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I like those ideas but I would scale them down slightly.
I like this - Maybe one or two colonies on other planets that are either working camps for the extremely poor (maybe even a prison colony like Australia back in the day) or only accessible for the extremely rich.
This idea is great I think. Some time ago, people created an AI to be the perfect ruler and now the ruling class is blindly following its orders to stay in control while nobody actually understands its reasonings anymore.
This idea is interesting but a bit to sci-fi for my taste. Near immortality might be possible for the richest of the rich but not the average person. The idea with the sleeve bodies is interesting as well but it should be implemented in a way that's amazing for the elite but terrible for the average/poor person.
If multiple of us want to have powers and we want to be able to encounter others as well, I would make them a bit more common than that. Maybe somewhere between one in ten thousand and one in a hundred thousand

Ahahah. I guess cyber punk calls for cybervirus :) it work work exactly like a bio virus you know... through suspension of disbelief. 🤣

For the setting, has anyone done microscope? I’ve seen it mention as really great for making setting before gaming, but I have no idea how that works :)

Tao mentioned it to me one time. We could probably try that out to create the setting but I've never used it before

Ignore we go with the persecuted supers idea, then it can be rare but we all have it, since supers stick together for protection ;)

I have the Microverse book, but never played it.
I like the idea of floating space cities / stations like in Elysium (if anyone saw that) where the elite live off world. Planetary colonies are for the dirty masses until the terraforming or other environmental tech is done making it a nice place to live. Then the elite move into their towers and let the peons remain on the ground keeping their cities working.
The AI has been programmed, and learned through the reactions of those with whom it interacts, that the ruling class are elite and worthy of saving, while the masses are disposable.
Yes! The elite have custom bodies they can just slip into for whatever purpose they wish - combat bodies, pleasure bodies, exploration bodies, depending upon what they're doing. The poor sleeve into machines designed for utility of purpose, the ones that leave them feeling more drained than if they had worked in their own bodies. Some poor can earn the right to use sleeve bodies reserved for the rich by becoming prey in rich hunting games, or by selling themselves into depraved sexual slavery where their artificial bodies are subjected to whatever the rich desire, only for them to slide into a new sleeve and suffer an even more debased act.
Agreed. Common enough that we'll meet some, not so common that they're everywhere.

Shudders

Too much Dystopia in my Sci Fi

Yeah, that's pretty dark. I'm not opposed to dark, heck, Shadowrun is DystopiaFest and I love that setting. I think maybe we're trying to push too many genres in there? Like, the box will hold 4 muffins and we're mashing in a 5th and 6th muffin and wrecking all the muffins.

Man, I'm hungry. I want a muffin.

What were our genres for the genre mashup? Did we ever get a final tally on the vote?

here you go. :)

We don't have to make it that dark. I thought it felt more cyberpunk with the dytopia. The first version felt too optimistic, like Star Trek.

I felt we had too much sci fi in my dystopia at first...
Looks like we have to agree first where we want to be on the scale from cyber to punk xD

Also, you can't just send a picture of muffins in the thread. Now I want one

I don't think everyone voted in the strawpoll but currently, the top vote is shared by Cyberpunk, Sci Fi, Superheroes and Transhumanism

I was about to order breakfast when I saw that -_-

CESN just sent me this on Discord. He said he can't post it to GP at the moment, so I'm sharing it here for everyone to see and discuss:

I like the idea of superpowers being the result of a global plague that killed most, left some crippled and giving some superpowers. I would start after that plague is over, though, not in the middle of it.
It would give an additional reason to why people with powers aren't trusted.

I still think there should be a central oppressor like the AI controlled government that leads the witch hunt on superpowered people.

Your witch hunt could be the classic X-Men "these mutants will replace normal humans, who has time to debate if they're our next evolutionary step, they mus be exterminated before they wipe us out!" The AI, programmed to protect mankind, sees the possibility that they may BE the next step of humanity and decides they musts be studied, categorized, classified, and their threat level established before total annihilation.

If we're in an enclosed space, any of those options above could work, as well as a space station. A station the size of a small city would be preferable to give everyone room to create locations, extras, etc.

Yes, it should still be a full city to give a lot of options. A city-sized space station sounds interesting.

Hrmmmn

I was thinking more in line with bowl, where the persecution would be more about someone exploiting fear/hatred against supers because of their association with the plague. Or maybe someone using the supers as scapegoats to cover up the origin of the plague. These are a bit less dramatic than the next evolutionary step, but I guess that can a thing to inspire fear (regardless if it’s is true or not!) or maybe the AI wants to be the heir of humankind, messed up and now the supers are preventing its plan 😱 we could be playing in a setting about to hit singularity, where AÍ, governments and private corps are playing each other and supers are an unwanted side effects (of someone’s accident)

Since we’re doing GMing rounds, I guess we can have a lot of evil subplots that we’d tie together. Each GM and PC will bring could bring in a new threat to supers, instead of having a unified centralised evil

It feels more dystopian/cyberpunkish if the big bad evil is just people being selfish and greedy.