FISSURE
FISSURE: A kitchen-sink city-state RPG in a post-apocalyptic world
Background
Before the apocalypse, there was a Golden Age. Or at least a Gilded Age-the records are unclear and often twisted for the ends of various strongmen. Mankind reached impossible heights with its mastery of the sciences, learning more and more about the universe. Laws of physics could be bent, ignored, or even broken. Or so they thought.
It is unknown what caused the ripples to open, but one day, reality buckled. Cities were erased, continents changed, and things appeared. Creatures of magic and legend. Powerful aliens and alternate races. Long-dead species. Earth has become a patchwork of abrupt dimensional
Premise
Players in this game play
Citystate Generation
Core Stats
Technology
Technology has been mankind's birthright for millenia. It has been a way to even the odds against nature, and with all the new and dangerous things floating around
Magic
Wacky Things
Super-mutants? Atomic Dinosaurs? Aztec Giant Death robots made from the souls of forsaken children?
Industrial Base
Your ability to make things with your dudes.
Population
How many dudes you have.
Education
Education is a measure of your people's average education and schooling. Education is critical if one wishes to use Advanced units or more powerful, formalized magics.
Traits
Choose some number of traits. Traits can come in a few types:
- Replacer-lets you substitute a stat for another stat. e.g. allowing you to build a certain unit type with an alternative affinity or the like.
- Bonuses-generic bonus to an affinity or unit type.
- Fun stuff-dunno yet, this is a super-basic sketch right now.
Armies
Adventurers
Blah blah something about adventurers who go around looting shit for you blah blah.
Trait List
Unit Types
Simple units are units which need minimal technical education. Guys with AK-47s for example. Advanced units, like tanks, powersuits, and giant robots, are units which need significant amounts of technical understanding.
Generic
Militia: Guys with patchwork armor and weapons. In this lawless post-apocalyptic world, often double as cops. Militia normally cost nothing to have-they're a last-ditch method of defending your city-state, but militia with special abilities (often representing internal security forces of some sort)
Troopers: Troopers are formally trained and inducted light infantry, armed with basic (but often standardized) weaponry and
Cavalry: Guys on horses, dinosaurs, or whatever. Even high-tech polities make use of these, because hypercapacitor chargers and microfusion plants are few and far between and a guy on a horse with a gun can move faster than a guy with a gun who doesn't have a horse.
- Unwieldy: Because of their size and momentum, cavalry are difficult to use effectively in enclosed, broken, or heavily built-up terrain.
Technological
Battlesuits: Battlesuits combine the protection of light armored vehicles with the size and mobility of infantry. Battlesuits are formally particularly heavy examples of power armor, standing around 2 to 3 meters tall and massing anywhere from a quarter of a ton to a ton. Half-vehicle, half-infantry, battlesuits are often prized possessions because of their brutal effectiveness in close quarters.
- Advanced: Battlesuits require high-tech maintenance and infrastructure and thus are Advanced units, requiring technically savvy personnel.
- Hardened: Battlesuits are resistant to critical hits and thus are difficult to defeat with inferior foes.
- Super-Strength: Battlesuits have enhanced strength and are extremely potent in close quarters.
Armor: Tanks are a fairly rare sight on post-apocalyptic Earth because of their upkeep requirements and the fact that the vast majority of things don't need tanks to kill. An Armor unit is maybe ten tanks (and that's assuming they're relatively cheap, light ones) and for the vast majority of threats is an unstoppable behemoth that can roll over almost anything.
Magical
Mystic Beast: People with the power of magic can often
Elementals:
- Summoned: Elementals are summoned creatures and require mages to keep them in control.
- Affinity: Elementals have an elemental affinity and are resistant to attacks which are reminiscent of that affinity.
- Immunity: Elementals are nearly immune to simple weapons. You need advanced weapons, ridiculous superpowers, or
Superpowered
Brutes: Mutants (or cyborgs or transgenes) with absurd strength and toughness, Brutes are sort of like a step in between battlesuits and regular soldiers. They're not as tough, but they're more agile, and definitely stronger.
- Super-Strength: Brutes have enhanced strength and are extremely potent in close quarters.
- Agile: Brutes can jump very high and scale nearly vertical walls, giving them improved mobility and defense in tight terrain.