The Night Land TTRPG Opens Its Kickstarter Pre-Launch
An Argentine indie studio is adapting William Hope Hodgson’s 1912 weird-fiction classic into an old-school TTRPG of survival, exploration, and horror.
The Company Studio has opened the Kickstarter pre-launch page for The Night Land™, a tabletop roleplaying game based on the world created by William Hope Hodgson in his 1912 novel.
Developed in Córdoba, Argentina, The Night Land brings Hodgson’s vast, hostile far-future world to the tabletop through an old-school approach centered on survival, exploration, resource management, and the dangers of travelling beyond humanity’s last refuge.
In Hodgson’s original world, the Sun and stars are gone. Humanity survives inside the enormous Last Redoubt while the frozen lands beyond its walls are inhabited by strange creatures, ancient forces, and mysteries that have remained largely unexplained for more than a century.
The goal of the RPG is not to explain those mysteries away, but to give players the tools to enter that world themselves.
Survival in the Night Land
Characters can explore the enormous interior of the Last Redoubt or venture beyond its walls into the Night Land itself.
Travel outside the Redoubt is deliberately dangerous. Light, food, water, rest, equipment, visibility, and distance all matter. A journey into the Night is not simply movement between encounters, it is one of the central parts of play.
Light in particular is a resource rather than scenery. Sources have limited charges and different ranges, and losing reliable illumination can dramatically change what characters are capable of seeing and doing.
The game uses a modernized percentile system inspired by classic percentile roleplaying games, designed to keep resolution straightforward while leaving room for narrative decisions and consequences.
Rather than building the setting around a generic rules engine, The Company Studio is developing mechanics specifically around the pressures and peculiarities of Hodgson’s world.
More Than a Century of Mystery
A major part of development has involved returning to Hodgson’s original texts and gathering information scattered throughout the fiction.
The team is also working with readers and writers who have studied The Night Land and its wider literary tradition for decades, with the aim of creating a detailed game while preserving the uncertainty and unexplained elements that make the setting distinctive.
Players will be able to experience life within the Last Redoubt, explore its immense structure, and eventually cross the Night Wall into a world where preparation can be as important as courage.
The Kickstarter Pre-Launch Is Live
The Kickstarter page is now open for followers ahead of the campaign.
Following the project on Kickstarter will notify interested players when the campaign launches and as further information about the game is revealed.
Project page:
https://www.thecompany.ar/thenightlandrpg
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About The Company Studio
The Company Studio is a small independent tabletop roleplaying studio based in Córdoba, Argentina. The studio develops original games with systems designed around their settings and also provides game design, narrative development, layout, playtesting, and consulting services for other creators.
More information:
https://www.thecompany.ar/
