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Thursday, January 12, 2006

Another Alpha Complex detailed 

Longtime Paranoia-Live.net citizen Aratos posted a notice this week that may help PARANOIA Gamemasters who want to establish a background for player characters who are Spies for Another Alpha Complex:
"Alphacology [.PDF link] is a setting I've been working on for about six months now, though it seems like years. It's not so much an alternative to Alpha Complex as a source of antagonism, which was possibly inspired ever so slightly by a Shadowrun supplement called Renraku Arcology Shutdown. Basically I rolled up a Spy for Another Complex when I was generating characters for a campaign that never happened, and decided to make the other complex important.

"Anyway, being the sort of person I am, I pretty much used the strategy I use for all my work and bunged an open license on Alphacology. Or at least a temporary license until I get told I'm breaking international laws. A small group of us did some work on it on a wiki, making some basic designs, but that died. So, I need some advice on whether it's looking fine so far. Which it isn't, but you know what I mean."
Posted by: Allen Varney / 2:24 PM

Comments:
It looks like a great start. Very interesting. You could incorporate 1984's "worst fear" concept for the torture/experimentation bit.
My only problem, and maybe it's just me, is the name for Citizen Konputa. It strikes me as too comical. What about something more endearing? I think players and GM's will still draw the connection between CK and FC even if the names don't resemble each other.

--Notac-O-MIE
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : January 13, 2006 9:55 AM
 
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