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#1 atanakar Apr 06, 2008 17:18:38	I'm planning to do a contemporary d20 campaign version of the cult film Logan's Run (1967). Synopsis of alternate reality: -June 1988 : NASA starts the full scale Mars base simulation RETURN TO EDEN in the Nevada desert. 200 scientists, technicians and support personnel are sent into an underground complex covered by a semi-spherical geodesic glass dome. The simulation is scheduled to last 2 years. The complex is self-sufficient and powered by a nuclear reactor. -June 1989 : The hardline politics of Ronald Regan and Mickhail Gorbatchev lead to an international nuclear crisis. Missiles are launched and humanity is pretty much wiped out... Just before the end the EDEN communication computers receive 1 terabite of compressed information from NASA. After that total radio silence from the outside. -June 1990 : A full year after the nuclear holocaust the scientist under the dome have rigged all the systems to continue working. Programs have been put in place to perpetuate the human race until the planet becomes clean. Every year an expedition is sent outside to evaluate survival odds. -1995 : Scientific authorities determine that the irradiation is so severe that human settlement outside the dome is impossible until year 2115. Laws are passed to limit life at age 40. At that point the citizens must willfully submit to euthanesia. Because of the short duration of life a majority of the population is more and more consumed by the desire to experiment the pleasures of life instead of working. Scientific research is scaled back to a few individuals who are permitted to live longer outside the knowledge of the population. These 25 overseers (and their descendants) manage the destiny of the human race over the next three 40-year generations. - 2099 : A survey team is sent out to evaluate levels of irradiation. Crops are planted and harvested at the end of summer. Result : Just above normal radiation levels. The overseers secretly start a 14 year program to train 50 individuals to become the first settlers of New Earth. - 2115 : The settlers are sent forth to establish a community outside the dome. Campaign begins at this point. ----- Question 1 : What level of technology have the human reached in 2115 under these conditions? Question 2 : What's your take on what is waiting for them outside? Tks in advance for your hints and suggestions !
#2 doomsought Apr 06, 2008 20:27:45	computers and other things would have probably just then reached modern levels. so its pl5 yes, you slow it down that much heck, you might want to say a few thing have degenerated to pl 4. but leave power and life support (hydroponics and such) at pl 6. I'd also say that all knowledge skills are cross class as a penalty for the life style. they should have electric monorails inside the dome, but the exterior vehicles will be something more 1920-ish. give them plenty of these problems paradoxes, it is easier to maintain than to build. thing they don't use have been forgotten. d20 past will be a good book for you to have, rather than d20 future.
#3 lonewolf_the_hunter Apr 07, 2008 3:56:26	computers and other things would have probably just then reached modern levels. so its pl5 yes, you slow it down that much heck, you might want to say a few thing have degenerated to pl 4. but leave power and life support (hydroponics and such) at pl 6. I'd also say that all knowledge skills are cross class as a penalty for the life style. they should have electric monorails inside the dome, but the exterior vehicles will be something more 1920-ish. give them plenty of these problems paradoxes, it is easier to maintain than to build. thing they don't use have been forgotten. d20 past will be a good book for you to have, rather than d20 future. On that note, the PC's weapons probibly would not be that advanced either, the bulk of them would be simple to maintain such as Bows, crossbows an single or double barrel (one or two shot) weapons, with the best tech (M16's rocket launchers ect.) being reserved only for whatever in the dome passes for a military. Also you sould consider if this was the only such project or if perhaps other nations had started similar space colony training programs. That could provide additional complications for the PC's. Will the primary dangers to the PC's be mutated or non-mutated creatures.
#4 doomsought Apr 07, 2008 18:29:06	a few overseers may be upset by the change, also bring forth powerful villains, and an epic storyline, best wait till they level thou a few encounters first.
#5 atanakar Apr 07, 2008 18:41:18	he he ! A few jewels in there. Keep posting...;)