I was looking to make a futuristic setting on a 'colonial' planet. Basic story is: there was a solar flare that turned the colonized side of the planet into a desert landscape. So, post-apocalyptic.
The playable races will be human and robot (robots can be customized for various advantages and disadvantages, such as choosing a +2 strength bonus means also getting -2 Dex, and vice versa, and higher Int/Cha/Wis means lower in some physical attribute and vice versa. Also, optional size of Small or Medium), and Android as a template for humans (camera eye for improved Spot checks?).
Items will be re-skinned to be futuristic: Crossbows will become 'Bolt-guns'(spring loaded guns that operate the same way as a crossbow basically), maces could be Large wrenches, etc. A lightning enchanted mace would look like a Tesla coil.
Magic would simply be high-technology: computer chips and such would be implanted in someone, allowing them to manipulate energy; spells are coded, Somatic and Verbal components are code for activating spells, Mats are like 'ammo'.
Divine magic is drawn from a unique power core that uses the power of your emotions, but can only use one kind of emotion, so the only reliable one is faith in a god.
Psionic is Psionic; it's futuristic.
technology was super sleek and shiny, but all that good stuff is long gone/super rare: most technology now is bulky and low-end, with lots of smoke and gears and noise.
enemy creatures: there's always the option of some invading species of High-tech aliens who burned away half the planet to kill the humans in the first place, but to be more original:
Muckers; the genetically distorted humans with melted faces and brains (results of the solar flare) who want to kill everyone, and their DNA is so screwed up that their offspring are the same.
Any number of rogue AI infected with viruses.
Genetically engineered runaway creatures.
Indigenous alien creatures.
Bandits.
So, what would you suggest?
The playable races will be human and robot (robots can be customized for various advantages and disadvantages, such as choosing a +2 strength bonus means also getting -2 Dex, and vice versa, and higher Int/Cha/Wis means lower in some physical attribute and vice versa. Also, optional size of Small or Medium), and Android as a template for humans (camera eye for improved Spot checks?).
Items will be re-skinned to be futuristic: Crossbows will become 'Bolt-guns'(spring loaded guns that operate the same way as a crossbow basically), maces could be Large wrenches, etc. A lightning enchanted mace would look like a Tesla coil.
Magic would simply be high-technology: computer chips and such would be implanted in someone, allowing them to manipulate energy; spells are coded, Somatic and Verbal components are code for activating spells, Mats are like 'ammo'.
Divine magic is drawn from a unique power core that uses the power of your emotions, but can only use one kind of emotion, so the only reliable one is faith in a god.
Psionic is Psionic; it's futuristic.
technology was super sleek and shiny, but all that good stuff is long gone/super rare: most technology now is bulky and low-end, with lots of smoke and gears and noise.
enemy creatures: there's always the option of some invading species of High-tech aliens who burned away half the planet to kill the humans in the first place, but to be more original:
Muckers; the genetically distorted humans with melted faces and brains (results of the solar flare) who want to kill everyone, and their DNA is so screwed up that their offspring are the same.
Any number of rogue AI infected with viruses.
Genetically engineered runaway creatures.
Indigenous alien creatures.
Bandits.
So, what would you suggest?
