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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BlackJaw" data-source="post: 1132873" data-attributes="member: 888">So how does the game play for a PC?Well the best place to start would be with the Mars base.  Set it up as a near-future RPG.  Most PCs will take to standard modern/sci-fi archetypes easily.  Make them all part of a space-marine corp unit.  Pilot, scientist, medic, tech-geek, and all with some combat training to make them all believable in that role.The first adventure plays out like a Doom or quake game.  They show up in an out-dated mars base that has been overrun with nasty things for 3 months.  Start with empty rooms, signs of carnage, then the first zombie or sub-human nazi.  Make sure the PCs don’t figure out the Nazi thing at first unless they are very very observant.  Maybe they think mutants.  Maybe they think aliens, who knows.  Maybe zombies off the bat, but eventually they get hit by big nasty things not of this world, and they discover a gate...  maybe just after they go through it and get themselves stranded.The rest of the game is a big long struggle to get back home to earth.  A long the way you have to deal with a growing army of Neo-Nazi sub-humans armed with advanced industrial technology.  Ruled by highly intelligent and insane inbred Nazi scientists bent on returning to Earth en mass with nasty monsters (maybe some industrial upgraded monsters)Also you got a mostly barren stone landscape complete with labyrinthine tunnels as your primary method of travel between locations... and most locations are the mostly abandoned towers, castles, crypts, workshops, and fortresses of ancient wizards.  Loaded with traps, monsters, and insanity filled books.  The other locations are Neo-Nazi bases, mining facilities, breeding camps, factories, barracks, labs and the occasional lair of an outer-spawn.You got some nice 3 way action between the few remaining wizards (mostly lone powerful figures with a cult of humans gathered from generations of survivors of various time/space accidents), the outer-spawn former wizard slaves (individual powerful “monsters” as well the groups of lesser ones), and hordes of industrial Nazi grunts (lots of gun totting idiots that speak bad German).You also get some interesting unique sites and people, like the wreckage of the FLT ship… which might now be filled with undead the guard a possible way home... or which might be small community of humans (now many generations removed from the original crash survivors).  Other spots/groups include the Russians not killed by monsters but where sucked into the reality & their nukes! Also dark-age level characters and locations.  Small villages possessed by mind-control things, etc.   I’d also like to throw in an odd city block or two from various time periods etc, now completely empty of all life... as if everyone just got up and left leaving everything as it was… then aged 300 years.  Not sure how to justify that though.  Then again, why would I need to justify everything?PCs get their gear from what they start with, and what they can scavange.  Neo-Nazi guns and ammo would be high on the “easy to come by” list but in a sort of Post-apocalypse sort of way, you’d hang on to those energy weapons from the lost FLT ship from the future, and pick up some medieval weapons from any number of sources... for when ammo goes low.  As characters die, or go crazy, you could start replacing them with characters from other time periods.  Stranded sailors from the Philadelphia Experiment, witch hunters from the dark ages, etc.  The sanity rules would take a heavy toll in game with few places to rest and get away from the nastiness.  No Asylums or medical care to come by very often.I’d want a gritty claustrophobic feel to everything. No large open spaces, only tunnels, and bases and towers, many of which are underground or under the false sky when on the “surface” of the giant misshaped (impossibly shaped) asteroid of reality.  Attempts to map the tunnels taken or where things are would show impossible connections and travel distances.</blockquote>

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