Thinking of a Latter Times Campaign
May 30, 2017 13:15:52 GMT -6
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Post by Achán hiNidráne on May 30, 2017 13:15:52 GMT -6
Back at the Dawn of the OSR, our good friend The Drune, had several ideas for EPT-related games bouncing around his head. His best known was "Humanspace Empires." Among them, was "Lords of the Latter Times" which would take players to the post-apocalyptic world of Tekumel just a few centuries or millennia after its solar system had been exiled from the known universe. Sadly, The Drune has long since vanished into the aether to peruse other things, leaving the project nothing more than a mere suggestion.
Lately, as world and national events turn my thoughts towards a grimmer outlook on humanity's future, the idea of a Latter Times campaign is tickling at my fevered brain and I'm tempted to try to pick up were The Drune left off. Of course, since the amount that Prof. Barker wrote on this period of Tekumelyani history is scant compared to the rest, this is fertile territory for to stake a claim upon. ("Here there be Sro!") Like The Drune, I imagine this period to be a barbaric world where technology is becoming more and more scarce, where the remaining scientific knowledge is being passed down from along lines of hereditary nobles, where mysticism and superstition is replacing knowledge, and where warlords, mad scientists, and arising class of Pariah-God-worshipping psychic sorcerers vie for dominance over a ruined world. Here adventurers stride the decimated landscape with a chlen-hide sword in one hand, their family's heirloom energy pistol in the other. In decaying towers, merciless tyrants plot and scheme as their Yeleth concubines lounge at his pointy-slippered feet. Tiny city states must pool their remaining technological resources to fend of invasions from rampaging Ssu, bent upon vengeance.
To help me upon my quest, I intend to draw from a few outside sources, namely Al Krombach's Warriors Of The Red Planet for ideas to fold into the standard EPT rules. Of course, any outside suggestions, criticisms, or thoughts would be appreciated.
What do you think, sirs?
Lately, as world and national events turn my thoughts towards a grimmer outlook on humanity's future, the idea of a Latter Times campaign is tickling at my fevered brain and I'm tempted to try to pick up were The Drune left off. Of course, since the amount that Prof. Barker wrote on this period of Tekumelyani history is scant compared to the rest, this is fertile territory for to stake a claim upon. ("Here there be Sro!") Like The Drune, I imagine this period to be a barbaric world where technology is becoming more and more scarce, where the remaining scientific knowledge is being passed down from along lines of hereditary nobles, where mysticism and superstition is replacing knowledge, and where warlords, mad scientists, and arising class of Pariah-God-worshipping psychic sorcerers vie for dominance over a ruined world. Here adventurers stride the decimated landscape with a chlen-hide sword in one hand, their family's heirloom energy pistol in the other. In decaying towers, merciless tyrants plot and scheme as their Yeleth concubines lounge at his pointy-slippered feet. Tiny city states must pool their remaining technological resources to fend of invasions from rampaging Ssu, bent upon vengeance.
To help me upon my quest, I intend to draw from a few outside sources, namely Al Krombach's Warriors Of The Red Planet for ideas to fold into the standard EPT rules. Of course, any outside suggestions, criticisms, or thoughts would be appreciated.
What do you think, sirs?
