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1d4chan>COAGuy11: /* Play */

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	==Play==		==Play==
			===As a Game Master===
			When talking to a friend I was asked a really interesting question, and I would like to elaborate on it here. What kinds of campaigns does the Purgatoria system lend itself to? Now, I have not yet had the pleasure of running a game of Purgatoria myself, I have spent a lot of time thinking about the different possibilities for a game master to utilize. However, I am probably a close minded fool, and there will be much greater number of options than even I can imagine.
			* Thriller: Purgatoria is a city of secrets, wheels within wheels, and the players are the perfect means to delve into a vast number of mysteries which run thought the city. You can go small focusing on a single block of District 4, a mining operation in District 11, or a murder on an off shore boat near district 10, where every one is trying to fleece any one else for that score which will get them out of the district. If a claustrophobic mystery isn't really your thing, expand the scope to an entire district, with bigger players and more to loose the movers and shakers will utilize more henchmen, which lets you as the GM work more larger combats into the adventure, if that is your cup of tea. Expanding to a district wide focus will allow for a larger repertoire of secondary characters, and give the players more freedom to explore, but comes with the drawback that you can't spend he same amount of time on specific details the way you could with a narrower focus. The final logical extension of an intrigue focused campaign would be city wide, with major players like representatives of the four gods, and envoys for the heads of gangs, this type of sweeping story will give you the ability to cherry pick your favorite parts of the setting, while giving the players the chance for the most over the top action. But, why choose one? As a GM you could set up an expansive intrigue which moves from a small scope to the entire city over the course of an extended adventure, giving you the power to take the best of each of these as the player characters advance in power.
			* Drama: The setting of Purgatoria is designed to be about the player characters first and foremost, any adventure should be about the story that the characters are in the driver's seat of, as opposed to the passengers along for the ride with an omnipresent NPC. Now, if your players are interested in a drama focused adventure, they should give you all the tools that you need to execute on that kind of story, no character in the setting is a paragon of virtue, and if one is brought to your table, test that character. The choices that the players will have to make to stay afloat within the chaos of the city will require that they make hard choices. Take the player character's motivations, and ensure that they are able to be met, but ensure that once the goals have been completed the character will question if the goal was what they wanted in the first place. This type of adventure will require a lot of cooperation between the game master and the players, but I believe that these sorts of adventures could be the most interesting for those invested in role playing.
			* Action: Let the bullets fly, and the swords clash, the options for this type of adventure are far reaching as gang members violence is expected. But, gang members is not the only means for players to qualify for such an adventure; police officers, bounty hunters, mercenaries, covert assault teams, and ragged bands of murder hobos are all viable possibilities for player characters. Now once one or more of these origins are chosen for the group it is only a matter of giving the players a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to overcome, and they will set them selves forth to accomplish it, you just need to provide the meat standing between them and the goal.

	==Elves==		==Elves==
	There are none. Hopefully, there will never be any.		There are none. Hopefully, there will never be any.
	[[Category:Homebrew Rules]]		[[Category:Homebrew Rules]]

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	* '''Motorized Carts''': Generally not used for mass transit, these will only appear when the party decides that they need some form of wheeled vehicle, like a mechanical Shadowfax. These also run on whale oil, so don't ask your GM too many questions if you find one of these rare and wild beauties, or its under powered engine might sputter out and die. Don't expect these to go anywhere fast, or provide the ability to haul much, as they amount to what are golf carts.		* '''Motorized Carts''': Generally not used for mass transit, these will only appear when the party decides that they need some form of wheeled vehicle, like a mechanical Shadowfax. These also run on whale oil, so don't ask your GM too many questions if you find one of these rare and wild beauties, or its under powered engine might sputter out and die. Don't expect these to go anywhere fast, or provide the ability to haul much, as they amount to what are golf carts.
	* '''Cars''': Cars are extinct, in all the games that I have played there has been a single car that was seen in the entire city. This rarity is most likely due to the difficulty in converting the car to run on imported whale oil, or the number of vehicular homicide cases. However, if cars are seen they will most likely be described like modern cars, as opposed to cars which could logically developed in the setting, some sort of mechanical abomination like the Model T, due the GM's lack of experience with cars prior to power steering being widely implemented.		* '''Cars''': Cars are extinct, in all the games that I have played there has been a single car that was seen in the entire city. This rarity is most likely due to the difficulty in converting the car to run on imported whale oil, or the number of vehicular homicide cases. However, if cars are seen they will most likely be described like modern cars, as opposed to cars which could logically developed in the setting, some sort of mechanical abomination like the Model T, due the GM's lack of experience with cars prior to power steering being widely implemented.

			==Play==


	==Elves==		==Elves==
	There are none. Hopefully, there will never be any.		There are none. Hopefully, there will never be any.
	[[Category:Homebrew Rules]]		[[Category:Homebrew Rules]]

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2015-08-01T05:27:08Z

The City

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	===The City===		===The City===
	To be finished eventually.<br>		To be finished eventually.<br>
	The city of Purgatoria was divided into hierarchical districts, ascending within the city, to keep the plebs from getting to the nice parts of the city where the gods live.		The city of Purgatoria was divided into hierarchical districts, ascending within the city, to keep the plebs from getting to the nice parts of the city where the gods live. If you need a nice metaphor to explain how the city looks, imagine a dirty layer cake made of people and guns.
	* '''District 1''': The most well maintained, cleanest, and fanciest district of the entire city. Which means as a character, you will get kicked out of the district immediately, for looking like a scruffy nerf-herder or some other excuse made up on the spot by your GM. If you do get the chance to visit, you should check out the Wicker Gardens, the premiere den of hedonism disguised as a theme park.		* '''District 1''': The most well maintained, cleanest, and fanciest district of the entire city. Which means as a character, you will get kicked out of the district immediately, for looking like a scruffy nerf-herder or some other excuse made up on the spot by your GM. If you do get the chance to visit, you should check out the Wicker Gardens, the premiere den of hedonism disguised as a theme park.
	* '''District 2''': Located directly below the seats of the four gods, the commute to dist. 1 is the real reason why any one lives here. Supposedly, people who live in this district don't even have to share buildings with other residents, which is a complete lie. If you get a chance to visit go to Santier Street, the Wall Street of Purgatoria, because there isn't any where else to go in the district, and to pretend to be Bane when you ruin the economy of the entire city.		* '''District 2''': Located directly below the seats of the four gods, the commute to dist. 1 is the real reason why any one lives here. Supposedly, people who live in this district don't even have to share buildings with other residents, which is a complete lie. If you get a chance to visit go to Santier Street, the Wall Street of Purgatoria, because there isn't any where else to go in the district, and to pretend to be Bane when you ruin the economy of the entire city.
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	* '''District 13''': The other contender for most grim-dark district of the city. A sun beaten desert, with chemical waste that will turn anyone unfortunate enough to come in contact with it into what amounts to a rage zombie, and outhouses. If that isn't enough fun for you, there are roaming nomadic bands, who think that these new fellas are stealing their land, and a legendary sniper who just doesn't seem to meet his End when some one gives him a lead nap. All in all, the place that you want to be for any campaigns where the GM decided that the Cohen Brothers works were a good place to start for inspiration.		* '''District 13''': The other contender for most grim-dark district of the city. A sun beaten desert, with chemical waste that will turn anyone unfortunate enough to come in contact with it into what amounts to a rage zombie, and outhouses. If that isn't enough fun for you, there are roaming nomadic bands, who think that these new fellas are stealing their land, and a legendary sniper who just doesn't seem to meet his End when some one gives him a lead nap. All in all, the place that you want to be for any campaigns where the GM decided that the Cohen Brothers works were a good place to start for inspiration.
	* '''District 14''': The home of inventors, and the diametric opposite to the stuffy halls of District 6. If you want to see the boring old shit that just brings up more questions about the city's history than answers, this is your one stop shop.		* '''District 14''': The home of inventors, and the diametric opposite to the stuffy halls of District 6. If you want to see the boring old shit that just brings up more questions about the city's history than answers, this is your one stop shop.


	===The Gangs===		===The Gangs===

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2015-07-31T21:39:28Z

The Gangs

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	* '''Los Nomadas''': Perhaps the original gang of Purgatoria, the the progenitors of the gang are the subjects of the Streetside Verses, but they have lost considerable power when the Longhorns came around and shared a piece of their minds. This gang is also tasked with catering to the digital technology of the setting, which explains why it is such crap, they haven't even figured out how to utilize radio frequencies to transfer information between computers. Now as a player, you should not be frightened of these guys, unless a man shows up calling him self the Matador in which case you should expect to run into this person frequently despite how many times you might have killed, or seriously wounded him.		* '''Los Nomadas''': Perhaps the original gang of Purgatoria, the the progenitors of the gang are the subjects of the Streetside Verses, but they have lost considerable power when the Longhorns came around and shared a piece of their minds. This gang is also tasked with catering to the digital technology of the setting, which explains why it is such crap, they haven't even figured out how to utilize radio frequencies to transfer information between computers. Now as a player, you should not be frightened of these guys, unless a man shows up calling him self the Matador in which case you should expect to run into this person frequently despite how many times you might have killed, or seriously wounded him.

	* '''The San Guo''': Apparently despite creating the current structure which all gangs organize by, this gang is woefully ineffective. While most would think a gang inspired by the Triads would be highly deadly and efficient, the San Guo prefer to stay locked within their fortress in District Seven. Some might say that this is a ruse, and the gang is biding its time until it is the most auspicious moment to strike, but these people are wrong. The San Guo are designed entirely to be that looming specter in the background that the GM can break out for heavy ~~hand~~		* '''The San Guo''': Apparently despite creating the current structure which all gangs organize by, this gang is woefully ineffective. While most would think a gang inspired by the Triads would be highly deadly and efficient, the San Guo prefer to stay locked within their fortress in District Seven. Some might say that this is a ruse, and the gang is biding its time until it is the most auspicious moment to strike, but these people are wrong. The San Guo are designed entirely to be that looming specter in the background that the GM can break out for heavy handed plot convenience, such as you need an army to attack the Wasure, well the San Guo just happen to have exactly what you need.

	===The Gods===		===The Gods===

1d4chan>COAGuy11: /* Weapon Properties */

2015-07-31T03:11:45Z

Weapon Properties

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	===Weapon Properties===		===Weapon Properties===
	Every weapon in the setting has a weapon property, these properties come in two flavors, exciting (Active), and forgetful (Passive).		Every weapon in the setting has a weapon property, these properties come in two flavors, exciting (Active), and forgetful (Passive).
	* Exciting weapon properties will provide you the player with a tasty buff that can be activated prior to an attack, or a currency which can be utilized by specific techniques to provide considerable power on the cheap cheap. Having a single Active Weapon Property (AWP) is nice, but the system gets really fancy when you equip two weapons with the 1H modifier, and get double the AWP for the low low cost of requiring to reload actions to refresh the AWP of both weapons. The unfortunate downside of AWP's is that you must use a reload action prior to using the AWP again, unless you have invested in a class specific reload technique for your character, that reload action is going to take a base phase which requires you as the player to decide when it is more beneficial to put more bullets in your gun, or sword, than it is to keep shooting at the baddies.		* Exciting weapon properties will provide you the player with a tasty buff that can be activated prior to an attack, or a currency which can be utilized by specific techniques to provide considerable power on the cheap cheap. Having a single '''Active Weapon Property''' (AWP) is nice, but the system gets really fancy when you equip two weapons with the 1H modifier, and get double the AWP for the low low cost of requiring to reload actions to refresh the AWP of both weapons. The unfortunate downside of AWP's is that you must use a reload action prior to using the AWP again, unless you have invested in a class specific reload technique for your character, that reload action is going to take a base phase which requires you as the player to decide when it is more beneficial to put more bullets in your gun, or sword, than it is to keep shooting at the baddies.
	* Forgetful weapon properties will provide you the player with an afterthought of a buff, which will be activated whenever certain conditions are fulfilled. These Passive Weapon Properties (PWP) can not be expended, so as of yet reloading a weapon with a PWP is a waste that should not be done. Luckily for you, the exciting player, there are very few weapons in the system with PWP's, and therefore you should not expect to run into one very often, the PWP's which do exist within the setting are all worse than slapping your enemy with a trout, so if you intend to use one I would recommend getting a hold of the old 1.2 rules, then pestering your GM until they let you use the old SVD Tarkus. At which point you can rejoice in the fact that your character from now on will be boring due to the fact that they can not use an combo modifiers, if you want the maximum damage output at all times, so have fun using all of your AP to dodge attacks.		* Forgetful weapon properties will provide you the player with an afterthought of a buff, which will be activated whenever certain conditions are fulfilled. These '''Passive Weapon Properties''' (PWP) can not be expended, so as of yet reloading a weapon with a PWP is a waste that should not be done. Luckily for you, the exciting player, there are very few weapons in the system with PWP's, and therefore you should not expect to run into one very often, the PWP's which do exist within the setting are all worse than slapping your enemy with a trout, so if you intend to use one I would recommend getting a hold of the old 1.2 rules, then pestering your GM until they let you use the old SVD Tarkus. At which point you can rejoice in the fact that your character from now on will be boring due to the fact that they can not use an combo modifiers, if you want the maximum damage output at all times, so have fun using all of your AP to dodge attacks.

	==Setting Information==		==Setting Information==

1d4chan>COAGuy11: /* And the Rest */

2015-07-31T03:09:28Z

And the Rest

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	* '''Twelfth Street Knights''': These suicidal idiots decided that completely disregarding firearms was the most important ideological decision to be made when the gang was formed. Like the knight orders of old, these men and women think of themselves as shining knights in a city filled with darkness, and it is their duty to protect the citizens of the city from the gangs. The Knights rarely take group wide action, and prefer to sit around in their monastery fortress in District Three, watching the city slowly burn from their marble chapel.		* '''Twelfth Street Knights''': These suicidal idiots decided that completely disregarding firearms was the most important ideological decision to be made when the gang was formed. Like the knight orders of old, these men and women think of themselves as shining knights in a city filled with darkness, and it is their duty to protect the citizens of the city from the gangs. The Knights rarely take group wide action, and prefer to sit around in their monastery fortress in District Three, watching the city slowly burn from their marble chapel.

	== And the Rest ==		'''...And the Rest'''

	Those gangs which were not invited to be part of the Five Families, yet are more important than the even more minor gangs, but these gangs have very little friends, or are very small.		Those gangs which were not invited to be part of the Five Families, yet are more important than the even more minor gangs, but these gangs have very little friends, or are very small.

1d4chan>COAGuy11: /* The Five Families */

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The Five Families

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	* '''The Wasure''': Being too cool and absolutely not weebs at all the Wasure is not part of the Five Families. This could be due to their reluctance to talk to the gaijin, or the fact that they are secretly run by a board of Elves. All we know for sure is that they are firmly cemented into District 6, and that district is totally their bitch.		* '''The Wasure''': Being too cool and absolutely not weebs at all the Wasure is not part of the Five Families. This could be due to their reluctance to talk to the gaijin, or the fact that they are secretly run by a board of Elves. All we know for sure is that they are firmly cemented into District 6, and that district is totally their bitch.

	== The Five Families ==		'''The Five Families'''

	In the begining there was the word, and the word was with the gangs, and the word was fucking balls to the wall open gang war! So, when the gangs finally decided to wuss out they got together and signed a treaty which established the Five Families. No one really knows which gangs are actually in the Five Families, so its up to the GM to decide I guess.		In the begining there was the word, and the word was with the gangs, and the word was fucking balls to the wall open gang war! So, when the gangs finally decided to wuss out they got together and signed a treaty which established the Five Families. No one really knows which gangs are actually in the Five Families, so its up to the GM to decide I guess.
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	* '''Twelfth Street Knights''': These suicidal idiots decided that completely disregarding firearms was the most important ideological decision to be made when the gang was formed. Like the knight orders of old, these men and women think of themselves as shining knights in a city filled with darkness, and it is their duty to protect the citizens of the city from the gangs. The Knights rarely take group wide action, and prefer to sit around in their monastery fortress in District Three, watching the city slowly burn from their marble chapel.		* '''Twelfth Street Knights''': These suicidal idiots decided that completely disregarding firearms was the most important ideological decision to be made when the gang was formed. Like the knight orders of old, these men and women think of themselves as shining knights in a city filled with darkness, and it is their duty to protect the citizens of the city from the gangs. The Knights rarely take group wide action, and prefer to sit around in their monastery fortress in District Three, watching the city slowly burn from their marble chapel.


	== And the Rest ==		== And the Rest ==

1d4chan>COAGuy11: /* The Gangs */

2015-07-31T03:08:38Z

The Gangs

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	==The Gangs==		===The Gangs===

	The gangs are the driving force for action in Purgatoria, either the Players will be part of a gang, working against the gangs, or be representative of different gangs out to stop some catastrophe. So here's a quick look at all of the gangs currently in the setting.		The gangs are the driving force for action in Purgatoria, either the Players will be part of a gang, working against the gangs, or be representative of different gangs out to stop some catastrophe. So here's a quick look at all of the gangs currently in the setting.