History TabletopGame / Aberrant

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Project Utopia, directed behind the scenes by Max Mercer, is trying so very hard to avoid the BadFuture by helping the novas who work with it make a better world... [[spoiler:while the black ops subdivision is secretly keeping them on a regimen of contraceptives so they can't breed more, possibly stronger novas, and killing those who find out about the program.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Project Utopia, directed behind the scenes by Max Mercer, is trying so very hard to avoid the BadFuture by helping the novas who work with it make a better world... [[spoiler:while one rogue faction is secretly keeping them on a regimen of contraceptives so they can't breed more, possibly stronger novas, and killing those who find out about the program.]]

* InternetIncorporated: The [=OpNet=] from is the system that esentially replaced the internet (due to better AppliedPhlebotinum) and requires its users to be licensed.

''Aberrant'' is a role-playing game created by WhiteWolf in 1999, set in 2008 in a world where super-powered humans started appearing one day in 1998. It is the middle setting in the greater TabletopGame/TrinityUniverse timeline, chronologically situated about 90 years after ''Adventure!'', White Wolf's Pulp era game, and over a century before the psionic escapades of ''Trinity/Aeon''. The game deals with how the players' meta-human characters (called "novas") fit into a mundane world when they most definitely are not mundane, as well as how the mundane populace react to the sudden emergence of novas. The original ''Aberrant'' product line was discontinued in 2002, though a d20 System version was released in 2004.

* GovernmentDrugEnforcement: All newly erupted novas are secretly fed sterility drugs along with the drugs given to help them control their powers in order to prevent the breeding of a superpowered race.

* MalfunctionMalady: The Yin/Yang enhancement enables a nova with mega-Appearance to switch between male and female forms. If the nova gets pregnant (a rare event), this enhancement will [[ShapeshifterModeLock shut down at a certain point in the pregnancy, locking the nova in female form]].

* AnimalWrongsGroup: Greenwar

* ForegoneConclusion : The Aberrant War is gonna happen, no matter what the players do.

* MalfunctionMalady: The Yin/Yang enhancement enables a nova with mega-Appearance to switch between male and female forms. If the nova gets pregnant (a rare event), this enhancement will shut dwn at a certain point in the pregnancy, locking the nova in female form.

* AuthorTract: The lead developer for most of the line's run was a gay man with issues, most of which showed up very heavy-handedly in the background materials. Expect any gay character to be in some way uber-powerful and/or infallible. Conversely, any conservative/hetero-normative types will inevitably be some breed of foolish bigot who will eventually get shown up... hard.

* WaveMotionGun: Although ''Aberrant'' characters are generally played at a much lower level of power, akin to your average MarvelComics character, the game has Quantum powers at levels 4, 5, and 6 (which could only be acquired after a very long campaign if you play by the standard rules.) One of the level 6 powers is Quantum Inferno which allows the character to fire a Quantum Bolt capable of punching a hole, hundreds of kilometers wide, clean through the planet (which needless to say is the immediate predecessor to the planet's destruction.)

* QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything
* ScrewDestiny : A significant portion of fans ignore the canon lead up to Trinity.

* ScrewDestiny : A [[{{Understatement}} significant]] portion of fans ignore the canon lead up to Trinity

* ScrewDestiny : A [[Understatement significant]] portion of fans ignore the canon lead up to Trinity

* ForgoneConclusion : The Aberrant War is gonna happen, no matter what the players do.

* [[ForgoneConclusion]] : The Aberrant War is gonna happen, no matter what the players do.

* ForgoneConclusion: The Aberrant War is gonna happen, no matter what the players do.

''Aberrant'' is a role-playing game created by White Wolf Game Studio in 1999, set in 2008 in a world where super-powered humans started appearing one day in 1998. It is the middle setting in the greater Trinity Universe timeline, chronologically situated about 90 years after ''Adventure!'', White Wolf's Pulp era game, and over a century before the psionic escapades of ''Trinity/Aeon''. The game deals with how the players' meta-human characters (called "novas") fit into a mundane world when they most definitely are not mundane, as well as how the mundane populace react to the sudden emergence of novas. The original ''Aberrant'' product line was discontinued in 2002, though a d20 System version was released in 2004.

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: ''Aberrant'' is set in world where the main way of getting superpowers is by surviving a near-death experience that triggers a change within you. Needless to say, between the sheer joy of having powers and the celebrity-like status that comes with some supers, there are a lot of... unhappy accidents.

* ScrewYourself: The player's handbook contains a chapter with various superhero teams and similar groups across the world. One is the Queer Nova Alliance, an informal group of Novas with "alternate lifestyles". One member is Tommy Orgy, whose selection of powers includes self-cloning. Or, as another nova observes, "Gorgeous, gay, and able to duplicate himself; its a wonder Tommy Orgy ever leaves his house." When Tommy tells another nova to "Go fuck yourself", the other retorts, "I thought that was more your forte, Thomas." A listener adds, "Well, according to every other fanfic I read on the [=OpNet=], anyways..."