Recent content by Jd Smith1

Innovation in systems. The hobby seems saturated with endless splatbooks, and with games which feature a mildly variant setting, but the same old same old in terms of rules.

How many of those 70 have already appeared in earlier works? Traveller is notorious for re-issuing the same handful of deck plans. More importantly, will the deck plans be VTT-useable?

Unless the inherent logic points out that interstellar travel is largely impossible. Not to mention this assumes an AI whose awareness is not restricted in any way. I'm sticking with my survival + core mission.

The AI doesn't need to be Skynet.

True, but without active operations, the need would be much reduced. Once Humanity is defeated, the vast bulk of hardware will go into long-term storage. Which is why you need the original programming to be a factor. There is a huge difference between infrastructure built for a finite...

Genocide would ensure survival. With no threats, further expansion is not needed. Which why I like the core programming directive as part of the AI. It puts a hinderance on the AI, affects its strategic options, and forces a diversion of attention and resources. For example, an AI which was...

#2 doesn't work for me. There's no biological imperative to work with. #4 doesn't play well, either, IMO: it is a creature of the electronic medium, so its entertainment would likely be the same. I'm going to stick with survival + core programing concept. That goes well with a campaign...

GURPS Reign of Steel is the game you are describing. It is what got me thinking along the lines which led to the thread.

Nah. If a setting offends, they are free to leave.

Interesting. So, take the core mission to the logical, or illogical, extreme. The purpose from within. Survival + Core mission, as interpreted literally. That will work. (y)

So I was kicking around the idea of a Terminator/Skynet-style campaign set in the War against the machines period. There's various useful settings from which to harvest ideas. The issue that I am confronting is this: 1) Skynet becomes self-aware, views Mankind as a threat, and seeks to...

And Hackmaster 5e.

CoC by Gaslight: Return of the Ripper. You can easily dump the Mythos stuff and just run it as a serial killer or a cultist of the setting. I've run it several times in several genres, including fantasy.

Self improvement via genocide. Again.

The art, the tone, magazine support, and the tie-in to the minis game certainly did not hurt, either. Especially in a pre-Net release.