TL6-TL9 Parkour-friendly settings?

vicky_molokh · 05-12-2011, 09:22 AM

Greetings, all!

One of the colleagues played a song from the Mirror's Edge OST recently, and it got me thinking:

What kinds of modernish settings are 'friendly'* towards characters like Faith - free-spirited, athletic, idealistic, and kinda allergic the more typical gunbunny stereotype of PCs.

I have this weird idea of a city abandoned after a neutron bomb detonation, which was made a place of some sort of reality-show: some TV corp took over the territory, rebuilt some very basic bits of an automated infrastructure (e.g. sewers and plumbing), keeps lots of camera drones flying around, offers some benefits to people who decide to live for a certain period of time within the city, but strictly limits the sort of equipment that can be taken there (and meddles with the life of the participants to boot). Naturally, the place attracted all sorts of rebel youths, daredevil-glory-hounds, people with a high opinion about their ability at Urban Survival etc. Of course, being actually isolated from the outside world ought to separate the truly capable from those who just followed because 'Dude, that is sooo Urrr-ban!'. Not something I'm ever planning to GM, just a weird random thought.

* == i.e. where such characters are appropriate not as a rare exception, but as people others see occasionally in life.

05-12-2011, 09:22 AM	#1
vicky_molokh GURPS FAQ Keeper Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Kyïv, Ukraine	TL6-TL9 Parkour-friendly settings? Greetings, all! One of the colleagues played a song from the Mirror's Edge OST recently, and it got me thinking: What kinds of modernish settings are 'friendly'* towards characters like Faith - free-spirited, athletic, idealistic, and kinda allergic the more typical gunbunny stereotype of PCs. I have this weird idea of a city abandoned after a neutron bomb detonation, which was made a place of some sort of reality-show: some TV corp took over the territory, rebuilt some very basic bits of an automated infrastructure (e.g. sewers and plumbing), keeps lots of camera drones flying around, offers some benefits to people who decide to live for a certain period of time within the city, but strictly limits the sort of equipment that can be taken there (and meddles with the life of the participants to boot). Naturally, the place attracted all sorts of rebel youths, daredevil-glory-hounds, people with a high opinion about their ability at Urban Survival etc. Of course, being actually isolated from the outside world ought to separate the truly capable from those who just followed because 'Dude, that is sooo Urrr-ban!'. Not something I'm ever planning to GM, just a weird random thought. * == i.e. where such characters are appropriate not as a rare exception, but as people others see occasionally in life. __________________ Vicky 'Molokh', GURPS FAQ and uFAQ Keeper Last edited by vicky_molokh; 05-12-2011 at 09:42 AM. Reason: Bolded an important sentence so as not to mislead people.