Hey everyone, I wanted to take a minute to share with you all a project I've been working on with my local play group. We've been developing a way to play, using the Infinity rules and setting, a gang-warfare campaign game. Welcome to Gangs of NeoTerra, set in the seedy underbelly of the center of the PanOceanian empire. Rival gangs battle it out for territory, and credits to eek out a living among the refuse of higher society. The rules are based on the Infinity core rules, with some minor modifications, new scenarios, and new rules for both recruiting your gang, and to track their progression as they become more powerful. You can find the rules here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FnCGoYVEabOXfPBKNlgFsdaJUnlfdDFFx2FUMtR1I7g/ Also, please join us on Facebook. As more people get to play the system we can work together to polish it further, all feedback is welcome!
@TheDiceAbide. . . Awesome stuff, that could be linked to the various "Necromunda" iterations by G.W. but as an essential, well-made Fan-homage rather than a blatant Rip-Off (a sensitive issue nowadays, where as someone create something with just an hint of Inspiration and BAM! immediatly arrives the typical "Web Trollolol Censors" to scream "I.P. Copyright Infringement" as if they were actual Lawyers paid by the supposedly "Ripped Patent Owners" and NOT just some idiots that by not having their OWN originality always disapproves of others). . . I think that the Setting that You choose as Neoterra is clever and intriguing, as being a veritable "Melting Pot" of the Pan-Oceanian minorities that forms the Planet socio-cultural "Bedrock". . . Have You yet thought about eventually differentiate the various Gangs based on the probable "Cultural Evolution" of the transplanted population, as much as Necromunda of Warhammer 40.000 have the various "Houses" to subtly (or not so subtly) differentiate between different kind of "Gang" based on their typical Turf. . . The large Atek population of the planet could effectively represent a totally different "breed" for a gang hailing from the Slums surrounding the glitzier megacities (and so doing crime as much to "Defensively Survive", rather than "Score a Big Buck" !!) if compared as for an example to "Rich Bored Kids" style of gang that goes shooting on the "Lowlife Neighborhood" to have some otherwise unattainable adrenaline boost. . . Also from the very same Block / Barrio / Favela the same precint could "Spawn" two totally, radically different kind of gangs; one maybe is grown as a purely "Old Street Defense Group" of slightly grown-up youngsters that formed in the local "Public High School" and essentially picked Guns to stop crackheads to invade "Their Turf" and flood it with dangerous, low-cost Drugs (so essentially they could be seen as local "Guardian Angels With Guns"); the other could be the same aforementioned crackheads that "evolved" to simply use nasty chemicals and started to have money by "Cutting" with even more dangerous substances the "Purer" Nitrocaine handed to them by bigger fishes (so that actual "Silk Derivatives" are just a tiny %) and that could be the typical "Drug Runners" from any kind of our Planet "Bad Neighborhoods" but evolved more than 200 years in the Future. . . In particular interest for Me (as an European hailing from Italy, and Ex-Military Police Agent too !!) could be the "Pax Continent" whose large swats of Culture could be readily regarded as "France / Spain / Italy IN SPACE !!". . . . . . . . If You need, and wants, some help perhaps I could be of some assistance in a couple of ways. . . If You want to represent some Gangs of Neoterra "Cultural Background" as a probable "Evolution" of the typical Low Crime / High Crime kind of families, I have an extensive first hand knowledge of these, not only for Theoretical Studies but also from practical ones, as 15 Years ago I was in the "Riot Squads" of the Italian "Carabinieri" (sort of Militarized Police, rather more Texas Rangers and French Gendarmes as "Paramilitary Cops with Tanks and Army Gear" rather than the M.P. Duties of the U.S.M.C. for an example). . . Also I'm currently studying a lot of "Infinity Art" styled concepts of Civilians for My upcoming L.G.S. R.P.G. campaign and those could be also possibly be helpful to Your project as there is quite few "Pan-Oceanian Brand" of Official Concepts that could seem Civilian Criminals rather than P.M.C. (at best, I hope that Organized Crime of Neoterra rarely would have access to Orc Powersuits or Hexa Stealth-Garb !!!). . . Let Me know if I could be of some help, and again compliments for a very well-done Fan-Made Material. . . . .!!!
Holy shit, I love this! I've always wanted to try something like this out, and it feels so damn cool. Thanks, mate, I'll see if I get some friends to play it, and tell the results!
@stevenart74 thanks for the feedback! I took quite a bit of inspiration from Necromunda, but also from the Judge Dredd game (which I actually think was better), and as you mentioned, Mordheim. I would like to develop further factions within the game, like you mentioned, but I also felt that keeping it open-ended would allow people to come up with any theme they like. I would love to hear more about the ideas that went into the factions you’ve developed for your RPG.
As far as Necromunda and factions, from what I heard from you, it sounds like maybe they want to be more like Confrontation ones than Necromunda ones.
That's a thought too, or do it like Dredd where different factions have totally different stat-lines, but it doesn't remove access to skills or equipment. Instead of creating factions which are restrictive, it becomes something where it adds variety, instead of removing it. For example, in Dredd, there were well over a dozen factions, and almost all had full access to all the gear (except forces like Judges which had their own gear). There was a generic Street Gang, but then factions like the Ape-Gang just had different profiles. Fatties were my favorite, and I even converted one with a belly-bipod mounted machine gun, and a fat ninja was next on my chopping block when I was still playing. :) So maybe eventually adding an Atek faction, where they have lower WIP, higher PH, and all get Scavenger could be something cool.
Seems interesting. But why I cannot play gang of neo-converted-catholics trying to overthrown this hedonistic social structure (aka. are you going to add dedicated "gangs" with personality/skills/abilities ) ?
@TheDiceAbide. . . . . The Images that I'm currently now creating are for an Ariadnan Based Mercs Firm that is 30 % Ariadna / 30 % Haqqislam / 30% Nomads / 10% Various Expats from other parts of the Human Sphere, so they'll be finished as more "Rugged Veteran In Rustic Civilian Gear for Shore Leave" and probably useful just as Atek Guerrillas or other "Very-Low Lowlives". . . A modicum self-awareness of relatively successful Gangs qould be far "Barrio Posh" than those (and I don't see them as "L.A. Gangers" with cheap, shiny but tasteless "Bling" such as Golden Chains and Hip-Hop Sportsgear), but I also plan later to have infiltrators dressed as Streetwalkers of every denomination (ranging from sultry, but tasteful "Odalisque Bellydancers" for High-End Courtesans, to vulgar Hookers that seems to be just "Pornstars Wannabee". . .!!) that could be far more useful. . . I believe that amongts the various Civilian "Miniatures Concepts" the more useful could be the Pan-Oceanian Executive that with added "Cyberpunk Monolens" Mirrorshades (Ghost-In-The-Shell styled) and a suitable "Hitman Gun" (such as an Assault Pistol / S.M.G. with Folding Stock, Long Silencer-Suppressor, Enlarged Ammo Clip and a larger Red-Dot Tacscope) would seems either a very successful Gang Boss or Mercenary Support hailing from a Mobster-type "Submondo Culture" (so not only Italian Mafia, but also Corsican French Smugglers, Spanish High-Collar Crime and so on !!). . . . . . . . When I will have the time to check a little better the Neoterra Section of the R.P.G. Manual, perhaps will be able to sketch something more useful for this; one of the biggest cities of Pax Continent is called "Neapolis" that is not only "New City" in "Root Greek / Root Latin" but also the original denomination of "Napoli" / Naples that is a very large Southern Italy coastal city that while being a "Mediterranean Tourist Paradise" is also, unfortunately, a very dangerous "Crimelord Warzone" in the most dilapidated neighborhoods. . . While the hystorical Mafia hails from the more southern Isle of "Sicilia" / Sicily and have still strong root with the Imported Mobsters of the U.S.A. and is now trying to be as subtly invisible as possible, the Naples-based "Camorra" is far more wild, savage, bloodthirsty and blatant when acting and seems almost a copy of the worst issues of Southern America / Mexican "Barrio Gangs". . . While there is a TV Series about the infamous exploits of the "Camorristi" (called "Gomorra" as the Biblical Sin City) that I believe could be found dubbed on Netflix, perhaps it could not be so far from truth to consider the Brazilian Movies of "Favela-Sweeper Deathsquads" like "Tropa De Elite 1 & 2" (but speaking very accented Italian rather than Carioca Portuguese !!) to be a believable ideas of what could be in Infinity the "Evolution" (Devolution ?) of "Italian Criminals In Space". . . . . Also those movies, along with the Videogame "Max Payne 3" could be indeed good to imagine how Atek Gangs could fare against a far more technologically-superior "Police Enforcers" kind of foe. . . As for the other Ethnic Groups of Neoterra, hailing from other parts of Southern Europe, there are countless Action Flicks that could be useful too; for French-style Luc Besson has made tons of "Action Police" stuff, from the starting shootout of the nowaday vintage "Nikita" to the lenghty Action-Comedy serie of "Taxxi" (I believe they are now at 5 episodes) where a lackadaisical Metro Cop and its Taxi-Driver Friend counter all manner of mad crime shehanigans in the Southern French Sea City of Marseille. . . For the Spain-side I believe there are some good movies of "Crime Shootouts" that at the moment I don't recall well, apart from "El Dia De La Bestia" where a trio of unlucky Bank-Robbers try to counter with sheer firepower the evilness of a powerful Coven of Witches (!) that could be just re-skinned / re-fluffed as Shaasvastii Infiltrators or "Rogue I.A. Criminals" such as the infamous "Svengali" of Infinity. . . Just some ideas that I thought about how to portray Crimefighting in Infinity in the past, using as inspiration extant Movie Sources (such as endless Yakuza / Triads flicks for Yujing Actions) or for other Parts of Pan-Oceania the aforementioned "Tropa De Elite" for Acontecimiento (technically an immense "Planet Amazonia") or the Tv Serie "Hawai 5-0" for Varuna. . . . . . . . . . As You referenced a lot the mithycal Judge Dredd as source then we could consider the hypothethical "Posh Elite Rich" Gangs to be the most Elite Fighters from "Intra-Block Wars"; the Atek could be Undercity Stragglers or even Wasteland Mutants; I will have the Fatties as a far more difficult idea to have, unless one want to imagine an entire "Posergang" of admirers of the Aristeia Character of 8Ball. . .!! Some kind of very horrific "Atek Scavenger Gangs" could be the cannibalistic Angels Family Clan from the Wastelands, with the "Mean-Machine" as a sort of crazed, failed Aristeia Gladiator starting to replace Organic Bodyparts with salvaged Battle-Lhost Bionics. . .!! Obviously something TRULY nasty like "Netherworld Judges" (Death, Dread, Fear and Fire) could be ONLY something truly difficult to face as Combined Army Nexus Operatives somehow appearing in the middle of a Turf War (and would be much like a Necromunda Gangwar somehow interrupted by a Warp Demon Incursion !!). . . . .!! But I fear this is is a matter very distant in the Future, much as the aforementioned Necromunda Wargame will instead become the vintage, abandoned "Inquisitor Skirmish Game" in regard to damage level. . . Obviously, should anyone start to take a clue from the Manga / Animes of Appleseed & Patlabor and an enterprising Ganger pilfer a "Construction Exoskeleton" from an Industrial Site, then I fear the Police Forces of Neoterra (or far richer "High Crime" Gangs) would start to deploy Orcsuit wearing Mercs with Heavy Weapons or even "Borrowed" Military T.A.G.s as well. . . After all in Pan-Oceania all the "Mech Support" is totally Automated and so You need JUST a very competent Hacker to start to deploy Bulletter Drones or National Guard Squalos to a truly "Heat-packed" Gangwar. . . . .!!!
