The world did not end in fire. It ended in a scream.

Seventy-five years after the Feedback Cascade shattered civilization, humanity survives in a world saturated with the Cognitive Static: the psychic residue of billions of minds caught in a moment of terror.

The great nations are gone. Corporate arcologies offer security at the price of obedience and identity. Beyond their walls, settlements, scavengers, mercenaries, ideological movements, and stranger powers struggle for survival across the ruins. The Static corrodes memory, distorts perception, and threatens the integrity of the human mind. Those who lose themselves completely may become Echoes: predatory remnants wearing the forms of the people they once were.

Introduction to Deadwake is the place to begin exploring this post-apocalyptic science-fiction universe. It provides the history, concepts, factions, technologies, and conflicts needed to understand the setting before moving into the complete roleplaying or miniatures rules.

Inside This Book

• The rise of Cognitive Resonance Interface technology and the events that produced the Feedback Cascade;
• The nature of the Cognitive Static and its effects on memory, identity, perception, and sanity;
• The fractured world that emerged after the collapse of nations and global systems;
• The corporate arcologies, frontier settlements, wastelands, and contested territories of the Wake;
• The major factions, ideologies, and powers competing to define humanity’s future;
• Echoes, Bicameral Regression Syndrome, Threadlock, and the psychological hazards of survival;
• An introduction to the themes and assumptions underlying Deadwake roleplaying, miniatures combat, and narrative campaigns; and
• Guidance on where to continue within the wider Deadwake line.

Start Here

This is a setting and orientation book. It does not contain the complete roleplaying or miniatures rules. Those systems are presented separately in the Deadwake Roleplaying Game Rulebook and the Deadwake Miniatures Combat Rules.

Read this book first to understand what happened to the world, what now inhabits it, and why survival in Deadwake is as much a struggle to preserve identity as it is a struggle to remain alive.

Book Details

• Author: Jon Compton
• Publisher: Canvas Temple Publishing, LLC
• Format: Paperback
• Length: 86 pages
• Dimensions: Approximately 7.44 × 9.69 inches
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 196944505X
• ISBN-13: 978-1969445057

The digital edition is sold separately through WargameVault.com. This listing is for the physical paperback edition.