City Of Red Waters
City Of Red Waters is an alternate setting supplement for Blades In The Dark by @johnharper@dice.camp. It was initially a stretch goal on the Blades In The Dark kickstarter as "Moon Over Bourbon Street" a supplement set in a vampire-filled New Orleans. When the original author wasn't able to write it, John and Evil Hat approached me. In my hands the project was influenced by the colonial mythologies and genocidal histories of both Australia and North America, and my own intersectionality and values and evolved into a dark exploration of the vampiric and corrupting nature of colonialism and empire.
City Of Red Waters is a blood-soaked colonial setting that puts the horror and delusion of living under such regimes front and center in the stories of play. The backdrop of the setting is an exaggerated earth analogue, playing out the equivalent of the European race for colonial conquest. It's focus is on the city of Inverrouge, sat at the mouth of the river Sange, it's soil drenched in the blood of genocide, and it's waters polluted with corruption and greed. It is a setting that focuses on blood as the central substance of all life force and mystical force, where overindulgence leads to addiction and vampirism, and where the twisted machinations of the city's institutions pull everyone into their web of suffering and complicity.
The book itself contains an overview of the setting, seven new heritages, a new system for vice and overindulgence, three new crew types, details on the nine regions of Inverrouge, and writeups of the 18 factions vying for control of the city.
You can get City Of Red Waters in digital or print-on-demand at Drive-Thru-RPG https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/462722/city-of-red-waters or as a digital download from the @evilhat@dice.camp https://evilhat.com/product/city-of-red-waters/
