Line #6 TabletopGame/CosmopolRedemption


1	"This city is rotting from the inside out, rotten at its very core."
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6	''Redemption'' is the fourth setting in the TabletopGame/{{Cosmopol}} [[TabletopRPG RPG]] universe, taking place roughly four to five years after the events of ''Retribution''. Just as each of the previous have reflected a particular period (the Roaring 20s, Great Depression and World War II), ''Redemption'' updates the setting with a new {{Film Noir}} aesthetic, placing the characters amid a zeitgeist filled with {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}} types, gangsters, corrupt officials and {{schizo tech}}.
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9	'''Tropes in this System:'''
10	* {{Bio Punk}}: a little less heavy on this for this setting, and heavier on computers and robotics.
11	* {{City of Adventure}}: The setting is more or less self-contained
12	* {{City Noir}}: Cosmopol itself
13	* {{Code Name}}: Night jobbers generally use a callsign.
14	* {{The Cracker}}: Really comes into its own as a character type in this system, with information technology approaching something resembling ''our'' universe.
15	** {{Company man}} Dieter Kohl is a "legal" example.
16	* {{Diesel Punk}}: with a far more Diesel Noir vibe than any of the previous three settings.
17	* {{Everybody Smokes}}: except that smoking now has consequences.
18	* {{Fantastic Racism}}: just as much as ever
19	* {{Framing Device}}: The universe and its major events are introduced by fictional characters living in-universe.
20	* {{Gadgeteer Genius}}: One of the player character jobs.
21	* {{Hacker Cave}}: Yes. Hacking comes into its own in this setting, and despite the technology looking low-fi (analog dials, for example), actually functions on a level more recognizable to "real people".
22	* {{Homemade Inventions}}: A major point of the game, but with the rise of monopolies and megacorporations on a scale previously unseen, you'll see less of this.
23	* {{Kafka Komedy}}: Everyday life.
24	** "I almost expect to wake up with six legs, on my back... any day now." - {{Company Man}} Dieter Kohl
25	* {{La Resistance}}: Former and current members of the ''Zero One'' like to get together in bars and reminisce about the old days, fighting with the resistance in Neustadt.
26	* {{Mad Scientist Laboratory}}: of the government-sanctioned variety.
27	* {{Mr Exposition}}: D, in his communiques to other characters
28	* {{Punk Punk}}: Largely of the {{Diesel Punk}} flavor, with many {{Cyber Punk}} (this setting has more Cyber Punk vibe than any previous) and fewer {{Bio Punk}} elements.
29	* UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}: A minority ethnic group living in Neustadt's ''Unterstadt''.
30	* {{Science Hero}}: One of the player character jobs, but unless you work for the government or a major company, expect to be rogue and steal your equipment... unless you can be funded by the mob.
31	* {{Schizo Tech}}: Computer intranets, large-scale architectural/civic projects, robotics and advanced genetic engineering... in a world that seems to run on internal combustion, fossil fuels, pneumatic mail, vacuum tubes, and display gratuitous use of pressure gauges and analog dials.
32	* {{Took A Level In Badass}}: the entire world. Expect to see bigger, badder weaponry than ever before.
33	* {{What Measure is a Non Human}}
34	* {{What Measure is a Non Super}}: And how.
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Context TabletopGame / CosmopolRedemption