Salt Mystic is a western science-fantasy universe of plasma gunslingers, impossible technologies, lost artificial worlds, and stories that can take on lives of their own. Enter through the tabletop wargame, explore with the Book of Lots, or follow the characters and mysteries through fiction.
PLAY
Fast, narrative skirmish battles where cards become the battlefield. No gluing or painting.
EXPLORE
Explore Salt Mystic through a solo adventure engine powered by bibliomancy.
READ
Enter Salt Mystic through the novels and a growing archive of free illustrated stories.
THE INFINITE REPUBLIC IS GONE. THE STORIES LIVE ON.
Two thousand years after the Salt Mystic discovered that stories could bend the course of history, the Infinite Republic lies shattered. Its descendants survive among ruined cities, artificial worlds, forgotten technologies and the remnants of impossible wars. Plasma gunslingers, war machines and wandering storytellers now struggle over what remains and over the living stories that may shape what comes next.
CARDS BECOME THE BATTLEFIELD
Salt Mystic is a fast science-fantasy skirmish game where characters, vehicles, terrain and story effects live on cards, while movement, facing, range and positioning happen physically on the tabletop. Build your force, control the battlefield and make every card play matter.
POSITION MATTERS
Facing, range, terrain and elevation shape every fight.
A WORLD ON THE CARDS
Characters, machines and scenarios connect every battle to the larger Salt Mystic universe.
SOLO OR HEAD-TO-HEAD
Fight another player or take on the Wolfpack solo system.
NOT EVERY BATTLEFIELD IS FLAT.
The Starter Set’s Towerlock scenario turns a vertical fortress wall into the battlefield, where elevation, falling and movement transform the fight. It’s one example of how Salt Mystic scenarios change the rules of engagement, not just the scenery.
STEP INSIDE
Salt Mystic: Book of Lots turns the setting into a solo science-fantasy adventure engine. Ask a question, consult the bibliomancy oracle, and let an unexpected passage push the story somewhere you didn’t plan.
YOUR STORY IS WAITING
Build a character, choose where to go, and use the book’s oracle to answer the questions that arise. The result is part roleplaying game, part story generator, and part exploration of the Salt Mystic universe.
ASK
Your character reaches a crossroads. Ask the question that matters: Who is behind the door? Can I trust hIm? What happened here?
CONSULT
Open the Book of Lots and let the bibliomancy oracle answer with a passage you could not have predicted.
DISCOVER
Interpret what you find, make your next choice, and follow the story wherever it leads.
IMMERSIVE STORIES
The Salt Mystic Story Arcade is a free archive of illustrated fiction from across the setting: strange encounters, forgotten places, dangerous people, and glimpses of worlds beyond the main novels. Pick a story and step inside.
THE NOVELS
Salt Mystic began in fiction, and the larger story continues through the novels. Meet the characters, wars and mysteries that give the tabletop world its history. Follow them far beyond anything that can fit on a game card.
The novel that opened the door to Salt Mystic. Enter the fallen world of the Infinite Republic and meet the people whose conflicts, beliefs and technologies would become the foundation of the larger setting.
COMING SOON: MAZEWATER
Lamberghast Mazewater grew up on the crumbling heights of a city grown wild inside a colossal ruin. Sickly and brilliant, he survives by tinkering with living metals, trying to outrun the shadows of the war that killed his family. Then a sentient, bloodthirsty falls into his hands…
WEAR SALT MYSTIC
The Discovery Series and Book of Lots shirts turn some of Salt Mystic’s strangest ideas into wearable designs built for conventions, game nights, and anyone who likes their science fantasy a little weird.
THE DISCOVERY SERIES
Playful designs that turn Salt Mystic’s strangest ideas into easy, amusing ways to discover the world. A plasma gunslinger, an adventurer entering a pocket world, and the mysterious Augur.
BOOK OF LOTS SHIRT
“We’re plasma gunslingers, dude. Your dice…they amuse us.” A playful nod to Book of Lots’ bibliomancy-driven adventures, where a book helps decide what happens next instead of a roll of the dice.
ENTER SALT MYSTIC YOUR WAY
Fight across the tabletop. Let the Book of Lots lead you somewhere unexpected. Follow the characters through fiction. However you enter, there’s always another corner of Salt Mystic waiting beyond the next door.
PLASMA GUNSLINGERS • LOST WORLDS • LIVING STORIES
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