black dragoon
2008-08-03, 10:49 AM
alright, I know i'm still with the old rules this is a personal choice so sue me.
Anyways a friend and myself were thinking of a rather intriguing D20 modern setting that mixed the oddness of planescape and the thrill of gunplay as follows:
The old man withered and scarred from his years in the Zone sat down upon the wooden looking slowly at each of the wide-eyed children...not all of them were human. It was a sign of the times he thought to himself.
"children." he growled. his voice low and gravelly." THe world was not always this way once in the time before you and me my father had seen a world so diffrent and so beautiful. He told when I was young of how there had been no magic and how there was only the humans no one else. The worlds were seperate and distinct then slowly at first magic returned. At first we mere humans shunned such things then steadily we grew to use it in every aspect of our lives. that was till one day when a group of powerful mages who felt the urge to tamper with the very fabric that makes the world built the Tower and within it's walls began insane expierements. One day though they went to far and ripped the world asunder! the had built a portal and from it they believed they could do anything. THe fools never saw the danger they had created. THeir portal grew out of control and flooded the very veins of the poor world with magical energy creating shockwaves of energy that echoe to this day. these shockwaves are what allow other worlds to bleed through. From this the The Portal devolved into a force of nature The Rift. The gateway that floods the world with magic and created the wave that brought through some of the denziens of the Hub that arose around it all to satbilize that monster and prevent another Seven Days of Chaos...
Alright what's happened is that our earth circa 2012 was effectivley violently thrusted into the multiverse and has pulled parts of the Great Wheel down onto it. The Leylines glow in plain sight like a twisted version of the auroas and planar creatures of all kinds now roam the planet. Some benign and many less so. Its in the concept stages still so please comment on any gaps you see.
I DO NOT WANT TO REMAKE RIFTS!! THIS IS PLANESCAPE CRASHING WITH OUR WORLD IN A POST-APOCALYPSE SETTING!!!
Anyways a friend and myself were thinking of a rather intriguing D20 modern setting that mixed the oddness of planescape and the thrill of gunplay as follows:
The old man withered and scarred from his years in the Zone sat down upon the wooden looking slowly at each of the wide-eyed children...not all of them were human. It was a sign of the times he thought to himself.
"children." he growled. his voice low and gravelly." THe world was not always this way once in the time before you and me my father had seen a world so diffrent and so beautiful. He told when I was young of how there had been no magic and how there was only the humans no one else. The worlds were seperate and distinct then slowly at first magic returned. At first we mere humans shunned such things then steadily we grew to use it in every aspect of our lives. that was till one day when a group of powerful mages who felt the urge to tamper with the very fabric that makes the world built the Tower and within it's walls began insane expierements. One day though they went to far and ripped the world asunder! the had built a portal and from it they believed they could do anything. THe fools never saw the danger they had created. THeir portal grew out of control and flooded the very veins of the poor world with magical energy creating shockwaves of energy that echoe to this day. these shockwaves are what allow other worlds to bleed through. From this the The Portal devolved into a force of nature The Rift. The gateway that floods the world with magic and created the wave that brought through some of the denziens of the Hub that arose around it all to satbilize that monster and prevent another Seven Days of Chaos...
Alright what's happened is that our earth circa 2012 was effectivley violently thrusted into the multiverse and has pulled parts of the Great Wheel down onto it. The Leylines glow in plain sight like a twisted version of the auroas and planar creatures of all kinds now roam the planet. Some benign and many less so. Its in the concept stages still so please comment on any gaps you see.
I DO NOT WANT TO REMAKE RIFTS!! THIS IS PLANESCAPE CRASHING WITH OUR WORLD IN A POST-APOCALYPSE SETTING!!!