Punth: A Primer

Punth! The sun sets. Birds perch on the upper levels of the local ziggurat. Labourers at the communal dinner, fresh from the field, hear the rhythmic formulation of the Codes sung to the tune of the dulcimer and the tom-tom.

Punth! At noon, gaze across the irrigation ditches, out into the wilderness, where a great Prince impales a lion on a twelve cubit spear!

Punth! Sun-baked vaults of a fallen tower! Howling eidolons in trackless deserts!

Punth! Aristocratic republic of former sky-sailors! Long paved roads dividing a howling desert. Psycho-drill schools engaged in mass call-and-repeat lessons in the baking sun.

Punth! Where all speech is couched in the words of the Codes. Where the scribes records details of the latest five-year plan on clay tablets beneath the eyes of watchful green four-armed aristo-commisars!

Punth! The land set out before you.

Punth: A Primer is a mechanically-guided setting for tabletop RPGs. It lays out in forty pages the details of a land inspired by dystopian fiction, Near Eastern legends and philosophy of language. 

The Primer includes:

• A compilation of the Codes that form all speech in this oppressive regime.
• How to use those Codes at the tabletop, and a schedule of when to introduce them.
• Details of the history of Punth, in their own words and from the perspective of an outsider.
• Encounter tables both for natives of Punth and outsiders.
• Rules of how to play as one of the Qryth, mysterious Sky-Princes of Punth!
• An introductory hexcrawl to draw players into a world of exotic beasts, cyclopian architecture and state control. 
• Details of the inspiration behind Punth.