Hi there, I’m interested in possibly collaborating. I’ve been toying with creating a corrupted/incomplete lorebook for a lost WH40K-inspired TTRPG related to an unfiction project of mine, with a dark and spooky title like “Fealty of Corpses” or something. That may or may not be something you’re into, but I’d love to hear more about what you were considering. What ideas have you had so far?
Maybe we can combine ideas. I know almost nothing about WH40K, but I am open to taking your ideas for it and mashing it up with my modern surreal horror setting.
The reason I want to do a modern setting in found footage style is it is one of the only genres where we can have blurry photographs as the art and it looks like it fits. It's much faster to make, I would guess (but I am not against having artists draw something either).
Maybe having the feeling of 40K modules in a modern setting could help with the discordant out-of-context feeling that fits this jam. We reference factions with tons of lore, replace space orks with something like a drugged up gang living in an abandoned gas station, and that could be a very interesting setting.
What do you think?
Also, what sorts of skills do you have? Are there parts you would like to work on? It sounds like writing parts of it might be up your alley?
I’ve actually been interested in incorporating contemporary technology into a project like this, less analog and more digital (DVD instead of VHS, and so on). What if the lorebook was a reprint of an older 40k-inspired game? So the modern setting and photographs are the “restorers” way of filling in the missing pieces, explained away as using an old TTRPG they found as a base for their new game. There’s probably a few ways to blend these two ideas together.
In terms of project skills, I’m an experienced writer. I’ve worked with Decker and Twine, and have practice in HTML/CSS from hand-coding websites.