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Our New Tabletop Roleplaying-Game Event, Benefitting the Public Media Institute
Play on Saturday, September 13, 2025!
Doors @ 6pm, Game @ 7pm—11pm
We play at the Co-Prosperity Sphere event gallery
3219 S Morgan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60608
★★★★★
“Super well structured, appeals to all play styles and knowledge levels. […] Lots of little extra things which enhance the experience, like coins to symbolize quest completion, etc.” —Dan (at Level Eater 15, in 2025)
General Admission
1 Ticket for 1 Player- Each table seats up to 5 players, plus your host.
- Discover a thrilling adventure and shape it in play!
- Select from our ready-to-play original characters!
- Support the arts in Chicago and beyond!
- Purchase a tote bag at the event.
- Purchase the rules-reference book at the event.
VIP Tables
1 Table, 5 Tickets- Each table seats up to 5 players, plus your host.
- Discover a thrilling adventure and shape it in play!
- Select from our ready-to-play original characters!
- Enjoy a set of complimentary drink tickets
- Each player at your table gets the tote bag
- Each player at your table gets the reference book
- Support the arts in Chicago and beyond!
Explore an incredible new game world that blends trappings of classic adventure stories with modern style. Salvage the best parts of the past to build a brighter future.
Our thrilling new game plays fast, with a custom-built engine to propel epic adventures like ours. Take daring Risks and face fearsome Dangers to change the fate of our game world.
Discover a new cast of characters to play, combining classes such as Mechanic, Mystic, and Rogue to portray intriguing individuals on grand adventures.
Multiple worlds (including a fictional version of Earth) connect to our campaign setting. Playable adventurers can be marooned robots, stranded mystics, or daring rogues from other worlds or this one, but wherever (and whenever) their stories began, their adventures unfold with us now. Passage to this lost world is one-way—no one goes back.
We Provide Characters.
In Salvage Era, each character combines two of five classes that express how they approach their adventures. Each class grants powerful Features for use in play.
You play.
Classes aren’t everything. Each character offers ways to customize them and make them distinctly yours. Part of the adventure is portraying your character.
Captain
Social & Supportive
Support and guide allies on any adventure. Encourage, coordinate, and rally your team.
Fighter
Active & Tough
Combat foes and defend your allies with courage and prowess. It takes more than might to fight.
Mechanic
Bright & Equipped
Salvage, repair, and rebuild what you need to succeed. Disable or dismantle the tools of your enemies.
Rogue
Cunning & Quick
Dodge, sneak, or deceive, always on the move. Outwit or outmaneuver threats along the way.
Scholar
Savvy & Curious
Learn all you can. Study the world around you. Discover the unknown, for everyone’s sake.
Lost in Another World
In a world between worlds, your adventurer risks their life to help build a worthy home in the last free city: Solace.
Its deep-water port supplies the roving cargo ship, Chicago Star, and her community of adventurous wanderers traveling the waters of the Never Sea in search of adventure.
This lost ocean and its strange islands—caught between Earth and other worlds—are home to misfit castaways, odd mystics, and misplaced androids. Monsters roam the rough wilds and ancient ruins. Ruthless warlords fight for turf and rule their fiefdoms with fear.
The ruins of other worlds litter these forests and shores. Salvage all you can. Restore what is good. Build for the better.
In this place, you are heroes.
Be heroic. Fight evil. Play our game.
Behind the Scenes
It is a magical time for tabletop roleplaying games. Long have we, at Level Eater Adventures, wanted to shape how we play to better fit events like ours. Plus, we want to play more often and help new players discover the thrill of RPGs.
Now we’ve done it. Thus begins our Salvage Era.
Our new game rules deliver vivid thrills—and showcase some of our favorite ways to approach play—for propulsive adventure stories. The new game emphasizes characterization in exciting and playful ways. Also, it plays nicely with the quest-based format we love from our Level Eater events, while inspiring new encounters. (And we use all the dice we love.)
Salvage Era combines classic adventure-story stylings with a bolt of revitalizing lightning to spark a fantastical mash-up custom-crafted for play. The islands of the Never Sea teem with drama and action.
This game world blends styles of past times with new possibilities to create an imaginary place primed for mash-ups and reinvention. Trappings, scrap, and wreckage from other worlds litter the wilds of this one. This place is all about making new things out of what we have available; about banding together to build what wouldn’t be possible alone. We’re not here to restore old tropes—we’re making a new ride out of classic parts. It’s about salvaging what’s good and building new things.
Adventures in Salvage Era occur in locales ranging from ancient ruins to remarkable cities. The Never Sea has been home to a thousand years of peoples thrown together by time, magic, and happenstance, forming cultures and environments that do not exist in any other worlds. Explore an arcane dungeon guarded by futuristic traps. Return an artifact to a haunted tomb made from a repurposed 1950s army bunker. Strike a bargain with a shipping magnate who once met Alexander the Great.
Part of a whole day of adventurous gaming at the Co-Prosperity Sphere. Join us in the afternoon for free demos of local games in development!
