Pan-American Cooperative Network: A Solarpunk Setting & Worldbuilding Project of the Gold Coast

The Pan-American Cooperative Network is a setting that houses many previously released solo journal games I've worked on, such as Coven Dinner Party and The Van Witch. It was a haphazard set of worldbuilding notes and written texts that I kept in my binder, in my journals, in plain text documents, and in complicated markdown files.

But, I've recently stumbled onto the fact that I really need to organize my world-building notes. It's been building up a mean writer's block. I will be releasing similar worldbuilding projects like this (and like Disengage) more in the future, and I will periodically update this project and the others whenever I make developments in the world.

This is a work-in-progress world-building project that centers around a solarpunk world in the future. The secondary purpose of releasing these reference/lore documents about this world I've been working on is so people can have a semi-established and organized solarpunk setting that they are freely able to use for their own TTRPG campaigns, solo RPG adventures, or even for their own TTRPG system/game or written story. You're free to use this setting information as you wish and modify it for yourself/use, I would just like a shoutout as inspiration on whatever you make :)

This setting is in the near future, a period of time that has just moved past the last climate rumblings that destabilized humanity for a horrific moment, just enough to convince everyone remaining of the necessity to nurture the Earth for our own sake, at the very least. Our attention has shifted towards cooperation, instead of erratic growth. Humanity is scattered now, and entire continents worth of humans have had to reshuffle and organize themselves and their loved ones onto an old Earth, into old re-imagined cities, and new communities. The people of this age are tired of hunger, war, and disaster—virtually everyone’s efforts are directed toward the survival and nurturing of the remaining people on Earth. It’s hard to not be cooperative during these times, in the wake of humanity seeing the devastating consequences of living detached from one another. Empathetic and compassionate communities have risen from the ashes--from the floods, from the wreckage of storms, earthquakes, and heat--of a chaotic planet. Technological advances, cooperation, and trauma have pushed those left on Earth towards a path of rebuilding and healing the remains of a broken planet.