Post by Gigermann on Mar 3, 2013 22:33:01 GMT -6
Time to get this ball rolling and see where it lands.
What I have in mind to run:
Subject to Players' adjustment
What I have in mind to run:
Subject to Players' adjustment
- Modern post-apocalypse survival campaign—going for a (early) newBSG feel
- CPs: 200/-75/-5
- I've decided to start the PCs off some time post-Event; 28 days? No longer than a month or two, anyways. I'd like to do a wake-up start, but I haven't figured out how to handle that yet
- Planning to start somewhere in the mid-US—KS/NE-ish
- I've decided to go ahead with zombies, for starters, for the aforementioned reasons (easy, well-understood, lotsa resources), but additionally, they can easily segue into aliens/celestials/fey/bio-tech—there will be a Mystery™ behind the outbreak
- Total sandbox hex-crawl. There will be a basic meta-story regarding the outbreak, but you will be free to completely ignore it. The story, in the end, will be what you make of it—you're driving, and I'm just feeding the furnace. The game will rely a great deal on random tables and such, which means encounters can swing from milk-runs to party-killers—up to you to run away. Also will depend/benefit greatly on Player-arbitrated content, and telegraphing of Players' intentions; I will be looking for consensus, rather than arbitration, whenever possible
- I intend to use the usual (for me) "realistic" approach—no cinematic stuff
- There will be no quarter given—this is going to be, essentially, a "survival" game, and I expect characters to be lost—will still use Plot Points, though
- Planning to use a ME Paragon/Renegade "karma" system; the "baseline" for adjudicating what actions are which will be be firmly established pre-game
- Planning to use the Relationships mechanic from Smallville RPG—since this is still untested, we'll drop it if it isn't working out (and repurpose any CPs used)
- It might be ideal for PCs to have a tie-in, as has been the usual case lately, but in this campaign, it isn't actually all that important
- I won't be making as much fuss over backgrounds in this game, but whatever you give me, I'll see that it gets used
- Planning to start at the end of the FGLE cycle, and go for as long as we can/want to keep it going