Hi um this post is to the Shadowrun fans and offficial creators, I was going over my First HC version of Shadowrun rpg book and was thinking along these lines, what about a Atompunk future setting.


Some of you must have played Fallout 3 or Bioshock, It's a world were the 50's polical and social style are still around, the tech is pre digtial and the buildings are Googie in style.


The punkness would come from the fact that the 50's dispight seeming to be bright it had a very dark side to it, and Corps were also expanding and getting big like GM and American Corp culture was at it's hight.


LW

Well as a rabid fan of post-apocalyptic games - they are my all-time favorite - I am all for Atompunk. My only question is: What system?

I use GW 3rd ed. the most as I like the colored chart with the ability to determe greater or lesser successes. (I have always liked varied success levels.)

D6 (the Star Wars game mechanic) could do well also - it has multiple genres to pull from.

BTW; Fallout 3 was the greatest video game ever! IMO

The problem is, the setting (as described) does not naturally work especially well with a pen & paper RPG. Your big high-points are, firstly, the color setting, which is very heavily visual (and so can't be well emulated), and secondly, survival (which is difficult to emulate well in P&P). It being a wasteland setting, politics are naturally slim (which is where RPGs excel). For exploration, you have a world which feels emptier and less dynamic than D&D. For combat, there's nothing special compared to most other systems.

While I love Fallout, I can't see myself playing (or running) a P&P RPG about it. If you're talking about just a straight 50s setting... well that's the backdrop for a real game. I can't really see myself setting up a game based around the fact that "hey, it's the 50s!" Put that behind a CoC or Spycraft game and you've got something.

We have miss understood, I'm not doing a post- apocalyptic game, what I ment by Atompunk is a future were 1950's social and politics are still around.


The timeframe is around 2050 to 2070, like in Fallout series this setting is were the Atomic energy was researched fully and created fusion power, since this is North America in this setting forgive me for using a home ground. The cars are heavy and futuristic and, the clothes are 50 ish in style and feel. Also the tech and compuiters are pre digtial as well, the buildings are Googie in style and yes I'm guessing here that these cities would have a metroplex feel towards them.


Some of you may ask where is the punkness in this shinny happy future, well this was the age of the USA goverment started to fight dirty little private wars, the CIA overthrough little nations on the thought that they were Red. Also the Corps of this time behaved alot like they do in Shadowrun, it was in America not Japan that invented the Corp life, the Corp death and even the conclave GM AND IBM comes to mind.

LW

This kind of reminds me of the old Atomic Horror setting for GURPS. Yes I used to play GURPS. The premise of the Atomic Horror setting was that it is the 50's and all of the classic horror movies are real. Attack of the 50 foot ______, THEM!, This Island Earth, Plan 9, Tremors, all of them real. Tremors was the best 50's monster film the 90's created, incidentally. When Atompunk was brought up I instantly thought of this. For GM-ing inspiration you can research Roger Corman, Ray Harryhausen, and Ed Wood Jr. while watching cheesy movies.

Anyway, just a thought.

You mean a setting like Gibson's Gernsback Continuum ??

Hate to disappoint you, but corporations have been around for a long time before the 1950s and governments were doing bad things way before the 1950s, too.

Yes that point is true, but this is an Atompunk setting a 50ish future, for example hacking into a computer is quite differant then in standard Cyberpunk setting, for one the computers still operate on a cd type system and you have hunt through sea of words for the passwords there is no windows.


LW