Relics
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>How have people handled the old survivors of the last imperium <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
They have
a) first hand knowledge of how things were
b) to adjust to their whole universe being gone
seems like b) is enough of a buffer done right
They have
a) first hand knowledge of how things were
b) to adjust to their whole universe being gone
seems like b) is enough of a buffer done right
DaddyDragon
SOC-12
IMTU, when TNE came out, I had all of my players make new characters from scratch. I later relocated to an area and an old friend I'd gamed with in the service was close by and wanted to revive the old character he'd played in the former campaign. After a lot of discussion between us and a lot of consideration of how he would be viewed, I allowed him to convert him to TNE, and brought him into my RCES campaign.
He wasn't happy with the way his character was treated, to be sure. As a retired Admiral (he retired in 1114) and a titled noble, and acted as a diplomat and courier and crossed the war-torn Imperium. The RC looked at him as both a blessing and a bane.
I played up his "relic" status when he was first revived by the group. CIN interviews, photos, RCES debriefings....the whole shebang. Then I dropped the hammer. Since he had been so "exposed" to the media, he couldn't go anywhere without being recognized. He couldn't get served at some restuarants. He had to be saved by law enforcement officers from a riot while out sight-seeing. So he went to the lancer crew that had found him and asked for a job. There are a lot of ways that you can put some payback to any relics in your campaign. No matter how mundane they may have been in the whole scheme of things before Virus, everyone in the RC and the wilds knows that they are the ones who brought it down on the universe. It was their fault, after all.
YMMV
Larry
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"They'd have labelled it an accidental shooting. If he hadn't changed the magazine. Twice."
[This message has been edited by DaddyDragon (edited 16 March 2002).]
He wasn't happy with the way his character was treated, to be sure. As a retired Admiral (he retired in 1114) and a titled noble, and acted as a diplomat and courier and crossed the war-torn Imperium. The RC looked at him as both a blessing and a bane.
I played up his "relic" status when he was first revived by the group. CIN interviews, photos, RCES debriefings....the whole shebang. Then I dropped the hammer. Since he had been so "exposed" to the media, he couldn't go anywhere without being recognized. He couldn't get served at some restuarants. He had to be saved by law enforcement officers from a riot while out sight-seeing. So he went to the lancer crew that had found him and asked for a job. There are a lot of ways that you can put some payback to any relics in your campaign. No matter how mundane they may have been in the whole scheme of things before Virus, everyone in the RC and the wilds knows that they are the ones who brought it down on the universe. It was their fault, after all.
YMMV
Larry
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"They'd have labelled it an accidental shooting. If he hadn't changed the magazine. Twice."
[This message has been edited by DaddyDragon (edited 16 March 2002).]
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by kafka47:
How have people handled the old survivors of the last imperium in the TNE worlds. I reckon they would be powerful, yet, have to have their power curved. Suggestions?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
IMTU, they tended to be either treated as my compatriot has mentioned, as "GUILTY!!!!", or locked away by the RCES as sources of detailed information, carefully covered up so that the press finds out about them not... But I've not run TNE in many years. I dislike the engine, and the setting, so I plaed it only while it was the "Current Official Setting".
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-aramis
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Smith & Wesson: The Original Point and Click interface!
How have people handled the old survivors of the last imperium in the TNE worlds. I reckon they would be powerful, yet, have to have their power curved. Suggestions?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
IMTU, they tended to be either treated as my compatriot has mentioned, as "GUILTY!!!!", or locked away by the RCES as sources of detailed information, carefully covered up so that the press finds out about them not... But I've not run TNE in many years. I dislike the engine, and the setting, so I plaed it only while it was the "Current Official Setting".
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-aramis
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Smith & Wesson: The Original Point and Click interface!
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by aramis:
I dislike the engine, and the setting, so I plaed it only while it was the "Current Official Setting".
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Too bad, I actually liked the engine. IMO, it´s a bit more detailed and realistic than the other versions (excepting Gurps, which I didn´t play, so I wouldn´t know). I really like the space combat rules. Complicated, but once you get the hang of it, a lot of fun.
Back to the topic: there was only one "relic" in my campaigns. She was a solomani capital ship captain marooned in a low berth after a space battle and rescued by the RCES (yeah, I know, just like in the novels
. The player concentrated on
the fact that she was very much into capital ships and fleet tactics, so as a comical relief I had her command an old, battered Jayhawk trader with a riff-raff crew (and an RCMC marine to keep some order in there. I had to twist the plot quite a bit to get her on that ship, but the look on the face of the player when I described her new assignement was priceless (player´s comment: "You can´t do this to me! Nothing below 50.000 tons qualifies as a ship! What do you mean, there aren´t any 50.000 ton ships around?" .
Actually, I thought that a Solomani officer would´ve had some qualms about the reformation coalition due to her undemocratic and rigidly conservative solomani background, so it was a good thing she got out of RC space, before she did something stupid
.
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I dislike the engine, and the setting, so I plaed it only while it was the "Current Official Setting".
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Too bad, I actually liked the engine. IMO, it´s a bit more detailed and realistic than the other versions (excepting Gurps, which I didn´t play, so I wouldn´t know). I really like the space combat rules. Complicated, but once you get the hang of it, a lot of fun.
Back to the topic: there was only one "relic" in my campaigns. She was a solomani capital ship captain marooned in a low berth after a space battle and rescued by the RCES (yeah, I know, just like in the novels
. The player concentrated onthe fact that she was very much into capital ships and fleet tactics, so as a comical relief I had her command an old, battered Jayhawk trader with a riff-raff crew (and an RCMC marine to keep some order in there
. I had to twist the plot quite a bit to get her on that ship, but the look on the face of the player when I described her new assignement was priceless (player´s comment: "You can´t do this to me! Nothing below 50.000 tons qualifies as a ship! What do you mean, there aren´t any 50.000 ton ships around?" .Actually, I thought that a Solomani officer would´ve had some qualms about the reformation coalition due to her undemocratic and rigidly conservative solomani background, so it was a good thing she got out of RC space, before she did something stupid
. [This message has been edited by Virus (edited 28 March 2002).]
