77 Stories

A sewer-dwelling water dragon with social anxiety; some badass with a laser sword here to detain your competition; the headquarters of a definitely-above-board genetic engineering firm; a boisterous demon lady challenging you to a drinking contest; and a martial arts dojo perched on the side of a cliff overlooking a modern city. What do these diverse story elements have in common (other than glib writing and incredible art)?

They're just some of the 100+ plots, places, NPCs, and items that make up the 77 Stories! This diverse collection of plot hooks and setting details will engage your players with challenges outside the trope-y neon city norm. There's enough content out there with oppressive governments and evil corporations, so instead we created this book to add a little spice to your urban campaigns. These stories intermingle politics, magic, technology, intrigue, heists, personal development, and ridiculous shenanigans - and, notably, very few of them default to murder as the solution.

This isn't a d100 list of one-liner plot hooks or throwaway NPCs. These are fleshed-out ideas that connect to the game world and to each other in a way that makes it easy to drag and drop concepts from various chapters (and from the core NewEdo book) to create stories that are more than just a punch line or simple hook. Paragraph-length (or longer) entries describe plots, places, people, and items that have depth and colour, and which buck the kind of stereotypes you've come to expect from the "-punk" genre.

Here's what you're in for:

• 77 paragraph+ story hooks identified by one or more of the following tags: Combat, Espionage, Goofin' Around, Intrigue, and Mystcism. These hooks tie in locations and personas from the rest of this book and from the wider NewEdo universe, but can easily be dropped into any urban campaign.
• 30 detailed locations that range from an ancient bath house to a sake brewery to a vehicle research facility to a deadly food processing plant.
• 20 colourful NPCs (and one monster) who will bring your world to life. These NPCs are chefs and gangsters and journalists and fixers, each with a clear personality and connection to the world. Many have full stat blocks (in the NewEdo system) and include tags that will help you translate them to your system.
• 11 unique items to reward (or threaten) your players with. These aren't just pieces of equipment - they're legendary (or cursed) items with backstories and unique abilities that engender game ideas all on their own.