Songs we Sing - Demotape

Songs we Sing is a tabletop roleplaying game about exploring the urban decay of a lost time, seeking strange gods both big and small, and wielding magic called songs, which acts as a reflection of the parts of ourselves that we value and fear. It uses the powered by the apocalypse system to create dynamic narratively driven adventures.

Features:

• Freeform magic system that take the form of Songs that combines a motif with an effect to get a desired result. All gigs (classes) have access to this system too!
• themes of urban decay, animism, and fantasy
• 9 playable class playbooks such as Knights who have devoured a deity to gain their strength, Couriers who scout the land and get their deliveries made no matter what, and the masked storytellers called Orators.
• 9 playable race playbooks such as sentient robots animated with the soul of a person, a gaggle of lizards each representing a different part of a single person, and shapeshifting beastfolk.
• Swords don't exist
• Giant scissors do
• colorful pixel/aliased art of an overgrown world full of deities, robots, knights, flooded malls, and crumbling skyscrapers

NOTE: This is the playtest version of the game and is a work-in-progress. I'll be regularly updating this .pdf with fixes and more content. Please note that I will be submitting a full paid version of this game later and donations for this version will mostly be like a tip jar to help support future development. If you want to support me further you can pledge to my patreon.

You can either submit feedback with this google docs feedback form, at the Songs we Sing development discord, or by emailing me directly at gentrigger3@gmail.com. I greatly appreciate any feedback!

Coming later:

• More bestiary entries
• Expanded info about the world of Wake
• A section about clocks and how to use them (For now you can probably learn this from apocalypse world itself)
• More Gig and Kin moves
• Better layouts
• More art
• TTRPG Safety tools section (If you need to learn more about TTRPG safety tools beforehand you can refer to the TTRPG Safety Toolkit)