Barsaive the New Matrix Phenomina, Its just a game like a bunch of others.. Options Track this topic Email this topic Print this topic Download this topic Subscribe to this forum Display Modes Outline Switch to: Standard Switch to: Linear+

[Gerzel]

I thought I'd put out a plot hook idea for a low-power campaign.

The PCs are all playtesters for a new flashy Matrix Immersion Game World entitled Barsaive. The game's back story and setting is supposedly the prehistory of Earth in the late 4th age. The writing staff uses bits of information and folklore combined with their own imaginations to create the setting from what they believe to be whole cloth and populate it with many races including the metahuman types seen in the real world, along with a few player races. The antagonists are the extremely powerful entities called simply "Horrors" which seek to cause terror and fear whilst devouring their victims.

The thing is the online world is disturbingly close to how certain persons who were there remember it. No living person's or dragon's names are used but there are characters that closely resemble people who lived long past.

In the gaming circles the game has gotten early rave reviews even in betatesting and the staff is having a tough time keeping unregistered "testers" off their grid. The game's interface is realistic and well designed, a model of solid programming and computer art.

Of coarse there are some who are quietly getting worried...