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Life on the Margins |
I guess that, since I wrote the book, this is kind of a sponsored post, but hear me out:
The Flats is my Shadowrun by way of HERO attempt, redeveloped to better reflect a more realistic portrayal of the world and environment. To be certain, the results bear little resemblance to either game. The Flats is developed for Champions 4th-Ed.
It is a full campaign setting for modern day urban fantasy games. Magic is mundane at the beginning, but spells can be extremely potent. Likewise, starting characters are unlikely to be able to afford much cybertech, but they can save-up and buy all they want until they go cyberpsycho and have to be put down.
You can play an Elfen Cybermancer, a Dwarfen mercenary, a Troll Street Samurai, and so much more. The Flats exists outside any major city, so it should be easy to drop into existing campaigns, though the rules provide the random tables and guidelines you need to create an entirely new campaign set directly in The Flats. In fact, you can be anything you want since you can stack as many packages as you can afford (but you can only have one racial package).
All rules and rules changes are optional, but help to set the tone and atmosphere of day to day survival on the mean streets. More humanoids pour over from The Other Time daily and no one knows how to stop it. It is only now that the Goblin Horde has begun attacking truck shipments and lone travelers that anyone seems to care.
I not only have several supplements planned for the series, I am already halfway through the sequel, which contains all the baddies and the lore surrounding them. Time permitting, I am also available to actually run the game!
Although The Flats works with nothing more than the Champions core book, you really need Dark Champions, CyberHERO, and a few other supplements to get the most out of it. Power gamers and collectors rejoice! This is a Wild Heroic setting with Average Magic, widely available cybertech, and no dearth of fantasy races.
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