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CORPS Down in Flames
This review originally appeared
in Pyramid Magazine and is reprinted
with their permission. Copyright Steve Jackson Games.
Pyramid Pick
Down in Flames
Published by BTRC
Written by Greg Porter
72 pages, $12.00
Sometimes, the hardest thing
to do in a roleplaying campaign is to bring things to an end. It's time
to move on, start something a fresh -- a new set of characters, or maybe
even a whole new game. But to just walk away from the current story doesn't
seem right. There's no closure, no denouement.
Well, if that's your problem, look no further. Down in Flames has
more closure than a bickering couple in a door factory. You want to end
your roleplaying campaign -- really end it -- then this book is for you.
While it is written for Blacksburg Tactical Research Center's own CORPS
modern-day/near-future roleplaying game, the author has kept the stats
to a minimum (confined mostly to sidebars) and there's plenty of good
ol' plain text descriptions that can be easily hijacked into any number
of game systems. And while primarily set in the modern day, it wouldn't
take too much work to adapt the neat ideas in this book to many other
roleplaying genres.
And there are a boatload of really cool ideas, all based on the premise
of bringing your roleplaying campaign to an end by ending the world. Nothing
instantaneous and unexpected, mind you -- even as you're ending your RPG
campaign, you want to have some fun while doing it. So most of the planet's
demises come with warning, or are slow in developing, or both.
The first one presented is your basic global warming disaster -- the seas
rise, coastal cities are destroyed, most of the arable land is flooded,
billions dead, that sort of thing. But there's another scenario offered:
What if the flooding is caused not by a rise in the sea level, but a catastrophic
lowering of the land level? "Like a magma souffle gone bad," the book
says. You get the same flooding, but toss in killer earthquakes and volcanoes
everywhere as a bonus. OK, the science on some of these isn't perfect,
but like Porter says in the introduction, "It's no less a suspension of
disbelief than magic or starships."
But Down in Flames is just getting started. In "Shake & Bake,"
a planet-sized mass crashes into the sun, releasing light, heat, and radiation
many times normal. Anyone caught in the open simply dies. Electronics
are fried, temperatures soar, weather goes haywire. And it will be years
before the wounded star settles down, provided anybody can live that long.
There's a big-rock-is-coming-to-wipe-us-out scenario with a cute twist,
a nuclear-war-aftermath scenario, a worldwide plague scenario, and more.
In "Malthusian Meltdown," it's not one big thing -- it's a bunch
of little things finally tipping the ecological scales and damaging the
ecosystem to the point where there's not enough food anymore, with the
resulting riots, martial law, and other unpleasantness. Porter has done
a fine job of mixing the big catastrophes with the seemingly little ones,
giving the reader many different paths to his roleplaying doom.
After these more grounded, "could happen" (just maybe) type scenarios,
Porter starts to let his imagination roam. There are several different
alien invasion scenarios, and a scenario where a subatomic experiment
rips the fabric of the time-space continuum, with waves of change crisscrossing
the globe, replacing whatever's there (including people) with something
or somewhere or somewhen else. There's several spiritually-based scenarios,
including demons and angels battling it out in the streets and not caring
much about collateral damage, everyone on the planet slowly going insane
from an unknown cause, a Lovecraftian return of the Old Gods, and a particularly
interesting one based on the Buddhist concept of souls and reincarnation
that I don't want to give away the surprise on. And another very strange
end of the world in which no one dies; in fact, that's the problem --
no one can die. Sounds good, right? Well, not after Porter gets through
with it . . .
The book wraps up with some maps of the world, taken from the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, modified to show the results of
changes in sea level, both up and down, major and minor. Just a little
something to give the players a real look at what they're up against.
The book is well-written, and layout is professional, though not special
or anything. The art is also no great shakes, but BTRC doesn't have the
massive production budgets a lot of other companies do. What they have
is good ideas, presented well. Down in Flames is a gold mine of
cool ideas, and well worth having.
-- Scott D. Haring
CORPS Down in Flames
This review originally appeared
on RPG.net
and is reprinted with their permission.
Down In Flames
Author: Greg Porter
Category: game
Company/Publisher: BTRC
Line: CORPS
Cost: US$12.00
Page count: 72
ISBN: 0-9438891-37-X
SKU: BTRC 7105
Capsule Review by Michael T. Richter
on 09/29/99.
Genre tags: Modern day Generic
I have been anxiously awaiting
this book for a while. I had been toying with the notion of doing just
what this book talks about, ending the world while a campaign was being
run, as an experiment. The thought that Greg Porter, RPG research god,
was going to cover precisely this subject in a CORPS supplement
was great news.
What the Hell is this about?
That's a damned good
question. Down in Flames is about the end of the world. Which world? Whichever
world your characters happen to inhabit. It provides ideas on how to drastically
(but coherently) change your setting based upon several forms of major
disaster:
* natural disasters;
* man-made disasters;
* "outside-influenced" disasters; and
* wrath of (a) god disasters.
In each category the book
cites three possible scenarios. And it tacks on a final scenario to bring
the total to an even baker's dozen of world-cracking fun. In all scenarios,
Down in Flames discusses what happens, how it happens and provides both
short- and long-term ramifications of the event, although sometimes the
"long-term" impact is fairly terse: nobody survives. Be warned, however:
some of this material is not for people with overactive imaginations paired
with weak stomachs.
In addition to these broad overviews, several of the scenarios include
specific adventure seeds complete with location, characters, equipment
and a goal. All of these are well-conceived and well-written. Most of
them are also very good indicators of how to use the information on the
disaster to generate human drama -- the grist of the role-playing mill.
In addition to the raw information (and the optional adventure seed),
each chapter also provides a list of:
Natural disasters.
The three natural disasters provided are "Water, water, everywhere"
in which the world is flooded; "Shake & Bake" in which the sun
essentially burps, roasting much of the world in the process; and "When
Worlds Collide", something which taps into the re-recent wave of "asteroid
crashes into Earth" movies and books. In all three of these scenarios,
Down in Flames provides (semi-)plausible explanations of how the
situation occurred. The first and the third provide adventure seeds as
well. I personally found this a bit frustrating because I didn't want
to do Waterworld or Deep Impact. I liked the sun's burping
scenario much better. (It reminded me a lot of a good episode of The
Outer Limits I once saw.) Still, there is ample information provided
in all three categories to spawn all sorts of unholy thoughts in an evil
GM's mind.
Man-made disasters.
This section contains three human-implemented approaches to killing off
humanity. Not all of them are 100% successful. They're all quite enough
to make life miserable for PCs, however.
The first of these, "Nuke 'em 'til they glow" is the classic nuclear
war scenario. It is based on the very bleak view of nuclear war found
in books like On the Beach, not the so-called "men's adventure" post-holocaust
novels we were plagued by in the mid-eighties. Why do I think this is
the case? Well, the "short term consequences" heading pretty much sums
it up:
In the short term, the inevitability of events will bring out the best
and the worst in people. After the people are gone, along with most higher
life forms, it gets kind of boring.
The next man-made disaster is "Biohazard 101". A vicious new disease,
combined with technology's ability to spread that disease as far and wide
as possible, wipes out 90% of the Earth's population. Aside from discussing
the technical details, there is an adventure seed provided as well.
The final man-made disaster is "Malthusian Meltdown". If you've seen the
movie Soylent Green, you already know what this is about: overpopulation
destroys the world. (This is, in my opinion, the least plausible of the
scenarios in this category.) Again an adventure seed is provided.
Outside Influence
"Evolution in action", "Time enough to die" and "What
a long, strange trip it's been" are the scenarios in this category.
The first is a classic "alien invasion" scenario. The second is based
upon a Rifts-like disintegration of the space-time continuum. The
final is an odd scenario based upon all of humanity going mad for any
number of possible grounds. Only the last of these three has an adventure
seed, but boy is it a good one! If run properly, nobody, GM included,
will know what the truth of the situation is until the very end.
The wrath of (a) god.
It's fire and brimstone time, folks. Or at least it is in the first scenario
under this heading: "All Hell Breaks Loose". This is an interesting
scenario, if a bit cliched. (How many movies have you seen based on this
theme already? How many games?) The adventure seed for this section, however,
contains a good joke: the three primary characters are Rutger Hamilton,
Linda Lundgren and Dolph Hauer.
"God comes a'callin" is a much darker, bleaker scenario. Great
beings, relative to whom we are as ants, come back to reclaim the property
they left millions of years ago. They find this property infested with
lower life forms: us. In come the exterminators. The result isn't pretty.
The final scenario, "Death takes a holiday", is at the core of
several zombie flicks, but it has an interesting twist. (Read the book
for details.) It also has another, much more detailed than usual adventure
seed. Interestingly this adventure seed is a continuation of the one from
"All Hell Breaks Loose".
And the final scenario.
The final scenario doesn't fit neatly into any other category. Humanity
splits up into two groups, regular folk and those who can only be called
"beast men". They're not bestial in demeanour nor mentality. They're just
perfect sociopaths who prey on the regular folk; who have lost all vestiges
of human civilization. A little like neo-Nazis, in fact, only not so unpleasant.
So what do you really think?
There is an astounding amount of information in this package. Aside from
the 13 world-ending scenarios, there are notes on how to convert the information
to campaigns set in times other than the modern age as well as tips on
how to meld different scenarios together to create a unique Apocalypse
of your own. It was worth every gaming dollar I spent on it.
Still, the question has to come up: for whom is this intended? How many
people are really interested in terminating their campaign worlds? I won't
even hazard a guess. For all I know, the only thing holding people back
from doing this was not having any good guidelines for it. Or there could
be exactly five people on the planet sick enough to want this supplement.
I suspect strongly that this is Greg Porter's labour of love; a well-written,
well-researched, very entertaining labour of love, though.
So to whom would I recommend this book? Anybody who finds the concept
even slightly interesting.
Don't you have anything
to complain about?
Of course I do! I'm never satisfied. This book needs an index. That's
why I gave it 4/5 on style instead of 5/5.
Style: 4 (Classy and well done)
Substance: 5 (Excellent!)
CORPS Vehicle Design System
This review originally appeared
on GamingOutpost.com
and is reprinted with their permission.
Vehicle Design System
When I was 11 years old, my parents took me to Boston for the first time.
We walked the Freedom Trail, a circuit that takes you all around the many
historical sites of the city. At the Bunker Hill monument, I was taken
in by the grand miniatures display, something that would stay with me
until I was introduced to strategy wargames three years later. Later we
visited the naval museum and the USS Constitution. I must have spent months
after that day, studying about colonial warships and trying to design
my own. If only I had read Vehicle Design 1.0, things would have
gone a lot smoother.
CORPS VDS does for vehicles what 3G3 did for
weapons: provide a comprehensive design tool that can be plugged into
any roleplaying system. It covers everything from rowboats to starships;
past, present, future and then some.
Whatever system you are gaming with, the time may come when you will want
to design a vehicle on your own, and VDS promises to be a very useful
tool in doing so. Even though VDS is designed to be used with BTRC's
CORPS (Comprehensive Omniversal Role Playing
System), it is written to be very portable to other systems. In
fact, there is a distinct lack of CORPS specific terminology and
jargon in the entire book. I found this to be very encouraging, as it
helped to make the information in all the more credible.
While VDS does not get bogged down in system specifics, it does
not shirk from giving the reader the tools to make a truly detailed vehicle.
In fact, even though I am not conversant with all the topics discussed
- the appropriateness of using Newtons for thrust instead of watts, for
instance - it is evident that the there was a lot of technicle research
involved in writing this book. That is not to say that the 'tech geek'
won't find this book useful; there is a fair amount of technobabble to
go around. However, when such detail threaten to compromise the design
process, VDS consistently sacrifices detail for the sake of making
the information useful to your roleplaying experience. This is meant as
a design aid, and a gaming resource, after all, and not as an exhaustive
treatise on scientific principles.
When designing a vehicle, there are nine components which are taken into
account - performance, power plant, power train, structure, surface treatment,
accessories, weapons, combat and campaigning. All these topics are discussed
in detail - each given its own chapter. Each section has a healthy dose
of explanation to help the user better understand how the components fit
together, as well as a plethora of tables and charts that list a miriad
of options which can be used. To some, the extensive stat lists might
seem a bit of overkill, but VDS is meant to be about design, and
the information given does more to bring your attention to what is truly
possible than to list options for the sheer joy of doing so.
The section on campaigning, is probably the one I enjoyed the most. While
it is not the most pertinent to the actual design of a given vehicle,
it brings your attention to some of the more important issues involved
when making a vehicle for a roleplaying game, as opposed to designing
a realistic one. One thing stressed is that your vehicle is just a prop
in the game, and not as important as the characters or the plot. Given
that, the ideas in this section as quite good; using the vehicle as the
setting, as the antagonist, and as the object of adventure for instance.
To top off all the details and suggestions mentioned, VDS also
includes as section with sample vehicles from various levels of technology
and genres. If you are looking to use a Mediterranean trimere in your
campaign, or need a Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter, you can use these ready
made examples. These examples even include such items as a War Wagon,
which is based on a DiVinci sketch of a turtle-like wheeled vehicle with
multiple cannon ports, and an android assassin which a wealthy and powerful
individual in a very high tech society can employ to ensure that your
players' characters don't get bored or lazy.
Faced with such a book, I could not help but take a crack at designing
some vehicles of my own. The one I am most proud of is a submarine which
I am now using in my Blue Planet campaign. I also took a stab at
designing some seige equipment for a fantasy campaign. It took a while
to get used to all the concepts that VDS addresses, but I am very
happy with the results. My next project will be to make another sub, but
this time one with a water elemental as the power source!
As an aside, I must mention two things here. First, VDS was originally
made in .pdf format and distributed online for a price of $10. You can
still order this version, but I have not seem it myself. The print version
is the exact same as the digital one, from what I gather. The second thing
I must say is that anyone looking for a great amount of art and glitz
will be disappointed with VDS. It's very cover is the epitome of
simplicity - and the images inside were adopted from those available in
the public domain. Needless to say, there was no art budget for this book.
However, the images that are there, however sparse, are quite good. BTRC
could have filled the many empty spaces with extra art, but on the whole,
such dead spaces are fewer than I've seen in some products. And besides,
this book is about design of vehicles, not art and fluff. You will not
miss the lack of art at all.
The Verdict
VDS is definitely not for everyone. You might wonder why I say
this after all you've read just now. The simple truth of the matter is
that not everyone cares to design their own vehicles. However, if and
when you decide that you want to try to do so, I would highly recommend
thinking about buying this book. I cannot stress enough that, as with
any gaming product, you should approach this one 'cafeteria style' - taking
what you want and ignoring the rest. You will find, though, that you are
using far more information in this book than you are discarding. Because
of this, I give VDS a thumbs up. Kudos to Greg Porter.
CORPS Apocalypse
This review originally appeared
on RPG.net
and is reprinted with their permission.
Apocalypse
Author: Ed Rice
Category: game
Company/Publisher: BTRC
Line: CORPS
Cost: US$17.00
Page count: 128
ISBN: 0-9438891-36-1
SKU: BTRC 7104
Capsule Review by David J. Rhode on
10/31/99.
Fantasy Modern day Historical Horror Espionage Post-apocalypse Old West
Vampire
I visited my local comic book/gaming store the other day, and noticed
Apocalypse sitting on the shelves. I remembered the title from having
browsed BTRC's web site some months ago. Now, I have a couple of
BTRC's supplements (Guns Guns Guns and More Guns,
to be precise) and, being generally pleased with the quality of those
books, I decided that I would like to throw a little more cash their way
as encouragement.
Appearances:
Apocalypse is a slim
black book of the standard 8.5" x 11" dimensions. The front cover title
is done in flame-outlined black letters, while the back cover teaser text
is done in flame-tinged yellow. This is actually a pretty striking look.
I think it compares well with the classic red-on-black appearance of Traveller.
Inside, we have a fairly densely-written book in clean, legible typeface,
sparsely illustrated with generally useful illustrations.
Substance:
The book begins with a short
table of contents, author's notes, and an introduction. That is followed
by about a page and a half of background material explaining the supernatural
powers lying behind the Apocalypse of the book's title. This manages to
tie Judeo-Christian monotheism into every other form of supernatural belief
quite handily. Then we get three pages of outline, covering the divergence
of this world's timeline from our own, starting in 1941. The Juxtaposition,
the key apocalyptic event which occurred in 1945, is described in more
detail on the following page. It turns out that the Juxtaposition was
an opening of many gateways to multiple dimensions at once, letting in
all kinds of strange and terrible entities. This event coincided with
terrible storms and earthquakes. Since then, not all the gates have closed.
Then we get into the races. Four subraces of an elf-like species called
the Alferi have invaded the earth. These subraces correspond roughly to
Asians, Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans/Mongols. Equipped with
supernatural powers and taking advantage of the devastation wrought by
the Juxtaposition, they invade every nation on Earth, adopting the local
culture as their own and enslaving the native humans. These Alferi are
capable of breeding with humans, producing half-alferi hybrids. To round
things out, the dead have returned to horrifying life, there are various
incarnations and avatars of the gods (referred to as Eternals) wandering
the earth, and then there is a miscellany of mutants, monstrosities, and
dimensional wanderers. The Alferi, half-alferi, humans, and Living Dead
are described in some detail. We are left to our own devices to bring
the others to life. Character Generation touches on the various characteristics,
skills, advantages, and disadvantages already described in the CORPS
rulebook as they apply to the world of Apocalypse, and adds some
descriptions of Apocalypse-specific paranormal powers.
All this has taken us to page
48. The next 40 pages are spent describing the world of Apocalypse
and daily life for some of its denizens. While every continent is touched
on to some extent, most of the attention is lavished on life in the Kaiser
Reich, the domain of the Silver Alferi. They appeared in Europe during
the Juxtaposition, and took on the characteristics of Hitler's Germany,
with all the attendant nastiness. Humans are enslaved within the actual
confines of Europe. The northern coast of Africa is a Kaiser Reich territory,
referred to as the P.I.T. (Polizei Imperius Territorium), where humans
and half-alferi have more freedom. The city of Casablanca is the ultimate
free territory, being ruled by an enigmatic Eternal who mandates that
no country's laws may apply within the city. As it turns out, the Silver
Alferi are the only Alferi which choose to use technology, and they are
incapable of advancing beyond the level established in 1945. The entire
world, since then, has been frozen at a WWII technological level. Humans
are capable of advancing beyond this limit, but are brutally repressed
by the Silver Alferi.
The next 15 pages describe
12 NPCs and 11 monsters that are common to the Kaiser Reich territories.
These are reasonably well done, with an average of half a page spent on
describing the character's background and how they would impact a campaign.
Each entry is accompanied by some illustrative artwork. The artwork is
reasonably good quality, and most of the illustrations seem to fit the
text descriptions. As far as the monsters go, there really isn't anything
unique enough to be worth stealing for another game, except maybe their
take on mutant hyenas.
17 pages are used to detail
two adventures. The first is an adventure for one character (included),
introducing the setting of Casablanca and allowing the PC to interact
with some of the NPC's described in the preceding chapter. As written,
it's pretty much a railroad with only one track. The second adventure
is more of a creature-feature, introducing some potential long-term opponents.
Collectively, they add 2 more (potential) NPCs and 3 more monsters to
what was already described in the book. Apocalypse ends with four pages
detailing common weapons and vehicles, and a one page, photocopyable hexagonal
map sheet.
Good Stuff:
I really like the setting of this game. It reminds of RIFTS
(in a good way). Like RIFTS,
the background allows you to bring characters into the setting from other
campaigns. This makes it easy to run cross-over adventures, or take tired
old characters into uncharted realms. It also allows the GM a free hand
in designing all kinds of monsters to torment the players. Beyond these
elements, however, an Apocalypse
campaign can involve intrigue between the various powers, exploration
of a devastated and changed alternate Earth, murder mysteries, military
campaigns, you name it. Unlike RIFTS,
Apocalypse offers
a much more restrained and balanced power level. That is not to say that
characters are created equal... the Alferi are innately superior to humans,
but they are still mortal beings, and can be killed just as dead with
a sharp stick as with a bazooka.
Bad Stuff:
Unfortunately, Apocalypse
is not without some flaws. Nothing major, but enough irritating deficiencies
to make me somewhat unhappy. Starting from the top, my first complaint
is that while Apocalypse is a supplement for CORPS, not
a complete game in itself, it is not clearly labeled as such. I mentioned
that I had learned about Apocalypse from the BTRC web site
months before seeing it in a store. One could make the argument that I
should have been a more informed consumer, therefore. Regardless, I did
not remember that it was only a supplement, and the store which I purchased
the book from wraps all its gaming materials in plastic (to keep the grubby
little paws of children off them, I suspect). Going only from the information
presented on the front and back covers, I did not know that it was a supplement.
I was hoping that it would have the CORPS game rules included.
I don't consider this a major flaw, as most stores don't follow the practice
of wrapping their books in the same way, and it would only take a few
minutes perusal to determine that it was a supplement. And frankly, I'm
adapting the setting to the HERO rules anyway.
My other complaint is about
the organization of the material. In general, the book progresses logically.
However, it lacks an index, and it could also have used a glossary of
common terms. While I was reading over the details on the Silver Alferi,
I would run into acronyms and have a hard time figuring out what they
stood for. For example, the acronym IAA stands for Imperial Affairs Agency.
There is no heading in the text for Imperial Affairs Agency. Instead,
this worthy group is described under Religion (which does make sense,
the IAA is run by the Kaiser Reich church). There are a number of instances
of this sort of thing. Example 2: Silver Alferi scientists suffer from
a condition called the Syndrome. They go mad when trying to breach the
1945 technological barrier. Is this condition described under the heading
Scientists? Nope... it's also under, you guessed it, Religion. These problems
could be addressed, even without an index, by changing the way the text
is arranged and using more descriptive subject headings, or even by accenting
key words in the text in bold or italic. I suspect that the author and
editor were simply too familiar with the material to pick up on problems
that a newcomer would have reading through it.
It should be noted that there
is a very strong attempt to remain PC with this material. Even though
the Silver Alferi have turned humans into an oppressed sub-race, they
believe very strongly in the equality of the sexes, as apparently all
the Alferi do. While this isn't a flaw in and of itself, it does lead
to some strange cultural paradoxes. For example, the Wild Alferi in America
base their culture on that of the Native Americans. In Native American
culture, there were great differences between the roles filled by men,
and the roles filled by women. Now that the Alferi have come and everybody
gets to be a warrior, who does the drudge-work? It just seems strange
for an intentionally dark game to willfully ignore the misogynistic baggage
of cultures both ancient and modern when it is willing to deal with prejudice
in other ways. Oh well.
Finally, there are some gaps
in the information. For example, it would have been helpful if typical
ranks in the Kaiser Reich military and theocracy were described. It's
easy enough for me to do an internet search on the WWII German Military
for that information, but it would have been even easier for the author
to do it and include that information in the text. In the equipment list,
they decribe a number of common firearms in the setting. In the rifles,
they list the Karabiner 98K and the Sturmgewehr 74. If, as a GM, I were
to have a small platoon of Kaiser Reich soldiers as opponents for the
PC's, which rifle would they most likely be armed with? I dunno. Does
it make a difference? Maybe... the Karabiner does more damage per shot,
but the Sturmgewehr is an automatic weapon with a large clip. It would
have been nice to see some more typical 'grunt' NPCs with typical equipment.
I suspect the problem here is that the book already contains a lot of
information shoe-horned into 128 pages. I really wish they had decided
to go with a larger size, so they could expand on the detail and provide
more immediately useful information.
Final Thoughts:
Although I think it has some
flaws, I liked this product well enough to decide to go ahead and adapt
some material for it so that I can run a campaign. If you think you would
enjoy running a more toned-down, RIFTS-like campaign with an even
darker setting, then I recommend Apocalypse to you. Keep in mind,
as it stands, there's a lot of work for the GM to do. For some people
(including myself), that's actually a plus. There are still some annoying
gaps, though. Perhaps if it sells well enough, BTRC will put out
a sourcebook to fill in some of those gaps.
As an adjunct to a campaign
you are already running, or a sourcebook of ideas, I can't recommend it
as strongly. I think there are some elements of interest, but the book
doesn't provide enough really unique characters, monsters, or circumstances
to justify its cost for that purpose. Still, you may want to buy it as
a financial sacrifice to the Gaming Gods, in order to help keep the industry
afloat in these trying times.
Style: 3 (Average) Substance:
3 (Average)
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