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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BiggusGeekus" data-source="post: 1552496" data-attributes="member: 1014">Yep.  We'd make the shielding out of balsa. What's the problem with that?Anyway....If you're dealing with a high-fantasy kind of thing "running out of oil" is very cool.  I'd stay away from a real-world scenario like the CNN article suggests.  For example, the CNN report doesn't seem to include output from Venuzualea (currently not producing, thus inflating price) and the advances we've made in recent years with floating platforms points to oil harvesting technology that is only improving.  Also bear in mind that if we ever figure out how to extract Canada's huge deposits of sand oil it'll be like a new Saudi Arabia suddenly popping into existence.  If we ever do "run out" of oil, it'll be a long slow whimper than a sudden bang.  And long slow whimpers don't make for good RPG settings (imagine: "We were running out of oil, things were bad, but then we realized we had time to think of something, so we did and then we all had tea")However, there's no reason we can't use your idea, toss in some sci-fi, and have ourselves a game.OK, picture this: Megacorporation X gets together with Radical Ecoterrorists and hatch a plan.  The Megacorporation is going to have the final say on all energy production by hacking the DNA of a bacteria which will feast on oil deposits (and ignore animal/plant oils through the miracle of science fiction).  The Radical Ecoterrorists will spread the bacteria.  In the meantime Megacorporation X builds lots of nuclear reactors and positions itself to become an energy monopoly.  However, the Radical Ecoterrorists use some of the funding they get from the Megacorporation and use it to bomb the bejezzus out of the nuclear plants.  Yes, there is some radiation, but they figure that Mother Earth will be able to absorb it in time.Now you have bacteria with hacked DNA hanging around the same people who just got doused with radiation.  That's just perfect for it to turn people into zany monsters/orcs/zombies/whatever.Happy gaming!</blockquote>

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