David Blandy’s new tabletop role-playing game in a zine format, Alien Pastoral: The Strain.
You can also buy the card game version for £30 - see below in the shop.
The is an ideal game for those new to tabletop roleplay games!
Alien Pastoral: The Strain centres on a biological research station, run by an Authority, as the scientists try to engineer a new strain to solve an existential problem. An adaptation of Blandy’s previous work Gathering Storm, this gameexplores the strange and often blurred spaces between agriculture, technology and capitalism. Players collaboratively design a research station complete with seedbeds, orchards and laboratories to experience how relationships change with their environments in this open worlding game experience. A solo play version is also included.
Alien Pastoral: The Strain involves complex themes, narratives and storytelling; including material around body horror, isolation, loss of autonomy and trauma.
Originally commissioned by Serpentine Gallery, London as part of the Infinite Ecologies Marathon. Curated by Lucia Pietroiusti, Head of Ecologies, and Daisy Gould, Assistant Curator, Live Programmes. Produced by Isobel Peyton-Jones, Producer.
NB: Please note the zine or the card pack does not come with a tumbling tower block
To play you will need:
A tumbling tower block
A coin
A six-sided dice
Paper & pens
David Blandy’s new tabletop role-playing game in a zine format, Alien Pastoral: The Strain.
You can also buy the card game version for £30 - see below in the shop.
The is an ideal game for those new to tabletop roleplay games!
Alien Pastoral: The Strain centres on a biological research station, run by an Authority, as the scientists try to engineer a new strain to solve an existential problem. An adaptation of Blandy’s previous work Gathering Storm, this gameexplores the strange and often blurred spaces between agriculture, technology and capitalism. Players collaboratively design a research station complete with seedbeds, orchards and laboratories to experience how relationships change with their environments in this open worlding game experience. A solo play version is also included.
Alien Pastoral: The Strain involves complex themes, narratives and storytelling; including material around body horror, isolation, loss of autonomy and trauma.
Originally commissioned by Serpentine Gallery, London as part of the Infinite Ecologies Marathon. Curated by Lucia Pietroiusti, Head of Ecologies, and Daisy Gould, Assistant Curator, Live Programmes. Produced by Isobel Peyton-Jones, Producer.
NB: Please note the zine or the card pack does not come with a tumbling tower block
To play you will need:
A tumbling tower block
A coin
A six-sided dice
Paper & pens
