On whose side are we playing? What restrictions on alignment/ability to feel emotions are set on the Martians (Who discarded their previous genes for a more "superior" brain)?
What style is this game going to be?
What shall be determined as "canon"? Will Ray Bradbury's martians also come into play?
As we are using several books of the time period, will "human" technology come into play? Like the Time Machine (Of course, time travel is forbidden, but you know what I mean.) or Aetheric traversers? Will Newtonian portals be allowed?
Will current physics be modified to adapt to the many ideas of the authors who we are using? What effect would the use of an aether have in the technology available to the player?
I would have went with a meta-game set-up. The topic is very complex, and we don't want people following different interpretations of the various civilizations we may come in contact with. Or at least have a DnD approach.
We will be playing on the sides of the Allied Martians, the Martian Overlords, and the humans. Martian Overlords can feel emotion, but not on as large a scale as humans or other Martians. (They decided to genetically enhance themselves.)
This will be in the style of a dialogue-rich RP, with players describing what is happening in great detail. There shall be no stats.
Ray Bradbury's Martians are not in the game. The story is that of H. G. Wells' novel, except the Martian Overlords are engaged in a conflict with the Green Martians. The Green Martians are there as characters only, and events from the
Barsoom series are non-canon. The Martian Overlord war machines are:
The Fighting Machine, the primary offensive weapon and the tripods seen in the book. It is a massive metal tripod 90 feet tall armed with a Heat-Ray, an invisible beam of heat that melts through steel like a knife through paper projected by a camera-like thing. It can be equipped with a rocket launcher that launches rockets full of black smoke, a very dense and very poisonous vapor that is turned to harmless dust by water. It has many tentacles, which it sometimes uses to catch humans and put them in a metal basket on its back. The captured humans are drained of their blood, which is injected into a Martian Overlord's blood vessels. Martian Overlords have no digestive system.
The Flying Machine is a flat, broad, and very large machine built near London and first tested after the
HMS Thunder Child was destroyed. It is used primarily for deploying black smoke, but it is experimental and is used only for a few test flights during the invasion.
The only human technology that will come into play is the real-life 1898 technology such as ironclads. Remember that the only timeline is from
The War of the Worlds by both H. G. Wells and Jeff Wayne, and that other literary elements like the Venusian terrorists and Green Martians are there only as characters and such, without their traditional backstory.
No. H. G. Wells used real-life physics.
I suppose so. However, why don't we decide on our roles in the RP for now? I'll be the GM, and I suppose omegatripod will(obviously) play the role of the Elder Martian Overlord in charge of the war machines, strategies and such. I think I should mention that Martian government leaders consist of an Elder Council of thirteen(I think) members. There used to be a Supreme Overlord-type guy, but he was telepathically killed by the entire population.
