What is this?
Welcome to the beguiling and deadly world of Salt Mystic: a unique blend of western grit and fantastical science! Step into a far future world where artificial pocket dimensions hide untold mysteries and gunslingers duel with ball lightning in software-haunted ruins.
Salt Mystic is a breakthrough multi-media experience that seamlessly weaves together the rugged allure of a wild western tale but with the boundless wonders of far-future science fantasy. Fusing art, fiction, social media, merchandise, and tabletop gaming, Salt Mystic aims at nothing less than forging a new way to interact with a fully-realized imagined world!
Stunning visuals, unique and dazzling technology and locations, and larger-than-life characters are the hallmarks of Salt Mystic. For the explorers at heart, for the wild renegades who just want to ride fast, for the warrior who dreams of fantastical armies smashing into each other, for the storyteller at home by a crackling fire and an oak table, this one’s for you!
But what’s it about?
The Salt Mystic saw how to bend the forces of history—how to steer humanity over the centuries with stories—and from her vision rose the Infinite Republic. It was a chain of shining civilizations sprawling the world and tucked inside pocket dimensions called oriels.
Then came the War of the Rupture. A thousand worlds fell. Now the air hums with ruin and electricity.
Across the wreckage ride the scavengers and seers, the gunslingers who duel with ball lightning and trade in forgotten machines and scraps of powerful fables. Somewhere out there, the old Republic still flickers—and some still whisper that the Mystic’s stories live on, choosing new hosts to rebuild it.
Gather stories or live them. That’s how it is here. Welcome.
Fantastic! How can I get started?
SALT MYSTIC: BOOK OF LOTS is the easiest and most immersive means of entering the Salt Mystic universe. Built on a novella-length bibliomancy oracle and streamlined RPG rules so simple they fit on a couple of pages, it just looks like a book – actually, it’s an adventure!
Contents:
- A detailed index
- An introduction to a far-future setting (western-themed, so plasma-gauntlet dueling cowboys delving pocket worlds)
- A simple, streamlined set of rules enabling a player to use no ruleset at all or even dice outside of the book
- 40,000+ word set of short passages, consulted via bibliomancy to judge outcomes and events, adding story prompt flavor to judgements
- Map and atlas descriptions of locations in the setting
- 13 traditional nested oracle tables to further drive events in the story
What about the tabletop wargame?
Download the Salt Mystic Wargame Basic Rules for free.
It contains everything you need to get going, including core rules, starter decks, even papercraft terrain, a ruler and dice cards. Now also includes a bonus adventure scenario with short fiction and game setup instructions!
The Salt Mystic core game is a terrain-based, deckbuilding tabletop wargame that is easy to learn, with the rules heavily illustrated on only ten pages.
“It’s like playing a beer-and-pizza wargame with Magic: The Gathering cards. Things heat up quickly!”
A game of Salt Mystic requires two 30-card selections from War Marshal card decks, which are available as cut & folds in the rulebook or separately as smooth-finish card decks at DrivethruRPG.
“…the most mind-blowing part of this volume is the rich, robust worldbuilding lore and background. With hundreds of illustrations and art pieces and immersive and detailed entries, the distinctive machinery, people, places and history of the Salt Mystic world come gloriously alive! The publishers call this volume an Immersive Storytelling Engine, and they mean it!” -SpikeyBits
Contents include:
- Hundreds of illustrations and art pieces either set in the Salt Mystic universe or clearly explaining the game rules
- A rich lore and background section explaining the history, people, machines, and places of the Salt Mystic universe
- Clear, intuitive instructions on gameplay for the Salt Mystic tabletop wargame in 10 easy pages with examples
- Bonus ruleset for the solo dungeon crawler, Salt Mystic: Protector played with the same game cards as the core game:
- Eight papercraft terrain options that you can tear out and place on the table
- Detailed graphical listing of all Volume One game cards and actual cut & play gaming elements:
- 30-card starter deck for Karak: Hammer Of The Red Witch, War Marshal of the Mountains
- 30-card starter deck for Segmond: The Loreblade, War Marshal of the Salt Flats
- Six dice cards to use in place of dice (if desired)
- A scaled ruler for table placement and movements
Gunslinging adventurers and plasma weapons. Nice. Where can I see more of this?
Where can I get some Salt Mystic merchandise?
Head to our merch store. We recently converted from our old Teespring storefront to Zazzle, where we’re growing a line of unique, eye-catching, and immersive art prints and apparel we think you’ll love.
What about books?
TEARING DOWN THE STATUES is an introductory novel that establishes the setting and sets the stakes. It’s the electrifying story of this generation’s true Guardian. Maybe. Anyway, it’s funny and scary and has great dialogue with characters that pop. And cool machines. What else do you want?
And soon, we’ll have a standalone novel introducing a new War Marshal and some terrifying new threats into the Salt Mystic universe…
We’re hard at work on this one. The working title is Mazewater When He Veiled The Sky, and it will be primarily set in a tumbledown jumbled mess of a city called The Jagganatheum. We finished the detailed map a while back, and it turned out fantastic!
The idea is these novels (and the Lore Cards) introduce important characters and developments in the overall story that bring new cards and mechanics as we go. You should join us in this!
Grailrunner Publishing 