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* PointsOfLightSetting: The Broken World used to be a reasonably orderly, peaceful world of city states. Then the Breaking happened. Many of the old cities still stand, for now, but the points of light are flickering.
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* PatchworkMap: The geography of the Broken World has been shattered, making what was once presumably asendible sort of map into a patchwork.
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* PatchworkMap: The A rationalised trope here, in that the geography of the Broken World has been shattered, making what was once presumably asendible a sensible sort of map into a patchwork.
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* PatchworkMap: The geography of the Broken World has been shattered, making what was once presumably asendible sort of map into a patchwork.
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* HaveYouSeenMyGod: It’s not clear what has happened to the gods of the Broken World; their priests can’t contact them any more (though some priestly powers still work), and there seems to be a consensus that they are either dead or as good as dead. However, it’s possible that they are just missing, and some people would doubtless clutch at that straw.
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* CoolGate[=/=]PortalDoor: Portals link the two worlds; some are stable, others are temporary or erratic. They’re more the result of damage to reality than deliberate creations.
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* CoolGate[=/=]PortalDoor: CoolGate: Portals link the two worlds; some are stable, others are temporary or erratic. They’re more the result of damage to reality than deliberate creations.
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* CrapsackWorld: A borderline case. The Broken World may be on the brink of final collapse, with millions of people at risk of annihilation -- for reasons that ''nobody really understands.'' However, it’s not impossible for people to be decent to one another, and some are working hard to fix things.
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* AlienSky: The most obvious sign that the Broken World is strange and alien is that the sky is full of phantom cogwheels and gears.
* CoolGate[=/=]PortalDoor: Portals link the two worlds; some are stable, others are temporary or erratic. They’re more the result of damage to reality than deliberate creations.
* CrapsackWorld: A borderline case. The Broken World may be on the brink of final collapse, with millions of people at risk of annihilation -- for reasons that ''nobody really understands.'' However, it’s not impossible for people to be decent to one another, and some are workinghard to fix things.
* CoolGate[=/=]PortalDoor: Portals link the two worlds; some are stable, others are temporary or erratic. They’re more the result of damage to reality than deliberate creations.
* CrapsackWorld: A borderline case. The Broken World may be on the brink of final collapse, with millions of people at risk of annihilation -- for reasons that ''nobody really understands.'' However, it’s not impossible for people to be decent to one another, and some are working
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* CrapsackWorld: The Broken World may be on the brink of final collapse, with millions of people at risk of annihilation -- for reasons that ''nobody really understands.''
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* CrapsackWorld: A borderline case. The Broken World may be on the brink of final collapse, with millions of people at risk of annihilation -- for reasons that ''nobody really understands.'''' However, it’s not impossible for people to be decent to one another, and some are working hard to fix things.
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''The Broken Clockwork World'' is a short (10 page) setting book for ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' by Creator/PhilMasters, published in 2020, originally as part of a Creator/SteveJacksonGames Website/Kickstarter-based project involving the launch of a large number of short ''GURPS'' supplements. It depicts a dual-world setup; the "Unbroken World" is our own, or looks like it, except that recently, gates and portals began opening to the "Broken World", a steampunk fantasy setting of numerous city-states where reality itself is seemingly breaking down.
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''The Broken Clockwork World'' is a short (10 page) setting book for ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' by Creator/PhilMasters, published in 2020, originally as part of a Creator/SteveJacksonGames Website/Kickstarter-based Website/{{Kickstarter}}-based project involving the launch of a large number of short ''GURPS'' supplements. It depicts a dual-world setup; the "Unbroken World" is our own, or looks like it, except that recently, gates and portals began opening to the "Broken World", a steampunk fantasy setting of numerous city-states where reality itself is seemingly breaking down.
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* LandOfOneCity: The Broken World used to be patchwork of city-states. Now, the patchwork has been torn up and rearranged at random.
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->''There are two worlds that once were entirely separate. One is ours (or very like it), and the other blends fantasy and steampunk elements. Now, they’ve come into dangerous contact.''
''The Broken Clockwork World'' is a short (10 page) setting book for ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' by Creator/PhilMasters, published in 2020, originally as part of a Creator/SteveJacksonGames Website/Kickstarter-based project involving the launch of a large number of short ''GURPS'' supplements. It depicts a dual-world setup; the "Unbroken World" is our own, or looks like it, except that recently, gates and portals began opening to the "Broken World", a steampunk fantasy setting of numerous city-states where reality itself is seemingly breaking down.
The book is sold in PDF form; the publishers have a Web page for it [[http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/brokenclockworkworld/ here.]]
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!! Tropes Known in These Two Worlds:
* AfterTheEnd: The situation in the Broken World is ''distinctly'' post-apocalyptic.
* CrapsackWorld: The Broken World may be on the brink of final collapse, with millions of people at risk of annihilation -- for reasons that ''nobody really understands.''
* GodIsDead: The gods of the Broken World were once fairly definitely real and active. Now, well, if they're not actually dead, they're ''inaccessible.''
* TheMenInBlack: Played with; many governments in the Unbroken World know about the portals to the Broken World, and intelligence services are working to handle the situation, keeping it as secret as possible -- but these men in black really aren't as all-powerful as they'd like to look, as they don't know much more than anyone else.
* PortalFantasy: The set-up here is explicitly designed to support portal fantasy games, though the "other world" involved is flavored as much with {{steampunk}} as with conventional fantasy.
* {{Steampunk}}: The Broken World runs on specifically steampunk-style tech.
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->''There are two worlds that once were entirely separate. One is ours (or very like it), and the other blends fantasy and steampunk elements. Now, they’ve come into dangerous contact.''
''The Broken Clockwork World'' is a short (10 page) setting book for ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' by Creator/PhilMasters, published in 2020, originally as part of a Creator/SteveJacksonGames Website/Kickstarter-based project involving the launch of a large number of short ''GURPS'' supplements. It depicts a dual-world setup; the "Unbroken World" is our own, or looks like it, except that recently, gates and portals began opening to the "Broken World", a steampunk fantasy setting of numerous city-states where reality itself is seemingly breaking down.
The book is sold in PDF form; the publishers have a Web page for it [[http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/brokenclockworkworld/ here.]]
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!! Tropes Known in These Two Worlds:
* AfterTheEnd: The situation in the Broken World is ''distinctly'' post-apocalyptic.
* CrapsackWorld: The Broken World may be on the brink of final collapse, with millions of people at risk of annihilation -- for reasons that ''nobody really understands.''
* GodIsDead: The gods of the Broken World were once fairly definitely real and active. Now, well, if they're not actually dead, they're ''inaccessible.''
* TheMenInBlack: Played with; many governments in the Unbroken World know about the portals to the Broken World, and intelligence services are working to handle the situation, keeping it as secret as possible -- but these men in black really aren't as all-powerful as they'd like to look, as they don't know much more than anyone else.
* PortalFantasy: The set-up here is explicitly designed to support portal fantasy games, though the "other world" involved is flavored as much with {{steampunk}} as with conventional fantasy.
* {{Steampunk}}: The Broken World runs on specifically steampunk-style tech.
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