VALIS, A Scanner Darkly, and Radio Free Albemuth. It also borrows from Trophy Dark, Otherkind, and False Matters, GNAP! Theater Projects’ improvised Philip K. Dick show.

Playing online? Make a copy of the Character Keeper and you’re set.

Cover sources by Eric Gazano.

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