It is the year our lord 1666 -- London is in flames.It's the year 1776 -- in 1666, the Thirty Years War ended when the 1,000 megaton Ethereum Nuke known as the 'Götterdämmerung' was dropped by unknown forces on the Princely States of Germania and brought widespread devastation to the old world.The western hemisphere continent of Northern Laurasia was not unaffected -- the Götterdämmerung's explosion was followed by the Three Days of Darkness -- a portentous event when the Veil or Gauntlet, the barrier between this world, the astral planes, and the nether regions, was eviscerated.To the east, the far-off realms of Sahul and Sunda, including the Elemental Conclaves of Siam, were also affected -- terrors from the Elemental Strongholds and the Avici Hells of the Yama Kings poured forth in a tidal wave of infernal power, overwhelming many of the ancient cities of Siam, Khmer, Cathay, and Nippon.The lost realms of Atlantis, Mu, and Lemuria resurfaced, respectively, in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and the inner tropics of the Antarctic were freshly unveiled -- the great ice wall that had hidden them from the world having cracked during the cataclysm.The world of Ehrth is like and unlike our own -- the alchemy of the ancient Greeks, reportedly inherited from an earlier civilization led to the creation of the mutant-animals, the greatest friends, servants, and tools of the Empires of Man. The Library of Alexandria was never burned, and the survival of ancient Atlantean wisdom through the Roman Empire led to the early development of remarkable technologies comparable to, but different from, those of Earth. Vril-energy rifles, flying golden palaces known as vimanas, ornithopters diving through the skies of etherum-powered mega cities like Londinium and New Amsterdam.The European colonies of the Americas have become largely self-sufficient and independent as a result of the catastrophe. The various breeds of mutant animals, once loyal servants of their human masters, have increasingly established their own civilizations and communities in the wreckage of the old order. The storied orders of the Knights Templar, the Witch Hunters, and the Vampire Slayers have emerged from the shadows to combat the new threats to civilization - among their most competent adherents are the mutant animals who have maintained their faith in the cause, even if they have thrown off the shackles of their previous servitude to the Empires of Humankind.This setting will adopt elements of After the Bomb, the Savage World's setting Rippers, and the Adventures of Solomon Kane, among other inspirations. One of my players came up with the tag 'Colonial Atom Punk' to describe the setting. In this world, the historical technology of the 1600s is considerably supplemented by steampunk etherum tech more reminiscent of 1800s-based steampunk images and concepts -- witch iron clad battleships, etherum canons and handguns, ornithopter-type flying vehicles. The ambience would be similar to Val Helsing, Witchhunter: the Hidden World, and the Adventures of Solomon Kane and would involve a party of humans and mutant animals that are part of esoteric orders that hunt down demons, devils, vampires, witches, and other cryptids threatening the ashes of civilization on the East Coast and the ruins of Europe.The story will concern an expedition to some haunted ice-isles near Atlantis to recover a lost ship.There is no SRD for this system, so you'd have to get access to the books somehow on your own (I own a hard copy of the core book, so I really can't help on that front). You need After the Bomb 2e and Nightbane. They are each about 20 dollars for both books on rpgdrivethru to get the pdfs.This game will have you pick one mutant animal rcc from After the Bomb and combine that with the Nightbane rcc from the Nightbane rpg. In other words, the characters are all mutant animals with a nightbane 'form'/alternate supernatural form. You'll get all the powers of both and the higher/faster hit point and sdc progression of one of the two rccs. via /r/pbp https://ift.tt/wfWnR8g
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