This October, House Dok begins a new Actual Play podcast set in the Metahumans Rising universe. The Three Rivers Academy is a secret school dedicated to helping educate Metahuman children in as safe an environment as you can have, given the student body. Each of our heroes come from very different backgrounds and have come to the school for t [...]
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Three Rivers Academy – Prelude ...
This October, House Dok begins a new Actual Play podcast set in the Metahumans Rising universe. The Three Rivers Academy is a secret school dedicated to helping educate Metahuman children in as safe an environment as you can have, given the student body. Each of our heroes come from very different backgrounds and have come to the school for t [...]
Episode 0: Central City Stories Final...
Recently we wrapped up our longstanding play test of Metahumans Rising. It may seem odd to start a new series with the end of another game. However, this post is a kind of stepping stone for everyone here at House Dok. With an eye towards things to come, we decided to record the game session and see what it looks like on the site.
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Hero Creation: Power Level
With the scope of the game established and basic character concepts fleshed out it’s time to decide the campaign’s Power Level. This decision determines the number of points players have to spend on various characteristics and helps to establish what level of power minor, average and major threats to the party might look like.
A t [...]
Operator Spotlight 1: Percy St. Croix
In the massive sprawl of the Easel, no one stays in one place. If you are going to move around though, you probably want some protection or at least know what gangs control what territories. That is where Percy St. Croix comes in. Born into a labor camp, known as a “Co-Op”, Percy’s first choice that he really made for himself was [...]
World Building: Drones
While they may not be considered a lynch-pin of the cyberpunk genre, it’s hard to talk about modern warfare and not mention Drones. Already, we see civilian drones being tested for various uses such as package and taco delivery. (http://tacocopter.com/)
Drones, in an Operator sense, are remote operated surveillance and weapon platforms. Drone [...]
World Building: BattleFrames
With BattleFrames, we diverge a little from classic cyberpunk tropes, and into Anime territory.
BattleFrames were first discussed here.
Cyberpunk-styled Anime, such as Ghost in the Shell and Mobile Police Patlabor, heavily inspired aspects of Glass Shadows. Additional inspiration came from reading about military exoskeleton projects. Thus wa [...]