Nolan Locke's Exquisite Corpse

Hardcover, system-neutral.
 
Nolan Locke's Exquisite Corpse is a fully illustrated book that introduces you to RPG story design. You'll explore story design components and elements that you can combine in any order to craft an exciting and unique game for your players. You can use this book regardless of what game you play — it's about the story, not the rules.
 
The mad mariner Nolan Locke guides you through this book and his flooded world known as Weiroads. What he remembers is often clouded -- you'll get to decide which of his stories are true. You'll get to build your own version of Weiroads and a fully-developed story within this grimdark world.
 
An exquisite corpse is a writing style where one person writes a line and another person writes the next line. Together, they write a complex story full of twists and surprises no one sees coming. Your writing partner is Nolan Locke, and he's insane.
 
The book provides ways to make your story navigable for players. We provide story components that give your story a structure that players will find familiar. Then, we (and Nolan Locke) bring in story elements for Weiroads that make the familiar feel strange and adventurous.
 
It's built for backers, no matter what.
We originally launched this campaign in September of 2021 but canceled ultimately. Since then, we feel we've learned more about what you want and your expectations from us. This book is complete: 264 fully detailed and illustrated pages ready for print. 
 
 
What's inside 
In addition to the story design guides, this 250+ page book includes:
39 highly detailed ship battlemaps for 8 unique ships
30 interconnected characters with illustrations and backgrounds 
30 unique items with illustrations and lore
30 monsters with illustrations and lore
3 cities unique to Weiroads with cultural, political, and religious backgrounds
3 unique environments with illustrations, lore, and hex-crawl maps 
A new world to explore and customize 
Tons of rollable charts for world-building