History TabletopGame / UnhallowedMetropolis

* TranshumanTreachery: Vampirism turns people into monsters. Feral vampires exist to feed on whatever they can. ''Sentient'' vampires retain their intellect, but are inherently sadistic, masochistic predators. While they can be functioning members of aristocratic Neo-Victorian society, that says more about [[DeadlyDecadentCourt the society]] than the vampire.

* 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'' 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 ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' or the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness''.

Skip forward two centuries to the year 2105 and 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]].

* AbnormalAmmo: Stake guns, syringe guns, alchemical rounds....
* AfterTheEnd
* AlternateHistory

* AristocratsAreEvil: To various degrees.
* BadassArmy: The Deathwatch.
* BadassLongcoat

* ZombieApocalypse

* MysticalPlague: People can reanimate as zombies by dying in places of horror and evil. That's [[CrapsackWorld the entire world]] - but London's wealthy West End is far less tainted by obvious misery than its slums.

* ContractualPurity: Pretty much expected of everyone in the middle or upper classes. Getting caught having sex with the wrong people, marrying below your station, becoming addicted to some drug or another, or having your dabbling in resurrection exposed is a good way to turn you into a lifelong pariah throughout society. [invoked]

* SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality: Men Are More Equal. In Neo-Victorian society, the idea that women are naturally more fragile or less intelligent than men was thoroughly busted during the Reclamation, and women have nearly the same opportunities as men; in addition, the highly-honored position of Mourner is female-exclusive. With that said, a lot of Victorian hangups about sexuality are still there, and women's private lives are judged by far more narrow standards than men's.

* 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 ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' or the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness''.

* TheHunter: Undertakers hunt supernatural creatures for fun and profit.

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.

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* ContractualPurity: Pretty much expected of everyone in the middle or upper classes. Getting caught having sex with the wrong people, marrying below your station, becoming addicted to some drug or another, or having your dabbling in resurrection exposed is a good way to turn you into a lifelong pariah throughout society.

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* SlidingScaleOfGenderEquality: Men Are More Equal. In Neo-Victorian society, the idea that women are naturally more fragile or less intelligent than men was thoroughly busted during the Reclamation, and women have nearly the same opportunities as men; in addition, the highly-honored position of Mourner is female-exclusive. With that said, a lot of Victorian hangups about sexuality are still there, and women's private lives are judged by far more narrow standards than men's.

!!UnhallowedMetropolis contains examples of:

* AmazonBrigade: Mourners. Their WeaponOfChoice? [[KukrisAreKool The kukri]]. [[DualWielding Two of them]] if possible.

* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: "THIS IS JUST A GAME. Keep in mind that if you play with THINGS MAN WAS NOT MEANT TO KNOW, the authors claim no responsibility, including, but not limited to breaking any law, tenet or tradition, temporal or divine, implied or in print. Galvanic reanimation may work in the movies, but in practice...It's really tough."