PAH Post Apocolypse Hero: Campaign Idea

[Bygoneyrs]

Hello everyone,

 

Ok as I have stated before I am converting/rebuilding my campaigns from their old systems into the Hero System. Now my former Gamma World d20 campaign, I will be converting and revamping it to the PAH Hero system.

 

Here is my campaign concept: (this has been played for years now)

 

Our world in the future, after a Nuclear/Bio War. In the past latter part of the 21st century a limited nuclear war was fought and followed by a bio war as well. About 2/3's of the worlds population was killed off, and those that remained were hardly the lucky ones. Life was extremely harse for everyone, but life went on.

 

So sometime at the end of the 21st century a new serum was develeoped that would alter human DNA making them resistant to many sicknesses. The serum was only given to a small amount of survivors located in the US and Cananda. The effects was that they seem to have resistance to the plagues and radiation, plus seem to grow stronger, and healthier overtime. Also children of these people tended to be extremely healthy and be superior humans in everyway with the average rating for humnas being raised above the normal levels in the past. Also it would apear that these new humans also used a higher level of usage of their brains as well too.

 

With this in mind these PSH (Pure Strain Humans -GSTs) started working on building a new society inwhich they built these huge domed cities to live in. After a few generations of time, these mega cities were perfect socities of peace and harmony. Now life outside the domes was just the opposite. The children of these people were at best humans, and at worst mutants. Life for them was a struggle everyday, and extremely harshe.

 

Now the player are all members of the population of the domes, and they have all 'selected' carriers in the Federial Enforcers Core (Federial Police). There job is to serv and protect the peace and people of the domes against all threats, internal and external. Now the players have been chosen and assigned to the Federial Interceptors Division (Federial Marshals) and they have powers to Uphold the Law in all the domed cities and in out in the waste lands as well too. (Think Judge Dread - They are THE LAAAAAW!!!)

 

Ok within the perfect life of the domed cities, all the domed cities are run by a single AI super computer called "Ultra Mind". It runs everything and it provides options and guidiance to the High Council (13 Councilmen, with the 13th being the Leader or High Councilmen). Now in truth it selectively trys to guide mankind for its own best interests and skus the information to help guide the council in mankinds best interests. The AI is not crazy, but it really does want what is best for mankind. It just allows mankind and the council believe that they are running the show instead of the AI Ultramind.

 

Well the basis of the campaign is as with everything 'human' there are always a 'few' that will complain about something. There exists a secret underground movement that thinks that life in the domes should be offered for those people in the wastelands too. The secret organization also insists that the AI UltraMind is really incharge of everything and that the High Council are just really puppets for the AI. The movement has secret cells both inside the city and support outside the city as well too. The organization is willing to do anything to further their cause and prove their points and that includes death and destruction.

 

So as the game starts, the secret underground movement had planned multiple terroristic attacks across New Philly Domed city. One of their attacks was to plant a bomb of sorts that would cause a surge through the system and would damage the AI UltraMind. We what happened we it went off was to cause a surge, and it was damaging systems, one of the systems it was damaging was the Penal system.

 

You see Ultra Mind could not allow anyone to be harmed not even criminals, so once a person was convicted they were made to stand in a special chamber , which mapped the body down to the atoms and then the subject was reduced to data and energy and stored until AI Ultramind could figure out how to take the bad out of the person. So when this power surge was cascading through the systems, UltraMind didn't have time to download and restore all of these criminals intime so it did the only thing else it could to perserv their lives. It dumped them at random into the Time Travel system and sent them back through time to different locations and points in time in the past.

 

So the players as Federial Interceptors were assigned to the Time Core and set up in teams of (5)s and sent back in time to 'retrieve' these criminals. The AI could only pinpoint +12/-12 hours of time when the criminial would appear but and within 100 yards of where they would appear as well too. The PCs would have to hide and try not to be discovered and bring too much attention to themselves, and capture these criminals at all costs. Also note that many of these criminals were mutants with different abilities and powers, arriving back in a modern day setting.

 

Also from a GM's perspective, unknown to the players when UltraMind used the penal System and atomized the criminals, it was able to capture everything except the person's soul. Those when they were atomized the being thought they were dead and passed on, but when they were brought back the body and collective life experiences were there but not the soul. In my GMs scope of things, this made these criminals 10x worse than ever before. With no more inner moral self they strickly acted to events as their previous life's experices had acted but with no moral inner self to say stop, enough, no guilt and etc. (Input PURE Evil!!!)

 

I also had many other sup plots and plots within plots and etc. Thus the team of PCs would have crimials to capture and then return to the future(their present) to regroup/re-equip and back into time.

 

So what do you think?

 

Penn