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Cosmic Era Source Book
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Cosmic Era Source Book
#1Cosmic Era Source Book
standard introduction
Fluffy Fluff McFlufferson
What is a RPG for gamers with brain damage
Roleplaying the Cosmic Era
Action Oriented: Shadowrunning and criminal/underground themes. Space Exploration and colonial/frontier based conflicts, freelancing jobs such as bounty hunting, corporate security. Military and paramilitary campaigns scaling from infantry to battlemech sized engagements.
Technology Oriented: Campaigns in the CogNet, virtual realms and horizons, manifest destiny of technology, all that. Memory manipulation, hacking, cyberwarfare, Lawnmower Man, TRON, and Total Recall.
Horror: Revealing the ugliness and fleeing it, the monsters in the shadows, storm rifts, mutation, contamination and survival in the face of horrible odds. Body horror, identity issues, and societal abominations.
Settings:
Arcologies, the urban Sprawl and favelas: Living life in the massive hives of humanity
Seacologies and Raft Cities: Life in and under the sea
Geocities and Geofronts: Out of sight, out of mind, the oubliettes of the Cosmic Era, where the toilets flush to.
Space Stations, Habitats, and Non-terrestrial colonies: The Wild Black Beyond, space and true cosmic horror
CogNet: The virtual realm, remnants of 3rdNet, dimensional anomalies in the system
History of the Cosmic Era
Petroleum Era and the Resource Wars
Power armor replaces tanks
The Second Dark Age and the Population Contraction
Arcological construction and collectivism
The Second Renaissance and Arcanotechnology
3rdNet and CogNet
Colonization of Space
Daily Life
Personal lodging and materialism
Shopping, food, entertainment
Personal transportation
Money
Medical tech
Biotechnology, augmentation, cybernetics
Neo-Ethnics, Clones, and tailored augment packages
Androids, gynoids, and mechanoids
Seibertronians
VI, SI, LAI, AI, LAISC, AISC
CogNet, S3 technology
(music, holovids, simsense, virtual vacations, radio,sports, etc)
Everything is for sale
Sex, sex, sex
Parapsychics
Technomancers
Politics and Business
The MegaCorps
Energy, communications, finance
The Corps
weapons, biotech, electronics, machines
Corporate Political Parties
Global Finance, the multiple stock markets
Criminal Factions:
Gangs and Ganglands
Mercenaries and Bandits
Organized Crime Syndicates
Corporate Raiders
Cybercrime
Activism:
Neo-Ethnic Hate, and Neo-Ethnic Pride
Human-Robot relations
Clone Rights
Religious sects
Religious Political Parties
Ecological Groups
The Nations
Atlantic Federation
Eurasian Alliance
Pacific Rim Coalition
United States of South America (Amazon League)
South African United Republics
Kingdom of Scandanavia
The Middle Eastern Wastelands
Free India
Fluffer Nutter Cookies
Actual dice and system mechanics, lists of skills, attributes and the engine behind it. Haven't thought on this, not planning on it either
Arcanotech, Parapsychics and the River of Sorrows
dice rules
Dimensional Engines
Dimensional Batteries
Dimensional Heat Sinks
Exotic Energy Weaponry
LCL
The seibertronian neo-cortex and machine intelligence
Stealth Technology
Parapsychics
Elementalism and telekinesis
Mind and emotion manipulation
Clairvoyance and astral seeking
Martial Parapsychics
Physical Adepts
Prop Adepts
Unique Parapsychics
Super Soldiers
Parapsychic Martial Artists
The River of Sorrows and Hyperdimensional Space and Hyperdimensional Objects
The Human Soul
The CogNet
How it looks and how it works
Accessing the 'Net
Skimming, Browsing, Immersion
Avatars
Datastreams and Zones
Safe, Gray, and Black Datastreams
Nodes
Accessing devices:
Rigging and surrogacy
Electronic Warfare
Hacking and programs
Cybercombat and the CCG
Ghosts in the Machine
Viral Intelligence
Technomancers
Running in the Cosmic Era
Health and Healing
Magic Medicine
Drugs and Brain Alteration
Physical drugs
Electronic drugs
Simsense addiction
Holodeck Syndrome
Lifestyles
Luxury
High
Middle
Low
Squatter
institutionalized criminal and insane
Friends and Foes
Grunts and Minions
Untrained, Semi-trained, Trained, Elite
Loyalty
CorpSecurity, Gangs, Police, Paramilitary, Military, Mercenary, bounty hunters, street samurai
Contacts
The Fixer
Mr. Johnson
Information Gathering
Swag and Favors
Gear and Goods
Requisition, buy, sell and trade
Black Market
Cyberware, Bioware, Genetic Augmentation
CogNet Gadgets
Melee Weapons
Civilian Grade Weaponry
Military Grade Weaponry
Firearms
Magnetic Weaponry
Energy Weapons
High Energy Weapons
Heavy Weapons
Explosives
Chemical Weapons
Biological Weapons
Atomic and Nuclear Weapons
Cyberweapons
SmartGun System
Clothing and Armor
Modern Fashion
Encounter Suit
Stealth Suit
Standard Light Ablative/Ballistic Armor
Mercenary Custom Armor
Royal/Black Armor
Shields
WristComp
ComLink (trektalker)
S3 Full Rig
S3 basic
S3 Light (band)
Wachowski Probe
Artificial Brain
SkillSofts, Chip based skills, DLC abilities
Recorded Memories
Holoprojector
Electric Paper
Electronic Warfare
Jammer
Counter-Jammer
Snooper
Spoofer
Stealth Kit
Cyber-eyes
Cyberwear
Artificial Brain, brain augmentation, sense augmentation
Body Armor
Cyborgs
Laced skeletons
Myomer muscle replacement
Traced nerves
Civilian prosthetics, military prosthetics, criminal prosthetics
Gun Arms and concealed weapons
BioWare and Genetic Mods
Cosmetic
Bone and muscle improvement
Endocrine enhancement
Pheromones
Body Transplant
Grown Organs
Vehicles, machines and Drones
Surrogates and personal drones
Motorcycles and hoverbikes
Police and para-military APCs and light craft
Hovercraft
VTOLs and Electrofan craft
Zeppelins
Power Armor Suits
Military Drones
Mecha
Personal Boats
Personal submersibles
Military Warships (guided missile and gauss battleships)
Capital submarines
Hypersonic Aerospace craft
LAI Pilots, the Dummy Plug and Astromech option
Eye-Borgs and small drones
Animal robot drones
Predator and Global Hawk, full size drones
Aquatic mecha and power armor
Marine drones
Space Mecha, power armor and drones
Dragoon gun drone system
Space Warships
Space Civilian ships (cruise liner, cargo hauler, mining)
Bestiary
Mundane
Robot pets, iKids
The Horse
Wild Dogs and Ferals
Genetic Augment
Smart Dogs
Rat Bombs
Robot warhounds
Smart Dolphins
Neo-Humans
Giants
Coordinators
Instrumentality Project
Cro-Mags
Storm Tainted
Storm tainted animals
Storm tainted humans
Ghosts, souls, and astral shadows
Dragons, Vampires and Immortals
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Re: Cosmic Era Source Book
#2I believe that with that much content, it has exceeded the allowances of a "book" and qualifies for the label "tome". -
Re: Cosmic Era Source Book
#3Though if anyone on this site is capable of single-handedly writing a tome, it would be Scras. The outline itself could use a little formatting for clarity -- it's kind of hard to parse as is, since the varying sections are not clearly deliminated. If you're looking for comments on the organization of the information, that would make it a lot easier for us. The content headings themselves look sound, though. Can't remember anything in particular you left out (except perhaps your one-page note on "writing for the cosmic era"). -
Re: Cosmic Era Source Book
#4Androids, Gynoids and Mechanoids
First generation 'droids are the Autons
http://strolen.com/viewing/Autons
These primitive droids do much of the heavy lifting raising the world out of the Second Dark Age, and into the Second Renaissance. They are eventually phased out, as their low end design leaves much to be desired, and the population begins to recover from the population contraction.
The Auton passes on it's 'genes' to the mass produced Police issue Wojeks. The law enforcement droids benefit from the faceless design of the Autons, but are stylized to be impersonal and intimidating.
http://strolen.com/viewing/Wojek
The Skeletron and other minimalist combat robots also trace lineage back to the Auton. While more advanced than the Auton, they are effectively no different. Minimal design, mass produced.
http://strolen.com/viewing/Skeletrons
The artificial blank nature of the auton is not desirable in units for more personal relations with humans. Humans are accustomed to nuances of facial expression, vocal inflection, and body language, and the machines that interact on this level have to not just be humanoid, but very lifelike. The almost lifelike, or wax-face, rubber skin droids fall into the uncanny valley and are poorly received. Thus, the normal business level L Type Gynoid (aka Flo) and the sex bot Hitome Unit both grew from the need for lifelike robots, albeit for different reasons.
http://strolen.com/viewing/Hitome_Unit
http://strolen.com/viewing/L_Type_Gynoid
From this basic pattern, there are going to be varieties of androids, and gynoids manufactured in varying numbers for varying purposes.