Zahhak
2013-01-10, 10:33 PM
For the last year or so I've been working on a campaign, well more of a setting. It's a sci fi setting generally, taking place about a hundred years in the future. As I was working on the setting it kept going down darker and darker channels, and right now it's crime drama/cyberpunk/space western/military sci fi type thing.
Basic setting info:
In the 70s the UN member states decided that combat in space was a bad thing, so they created a treaty that banned weapons in space. In the 2030s a combined effort of the US, EU, and China started a fairly large permanent colony on Mars. Another smaller colony from a private venture was already there, but this one would be much larger, with a population of a few thousand people. A generation later and the US has descended into civil war. The American component of the Martian Colony decided that the US would not survive, and they could not help. So, they declared their independence, and took over the other chunks of the colony. The US managed to hold itself together, but didn't have the strength to smack Mars back into line, so they let it stand.
Other elements of different countries left and Mars became a fairly prosperous little economy. They did so mostly by illegally selling weapons designed for use in space to various organizations. A large number of space stations that use rotation to simulate gravity have been set up around Earth, and most of them are run by various groups, like the mob. Basically, the area around Earth is like Las Vegas in the 30s: the prostitutes, drugs, and alcohol flow like water, with little law enforcement. Or law, for that matter.
The story itself is that one of the top tier members of an organization was assassinated, and the organization itself isn't sure if it can trust its own members, so they have their usual group of investigators, and they also quietly hire the party to look into things, just in case.
So, with that in mind, here are the things I've decided about the system:
1. A few members of my group hate DnD Future and I'm not a fan of HERO.
2. Deemphasis on combat, focus on investigation. Think film noir, almost.
Now, I had some other things that I knew I did/didn't want, but they escape me at the moment.
Anyways, thanks in advance!
Basic setting info:
In the 70s the UN member states decided that combat in space was a bad thing, so they created a treaty that banned weapons in space. In the 2030s a combined effort of the US, EU, and China started a fairly large permanent colony on Mars. Another smaller colony from a private venture was already there, but this one would be much larger, with a population of a few thousand people. A generation later and the US has descended into civil war. The American component of the Martian Colony decided that the US would not survive, and they could not help. So, they declared their independence, and took over the other chunks of the colony. The US managed to hold itself together, but didn't have the strength to smack Mars back into line, so they let it stand.
Other elements of different countries left and Mars became a fairly prosperous little economy. They did so mostly by illegally selling weapons designed for use in space to various organizations. A large number of space stations that use rotation to simulate gravity have been set up around Earth, and most of them are run by various groups, like the mob. Basically, the area around Earth is like Las Vegas in the 30s: the prostitutes, drugs, and alcohol flow like water, with little law enforcement. Or law, for that matter.
The story itself is that one of the top tier members of an organization was assassinated, and the organization itself isn't sure if it can trust its own members, so they have their usual group of investigators, and they also quietly hire the party to look into things, just in case.
So, with that in mind, here are the things I've decided about the system:
1. A few members of my group hate DnD Future and I'm not a fan of HERO.
2. Deemphasis on combat, focus on investigation. Think film noir, almost.
Now, I had some other things that I knew I did/didn't want, but they escape me at the moment.
Anyways, thanks in advance!