11-01-2017, 08:49 AM | #31 |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
I think you could also get a reasonable game out of Centrum/Homeline Dark, Interworld Service/Infinity Patrol Light setup. Centrum is an almost-dystopian technocratic collectivist regime; Homeline is a collection of selfish, exploitative agents out to ravage the infinite worlds for their own benefit. Caught between them are the two crosstime agencies, who often find they have more in common with each other than with their masters in the home timeline. Interworld Services agents develop a knack for individual initiative out of necessity, one that's suppressed on Centrum; Patrolmen learn respect for the outtimers that their homeline considers non-persons. And so on.
You could play it a bit comic, like Terry Pratchett's Small Gods; most of the campaign centers around dealing with a common foe like Reich-5 or the Cabal, with regular bits where the crosstime agents have to pull the wool over the eyes of officious inspectors or crooks from back home. Or you could go with something more deeply political and ambiguous, using the agencies to highlight what's good about their home cultures while critiquing the cultures themselves. |
11-01-2017, 03:37 PM | #32 | |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
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Officially where does Reign of Steel sit within the infinite worlds setting? Page 528 of GURPS campaigns mentions "Steel" only briefly.
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11-01-2017, 04:05 PM | #33 | |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
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Worldline Data TL: 10 Mana Level: no mana Quantum: 7 Infinity Class: Z2 Centrum Zone: Red
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11-01-2017, 04:55 PM | #34 |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
Cool, thanks for that.
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11-01-2017, 05:45 PM | #35 | ||
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The Cabal would be fun in that there's so many subfactions that it not a matter of what they'd do, more a matter of how many of them take each action. Oh sure, a lodge or two decides to buddy up with the centrum/homeline alliance. But there's always a lodge that tries to split them up, one that's still trying to bring Reich-5 to power, and the one that's decided that a worldline dominated by a single robomind would be quieter than things are now. Reich-5 is distant enough from Steel (presumably) that they might be able to ignore it; on the other hand, their dream does not have room for other powers, and as inhumane as Nazi ideology is, they probably would despise machines turning against humanity as much as anyone. Still, I don't see Reich-5 ever functioning as an ally. Maybe a Centrum planner wants to get Reich psitech to enhance the war effort, necessitating an infiltration of the far more human foes in the midst of the larger war. |
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11-01-2017, 09:51 PM | #36 |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
The Cabal is so fractious that it's easy and almost inevitable to become complacent about their potential power and effect. But if anything truly and overtly threatens existence, they can muster more force and knowledge than any other single or group of realities could imagine.
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11-02-2017, 03:53 AM | #37 |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
But only after quite a bit of argument and internal diplomacy.
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11-02-2017, 05:20 AM | #38 |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
…poisonings, sudden retirements, long sea voyages for the sake of one's health…
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11-02-2017, 08:37 AM | #39 | |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
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Reich-5 has one crucial ingredient to help with steel: biological world jumping. The biggest risk in opposing parachronic research on steel is that they might find out how to do it from the interference itself. Using mules greatly reduces that risk. Its also is inhumane, barbaric, involves working with a fringe group you really don't want spreading, and... yeah. If steel figures out how to get off of its world, Reich-5 won't be that useful.
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11-02-2017, 09:43 AM | #40 | |
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I could see the "not real people" argument lingering around the echoes and close parallels, but not otherwise. |
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