The Lost: A Trans, Queer, Dark, Urban Fantasy, Superhero, Fate Core game

In this world, there are haves and have nots. There is the rich and there is the poor. There is inequity, strife, hunger, suffering, and bloodshed, all in the name of the supremacy of the state.

But, you are different. You have stirred from the slumber that keeps people from awakening to their rebel spirit. You have seen who you truly are deep down and accepted it. Awoken, you have gained the might power of Animus, the true self. You stand against Society and its Authority Figures, aiding those less fortunate when the need arises. 

The Lost is a Trans, Queer, Dark Urban Fantasy Superhero Fate Core game.

The game focuses on The Awakened, who are capable of summoning their Animus to aid them in their endeavors. Animus are supernatural manifestations of one's true self that take a form that is allegorical to their nature. Each one possesses powers that grow over time. When summoned, the Awakened takes on their Avatar form and has the ability to utilize their Animus' Power. 

The Awakened oppose Society, which is a system invented by humans to reinforce the power of the ruling class. They do so by directly opposing Society's Authority Figures. In their efforts, they attempt to Awaken the populace of The City by solving inequity, corruption and other forms of oppression. The Awaken operate in Cells that either act independently or as part of a larger counter culture. 

The Lost is a standalone title that uses the Fate Core System, while heavily borrowing elements from the Venture City superhero system on the Fate SRD. The game uses two-column fate to separate the Awakened from their Animus' ability. The title will be familiar to anyone used to these versions of Fate and mainly combines them to create the intended experience. 

The game is unplaytested, unedited, does not have art assets, has basic and rough layout from someone who is untrained (myself), is completely free, and is under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

The Lost was originally a small projected started in 2016 and abandoned. I recently started to fiddle with it and finished it. It was originally started during my first play-through of Persona 5, but was abandonment due to a lack of ideas. Recently, when my friend streamed the game, I got the ideas to finish the tile, using it as inspiration.  With Pride 2025 coming up, it felt like a good title to coincide for the event. I intentionally left a lot of the 2016 version in as the title works as sort of an example of how much I've been a different person in those 9 years, giving the book essentially two authors. Which, given the nature of the month, felt appropriate.