History TabletopGame / UnhallowedMetropolis

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: 'Thropes' are created by a JekyllAndHyde-style serum that turns them into hulking, feral beasts. They're also half-lifers, a setting-specific form of undead -- the setting uses the term "undead" strictly for things that are actually dead but still animate, such as vampires and animates, while half-lifers are things that aren't actually dead, but are not longer fully living in the conventional sense. Ghouls and dhampiri are also half-lifers.

* {{CoolGuns/Revolvers}}/ImproperlyPlacedFirearms: One revolver shown in the "Sanctuary" introductory adventure is clearly a cap and ball [[http://images.cabelas.com/is/image/cabelas/s7_212572_999_02?hei=220&wid=380 LeMat Revolver]]. The Metropolis (While backward in many respects) has probably gotten rid of cap and ball by now.

* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: While technically undead[[hottip:*:Even more technically, they're half-lifers, a type of undead unique to the setting. It refers to beings like ghouls and dhampiri who aren't outright dead like vampires or zombies, but who aren't quite alive, either.]] and deformed, the strain of [[TheVirus the Plague]] they're infected with leaves them with some of their humanity; those who can curb their violent impulses are more or less tolerated. And by tolerated we mean being treated as an inferior minority to be exploited at leisure as long as they don't get uppity.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: 'Thropes' are created by a JekyllAndHyde-style serum that turns them into hulking, feral beasts. They're also half-lifers, a setting-specific form of undead -- the setting uses the term "undead" strictly for things that are actually dead but still animate, such as vampires and animates, while half-lifers are things that aren't actually dead, but are not longer fully living in the conventional sense. Ghouls and Dhampiri are also half-lifers.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: 'Thropes' are created by a JekyllAndHyde-style serum that turns them into hulking, feral beasts.

* TheCorruption: Every PlayerCharacter starts with a touch of it -- because people who ''don't'' have at least a touch of it [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth invariably die, becoming the victim of supernormal or mundane horrors]].
* TheHunter: Undertakers hunt supernatural creatures for fun and profit.
* TheGrotesque: Common enough, in various flavors.
* TheVirus: The Plague, in many different variants.

* {{CoolGuns/Revolvers}}/ImproperlyPlacedFirearms: One revolver shown in the "Sanctuary" introductory adventure is clearly a cap and ball [[http://images.cabelas.com/is/image/cabelas/s7_212572_999_02?hei=220&wid=380 LeMat Revolver]].

* {{CoolGuns/Revolvers}}/ImproperlyPlacedFirearms: One revolver shown in the "Sanctuary" introductory adventure is clearly a [[http://images.cabelas.com/is/image/cabelas/s7_212572_999_02?hei=220&wid=380 LeMat Revolver]].

* OfCorsetHurts: Consciously averted; corsets are now designed to be something you can move and breathe in, and aren't tightened to impossible degrees, because you never know when you might have to fight for your life.

Skip forward two centuries to the year 2105, and [[ItGotWorse things aren't much better]]. The game focuses primarily on what's going on in London, and portrays an exceptionally [[CrapsackWorld grim]] view of life in a post-apocalyptic metropolis. The [[TheVirus Plague]] which gave rise to the animate hordes has mutated, producing various undead monstrosities. Bloodthirsty [[{{Vampire}} vampires]] and [[AxeCrazy human psychopaths]] have come crawling out of the woodwork to prey upon the faceless masses. Many of mankind's attempts to fight or harness the Plague have backfired spectacularly, though they have also resulted in some unexpected and [[RuleOfCool rather awesome]] advances in the fields of [[ForScience medicine, alchemy and galvanics]].

A rather bleak TabletopRoleplayingGame set in a dystopian future, UnhallowedMetropolis presents a world where history departed from ours in a rather [[AfterTheEnd dramatic fashion]]. In December of 1905, [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt human civilisation almost ended]]. Across the world, [[ZombieApocalypse the dead began to rise]] and [[HorrorHunger feast upon the flesh of the living]]. A years-long war followed, in which survivors desperately fought at first for mere survival, and later to reclaim the zombie-infested cities. Eventually, the more powerful nations of the time managed to return to something resembling a stable society, with large numbers of humans crammed into fortified cities while Animates (the 'scientific' term for zombies) prowled the Blighted countryside.

* BlessedWithSuck: Being a dhampir comes with a number of nice bonuses... and a few ''really'' terrible downsides.

* CrapsackWorld: Really, just saying it's a Crapsack World doesn't do it justice. There's been 200 years of zombies, 196 years of restless ghosts, 177 years of flesh-eating ghouls, 161 years of Thropes, and 152 years of vampires. Entire countries and regions no longer exist in any meaningful sense of the word. Bizarre blighted wastelands are expanding throughout the world. The dominant power of the world is a new Victorian Britain with its social inequities and depravities turned up to 11. France is ruled by a mysterious king who is almost certainly not human, and what little information on its state escapes its borders suggests that terms like "unholy" and "unnatural" barely suffice to describe what's going on there. The air in London is so foul that going out without a gas mask or at least a damp cloth can lead to unconsciousness and death. Anarchists plague London, failing to realize that although there are very real social ills, dealing with them by dismantling the government entirely will just end up killing everyone still living in the UK. On top of all this, it's hinted that the ZombieApocalypse is actually the ''least'' of the world's problems -- that the world has become '''wrong''' on some deep, fundamental level, and the rise of the undead is just the most obvious symptom. And the heroes? The only people who can make a difference, make things better? They're suffering from physical, mental, or moral corruption -- as is anyone who ''isn't'' is doomed to inevitable death -- and they're likely to just get worse as they fight for humanity's future. This is ''not'' a nice setting. If this sounds a bit much, you may want to head for something happier and more optimistic, like ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' or the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness''.
* CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain: Acid rain, most likely.

* IHateYouVampireDad: All dhamphiri [[BerserkButton rather dislike]] vampires in general.
* LightningCanDoAnything: The basis of the science of Galvanics.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: 'Thropes' are created by a JekyllAndHyde-style serum that turns them into hulking, feral beasts.

UnhallowedMetropolis contains examples of:

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Anyone who isn't at least a bit [[TheCorruption tainted]] ''will'' come to a bad end, likely sooner than later.

* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: While technically undead [[hottip:*:Even more technically, they're half-lifers, a type of undead unique to the setting. It refers to beings like ghouls and dhampiri who aren't outright dead like vampires or zombies, but who aren't quite alive, either.]] and deformed, the strain of [[TheVirus the Plague]] they're infected with leaves them with some of their humanity; those who can curb their violent impulses are more or less tolerated. And by tolerated we mean being treated as an inferior minority to be exploited at leisure as long as they don't get uppity.

* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: While technically undead and deformed, the strain of [[TheVirus the Plague]] they're infected with leaves them with some of their humanity; those who can curb their violent impulses are more or less tolerated. And by tolerated we mean being treated as an inferior minority to be exploited at leisure as long as they don't get uppity.

* OurGhoulsAreCreepier

* TheCorruption: Every PlayerCharacter starts with a touch of it -- because people who ''don't'' have at least a touch of it invariably die, becoming the victim of supernormal or mundane horrors.

* TheVirus: The Plague

* CrapsackWorld: Really, just saying it's a Crapsack World doesn't do it justice. There's been 200 years of zombies, 196 years of restless ghosts, 177 years of flesh-eating ghouls, 161 years of Thropes, and 152 years of vampires. Entire countries and regions no longer exist in any meaningful sense of the word. Bizarre blighted wastelands are expanding throughout the world. The dominant power of the world is a new Victorian Britain with its social inequities and depravities turned up to 11. France is ruled by a mysterious king who is almost certainly not human, and what little information on its state that escapes its borders suggests that terms like "unholy" and "unnatural" barely suffice to describe what's going on there. The air in London is so foul that going out without a gas mask or at least a damp cloth can lead to unconsciousness and death. Anarchists plague London, failing to realize that although there are very real social ills, dealing with them by dismantling the government entirely will just end up killing everyone still living in the UK. On top of all this, it's hinted that the ZombieApocalypse is actually the ''least'' of the world's problems -- that the world has become '''wrong''' on some deep, fundamental level, and the rise of the undead is just the most obvious symptom. And the heroes? The only people who can make a difference, make things better? They're suffering from physical, mental, or moral corruption -- as is anyone who ''isn't'' is doomed to inevitable death -- and they're likely to just get worse as they fight for humanity's future. This is ''not'' a nice setting. If this sounds a bit much, you may want to head for something happier and more optimistic, like ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' or the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness''.

* CrapsackWorld: Really, just saying it's a Crapsack World doesn't do it justice. There's been 200 years of zombies, 196 years of restless ghosts, 177 years of flesh-eating ghouls, 161 years of Thropes, and 152 years of vampires. Entire countries and regions no longer exist in any meaningful sense of the word. Bizarre blighted wastelands are expanding throughout the world. The dominant power of the world is a new Victorian Britain with its social inequities and depravities turned up to 11. France is ruled by a mysterious king who is almost certainly not human, and what little information on its state that escapes its borders suggests that terms like "unholy" and "unnatural" barely suffice to describe what's going on there. The air in London is so foul that going out without a gas mask or at least a damp cloth can lead to unconsciousness and death. Anarchists plague London, failing to realize that although there are very real social ills, dealing with them by dismantling the government entirely will just end up killing everyone still living in the UK. On top of all this, it's hinted that the ZombieApocalypse is actually the ''least'' of the world's problems -- that the world has become '''wrong''' on some deep, fundamental level, and the rise of the undead is just the most obvious symptom. And the heroes? The only people who can make a difference, make things better? They're suffering from physical, mental, or moral corruption -- as is anyone who ''isn't'' is doomed to inevitable death -- and they're likely to just get worse as they fight for humanity's future. This is ''not'' a nice setting. If this sounds a bit much, you may want to head for something happier and more optimistic, like ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' or The ''WorldOfDarkness''.

* CrapsackWorld: Really, just saying it's a Crapsack World doesn't do it justice. There's been 200 years of zombies, 196 years of restless ghosts, 177 years of flesh-eating ghouls, 161 years of Thropes, and 152 years of vampires. Entire countries and regions no longer exist in any meaningful sense of the word. Bizarre blighted wastelands are expanding throughout the world. The dominant power of the world is a new Victorian Britain with its social inequities and depravities turned up to 11. France is ruled by a mysterious king who is almost certainly not human, and what little information on its state that escapes its borders suggests that terms like "unholy" and "unnatural" barely suffice to describe what's going on there. The air in London is so foul that going out without a gas mask or at least a damp cloth can lead to unconsciousness and death. Anarchists plague London, failing to realize that although there are very real social ills, dealing with them by dismantling the government entirely will just end up killing everyone still living in the UK. On top of all this, it's hinted that the ZombieApocalypse is actually the ''least'' of the world's problems -- that the world has become '''wrong''' on some deep, fundamental level, and the rise of the undead is just the most obvious symptom. And the heroes? The only people who can make a difference, make things better? They're suffering from physical, mental, or moral corruption -- as anyone who ''isn't'' is doomed to inevitable death -- and they're likely to just get worse as they fight for humanity's future. This is ''not'' a nice setting. If this sounds a bit much, you may want to head for something happier and more optimistic, like ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' or The ''WorldOfDarkness''.

* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Averted, every PlayerCharacter Doctor is [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist at least]] that kind of doctor,