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Old 08-09-2010, 10:02 AM   #19
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Default Desperate Housebots

Now running. New players can be accommodated, but not immediately.

Desperate Housebots will be a GURPS Action campaign set in the Reign of Steel universe - specifically in Miami, in the Washington Protectorate. (This being Action, it's Cinematic Miami - watching lots of Burn Notice and CSI: Miami through a Reign of Steel lens will give you the right idea, and the works of Carl Hiaasen are also an influence.) It will be played via posts on this forum.

A basic familiarity with the Reign of Steel setting is required; you don't need to own the book, but it will help. If you know what GRRL is and why it exists, that's probably sufficient.

Player characters will be Resistance fighters trying to live ordinary lives and avoid being reported as possible subversives - while also going out and sabotaging the Machine and its collaborators. Expect a mix of talking and fighting; you should be able to handle yourself at either. The style will be cinematic and the tone relatively light-hearted with occasional dark spots. Players will normally be expected to make their own die rolls in order to keep things moving quickly.

Characters will be built on 250 points and should follow one of the templates in Action 1 or 3, substituting TL9 for TL8 skills (with equipment to be determined later); you are required to take Secret (Resistance member; possible death) [-30] and should probably cut back on other Disadvantages to compensate. Female characters must take Social Stigma (Second-Class Citizen) [-5]. Hackers will use the rules in Pyramid3 #21. Luck will refresh at the GM's option, generally once or twice per "adventure".

You should have something usable as an occupational skill: everyone is employed, the vast majority of them in industrial teleoperation (anything from mining via manufacturing to aquaculture), and there are still human cops, reporters, restaurateurs, and such like. You may well want to be able to speak Spanish as well as English; Miami has seen a substantial influx of refugees from Zone Mexico City, including the Caribbean. Also consider which resistance group you are a member of: Free America (most likely), GRRL (usually but not exclusively female), or the Human Liberation Army (least likely but still possible).

Please contact me (PM or ideally email) with your character's name, background and template; don't get into intricacies of character design straight away. I'll go into a bit more detail on the campaign when I know what sort of characters people want to play.

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