Emiricol said:
What the heck is redline? The site indicates it is kinda like Road Warrior, I think. HOw much setting is there, or is it JUST a post-holocaust road battle thing?
It's a d20 minigame, which means we have an original d20 rules set (backgrounds, classes, skills, feats, equipment, and combat rules, not to mention rad/bio poisoning and the mutations that develop from it). The setting is, as you mentioned, post-apocalyptic Road Warrior-esque. Decidedly not Gamma World, however . . . more gritty.
There's a largish section on background, which is my favorite part of the book, defining all of the various factions, environments, and dangers you might face playing Redline. The setting is non-specific, just like the Road Warrior movies . . . the story takes place "somewhere else" after "the world moved on," intentionally adopting a storytelling vagueness so you can shape the details yourself. Some folks have recommended, pretty intelligently I think, that you could quite easily use real-world, modern-day maps to base your campaign off of. It might be a long time before the players realize they're motoring around in a post-apocalyptic version of their homeland!
