So You Want to Make a Solarpunk City?

A creation for this month's Eternal TTRPG Jam theme, DIY Punk- rather than making a game with procedures for making your own content, this is closer to a guide for making content for solarpunk games or games that want to include some kind of solarpunk community.

It also wasn't planned to be as long as it ended up being!

This is aimed at giving you prompts and suggestions for thinking about a community's form, history, culture, and needs in order to make a distinct solarpunk society/community/city, rather than an art nouveau/Chobani-yoghurt ad aesthetic applied to everything.

Sustainability, ecological balance, retooling societies away from a basis on overexploitation of resources is something that will, and should, look different as you move through a world and local conditions change. This is meant to help you go about thinking about that.

For those unfamiliar with solarpunk, the guide itself references summarised solarpunk principles, but solarpunk has significant history as a socio-political movement as well as an aesthetic and literary one, and it's worth digging into if you get an opportunity, beyond what's in this guide.

As much as I've tried to put a lot of thought into the guide, it won't be comprehensive, and I can't rule out it expanding at some point in the future if I come back to it.