Show Posts
226
RPGs / Re: Eclipse Phase - Steam Punk
« on: July 04, 2012, 03:48:33 AM »
I'm with Caleb on this (I thought the PCs could be infugees who earn their morphs by working as NPCs in a steampunk themed MMO) but what are the ideas you want to do?
You could shrink the scale, replace the exsurgent with some other nebulous advanced threat ("The Other") and instead of the fall of Earth shrink it to the fall of Eurasia/Africa. Instead of Luna, you have Iceland or Japan, the South Pacific becomes the brink in that it's dangerously close to the where no one goes but offers space. Replace space with the oceans, dangerously connected to the fallen place and not hospitable to normal humans.
As for egos, I think it'd fit in fine to have Frankenstein like set-ups for making back-ups/ego bridging but I'm not sure where forks come in except for Alphas with all others being damaged transfers. Though Psychics might work for pruning them. You could also replace forking with Astral projection of some sort. I think you'd also do well to add more psychics/spiritualists to the mix. Similarly, many of the morph issues could also be addressed by some of the rather nasty eugenics theories floating around from the time. Adding body farms and such would allow you to keep much of the questions of the ego/morph though they'd be combined with the ideas of the day. "We're growing White bodies for the poor Black/Yellow/Red people so they can be as good as us." "Growing more angelic bodies to bring man closer to the divine." "We have designed the perfect body for women as it will help them be rational like us superior men." "The bodies we give to the natives degrade quickly, why by the time they've paid for their new forms they've damaged them horribly in the mines/fields/etc. We are happy to sell them a new one." "Only your Birth body holds a soul. All others are walking demons, devoid of the divine spark. Beware them."
Edit: You can also make the exsurgent more biological to get around technological limitations.
If you want space blimps, you can play Space 1889 too.
You could shrink the scale, replace the exsurgent with some other nebulous advanced threat ("The Other") and instead of the fall of Earth shrink it to the fall of Eurasia/Africa. Instead of Luna, you have Iceland or Japan, the South Pacific becomes the brink in that it's dangerously close to the where no one goes but offers space. Replace space with the oceans, dangerously connected to the fallen place and not hospitable to normal humans.
As for egos, I think it'd fit in fine to have Frankenstein like set-ups for making back-ups/ego bridging but I'm not sure where forks come in except for Alphas with all others being damaged transfers. Though Psychics might work for pruning them. You could also replace forking with Astral projection of some sort. I think you'd also do well to add more psychics/spiritualists to the mix. Similarly, many of the morph issues could also be addressed by some of the rather nasty eugenics theories floating around from the time. Adding body farms and such would allow you to keep much of the questions of the ego/morph though they'd be combined with the ideas of the day. "We're growing White bodies for the poor Black/Yellow/Red people so they can be as good as us." "Growing more angelic bodies to bring man closer to the divine." "We have designed the perfect body for women as it will help them be rational like us superior men." "The bodies we give to the natives degrade quickly, why by the time they've paid for their new forms they've damaged them horribly in the mines/fields/etc. We are happy to sell them a new one." "Only your Birth body holds a soul. All others are walking demons, devoid of the divine spark. Beware them."
Edit: You can also make the exsurgent more biological to get around technological limitations.
If you want space blimps, you can play Space 1889 too.