CLSWiki: AGM2018/Citadel

Working Title: The Citadel

Post-decline, tribes explore a newly opened Citadel from their past.

PvE? focused. Little reason to PvP? in backstory.
Encounter based Linear system (NFNC,
Linears statted at “difficulty levels” and opportunity to fail.
- Choice of Linears (most weeks)
Deaths a thing, although rare. In case of TPWs we will attempt to offer important choices that can alter the state of play for characters.
“Tags” to give you information about, for example, monsters.
- This is currently some way of marking who has RESIST vs CRUSH.
Crafting skills to give most power to the one who takes them.
Defined bonuses from” low-hanging fruit” (eg “advanced armour” and AI); predictable blessings at this level.
Dts to inform uptime and say “this is an encounter we want”. Very limited interaction with the Citadel in DT.
Rules are very much like Breaking World's, whose system we have shamelessly modified.

Post-Apocalyptic; more scavenging for resources after a decline than single event.
- Exploration, not survival, is the focus of the game.
The Citadel. A legendary permanent settlement, has just opened. It’s the time to explore.
There exists 2 strains of “people” or “humans”: “dead-strain” and “gene-strain”; both sides accept the necessity of the other, but there can be tensions between the two.
- Dead-strain are “very human”. They interact better with AI, and are able to manifest Techgnostic abilities..
- Gene-strain are “mutants”. They can manifest Psionics.
There are “spirits” that inhabit the world, these are called AI. They recognise the “dead-strain” as humans like their ancestors, and favour them.
Psionics are a sort of magic power that uses the power of centuries of mutation, and also the communal spirit of people.
There is no predefined Law. Maybe some NPCs try to impose ideas, with their own mooks, but nothing binding exists.
Tribes have existed near the Citadel in a sort of peace for a long time, but that peace is not controlled by any large power.

Weekly Interactives and Linears on Friday/Saturday? (unless moved). DTs are limited, and can’t interact with the Citadel.
Run of 1 year, with the option for “scope expansion” in the second year, which would represent a shift to a different focus from “the Citadel”.

We have a predefined exploration arc which takes place over the course of the year. We have ideas that would merit a continuation of the setting, with a different central focus, but it is our opinion that another vote should happen before such a change is made. ~Ivan