Instead, the Musalians and Vutoa’s existing populations coexist all around the planet, in high-tech urban centers as well as strange alien landscapes. That is not the root cause of the action.” “It is a science fiction universe where there is no colonialism.
“It’s an original Afrofuturist TTRPG,” Walters said. DePass said that the setting draws its inspiration from both the Star Trek franchise and Marvel’s Black Panther. Over the next 2,000 years, that small exploratory fleet became the Musalians, a human civilization sharing an exoplanet called Vutoa with multiple other humanoid alien species - Hyena-like humanoids, transhuman cyborgs, human-plant hybrids, and powerful mind-reading symbiotes. For our story, this fleet departed and, through a mechanism that is yet to be revealed within the narrative, were transported to another planet.”Ī member of the Hyeanole, known for their scholarship and magecraft. “He was arguably the wealthiest man in history, who really existed and who sent a fleet to the New World.
“We went back to the African Emperor Mansa Musa,” Walters said, referring to the leader of the Mali Empire, an Islamic West African state which Musa I ruled during the 14th century.
They explained that the germ of the idea originated in the historical record. Polygon sat down with DePass, the creator of the new setting, and lead designer B. The ultimate goal is to produce Into The Mother Lands, a sourcebook that will explain the setting and define the game’s rules. What began as an actual play series on Twitch and YouTube has spawned a new crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. Mother Lands posits a world far from our Earth that has never known slavery or colonialism. Tanya DePass, founder and director of I Need Diverse Games, a not-for-profit advocacy organization, has brought together a talented group of creatives to launch a new tabletop role-playing game.
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