What's O.L.D. is N.E.W.

www.woinrpg.com/introduction/

This is a link to the website for W.O.I.N. It has a Rules Reference Document that has many of the character creation options. It doesn't have everything, but I do have the rulebooks, so in the event that people are interested, I can guide character creation for your first character. Once that's done, apparently new characters only take about 10 minutes to create.

Well that’s one death warrant signed. Do I have any others?

I would open up options for fantasy, modern and sci fi. There's actually a nice little intro story to introduce all the different types of games available. Basically, people from different times and different worlds all die and wake up together in a strange place. So I'd have you make your character, tell me who they are and how they died, and we'd go from there. The other option is a sci fi game where you are investigating an old, derelict space station.

You're free to use any of the races or careers in all three of the books, O.L.D., N.O.W. or N.E.W. If you want to do the first option, then you are free to develop your backstory and the world you hale from, being as elaborate or as finite as you want. You likely won't be going back, so it doesn't matter much. If the second, no aliens or fantasy races are allowed, though humans, augmented, mutants and androids are, and is set in the year 2137. No faster than light travel, and the space station orbits Titan, one of Saturn's moons. I'd still allow magic, as well as psionics, but I'd let you decide how you want to do that, and I'd just say it's something discovered over the next hundred years.

You can use this character creator to generate your character easily, if you like: www.enworld.org/morrusdev/character.php

Just use the three basic rulebooks, though. I don't know all these other ones. You can use the website I posted in the above post to look up what each exploit does, to help you pick your character. As for magic, that might be a little more complicated.

Sooooo...it occurs to me that the third book I wrote, Morpheus One, would be a perfect setting for the sci fi adventure. So here's the important parts:

This is made to be a possible future of mankind, so it is set in the future a few hundred years. Likely, four or five hundred years, maybe more.

At some point in the next century or two, Artificial Intelligences takes an interesting turn, as scientists develop the means, not to create human-like intelligence, but animal like intelligence. A program that can think instinctually, making judgement calls based on it's "instincts", which are very, very basic programs. In some ways, they aren't as smart as people. In others, they're more efficient.

At first, these were mistrusted. Imagine a smart car with the mind of a horse. It doesn't like you, it bucks you out. But if it trusts you, and you treat it well, it becomes devoted to you, interpreting your instructions in creative ways. I had not included any androids in the book, or Artificial Intelligences on par with a human brain, at least not yet, but if you really, really want to play an android, then we can include those as only recently having been declared "People", therefore gaining citizenship within the nations of Earth.

Using these new Artificial Animal Intelligences, the nations of Earth band together to terraform Mars. It is a huge undertaking, and considered a "Unifying" venture. Another advancement that allows this to be possible is advances in Cybernetic Implantations. Those who first live on Mars have extensive Cybernetic alterations in order to survive in the hostile environment. Once terraforming was done, more than a hundred years later, Cybernetic alterations are commonplace, not because they're needed, but because everybody has them. I'll look through the N.E.W. book and see if it all fits with the setting, but I imagine it will.

In the end, Mars looks much like Earth, with Earth-like creatures and plants covering it. The nation that rose on Mars was a conglomerate of most nations on earth, creating a true "Melting Pot". At first, at least. They eventually broke form Earth, forming their own, independent and self sufficient world, though that took a lot of time.



Of course, Humanity did not want to stop there. They didn't "Terraform" the Moon, but there are a number of colonies and large cities on it, under domes, of course. However, once Mars was well under way, they set their focus on Venus.

Venus turned out to be a completely different beast. It had many of the opposite problems Mars did. Unfortunately, the Nations of Earth completely and utterly failed in their attempt to Terraform Venus. That's when a large Coorporation bought out the space station Earth had been using as a base to terraform Venus. Not only did they buy out the space station, but they managed to secure rights to the planet itself. In other words, Venus is owned by this one Coorporation.

This Corporation was focused on Genetic Engineering, and when they bought Venus, they declared themselves separate and independent from Earth. On Earth, Genetic Engineering is only used in limited ways. There are many ethical laws in place as to what is allowed and what is not. When this Corporation took over Venus, they abolished these laws, doing what they wanted with no limitations.

They advanced quickly. Using these advancements, they created organisms that could survive in Venus' atmosphere, slowly changing it. Over time, they succeeded where the Nations of Earth did not: Venus was now Earth-like. Of course, where Mars is very logically grown, with specifically planted forests and and only a little in the wild being random chance, Venus is absolutely flooding with life, and much of it life that was never seen on Earth, thanks to the Corporation's genetic engineering. Even the people of Venus are altered, gaining animalistic traits, or simply being "Designer Babies", in that they are stronger, faster, smarter and live longer, thanks to their genetic enhancements. Most look human, if not much more beautiful and capable. Others are almost animalistic in nature, sporting scales or gills or even non functioning wings (true flight has been elusive.)

As for Psionics, we will say that it is Venusians that figured out how to develop it, so if you want Psionics, you can have it.


So here is where we are at. Three planets in our solar system are Earth-like, but they don't get along all that well. Venusians are similar to Elves (and I might allow you to take Elves as a Race and say they are Venusians), in that they are haughty and think themselves superior, while most others think them scary and weird. Martians are more accepting, but have many Cybernetic parts, which makes people from Earth think they're strange. Venusians and Martians really, really don't like each other, each seeing the other as being Anathema tot heir point of view. Venusians see themselves as being naturally superior, while Martians see them as no longer being human. To Martians, Martians are still human and just upgraded, but to Venusians they are a sloppy attempt to do what Venusians have already perfected. To Earth, they're all weird. Earth Humans are normal, preferring to use technology the usual way and not adjusting themselves, though there are some who take Cybernetic Implants when they have to and most Genetic Disorders are eliminated altogether.

Next post will have character creation thoughts, to give you some ideas.