Fenixcrest
Dec 1st, '07, 01:23 PM
Fenixcrest is posting a thread, and you know what that means! There's an 80% chance that his writers' ADD has kicked in and he's ringing in the new genre book with a really weird setting.
So, here's my exposition for "Godstone: A Post-Apocalyptic Super Heroes Setting."
Recently (or not so recently, GM's decision. I'm gonna start the campaign the day after the event), everybody died. Well, not everybody. In one night, 80% of the people on Earth simply dropped dead. Now, an autopsy, if you can find a pathologist, would reveal that the victims' lungs filled with fluid and they died of suffocation. This would be great to know... if the corpses would stay down.
Now, the time varies from subject to subject... but invariably, all of the dead from the plague eventually get back up again. It may have been within seconds of brain death, or they may wait as long as years. Eventually, though, they all come back as near-mindless, flesh eating zombies.
You're probably wondering where the "super heroes" part comes in. And NO, it's not like "Marvel Zombies." It's coming up.
The zombies are not the only thing that have arrived. Every once in a while, for reasons unknown, a zombie "changes." Its human form dissolving away in a brilliant show of luminous energy, a horrific, powerful monster emerges from the walking corpse. These creatures are cunning and ruthless, and seem to have the agenda of occupying the earth for some fell purpose.
The only ones with any knowledge of the creatures and their origins are, unfortunately, the dead. Fallen from the mysterious plague, the ghosts of mankind linger on. Moreover, a mysterious intelligence has explained to them the monsters' source of power. By subsuming the soul that once inhabited a zombie body, a powerful extradimensional monster may take the energy from that process and create a body in our world. These dead have been taught how to harness this process themselves... unfortunately, to call upon the power they must destroy themselves. So, for their various own reasons- revenge, a desire to rebuild mankind, a sense of justice, or whatever, these dead have sought out a number of survivors with the potential to sense them.
Upon making contact with a survivor, a large number of the dead will subsume themselves, combining their remaining energies into one single artifact... the Godstone. Embedding itself in the chosen survivor's body, the Godstone gives him or her the power to transform into a deity-like creature. Though it is often the hope of the ghosts who formed into a Godstone that the chosen one will fight and defeat the demons, the truth is that a Godstone wielder can do whatever he or she chooses with the power.
There are a number of directions to go with a setting like this. The player characters, Godstone wielders all, could embark on campaign to find the origin of the plague and stop the demons completely. They could join with a band of other survivors and help build a new society, acting as guardians. They could wander aimlessly in the empty expanse of the world, fighting the battles they choose, and the battles that choose them.
I'm trying to sell some of my player base on the idea at this time. What do you guys think?
Godstone users are built as 50+50 competent normal characters, which are then expanded into 200 +150 super heroes. Any powers greater than 15 active points need to be either OIHID or contained within a multiform. This includes Characteristics beyond those of the 50+50 "pre-Godstone" character. EDIT: Oh, yeah, and the 50+50 version can have 5 Active Point supernatural abilities, if desired. Disads should be based on the new world, for purposes of things like Hunted, Rival, and DNPC. Just remember that the character before the Godstone has 100 points.
EDIT: after some experimentation with NPC generation, I've reduced the "original normal form" points to 50+50, a 50-point reduction. This results in a character who is more along the lines of a "better, but still regular" person before receiving their powers.
So, here's my exposition for "Godstone: A Post-Apocalyptic Super Heroes Setting."
Recently (or not so recently, GM's decision. I'm gonna start the campaign the day after the event), everybody died. Well, not everybody. In one night, 80% of the people on Earth simply dropped dead. Now, an autopsy, if you can find a pathologist, would reveal that the victims' lungs filled with fluid and they died of suffocation. This would be great to know... if the corpses would stay down.
Now, the time varies from subject to subject... but invariably, all of the dead from the plague eventually get back up again. It may have been within seconds of brain death, or they may wait as long as years. Eventually, though, they all come back as near-mindless, flesh eating zombies.
You're probably wondering where the "super heroes" part comes in. And NO, it's not like "Marvel Zombies." It's coming up.
The zombies are not the only thing that have arrived. Every once in a while, for reasons unknown, a zombie "changes." Its human form dissolving away in a brilliant show of luminous energy, a horrific, powerful monster emerges from the walking corpse. These creatures are cunning and ruthless, and seem to have the agenda of occupying the earth for some fell purpose.
The only ones with any knowledge of the creatures and their origins are, unfortunately, the dead. Fallen from the mysterious plague, the ghosts of mankind linger on. Moreover, a mysterious intelligence has explained to them the monsters' source of power. By subsuming the soul that once inhabited a zombie body, a powerful extradimensional monster may take the energy from that process and create a body in our world. These dead have been taught how to harness this process themselves... unfortunately, to call upon the power they must destroy themselves. So, for their various own reasons- revenge, a desire to rebuild mankind, a sense of justice, or whatever, these dead have sought out a number of survivors with the potential to sense them.
Upon making contact with a survivor, a large number of the dead will subsume themselves, combining their remaining energies into one single artifact... the Godstone. Embedding itself in the chosen survivor's body, the Godstone gives him or her the power to transform into a deity-like creature. Though it is often the hope of the ghosts who formed into a Godstone that the chosen one will fight and defeat the demons, the truth is that a Godstone wielder can do whatever he or she chooses with the power.
There are a number of directions to go with a setting like this. The player characters, Godstone wielders all, could embark on campaign to find the origin of the plague and stop the demons completely. They could join with a band of other survivors and help build a new society, acting as guardians. They could wander aimlessly in the empty expanse of the world, fighting the battles they choose, and the battles that choose them.
I'm trying to sell some of my player base on the idea at this time. What do you guys think?
Godstone users are built as 50+50 competent normal characters, which are then expanded into 200 +150 super heroes. Any powers greater than 15 active points need to be either OIHID or contained within a multiform. This includes Characteristics beyond those of the 50+50 "pre-Godstone" character. EDIT: Oh, yeah, and the 50+50 version can have 5 Active Point supernatural abilities, if desired. Disads should be based on the new world, for purposes of things like Hunted, Rival, and DNPC. Just remember that the character before the Godstone has 100 points.
EDIT: after some experimentation with NPC generation, I've reduced the "original normal form" points to 50+50, a 50-point reduction. This results in a character who is more along the lines of a "better, but still regular" person before receiving their powers.