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<blockquote data-quote="Inconsequenti-AL" data-source="post: 3684204" data-attributes="member: 6584">There may be some rambling in this post! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Looking at it. You want non human adversaries. Some obvious contendors would seem to be:Magic - raw power.Magic - with a brain - demons and so forth.Technology and it's automaton killing machines.Technology and it's hodge podge of genetic freaks.Aliens.I'd be inclined to keep it thematically simple. Either pick 1, or pick 2 and set them off against one another. Given the firepower and gunplay angle, I'd be inclined to avoid magic altogether, but that's my bias. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Perhaps dress them up to look like something else? After all - any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguisable from magic. (or something). Genetically and surgically modified 'demons'. 'Aliens' made in a factory somewhere.It should be possible to spin one or more of those to avoid some of the normal cliches?It's worth considering a steal from cyberpunk settings. Corporations outside of government control. Make interesting protagonists for good or ill. For a novel spin, it's the altruistic (and likely privately run!) corporate group fighting evil corporations/governments/vampires/aliens.Perhaps bring in conspiracy theory material - there's a wealth of it out there. Molemen. Mind control satelites. The New World Order. Illuminati. Something in the tapwater! Etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Inconsequenti-AL, post: 3684204, member: 6584"] There may be some rambling in this post! :) Looking at it. You want non human adversaries. Some obvious contendors would seem to be: Magic - raw power. Magic - with a brain - demons and so forth. Technology and it's automaton killing machines. Technology and it's hodge podge of genetic freaks. Aliens. I'd be inclined to keep it thematically simple. Either pick 1, or pick 2 and set them off against one another. Given the firepower and gunplay angle, I'd be inclined to avoid magic altogether, but that's my bias. :) Perhaps dress them up to look like something else? After all - any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguisable from magic. (or something). Genetically and surgically modified 'demons'. 'Aliens' made in a factory somewhere. It should be possible to spin one or more of those to avoid some of the normal cliches? It's worth considering a steal from cyberpunk settings. Corporations outside of government control. Make interesting protagonists for good or ill. For a novel spin, it's the altruistic (and likely privately run!) corporate group fighting evil corporations/governments/vampires/aliens. Perhaps bring in conspiracy theory material - there's a wealth of it out there. Molemen. Mind control satelites. The New World Order. Illuminati. Something in the tapwater! Etc. [/QUOTE]

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