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Roach Jones; New campaign plan
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mattblackgod	Aug 14 2015, 09:51 PM Post #1
Big boss warlord dude! Posts: 15,702 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Jul 22, 2008	For some time I have been thinking about centering a prolonged campaign on mattblackgods world following a wanderer. Lets face it, it is a classic post apoc story line. My next predicament was what the character's motivation to wander would be. I have plumbed through alot of PA fiction for ideas. I settled upon a character living in mattblackgods world's only surviving mega city, Utipoa City. The character will be called Roach Jones. He is haunted by dreams which feature a lot of MBG symbols and a black rusty pyramid. Looking for answers he goes to the Church of the mattblackgod who see him as a heretic and pursue Roach through the mega city. In addition to this the Magistrates now want him for disturbing the peace and inciting a riot. Fearing for his life Roach flees to the undercity. The campaign will follow him on his adventures into the wastelands. Roach's dreams drive him on to find answers. Answers he hopes to find in the world's founding members tomb. Now MBG world has a pretty fixed map from using it as a gaming location for the last 10 years or so. I plan to change it as Angel explores. It also allows me to use other favourite figures from my collection which live thousands of miles away from Angel. A new map of his adventures will be populated. Rules wise I am a bit mixed. Firstly I thought the my old 40k Rogue Trader would work. It covers everything I need. It can easily be added to by pinching rules from Gorkamorka or Necromunda. The down side is that the intiation and some other rules no longer sit well with me. So there would be quite a few house rules drawn up. NeutronYork3000 is another consideration but the basic vehicle rules are a limitation. Some house rules may be inorder to flesh them out. Nuclear Renaissance seems to have everything I need to carry out this campaign with minial fuss. So at the minute I may go with them. One problem with starting a character with a low stat line is that they will not last long in the harsh post apocalyptic world. Recalling the days that I played Warhammer Fantasy RPG there was a Fate stat. The idea is that some god or overlooking power is keeping an eye on the character and performs a miracle to save them. This the players used to keep various characters alive. It was a limited pool decided randomy and players had to take care not to waste them. I may introduce this to the rules I use to help keep Roach alive. Another addition is an idea borrowed from the Max Payne computer games. The idea is Bullet Time. Time slows down allowing the character to dodge bullets and make aimed shots. If I use this then Roach can only use it once per game. How it implemented will depend on the ruleset I use. Thats the ideas so far. All thoughts and ideas about this greatfully recived. Edited by mattblackgod, Aug 15 2015, 03:17 PM.



tinker	Aug 15 2015, 06:44 AM Post #2
CEO of "Rat-on-a-Stick" Industries Posts: 9,394 Group: Admins Member #11 Joined: Aug 4, 2008	Angel Jones is your Hero if he takes a beating that would normally kill anyone else, well, the Gods look on him with favor and won't allow him to die, bleed yes, die no I like that Roach Jones name by the way. How is it going to be used? Is he known as "Roach" because they are supposedly a critter that can survive the devastation of a Nuclear War?? Edited by tinker, Aug 15 2015, 06:48 AM.



mattblackgod	Aug 15 2015, 03:15 PM Post #3
Big boss warlord dude! Posts: 15,702 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Jul 22, 2008	I was going to call him Angel Jones but a Google search found someone called that. I edited the text. I must have missed that one. Edited by mattblackgod, Aug 15 2015, 03:16 PM.



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