Helix Biotech
This Wiki was created to develop the background and story arc for a D20 Modern Genetech/Apocalypse game.
If you find any of this material interesting, please feel free to add and help me develop any aspects of this campaign. I will be making the password available online very soon.
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Setting:
The game is set in the near-future, roughly around 2048. It is a fictional but possible future ideal for the techno-thriller setting of Genetech (outlined in both D20 Future and Dungeon Magazine #96), with a touch of psionics and mecha. A few experimental fusion reactors have been developed by first-world powers to help quell growing energy concerns and diminishing fossil fuels. Combine this with growing world hunger, class warfare, and increasingly common use of genetic engineering (think Gattaca) to further divide the haves and have-nots. Some genetic engineering has unlocked very basic psionic abilities among a rare few ESPers.
Style:
Influences for the game are Umbrella Corp/Resident Evil, cheesy Genetic thriller movies like The Sixth Day or The Island, nanotechnology threats like Crichton's Prey, near-apocalyptic psionics like Otomo's Akira and Domu, with a little bit of Metal Gear Solid thrown in. Also, Cameron's Dark Angel, though I haven't seen it.
Flavor is dark, high-tech horror/thriller, switching between extremely basic encounters of primitive violence with high-tech infiltration and environments.
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Campaign Arc:
Something apocalyptic will hopefully occur several sessions into the game, fairly early-ish. I imagine a lot of the experimental gene-technology releases a pretty horrific neuro-virus. I haven't figured out possible ways for the PCs to survive.
My initial idea was that the PCs were genetically enhanced shock troopers and their team associates (i.e. there might be non-military scientists or hackers with the group), and the initial adventure would be an underground raid on a gene-splicing facility suspected of illegal modifications.
So, any help with the brainstorming? Possible ideas? Places to take this?
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