I want to generate some background for a setting for the next game I'm planning to run. Or maybe I'll just dream about this one and never run it.
Anyway, the idea sounds like I tried to mash as many genre tropes together as I could, but I think it actually has promise.
In 1893, an alien invasion assaulted Earth, and successfully destroyed every major population center, killing off more than 95% of the human population. The aliens then set about the slow process or rooting out and killing the surviving humans, collecting, breeding, and experimenting on other humans, and terraforming the planet to make it more hospitable for their kind to populate. Surviving humans begin to quickly learn from the far-advanced alien tech.
The game would be set about 30 years post-invasion. The result is .. wait for it ... a post-apocalyptic alien invasion alternate history steampunk rpg setting. No zombies yet.
Anyway, here's the game i want to play by blog:
Every day I look at the dictionary.com word of the day, and I write a brief (or long, if I know myself) entry that somehow fleshes out the setting.
Today the WOTD is oxter, which means armpit.
Flare Marconi makes his way around the world however he can, broadcasting radio programs designed to inform, entertain, and encourage human survivors, on a radio station he has dubbed 'The Oxter'. The name is obviously a pseudonym, and his actual identity is unknown to most, but his broadcasts have reached many, many survivors, and he has incorporated some found tech to boost his broadcasting power and keep himself hidden as he does so.
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