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<blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 1686433" data-attributes="member: 633">I designed the overall concepts of a similar campaign setting once, though I never got around to playing it. The world starts out as a near-future or cyberpunkish tech level (pervasive computer usage, advanced medicine and agriculture, bionic implants, private space travel). The &quot;disaster&quot; involved a fast, progressive malfunctioning of all technology, coupled with the appearance of supernatural events and creatures.&nbsp;&nbsp;The world was severely overcrowded, and when modern chemical-based agriculture stopped yielding good crops, history's most catastrophic famine struck. When medicines stopped working, pestilences which the human body forgot how to defeat swept the land. All of this led to widespread war - which wasn't as bad as it could have been, thanks to ultra-modern weapons malfunctioning, but still a world war nonetheless. At a certain point, power plants stopped working and the world was basically left with middle-age level tech. Towards the end of the process, the advanced alloys and cements used to build lost their super-strong properties, causing skyscrapers to collapse and evacuation of all large cities.&nbsp;&nbsp;Now, the campaign starts a half thousand years after all of this, which normally wouldn't be enough to really forget the past (even considering the mass death, and really not having time for schools). However, in a society well after the informatic revolution, lots of people didn't even learn how to write by hand. The vast majority of books were on computer systems and were destroyed by the mysterious catastrophe. As a result, after two or three centuries of having to literally struggle to survive, and several generations of men who have never seen anything more sophisticated than a crossbow, the technological advances of the past were relegated to myth (&quot;my granddad was told by his granddad that we could fly without wings once!&quot;).&nbsp;&nbsp;In the setting, I also had elves and dwarves in the tech age. Dwarven knowledge of the past is way more accurate than humans' and there are a few of them that were actually alive &quot;back then&quot;. They haven't adapted quite as well to the new world, but they are still faring better than elves. Lots and lots of elves not only were alive &quot;back then&quot;, but they were actually rather used to the technological lifestyle and are still wondering what the hell happened.&nbsp;&nbsp;I'd like to run this campaign sooner or later.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zappo, post: 1686433, member: 633"] I designed the overall concepts of a similar campaign setting once, though I never got around to playing it. The world starts out as a near-future or cyberpunkish tech level (pervasive computer usage, advanced medicine and agriculture, bionic implants, private space travel). The "disaster" involved a fast, progressive malfunctioning of all technology, coupled with the appearance of supernatural events and creatures. The world was severely overcrowded, and when modern chemical-based agriculture stopped yielding good crops, history's most catastrophic famine struck. When medicines stopped working, pestilences which the human body forgot how to defeat swept the land. All of this led to widespread war - which wasn't as bad as it could have been, thanks to ultra-modern weapons malfunctioning, but still a world war nonetheless. At a certain point, power plants stopped working and the world was basically left with middle-age level tech. Towards the end of the process, the advanced alloys and cements used to build lost their super-strong properties, causing skyscrapers to collapse and evacuation of all large cities. Now, the campaign starts a half thousand years after all of this, which normally wouldn't be enough to really forget the past (even considering the mass death, and really not having time for schools). However, in a society well after the informatic revolution, lots of people didn't even learn how to write by hand. The vast majority of books were on computer systems and were destroyed by the mysterious catastrophe. As a result, after two or three centuries of having to literally struggle to survive, and several generations of men who have never seen anything more sophisticated than a crossbow, the technological advances of the past were relegated to myth ("my granddad was told by his granddad that we could fly without wings once!"). In the setting, I also had elves and dwarves in the tech age. Dwarven knowledge of the past is way more accurate than humans' and there are a few of them that were actually alive "back then". They haven't adapted quite as well to the new world, but they are still faring better than elves. Lots and lots of elves not only were alive "back then", but they were actually rather used to the technological lifestyle and are still wondering what the hell happened. I'd like to run this campaign sooner or later. [/QUOTE]

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