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I saw this article the other day and thought that maybe there would be a Paizo blog post or announcement shortly after, but so far bubkiss...
PAIZO STRIKES DEAL WITH GOB IN TUX
I'm assuming Polaris is an already existing RPG that is just being translated/adapted for English audiences, but I'm not having any luck finding more info. Anyone know anything more about this game other than what is in the article?
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The article may not be as clear as it could be—our role in this partnership is limited to distributing their products; we're not providing any creative input here. (We've done this sort of thing with other companies going back many years.)
Gob in Tux is publishing English versions of products published by Black Book Editions (the same folks who do Pathfinder in French, by the way). You can read about Polaris here... if you read French. (Gob in Tux will eventually have an English language website here.)
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Allow me explain a bit :
Polaris is a post apocalyptic RPG set under the sea.
The surface world is a nightmarish wasteland, a deathworld.
Mankind must live in crowded cities, under the sea.
The technology is decaying, mankind is degenerating and many people are sterile.
The fecund one must hides or otherwise deported to breeding farms.
Mutant exist, and Polaris is a reference to Polaris effect, the name given to psychic power. Polaris is very powerful but a fickle and unstable force.
Polaris is also wielded by intelligent marine lifeform, like whales and dolphin.
And there are the Borer, strange intra terrestrial and very dangerous.
This is a translation of the pitch :
For A thousand of Year, Genetician ruled as absolute master on an undersea world, the last refuge of mankind cast from the surface by cataclysm. When the Evil empire collapsed, vanquished by the Azure Alliance, ocean became the battlefields of multiple factions struggling against each other for power.
5 Centuries later, thousand of community were established on the ocean floor, in the shadow of states and organization trying to survive an hostile world.
The Hegemony, the most powerful one, control the abyss east of the former North american continent. Led by mysterious Patriarch, The Hegemony only dream of conquest.
The Red League, which influence spread from the West of South American's coast is an ageing nation whose main force is their commercial fleet.
Coral republic is built upon the Ocean floors of Old Australia. They have developed a strange relation with sapient corals covering the greater part of its territory.
Polar alliance, whose capital is based in the depth of the undersea mountains of Arlis, North of Rusia is the smallest one, but its cyberscience allow it to compete wih the biggest states.
The Trident Cult manage the neutral city of Equinox, on the Rockall Threshold. The cult is the responsible of peace thanks to the international troops called the Watcher.
Their priest wield the mysterious force Polaris, which power seems unlimited.
other communities tried as much as they can to build a better future.
But for now, they must struggle against sea monsters, hordes of pirates, political' s manipulations and the Borer's people, underground dweller whose are barely known.
The abyssal's civilisation are concerned by the genetic degeneration of mankind and the sterility plague threatening mankind with extinction.
Les civilisations des abysses sont également aux prises avec la dégénérescence génétique et le terrifiant virus de stérilité qui menace l’humanité d’extinction.
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Can confirm -- this is what world would look like if I was president for a day.
