I've been doing a whole lot art for Ashlands: M.E.R.C.s
As you can see I've been doing quite a lot to help realize the setting, but there will still be more yet! Look forward to 1.0 coming out uhhhhh sometime this year? maybe next year?
It is the year 890 AR (After Ruination). You are a M.E.R.C. (Militarized Emergency Reinforcement Contractor), a mercenary who works on behalf of corporations, churches, and the government, paid in gold. You are a desperado, a murderer, a racketeer, an assassin, and downright despicable. Despite all of that, being a mercenary is technically legal.
Newland City is a sprawling city-state that is home to 90 million people. It is a thriving metropolis that is filled with combat, danger, and opportunity. The United Zones of Newland City are the ruling government, who compete with the modern remnants of the Corporate Hegemony for dominance. The dogma of the Divine Church and the Infernal Church also spill into streets, fuelling bloody conflict. All of this strife is the lifeblood of M.E.R.C.s, who fight on the streets for all of these causes, and more importantly, their money.
Ashlands: M.E.R.C.s is a d100 tabletop roleplaying game, with intense, in-depth combat, and a focus on bloody violence, customizing your MERC’s body and weapons. With over 100 weapons, over 100 cybernetics, dozens of demonic pacts, vehicles, and modifications there’s tons of options to express your individual brand of mercenary brutality.
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Ashlands: M.E.R.C.s is my crunchy d100 tabletop roleplaying game, where you play as State Sanctioned Contract Killers in the scyber-fantasy city-state of Newland City.
As Militarized Emergency Reinforcement Contractors you will face down demons, mutant bio-horrors, criminal elements, corporate slime, and the forces of an out-of-control government to make enough gold to pay for this month's rent.
As an expansive game system Ashlands: M.E.R.C.s has classless character creation, freeform character advancement, over 200 weapons (generic and brand name), deep combat rules, as well as rules for vehicular and hacking combat. This also includes an enormous amount of customization for weapons, armor, vehicles, and the characters themselves with cybernetics and demonic pacts.
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My novel, Girl's Night Out, is available for FREE/Pay What You Want on itch and Drivethru! It's a story about death, rebirth, and having something innately, very wrong with you. I really hope that some of you read it and enjoy it!!!
A nice view of Newland City from somewhere in Texhoma, on the South side of the walls. Along with some of the local Hanstonite color.
In this art you can see the NSI Pendant megastructure off in the distance, the Kill Field around the perimeter of the city, the Walls of Newland, and some high-density areas on the right.