My Necromantic Earth....

[cybernetic]

Hello all just wanted to get a little feedback on a setting I am currently brainstorming. For those of you who have followed my thread "My take on d20 Modern vampires", those vampires will be one of the character options in my modern horror setting. Those of you who haven't read that thread... its HERE .

It will be a d20 Modern setting with some Urban Arcana-like qualities. It will be a setting filled with spirits, ghosts, undead, the occult and necromancy. In fact spirits and necromancy will be a large part of the world in this setting.

Think a dark sinsiter ghostbusters...in a way.

New Characters options include: magi (humans empowered by spirits), vampires (spirits trapped in their dead body by a fiendish essence), and ghosts (a disembodied spirit). These three options will be represented by three new basic classes (like in my vampire thread above).

The primary monsters of this setting will be undead.....I'm working on some "Undead creation" rules as well...to create a variety of unqie undead.....

Zombies will be present....with the most common type being humans who have had their spirit completely destroyed while it was still in their body...

Department 7 will be a secret government agency that deals with spirits, the occult, and the undead scourges. The default campaign will be one where the characters work for D7 and are agents that handle these events and occurances....they may even be spooks themselves....

Opinions? Questions? Anything ?

 

[JimAde]

First: I like the double meaning of "spook" here. Cool.

Second: There's no link in your post to the previous thread.

Third: When you say "dark, sinister Ghostbusters," does that mean the public is aware of the undead, etc.? Or just that the PCs will be a mission-based team cleaning up the bad guys in secret?

Fourth: Are you planning to use any kind of stress/sanity rules, or are the PCs Fearless Monster Stompers (TM)?

Fifth: There is no fifth. I take the fifth. I'm going to drink a fifth.

 

[King of Old School]

No real opinion other than "this sounds cool." I hope you keep us updated as the campaign develops, I'd love to hear more.

KoOS

 

[cybernetic]

First: I like the double meaning of "spook" here. Cool.

Its such a good word...isn't it?

Second: There's no link in your post to the previous thread.

Sorry...I forgot to actually put the link.. its actually on wizards.com's boards http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=158787

Third: When you say "dark, sinister Ghostbusters," does that mean the public is aware of the undead, etc.? Or just that the PCs will be a mission-based team cleaning up the bad guys in secret?

Most of the population is unaware or just plain don't beleive in spirits, ghosts, and undead....things are on the verge of coming out in the open.. Its Dpeartment-7's job to not let that happen...for instance a town in the midwest gets hit by a zombie plague...its D7's job to quarantine and eradicate...and then come up with cover story. So yeah, its primarily mission based and in secret. Think ghostbusters meets men in black wrapped up in a cthulhu-esque shell.

Fourth: Are you planning to use any kind of stress/sanity rules, or are the PCs Fearless Monster Stompers (TM)?

I do plan on doing something like this...it'll be defferent than sanity and typical stress though. Since characters will be dealing with the undead and spirits...I'm going go with a mechanic that actually effects a characters lifeforce....its stress that effects the very lifeforce of the character...and extensive damage to your lifeforce can result in turning to an undead creature yourself, your spirit be forced from your body, or even your spirit being completely erased (possibly turning you into a mindless zombie-like undead)

Fifth: There is no fifth. I take the fifth. I'm going to drink a fifth.

Me too....me too.

No real opinion other than "this sounds cool." I hope you keep us updated as the campaign develops, I'd love to hear more.

I plan on it. The campaign is going to only have 1 permanant star character (my friend chris...wallshot on these boards)..with some cameo characters from other friends every once in a while. I'm going to start it off with kinda a Law and Order feel....starting all mundane and then eventually D7 will persisitantly try to recruit him as he starts being exposed to the whole spirit phenomenon. I'm actually at his place now...we're working on his character and how things are gonna start out...i'll post more about it as things progress...and I'll start a story hour.

 

[SkidAce]

You should read the Necroscope series by Brian Lumley.

Modern spies (British agency) with paranormal talents...discovering the truth abut vampires and werewolves and spirits...has ESP, monsters, zombies etc.

May provoke a thought or two for you, or just enjoy the read.

 

[cybernetic]

You should read the Necroscope series by Brian Lumley.

Modern spies (British agency) with paranormal talents...discovering the truth abut vampires and werewolves and spirits...has ESP, monsters, zombies etc.

May provoke a thought or two for you, or just enjoy the read.

Looks like I have to make a stop by a local bookstore on my way home from work today? Thanx for the heads up!