Available for pay-what-you-want on Itch.io!

Songs we Sing is a tabletop roleplaying game about exploring the urban decay of a lost time, seeking strange gods both big and small, and wielding magic called songs, which acts as a reflection of the parts of ourselves that we value and fear. It uses the powered by the apocalypse system to create dynamic narratively driven adventures.

Features:

• Freeform magic system that take the form of Songs that combines a motif with an effect to get a desired result. All gigs (classes) have access to this system too!
• themes of urban decay, animism, and fantasy
• 9 playable class playbooks such as Knights who have devoured a deity to gain their strength, Couriers who scout the land and get their deliveries made no matter what, and the masked storytellers called Orators.
• 9 playable race playbooks such as sentient robots animated with the soul of a person, a gaggle of lizards each representing a different part of a single person, and shapeshifting beastfolk.
• Swords don't exist
• Giant scissors do
• colorful pixel/aliased art of an overgrown world full of deities, robots, knights, flooded malls, and crumbling skyscrapers

NOTE: This is the playtest version of the game and is a work-in-progress. I'll be regularly updating this .pdf with fixes and more content. Please note that I will be submitting a full paid version of this game later and donations for this version will mostly be like a tip jar to help support future development. If you want to support me further you can pledge to my Ko-fi, or my patreon.

You can either submit feedback with this google docs feedback form, at the Songs we Sing development discord, or by emailing me directly at gentrigger3@gmail.com. I greatly appreciate any feedback!

Coming later:

• More bestiary entries
• Expanded info about the world of Wake
• A section about clocks and how to use them (For now you can probably learn this from apocalypse world itself)
• More Gig and Kin moves
• Better layouts
• More art
• TTRPG Safety tools section (If you need to learn more about TTRPG safety tools beforehand you can refer to the TTRPG Safety Toolkit)