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Kraken
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 Posted: 03-Apr-2010 17:59 Post subject: D20: Doom-based campaign? |
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I got to talking with a friend of mine about the prospect of my running a Doom campaign for either D20 Modern or BESM D20, and I just wanted to see what people think of my idea for a setting.
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The campaign would start about six months after the end of DOOM II.
Shortly after Doomguy took out the Icon of Sin, the surviving USMC high command noted that there were still signs of human life across the planet; turns out that large swaths of humanity actually survived, but lost the means to directly communicate with one another. As such, the Doomguy - with help from the various survivors he encounters and reinforcements he gets from space - went across the world in an effort to both link up with those survivors and suppress as much of the remaining demon forces as he could. The end result was that he cleared enough of a space out for some elements of the space-based population to return to Earth, whereupon people have begun to rebuild and resettle.
The party would be a group of soldiers, either civilians who were press-ganged into joining when the invasion started or actual soldiers who lived long enough to evacuate into space with the civilian populace. They'd split their time between squashing demons, performing survey work, and helping to reunite the scattered bits and piece of humanity that remained on Earth.
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At present, the United States government, as well as the Navy, are headquartered out of Hawaii, which for the most part didn't fall; having to travel underwater slowed down the land-based ones just enough for defenses to be established. The Air Force is headquartered out of Hill AFB, the USMC is headquartered out of Guantanamo Bay, and the Army is split between Dugway Proving Grounds and Tooele Army Depot; the area in and around Salt Lake City never fell, providing ready volunteers to reclaim the state and its three precious military bases. Furthermore, NORAD managed to escape largely intact due to a series of redundant facilities being buried deep in the mountains where the demons had a hard time penetrating. Los Angeles has been liberated, with LAX now being a key landing site for space craft returning to Earth. Parts of the Florida Keys have also been reclaimed, and at present the Navy is mulling whether or not to launch a counter-offensive aimed at retaking Canaveral.
The United Nations has re-headquartered itself in SLC for the time being, as it was the largest world city to survive with enough functional infrastructure intact. The UN is a shell of itself as most of the member-states are unaccounted for due to all the chaos caused by the evacuation, such that NATO (or at least, what's left of it) is now having to do the bulk of the peace-keeping.
Russia's paranoia actually paid off, such that over 40% of its army and air force, as well as 60% of its navy, survived the invasion. Western Russia has since been reclaimed, as has everything around the Black Sea. In fact, Russia may now be the strongest military power in the world.
The United Kingdom has been reduced to its holdings in Gibralter, the Falklands, and the island of Cyprus; while its military has been decimated, its Cherry Ripe and Lincolnshire Poacher numbers stations - coupled with Russia's UVB-76 - are what's keeping the human resistance in the Middle East and Asia still going.
The Panama Canal has been retaken, as have the Suez Canal, Istanbul and the Gibralter strait. Owing to their critical importance to naval transit, all four are heavily guarded.
Israel and Switzerland survived perfectly fine, as they were too dug in. Likewise, the Swiss Guard handily repelled the invasion long enough for a unit to come and relieve Vatican City. Furthermore, a number of island states like the Phillipines and Kiribati were spared the bulk of the carnage, again due to the land-based monsters being too slow in crossing under the water.
The Republic of Texas has arisen again, due in large part to the Texas National Guard and other such groups forming an ad-hoc alliance in the wake of contact with Washington being severed. The Republic spans the state and parts of Arkansas, and regards Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, the eastern half of New Mexico, and parts of Northern Mexico as protectorates. The Republic is amiable to the thought of re-entering the United States, but distrusts the surviving politicians as it was their incompetence that hindered the defense of the nation in the first place. The Republic is also home to the Wolfpack, a unit of irregulars who are second only to Doomguy himself in dropping monsters; they're actually how the Republic keeps itself together. The Republic's biggest secret, however, is the fact that they've managed to salvage some shuttle craft and are slowly turning the once-abandoned Brooks AFB into a launch facility; if they do deem to remain independent, this will be their trump card owing to just how few facilities survived.
Germany, Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Japan, and a few other nations have managed to regain footholds on Earth, and as such are repopulating as fast as their surviving militaries can reclaim terrain.
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Thoughts?
Thanks.
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