Wednesday 28 April 2010

Judge Dredd RPG


It is the early 21st Century. Some five decades years after humanity’s worst nightmare came true. The world ripped itself to shreds in massive atomic warfare. Entire regions around the world have been laid waste, turned into radioactive badlands inhabited by the deformed, mutated and insane.

With governments and countries gone, already developing special police forces took over. Raising up huge walled and shielded Mega –Cities spreading over the ruins of dozens of conurbations. These special police forces became the Judges. Trained from childhood to be tough, incorruptible upholders of the law they fulfil the role of police officer, judge, jury and when needed, executioner on the mean streets of the 22nd century. The Judges also oversee and run most of the governmental and administration duties of cities.

This will be a one off game (perhaps taking more taking more than one session) for me to test the system and potential of the game. It will be set in Mega-City One – a vast metropolis which covers most of what was the Eastern Seaboard of the USA. A place where every one of the 400 million citizens is a potential lawbreaker.

All characters will be newly graduated cadet Judges, known as Rookies, who have just passed their first supervised patrols out on the mean streets of Mega-City one…for character creation please email me at Optimusnorm at gmail dot com and we can go over details.

6 comments:

  1. Ok, what game system we using? Assuming WH40K?

    Also, I edited your post to include the tags and to space out your email. Various phishing programs search blogs for email addresses and whatnot for spamming purposes.

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  2. Also, what roles are you looking to fill? Not 100% sure what a rookie does.

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  3. D20 system...I have a pdf rule system I'm reading through...think Babylon 5 in terms of scale and ability - quite realistic.

    Appreciate the editing - last thing I need is more Nigerian bank emails hehe.

    Rookies are fresh out of the academy. All Judges have to go through a number of years on the street as beat cops as it were...of course depending on where you sector station is you could be investigating corporate crime, mutant infilitrators to the city, dealing with a block war or simply going after street gangs.

    As for roles...Judges are trained to start as good all rounders so don't worry too much...although thinking about the type of "cop" you are will help (Investigator, negotiator, SWAT etc...). It might be better to think about what made you special enough as a child to be eligiable for training as a Judge.

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  4. By the way guys, if you can, catch the film currently showing called "Repomen" (Jude Law and Forest Whittiker). Dark futuristic and forboding, just the way we like it :D

    As for he game, sounds very interesting and looks cool. I will not be playing the gun toting guy again. I will try to be a bit more character driven, I'm sure you are all glad to hear :D

    When do you guys wanna set this up? what are the dates?

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  5. Ok, any options for a Melee specialist?

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  6. I'll email everyone shortly with a list of available options...for now the diversity will be more professional and limited as you will be starting at a low level.

    However keep in mind it takes 15 years to train a judge so you'll be a LOT better than your peers in almost every field. Plus your standard equipment is more advanced than most military personal today :o)

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