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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Runesong42" data-source="post: 1909912" data-attributes="member: 10578">In my opinion, such a campaign setting would work great in a d20 Fantasy setting.  In a Modern setting, though, there is much more to consider.First and foremost, at what point in time will your campaign begin?  Before humanity is taken, during, or after?  Will the PC's know what has happened (or what will happen), and how will this information (or lack thereof) affect them?Why does a PC have to start off a certain way?  A better idea (and one that would be story-related) would be to work the PC's own idea of a character and then 'nudge' him towards the ideas you have for the characters, promising some sort of compensation for 'forcing' them to pick the requisite skills, feats etc.  I was running a similar campaign of epic good vs. evil, basing the concept VERY loosely on a campaign setting called 'In Nomine'.  In effect, the PC's play Angels of a certain type (similar to clerics of certain Gods would be) and strive to further their Dominion and restrict other Evil Dominions by their interactions with mortals on Earth.  I only had one player at the time. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  We started him off as an Aasimar.  Once he hit a certain level (7th, in my case) he gained all the abilities of a Half-Celestial.  Once he hit 15th, I had planned for him to take on the abilities of one of the more powerful Celestials (in Modern terms, he could become an Avenging Angel [Urban Arcana]).  In YOUR case, you could start the PC's off as regulars, then, as they gain levels and the necessary feats, you could award them a 'racial level' in Aasimar (giving them full abilities of the new race instead of a new level in a class) or just have them 'evolve' and become Aasimars.  Then, have them become Half-Celestials and, at the peak of the campaign, have them become full Celestials and try to lead the people back to God.Next, you have to ponder how religious you want the campaign to be, and if so, which religion you'd like to be the focal point.  Be very careful your players are not hardcore religious types themselves, as you may risk offending them.Of course, in campaigns like this, you have to assume that the PC's will WANT to be hereos.  I find that, in d20 Modern, PC's are more likely to want to be scum - thieves, killers, pimps... but that could just be MY group.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> If they're the good guys from the start, then all's gravy.  What's MORE interesting is if they choose to be scum.  Your story then becomes something much better -- by taking the requisite feats or skills that you require of them, they begin to redeem themselves and could even become avatars for the lost to follow.As for dwayne's post, my "angels" were in fact aliens from "Heaven", another planet in "Earth's" solar system.  I had a whole cosmology written up and everything.  I may introduce this concept to my new gaming group.  If I do, I'll let you know how it goes!</blockquote>

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