Hello again my dear readers of which I don't have many, Welcome back!
Anywho, yes I know I haven't posted in ages, well to put it bluntly, we stopped playing that game so I couldn't write a story about it could I?
I hope to have a new story arc up and running soon, tis nvolves my Mutants and Masterminds group, however it does not necessarily follow their exploits, instead it will be about another character in the same world doing his thing. For those not in the know Mutants and Masterminds is a super heroes game, its quite fun, at the moment my players are high school kids attending the Strangewood Heights Academy for Learning, in the town of Strangewood, and they have fought various things from robots to a giant bookworm and his elder brother, evil clowns at a circus and a fairytale book.
So, look forward to that.
The other reason or this post is I have had a brain wave for either a story I make up, or a game my players can play in.
The Idea: Pathfinder in Space
In the year 2030 archeologists uncovered a strange temple. They couldn't identify the source of the markings or anything within, but there was strange artefacts that certainly couldn't have been made by ancient man. After a few years of study, scientists used the artefacts found within to create a new spaceship, capable of reaching the outer limits of our system within a week.
Using the new ship Mars was colonised.
A few years after the colonisation of Mars a new temple was uncovered, larger than the one found on Earth.
Using knowledge gathered from the new temple scientists created terraforming devices, and launched a new ship, complete with humanaties first "Icarus" drive, a faster than light drive capabe of allowing humans to leave this system.
Upon entering the nearest system scientists began terraforming a nice little planet to a level of habitability almost similar to Earths, it was named Terraforma.
However Terraforma was known by a different name to a different species who had already claimed Terraforma in their name.
Upon discovery of humans this new race, nicknamed nicely by the colonists of Terraforma as "Orcs", attempted to negotiate with the humans on Terraforma, but it ended badly and the galactic event known as the "Human Contact War" started up.
Decades passed, millions upon millions of people died, eventually humans were over run by Orcs with their advanced technology far beyond our own. In a truce Terraforma was offered to Orcs and the Human Galactic Empire was brought into the Galactic Alliance, a group of aliens from all over the galaxy united under one banner.
Aliens in the Alliance are:
Elves
Dwarves
Halflings
Orcs
Humans
Gnomes
It is now 100 years after the end of the Human Contact War, the players find themselves stranded on a "Saloon" class planet, a planet that has been barely terraformed to become habitable and had colonists shoved onto it, in the Corale system.
Humans are leading the way in terraforming of planets.
One thing to note is that every civilisation in the alliance, every planet that in counts as its own, there has been cahces of this alien technology found, similar to what was found on Earth and Mars. At some point there must have been a galactic spanning empire that fell and left its remains behind in the form of these tech caches. It seems as if every civilisations technolgy is built upon the tech caches found on various planets.
Everybody is always looking for the next find, because tech caches mean big money.
Systems are broken into 3: Core systems which have futuristic tech, Backwater systems which are low tech and almost cowboys, and Middle which is a mix of both. (its like firefly)
Players are stranded on this Saloon world without enough money to make it back to the core systems, this backwater planet is like many others and is very cowboyish, with bits of advanced alien tech thrown in to make life better, nobody knows quite how it all works, but so long as it doesn't break down we'll all be fine.
Players are hired by Hydra Tech Industries, one of the big three, to head out west and follow up rumors of a great Vault said to be on this planet holding lots of advanced Tech, with the promise that if they find it Hydra Tech will give them enough money to get off this rock and back to core systems, with some left over to buy a ship.
So its basically pathfinder meets cowboys meets firefly meets mass effect.
I figure classes are relatively the same, fighters, rogues, barbarians are just hired guns, anyone who can do magic has been implanted with a N-Chip implant which allows access to different "magic".
Magic is basically just advanced technology.
Druids can be shapeshifters, or somebody in their past was a shapeshifter and they inherited the ability.
Any class granted the martial weapon feat can exchange it for the exotic weapon firearms feat.
So, I know its long but what do people reckon?
As always, I love comments.
