Victory Points » The Broken Earth http://victorypoints.com Every Gamer Needs Victory Points! Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:59:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Broken Earth Campaign Ready to Roll http://victorypoints.com/2010/02/broken-earth-campaign-ready-to-roll/ http://victorypoints.com/2010/02/broken-earth-campaign-ready-to-roll/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:27:10 +0000 RPGEditor http://victorypoints.com/?p=406 At HeroCentral.net I have the Broken Earth campaign information finally all loaded. Players can read the world history and jump into creating characters right away. I’m rather excited about this. This weekend I will kick off the campaign and we will have our first run of it.

I had some trouble getting the material up. I did a cut and paste from Word 2010 Beta. In the underlaying HTML there was some formatting that was not understood by HeroCentral which rejected it. However by going into Source Mode I was able to get the raw html and then in EditPlus remove the offending tags. In this case they were <o:p> tags which I have no idea what they do. I could google it I am sure but why…

It looks fine. Even my table formatting looks reasonably intact with little effort needed to fix it. I am really happy so far. Hopefully the players will be happy too.

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RAVEN

]]> http://victorypoints.com/2010/02/the-raven/feed/ 0 The Broken Earth Campaign http://victorypoints.com/2010/02/the-broken-earth-campaign/ http://victorypoints.com/2010/02/the-broken-earth-campaign/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:41:39 +0000 RPGEditor http://victorypoints.com/?p=398 I am starting a new Hero System 6th Edition campaigned called The Broken Earth. It takes place 4 centuries from now on Earth after the planet has been wiped out by an interstellar attempt at takeover. The players are a team of scientists, technicians, leaders and explorers who were frozen prior to the doomsday event and revived with a mission to rescue what is left of humanity.

The Team (Alpha-3) will have an armored personnel carrier, links back to vault 0126 and plenty of high tech gear. Still they will need their wits to survive the wasteland. It just so happens that the ever vigilant overlord computer will be a sort of invisible NPC there. This well intentioned dictator will offer as much of a challenge as any danger the wasteland holds for Alpha-3.

Right now I have 5 players at Hero Central, 4 of whom have created characters. I am hoping to get the 5th to finish his. I can accept up to 8 characters in this run and if it works well I might attempt running multiple teams at the same time.

The story borrows from a lot of my favorite post-apocalyptic and sci-fi favorites. Aliens, The Long Afternoon of Earth, Mad Max, etc. I also borrow elements from The Morrow Project and Paranoia. There are many sources of information I have used. As the campaign materials are finalized I will put them up on this site for easy access.

Many thanks to Dan Simon for creating Hero Central and giving free access to this valuable PBEM RPG support system!

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