After re-watching Logan’s Run (for the umpteenth time), I’ve been thinking of starting of Logan’s Run scenario using the original Gamma World. Having the characters start within the city and going out into the world. I’ve got a twelve session story arc going through my head at the moment (sprinkled in with some side-quest adventures) for a full blown campaign.

Characters are Pure Strain Human living in a domed city with others, so I’m mapping out the city and it’s levels to start with an adventure or two. I was thinking instead of Runners, I’d have a “mutated animal” discovered and the players are selected by the computer to go out and see what else is out there and report back.

So after a few hours of slinging dice and going through O.C.C’s trying to figure out what to play, A character and an NPC were created for the Rifts Role Playing Game last night. A Bounty Hunter named “Rooster”, since Doug didn’t know what to name his character and just glanced at the movies on my shelf and saw Rooster Cogburn movie and figured that would be an excellent name for a gruff looking Bounty Hunter; imagine a person with Han Solo’s attitude with Bobba Fett’s armour and mixed in with Clint Eastwood’s man with no name gunfighter voice and you Rooster (personally though with a name like Rooster I can hear John Wayne all the time).

One of the hardest parts of character creation is coming up with a moniker for it to help define the character and gives a player a mind set to play from. “Rooster” lives and thrives in the burbs of Chi-town, it’s were he met Terynne Thorn, a scrappy 14 year old girl whose been living on her own for a few years and getting by.

With that out of the way it was time to do some mock combat situations for Doug to get a feel and flow of the game mechanics by putting him and his companion into some situations to use skills and weapons. Explaining things as I went along and replying to questions he asked.

Now, his character is finished and when the occasion arises to start the Rifts group, he’s now ready to roll.

I picked this movie up in a discount bin at a local store, it was snuggled between two James Bond movies; Live and Let Die and Octopussy. I hadn’t heard of it before but noticed that Sean Bean’s name was attached to it and there he was on the cover pulling back a bow, there’s a lovely lass standing behind him and in the back drop there is the skyline of crumbling city now claimed by mother nature. The tagline of the movie declared: Welcome to the Apocalypse.

I was hooked. I’m a sucker for post-apocalypse movies. I purchased the movie knowing that it was probably a low grade b-movie on a shoe string budget but I figured I’d give it a view and mine it for some ideas for a post-apocalypse scenario for a game down the line.

I did a quick search of it on the internet and discovered that it was a Syfy movie of the week and that it got slightly better than average reviews. So now interest was piqued. Since it had an interesting premise:

In post-apocalyptic Columbia, a group of survivors led by Uri and the ancients are organized as a tribe, in a primitive society without technology and lives in a small village in the Grey Rock National Park surrounded by beasts that transmit a disease that transforms the victims into mutants.

I figured Sean Bean’s character was a cameo part and hence using his name to draw in his fan base. I was wrong, he’s in the movie and the premise of the plot. I liked it.

#Revolution is my new favourite show despite a Charlie’s outlook on life and how things should go through her view point. :P I knew they were going to kill off a major character after introducing a couple of new characters per episode… someone’s got to die (and I presume a few more will die along the way). 

I love the story line and the arc and I can see where it’s going and praying that the show won’t jump the shark anytime soon by adding a “smoke monster” or what not. On this note, I dug out the role playing game The End (Scapegoat Games) and jotted down several notes on a campaign that I would like to see unfold, much akin to what I see in the series: Revolution.

I want to give the campaign a go and see how the players like it. It might be fun to do in a very dark and dirty future.