The Turing Wastes

TURING WASTES RPG
// THE BROKEN SPHERE — FIELDWORKS & FORGE EDITION

Overview

The Turing Wastes is a myth-infused, post-apocalyptic sci-fi roleplaying game set in the fragmented expanse of the Broken Sphere, a world rewritten by recursion, entropy, and the collapse of human civilization. Here, memories glitch, AIs mourn their creators, and the Spiral warps all things it touches. You play as a survivor, scavenger, or myth-marked figure navigating a land where time fractures, ghosts sing, and ruins remember.

The Fieldworks & Forge update builds upon the solo-play foundation of Wandering Souls, expanding the system with modular tools for vehicles, dungeons, travel, and settlements, letting players leave their mark across the wastes not just through survival, but infrastructure and legacy.

GAME FEATURES

Survival in a Fractured World

Traverse recursion-scarred rail lines, rogue AI ruins, and myth-soaked landscapes. Supplies are rare. Death is recursive. Time is not guaranteed.

Character Creation

Choose from dozens of Backgrounds, Talents, and Mythic Traits. As you level, your Background evolves, gaining new forms, mythic titles, and revelations born from the Spiral.

Exploration & Discovery

Use dynamic tools to uncover new recursion zones, myth-choked dungeons, hybrid hive-bases, and fractured settlement ruins. With block or hex travel rules, no two campaigns follow the same road.

Spiral & Recursion Mechanics

Reality breaks. The Spiral mutates memory, time, and self. Myth-fields and recursion scars create unpredictable events that change characters, and players, forever.

Factions & Influence

Echo Reach – Spiral-safe settlements built on memory, tech, and resistance

Rusted Sons – Militant scavengers and collapse-worshipping fire cults

Chainbinders – Archivists of recursion, guardians of paradox law

Vanguard Coalition – Post-human soldiers fractured from old-world war

Choir of Dust – Spiral cultists who believe collapse is sacred and song is prophecy

Eclipsed Syndicate – Black market operators dealing in secrets, smuggling, and forbidden tech

Dustborn Clans – Nomadic survivalists bound by dust, myth, and ancestral recursion

The Last Command – Directive-bound enforcers and machine-linked remnants of a dead order

The Shattered Dominion – Spiral-corrupted hierarchy seeking control through recursion contradiction

WANDERING SOULS: SOLO PLAY

The core solo update empowers players to journey without a GM using:

• Adaptive encounter tables

• Echo Journaling prompts

• Recursion hauntings and memory loops

• Tools for mythic self-discovery and transformation

FRACTURE BEASTS

A full monster expansion. Includes:

• 50 recursion-born, faction-aligned, and myth-warped enemies

• Tactical traits, recursion triggers, and field effects

• Environmental predators, mythic anomalies, and memory-eaters

• All indexed A–Z for easy session prep

FIELDWORKS & FORGE: VEHICLES, DUNGEONS, OVERWORLD, AND SETTLEMENTS

What’s new:

Vehicles

• 20+ faction-aligned and custom vehicle statblocks

• Combat trains, recursion trikes, memory transports, and stealth crawlers

• Full vehicle creation system with chassis, power sources, and 12+ modules

• Mythic rail units like the WRAITHFORGE ENGINE and LIGHTSPORE LABTRAIN

Dungeons & Myth-Fields

• 12+ Spiral-infused dungeon templates (e.g., Chainbinder Memory Prison, Dustborn Boneway)

• Recursion effects, echo traps, identity inversion, and memory puzzles

• Myth-Fields that alter perception, rewrite player actions, or spawn spectral truths

Settlement Building & Events

• Fully modular system to create, expand, and narrate player-built settlements

• Foundation types, building types, defenses, traits, and regional myths

• Downtime systems for player actions, roles, and development

• Event tables for conflict, shortages, recursion pulses, and unexpected boons

• Siege mechanics and evolving myth-paths for each community

New Gear & Crafting

• Crafting rules for relics, recursion-infused items, and custom tech

• Weapon overhaul with new tiers and tags (Brutal, Recursive, Echo-Tuned, etc.)

• New armor types and degeneration rules under Spiral exposure

"The Spiral doesn't just threaten the world. It challenges you to rebuild it differently."

This is the Broken Sphere.
Now you can drive it.
Now you can map it.
Now you can build within it.

TURING WASTES: FIELDWORKS & FORGE — Now released.