There is this game Ultimum that I stumbled across. It is a far future,
optimistic post-apocalyptic scifi game.
Although there is the ruins of two alien empires that invaded earth to explore and scavenging to do; the humans and the crocodile-men, ape-men, robot-men, wolf-bear-men (yes you read that right), elf-men, energy-men, and sort of dwarf-men all interact in a mostly harmonious fashion.
This isn't fallout. To me the tone is more survival and exploration of a vaguely familiar world, rather than say an colony planet that is alien to all the players.
https://youtu.be/0TWrTc0d54E
The tone of the beta rulebook is very much "Heroic, Fuck Yeah!" and it is rather endearing. :allears:
For example:
They had a kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1409548667/ultimumThe free beta rules (139 pages), character sheet and adventure are here:
http://www.ultimumrpg.com/downloads.htmlThe other major thrust of Ultimum is "online support". This is suppose to include smartphone app and a computer program of the Ultimum rules.
From the website:
Concept
Ultimum is a tabletop Role-Playing Game that is built around a dramatic, science fiction story about races and peoples that are all learning how to live together in the face of survival. The setting is Earth in the far future. The continents have collided and created Pangea Ultima. New sentient species, both alien and terrestrial now populate the Earth and humanity has just returned. There are galaxy spanning threats to overcome, but for now, we need to regroup.
In Ultimum, the players determine the course of the story. In kitchens, living rooms and gaming stores all over the world, players will be playing out their Ultimum sessions from week to week. Once they're finished, they'll upload their progress to the Ultimum website. The developers will organize and trend the player data and start building the future storyline from there.
The other novel feature of Ultimum is the acquisition of gear. Evidently money doesn't exist.* Every player has their own personal fabricator called a RFD. This fabricator scans the local area and teleports all the useful minerals from the area into its reserves. So populated areas have been "all mined out" and this is to foment exploration I guess? If you want to make a piece of gear like a SMG or a piece of armor you construct it based on what materials you have and you also roll randomly for quirks and features on a series of tables. At least that's the impression I'm getting from a very quick skim.
It feels very video game like but that is not necessarily a bad thing in this case.
*Money doesn't exist but you can barter mineral for goods and services so yes a common currency does essentially exist.
