Our setting is starting to come together
In the year 199X, corporate greed lead to a series of experiments to create an underclass that would serve as cheap labor and servants for humanity. This ended in the only way it could have, the complete collapse of society. The mutants rebelled, using EMP bombs to free others, and wipe records of the experiments used to create them. Humans fought back with plagues that only hastened the end, killing human and mutant alike, and causing strange new chimera to emerge.
From the start, we’ve referred to this as the Untitled Mutant Martial Arts Setting. We know how the mutants got here. Now lets talk about martial arts. In the next poll, the community will have the option to select from the following reasons as to why martial arts are prevalent in the setting.
Select from one of the following three options:
- Option 1: All Out of Ammo!: The war between humanity and mutant-kind raged for so long that bullets are a scarce commodity.
- Option 2: Doomsday Prepped: It’s not that guns are out of style, it’s that there are fortified cities controlled by human forces that have consolidated these weapons. Additionally, manufacturing is limited as are resources for these locations.
- Option 3: Tools of the Oppressors: As the war that ended the world raged, mutants destroyed the weapons of humanity, as they learned to fight using their natural abilities.
Have not played or read the game, however the first two choices on your poll are basically the same. A third choice might be “Cause martial arts, fully trained, are more powerful then guns.. not as clumsy or random as a SMG.”
Let me clarify Doomsday Prepped, and see if impacts the perception. In the Doomsday Prepped option, it’s not that there are no guns. It’s that the PCs don’t have them. Human raiding parties from the fortified cities are more than willing to “share”, well the bullets at least.
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