I’ve a wonder to what might be the tech level before the sun was shattered. I think it might be neat if the anchient lavianthen hunter ships might be modern day steel ships, and some deadlands salvage might ve modern day electronics, but without the proper electric setups or gasoline or solar, mostly a source of glass and wire. I know it can be cheesy even since when it was popular in the 80s, but seems too clasic not to try. What pre fall eras do you have in your games?
I’ve a wonder to what might be the tech level before the sun was shattered.
I’ve a wonder to what might be the tech level before the sun was shattered.
Today I’m starting a game that essentially takes place on a world (really two planets) colonized by post scarcity peoples. Some stuff went down and the planet was largely abandoned. All the Blades ghost world stuff is re-flavored to be the remnants of the global internet and inexplicable pre-fall technology.
Fun fact: one of the sub-plots in an early Blades playtest connected the setting to my game Ghost/Echo. So you’re not alone. 🙂
A Blades/cyberpunk setting would be awesome! Not Null Vector, but a near-future dystopia where something happened, ghosts were released and after the ensuing apocalypse, humanity has somewhat stabilized and now live in the lightning barriers. Is that pretty much the gist of Ghost/Echo, as you see it?
I like the idea of humanity advancing technologically in the face of adversity, with the world before the Cataclysm less advanced than the current Empire.
I’m with Duamn here – I envision the un-shattered world as a dark fantasy setting, with minimal touches of clockwork marvels – steam or demon-powered.
I have dropped hints in my game that the Cataclysm is something that may have happened more than once, and that several separate civilizations have come and gone over the millennia. Certainly room in there for modern technology, now completely lost.
I’ve been brainstorming a variant setting for Blades that mixes some post-post-apocalypse cyberpunk with the J-horror film Pulse. Kicking around some terms, etc. It’s coming along nicely. I’m very eager to see how Null Vector handles cyberware and the like. That’ll be a big help.
I enjoy picturing the pre-Cataclism world as your standard Gygaxian fantasy, sans demihumans. Still not sure whether Scurlock had been a Fighter or a Magic-User in that adventuring party whose Thief has become the Immortal Emperor.