Savinien Posted November 4, 2005 Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 As some of you may be aware, I'm building a Campaign Setting for Star Hero. I'll not admit to be egotistical enough to think anyone here would ever choose to use my setting as their own. Therefore, I'll likely not be converting it to pdf or the like. Still, I like to share ideas and brainstorm with the Hero-philes. These are the pertinent threads to this setting. Read at your leisure and feel free to comment where you will. Instead of going on with the other threads, I'm hoping to conglomerate and continue questions in here. Dinosaur Planet - http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35485 Building tech for an original setting - http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37437 I am an idiot - http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37414 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted November 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 Current Campaigns Current DoS campaigns - Crashlanding! - What happens when a scuttle pilot falls through the Voltron Cone? Revolution - On New Ganna, the United New Ganna Force (UNGF) keeps the peace. A they're a hired army by a comglomerate of mega corporations on Ganna, the colonies are an ugly place. Two men travel the Hub dealing with life as it comes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted November 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 DoS: Crashlanding! The scuttle pilot, Tarka Ulnos is lost during a seemingly routine trip from New Ganna to Ganna. The Mag-Couplers along the entire train become compromised and while trying to save the Cargo Boxes, Tarka falls through the Voltron Cone. She crashlands on an unknown planet in an unknown system and tries to survive. Current Write-up: http://www.herogames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=862736&postcount=65 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted November 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 DoS: Revolution Here is the cureent write-up of what is happnening with the CoS: Revolution campaign: http://www.herogames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=855454&postcount=60 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted November 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 DoS Timeline Distant History - Long before current times, two people came to power among all the peoples of Ganna. They are the UPP and the Valduvians. 130 Years Ago - A Perdan craft landed on the moon and a Gannan, Slavos Dar walked on the surface. 100 Years Ago - First Fusion plant online 75 Years Ago - First Offworld Base manned on Ganna's Primary Satellite 50 Years Ago - Deepspace scope online 45 Years Ago - Green Planet found orbiting Kali 30 Years Ago - Vultron FTL first tested 25 Years Ago - FTL Conflict averted by Unified Ganna Forces 22 Years Ago - First successful FTL flight returns from Kali System 20 Years Ago - UGF Spacenaughts land on New Ganna 15 Years Ago - New Perda and Neo Valduvia Founded on New Ganna 6 Years Ago - First battles of the Colony Wars take place 2 Years Ago - The Spire become the seat of UNGF on New Ganna and Peaceful New Ganna Treaty signed by all colonies on New Ganna This thing is just off the top of my head. It will likely require a lot of work, yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted November 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 Brainstorming - Cross Genre Yesterday/Last Night - I pondered going a little off the beaten track and set-up a short-lived scenario with a couple character either on New Ganna, or the Homeworld, Ganna. Using the Night of the Living Dead Hero website, I contemplated having scientists in one of the Colonies having let loose a virus that creates a Resident Evil or Night of the Living Dead situation. My question... Would this cross-genre expirement hurt the overall concept of the campaign setting? Adding that horror element could change the tone/theme of the entire setting and shift the concept of the players. Crashlanding! - The 'fantasy/lost world' theme of this campaign may also do this. I'm planning on initiating the first 'alien' species during the run of this campaign, the Sauriel. The Sauriel are a 'fallen' society that once traversed the stars, even creating FTL. They weren't much for involving themselves with species on planets but, did create a few colonies themselves (all failed by this time). The Sauriel are an ancient race that nearly eradicated themselves on their Homeworld. They live now as barabric tribes on Mogg IV, a very lowly poulated planet in the Mogg system. Their ancient civilization has been buried beneath the massive waters of Mogg (think Atlantis) and 99.9999% of their current population knows nothing of their past. They have a sort of psionics that they see as shamanic magic. My question is whether or not treating it as magic will remove the 'sci-fi' feel of the setting. It seems and is built game-mechanically as magic. But, the theory behind the SFX is Psionics. I've rambled enough for a single post. Please add any thoughts/suggestions/comments that meet your fancy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted November 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2005 Re: Depths of Space - Original Setting New Ganna On the topography of New Ganna: New Ganna is a fairly large planet in a binary star system. It orbits happily along the green zone of the Alpha Star in the system. At this point, New Ganna has a fairly large belt of volcanic mountains along a major land mass. The Western side of this range, is quite arid and a desert of volcanic ash has been created in the last millenia. The hard rock well beneath hundreds of feet of ash is ripe for strip mining for the Gannans. The volvcanic range has seemingly steadily moved south along the massive range of mountains. Weather fronts from the Ocean of New Ganna work west and topple back when reaching the volcanic mountain range. It is in this area that Gannan colonies have sprouted for food sources for the rest of the Hub. At the northern edge of the active volcanoes, an extinct volcano capped itself. The active volcanoes march along southward, adding the much needed ash to the west and just enough fertility to the lands to the East. Here is where the spire arcs into the air. And from it, the strands of the Hub's web arc towards colonies on either side, mining to the West, within the Ashlands and farmer and rancher to the East within the Farmlands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted November 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 Re: DoS: Crashlanding! The scuttle pilot, Tarka Ulnos is lost during a seemingly routine trip from New Ganna to Ganna. The Mag-Couplers along the entire train become compromised and while trying to save the Cargo Boxes, Tarka falls through the Voltron Cone. She crashlands on an unknown planet in an unknown system and tries to survive. Current Write-up: http://www.herogames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=862736&postcount=65 We played last night!! I decided to add another player to this campaign, but keep my overall mega-plot and theme. The best way to do this is have the other player control a Sauriel character. I couldn't decide whether he should be Slaviseh (shaman), or a dupe of the Slavishe. So, I left it up to the player. He chose the dupe and made a Sauriel warrior caste character. Having a player play one of these helped me figure out what I needed to help flesh out the character some more. But, I had a problem. By not taking a slavishe, he didn't have the psionic/magic of the Shaman. So, I improvised. Deciding to unveil the living crystal ahead of time. But, I didn't explain it further than Vrelklos (the Sauriel Warrior) had to have the No-Tail touch the opaque, white rock at the same time he was. Then, they could speak mind to mind, as the Slavishe do. There is so much to comment, I'm holding off until next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted December 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 Re: Depths of Space - Original Setting I added the rest of the 2nd session write-up today. I didn't proofread much, so deal. We're planning on playing the next installment tomorrow night. I'm expecting a lot of inter-party interaction between the two. Gannans have never found another sapient race and now, Tarka Ulnos seems to have made that startling discovery. I'm curious to see how the players react to each other. I'm also considering the foils of returning to the Slavishe. I'd hinted briefly about the flying dangers of the Savannah and haven't decided what they are. I'm waffling between a massive Roc-like mammal or a separate species of Sauriel riding winged pteradactyls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted December 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 Re: Depths of Space - Original Setting Oh, almost forgot... If you want to read the next installment of the write-up... Check this post in the other thread. http://www.herogames.com/forums/show...6&postcount=65 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Long Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 Re: Depths of Space - Original Setting Ya never can tell -- I bet if you made it available as a PDF you'd get some takers. Gamers are always looking for sources of inspiration and ideas, esp. free ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted December 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 Re: Depths of Space - Original Setting Not a bad suggestion, but I don't have Adobe Acrobat. Maybe I'll see if anyone would like to help with that portion of the project. On the other hand, I'm not sure what you're answering here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippercomics Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Re: Depths of Space - Original Setting Not a bad suggestion, but I don't have Adobe Acrobat. Maybe I'll see if anyone would like to help with that portion of the project. On the other hand, I'm not sure what you're answering here. I could help you put it into Adobe, although given a bit of time to research the solutions, you'd likely find it's easy for you to do as well. Adobe.com offers a few free document conversions where they'll PDF any Word document via an online forum. Worked well for me when I did it. I also use PrimoPDF, as it just saves docs as PDF files. Still, I'm sure that the layout formats that people on these boards have brought up would be the best solution. I myself am toying with the idea of offering my really crappy science fiction setting as a PDF, if not for any other reason than it's an easier medium to deliver in than a website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 Re: Depths of Space - Original Setting there are other programs you can use to put stuff into pdf format, I wish I could remember the name of what we used for Traveller Hero if you dig into the Traveller Hero thread you can probably find out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted January 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 Re: Depths of Space - Original Setting Okay. Thanks, guys. What about making a clock/calender for a planet you haven't developed the star system for? Or, is there an application that details the length of days/season/years after the star map is completed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted March 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2006 Re: Depths of Space - Original Setting Time for an update! The Revolution! campaign has never gotten off the ground. Mostly due to my own ineptitude than anything else. At this point, I'm considering a new campaign at Hero Central with a small, select group of players I trust to help me with fleshing out the DoS setting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 1, 2006 Report Share Posted March 1, 2006 Re: Depths of Space - Original Setting You're running a campaign based on DoS -- Denial of Service -- attacks? That belongs in the "splinter genres" thread, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted March 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2006 Re: Depths of Space - Original Setting You're running a campaign based on DoS -- Denial of Service -- attacks? That belongs in the "splinter genres" thread, I think. Haha. Everyone who is anyone knows DoS stands for Depths of Space in this context. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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