Let's talk Characters (Shadow Gates)

Ok I'm thinking of tweaking BRP as written in the handy-dandy, oh so shiny new BRP book. I'm going to be adding a handful of WHFRP/Dark Heresy, a pinch of GORE, maybe even a dash of Palladium...

Anyway, I'm thinking of eight or nine broad classes that determine what Jobs (professions) you can enter and what activities benefit from an experience bonus.

Jobs determine what skills and Talents/Feats/Perks (whatever) one has acces too, and increase in 'Job Rank', which opens up new character advances (skills, attributes, abilites, so on).

So here's a quick sekeleton I've put together;


Fighter 'Man at Arms'

• Boomer (Combat 'Borg; Robocop, Briareos Hecatonchires)
• Samsonite (Augmented Soldier; performance enhancing drugs, organs, prosthetics)
  
• Powered Trooper (Powered Armor operator)
  
• Land Warrior (generalist warrior)
  
• Armored Crew (armored vehicle crewman; tanks, APCs, IFVs, walkers)
  
• Flyboy (combat aviator)
  
• Scout (wilderness path finding, tracking, survival, light infantry)
  
• Assassin (infiltrate, kill, exfiltrate)
  

Skilled Support, tech 'Technical Specialist'

• Field Medic (healer, paramedic)
  
• Tech-Spec (item repair and item craft)
  
• Hacker (opens doors, gets the info, spoofs sensors, etc)
  
• Drone Rigger (gathers intel, fun with remotely controlled robots)
  
• Scavenger (jury rigger and forager)
  
• City Rat? Ganger? (not sure where I'm going with this idea, streetwise maybe)
  

Skilled Support, expert 'Academic Expert'

• Field Scientist (smart guy, TONS of skills)
  
• Field Surgeon (medical doctor, sometimes, you need one)
  
• Field Researcher (three words; research, monster lore, weakness)
  
• Genius Spark (mad scientist! makes gadgets that shouldn't work, but do)
  

Charisma/Persuasion 'Negotiator'

• Face Man (confidence trickster)
  
• Diplomat (negotiator)
  
• Spy (secret agent man)
  
• Fixer (Mr. Connections)
  
• Entertainer (traveling performer)
  

Mystical Support 'Mystics'

• Mystic (dabbler in Magyck and ESP)
  
• Summoner (Evocation Mage; summon and bind)
  
• Lesser Talent (minor ESPer; more skills fewer powers)
  
• Greater Talent (major ESPer; fewer skills, more powers)
  
• Sorcerer (Invoker of Alien Gods)
  
• Enchanter (Enchantment Mage; buff, debuff, control)
  
• Cleric (Invoker of the Gods of Men)
  

Fighter/Tech 'Military Speicialist'

• Special Forces (skilled warrior and leader of men)
  
• Combat Hacker (warrior with electronic war capability)
  
• Military Engineer (construct or tear down defenses)
  
• Field Armorer (warrior jury-rigger)
  
• Road Warrior (wheel-man, speed-demon, transporter)
  
• Tek Paladin (power trooper with scavenging, jury rigging and science!)
  

Fighter/Mystic 'ParaSwords'

• Psi Knight (not a jedi)
  
• Spell Sword (classic fighter-mage)
  
• Spell 'Slinger (battle-mage)
  
• Warrior Nun (fighter-cleric, female)
  
• Battle Brother (fighter-cleric, male)
  

Fighter/Persuasion 'setting appropriate name here'

• Smuggler (Han Solo, Jack Burton)
  
• Six String Samurai (Bard; with a sword, and a steel guitar)
  
• Black Operative (James Bond; wetworks, sabotage, high action, plausible deniability )
  

Mystic/Tech 'MagiTech'

• Techno-Mage (Mad Spark inventor-mage)
  
• Alchymist (transmuter of matter)
  
• Churigeon (bio-wizardry)
  
• Meta-Physician (scientist-mage researcher)
  
• PsychoScientist (psi-scientist)
  
• Psi-Comp. (psychic hacker)
  

The World of Shadow Gates: After the Fall, Before Peace

Ecumenopolis Columbia

The City was the heart of the ancient empire. From the great and vast Ecumenopolis Columbia, a city so massive that it once covered the entire eastern seaboard of the North American continent, the Empire was managed for ten generations. Even after the splitting of the Empire of Man into East and West, the World City remained the economic and cultural center of a sizable fraction of the human species.

Now the shimmering city is but a memory. The great shining towers have fallen. The rising tides have washed away much. Entire Sub-Cities ,like the ancient and artful New York, have sunk beneath the waves. Much has been lost to the tides, and the rest is occupied by an alien force. Raiding from risen Atlantis, servants of Kassogtha, Lord Cthulhu of Mu's consort demon goddess, the vile Yugya, the monstrous Xothians, and the blasphemous Barracuda Fish-men squat upon the ruins like vultures picking the bones of Man's hubris. Under the watchful eyes of her mother, the Daughter of the Lord of R'lyeh builds her new great basalt stone megalithic city upon the bones of the old.

Tread lightly Son of Adam, these haunted lands may be your doom.

Campain Notes pt. I

Working on a new Basic Role-playing Campaign. Take Rifts, Fallout, Twilight, Cyberpunk, Oswald Spengler, and Call of Cthulhu and put them in a blender. The objective is twofold, firstly create a campaign setting that makes use of the entire BRP book. Second, create a replacement for that Rifts itch that must be scratched at odd intervals until the incoherence of Simbieda's system puts me into screaming fits.

Here's a glimpse of the future.

2061-2080 Year of the Old God.
459-440 Before the Fall
The Final World War and the foundation of the Ecumenical Empire; Russia, China, and the Caliphate, each in turn, defeated and absorbed into the North American Free Trade Alliance. General of the Army Jessica Clinton Windsor Yamato in one person unites the Presidencies of the North American Republic and European Union, the Thrones of Great Britain and Japan, and Supreme Commander NATO.

After defeating her only competitor in bloody civil war, she declares herself AUGUSTINA I; President for life, Lord General of the Armies, Marshall of the Righteous, Grand Admiral of Seas and Stars, Defender of the Faith, Hammer of the Moors, by Grace of God Queen of Britain, France, Ireland, and Japan, EMPRESS of the Ecumenical Empire (World-State).

2080-2309
Golden Age of Technology
-Polyhedral Electro-Magnetic Inertial Confinement by Potential Well Fusion (Polywell)
-Highly advanced materials (exotic composites)
-Grand Unified Theory under the Burkhard Heim framework (Heim Theory)

• Anti Grav
• Faster than Light travel (pseudo velocity through gravitic space warp)

-Effective Nanotechnology
-Genetic Engineering
-Neural-Machine interface
-Extremely High Energy density storage (Ultracaps)
-Broadcast power
-Solar System and High Orbit settled and developed
-Extra-Solar colonies founded.

2322-2519
The Decline
-Capitol Moved to Iskander IV in the more vibrant Galactic East, renamed Mundopolis Konstantin by Mad Emperor Konstantinian VI
-Seemingly endless Civil Wars and Alien Invasions of Imperial territory.
-Terra, the Solar System, and the Galactic West, now a drain on Imperial resources, is left to fend for itself as a separate Western Empire.
- Joachite Rebellion. Vast fleets fight and die between the stars and entire worlds die in nuclear fire. Even remote Terra itself is wounded in the fight. In the end the Joachites are put down, but the Imperium is mortally wounded. Terra and the Sol System loose all contact with the wider Empire.

2520
THE FALL
‘The stars come right again’ and the Milky Way Galaxy once again is a place of Eldritch Energies. Things that lay dormant or imprisoned are released and energized by the cosmic realignment. On Earth the Gates, long shut or dormant open at long last and the ancient ones walk again upon the land. The seas boil, lands rise and sink beneath waves. Humanity is reduced to a tenth of a tenth, and is now and endangered species.

2625
105 After the Fall
NOW
Man struggles to rebuild amongst the ruins and in the shadow of terrible powers. Hope springs eternal for new heroes to arise and retake the cradle of man.