04-29-2019, 05:26 PM | #1011 |
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Re: New Sci Fi Setting Seeds
The Superiors are generally old money types simply because they have the opportunity to gain wealth and hold it. As their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren are normally adults while Superiors are still active adults, wealth is securely passed down the family line. Although there aren't per se nobles on Arcadia, the wealthier Superior families do act the part.
Because Witches and Superiors live so long, these two groups of parahumans tend to dominate scholarship, the clergy, and the superiors tend to dominate politics. Quite simply, they live on and learn more while their rivals die of old age.
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05-03-2019, 11:48 AM | #1012 |
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Re: New Sci Fi Setting Seeds
Three groups of Otherkin don't live near humans. Of these three people care the least about the Wolves. Poor people living in cold lands whom no one ever sees aren't very interesting. Just compare all the movies dealing with the Inuit as compared to those set in the tropics.
The Green really have the least to do with other humans, but they are seen as mysterious and they live in jungles and swamps. Their reputation is bad/scary but few people even see them from year to year. The Amphibians live isolated from other humans but they deal with humans regularly and are respected tradespeople. The Amphibians are mildly liked. The Flyers live fairly near humans but keep their distance as best they can. People vary between seeing them as familiar or standoffish. There's an ambiguity in how peoples see the Flyers. The Witches, because of the Psionic Charisma, are well loved, but not particularly respected. The Superiors are respected, but few love them. The Gnomes are ignored, until or unless people want something.
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05-06-2019, 12:37 PM | #1013 |
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Try this one..
Stealing from Resident Evil, a corporation makes a Proteus Virus. The idea is the create super-soldiers preferably addicted to some corporate medical services in order to stay alive. The first human trials seem okay. The test subjects gain impressive amounts of strength, stamina, agility. speed, reflexes, and endurance. Unforeseen benefits show up as well. Increased intelligence, heightened perception, empathy, and reports of ESP and similar phenomena, are also reported. Suddenly it all went bad. The Proteus Virus became contagious. Large numbers of those infected went insane and burned out after a period of superhuman violence. Within a few months the world population was divided into the dead, the Mad, the Touched, the Scared, and the Uninfected. Seven out of ten men died within two weeks of infection and one out of ten women as well. The vast majority of the survivors are the Scared, sickly, passive, sterile, and with little or no willpower (Low Willpower -7). The Mad and the Touched actually have some of the "benefits" of the treatment (Stats up to plus 10, Regeneration, Regrow, Enhanced Senses, powerful mental advantages, Extra Hit Points and Fatigue, and rarely some Psi powers). The main difference between the Mad and the Touched is that the Mad are permanently insane, the Touched only have infrequent fits of insanity, so far. The Uninfected are the future, they aren't sterile. It has been discovered that the Uninfected aren't free of the Proteus Virus, their children are Enhanced (use whatever HomoSuperior Parahuman template you like from Transhuman Space to represent the children). But the kids are young and few. If the Touched and the Uninfected can't protect the children from the Mad, there won't be a future. Basically the Mad Max post-apocalyptic world with loads of superchanged mad people hunting down the few remaining children.
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05-11-2019, 12:31 PM | #1014 |
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Try this one...
Due to the development of cheap reliable fusion power and continuing internal political divisions, the USA remains the most powerful nation on Earth, but it is a Great Power which acknowledges no significant outside interests. The old Bretton Woods System is either attacked as a fraud or denounced as a warped parody of what it was in the first three decades. The systems on which the system was built have collapsed and a more 18th century style of trade is the world norm. The USA is as disinterested in trade as Medieval China and about as friendly to immigration as China was. Between fusion power, robotics, material science, and indoor agriculture, America isn't interested in bulk goods from elsewhere. The main outlet the USA has is Space Exploration and they don't even report their discoveries and achievements internationally. Russia has collapsed, China and India are rent with internal issues, the EU refuses to gel into a stable force. Most of the world is a power vacuum. And TL9 insurgences are filling the gap. The PCs would be mercenaries and rebels fighting in the brutal ruins of the third world.
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05-11-2019, 02:38 PM | #1015 | |
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05-11-2019, 03:46 PM | #1017 | |
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I said that America didn't publicise its spaceprogram abroad, not that it was secret. In many parts of today's Earth, if you believe that the USA landed a man on the Moon you're seen as an ignorant clod. So I just assumed a world where the US had its spaceprogram but had given up telling other countries the news officially. Space buffs in all nations know. Hipsters still know they're denying something real. No one really bothers much. The present world trade system is a grotesque backwards and right-wing parody of what everybody including the US signed off on at Bretton Woods. So having that collapse if there was no dominant power to promote it seemed likely.
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05-12-2019, 01:23 AM | #1018 |
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In real life? Seriously? That's not the impression that I've gotten, but on the other hand, my experience is by definition somewhat limited.
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