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| Valley Forge from Silent Running |
So you want to start a Metamorphosis Alpha game but feel overwhelmed by the vastness of the Warden. Scale it back and try a smaller ship. Here we have the Valley Forge from the movie Silent Running which can easily become a host for a small scale MA campaign.
We have six domes that you can use to set up your separate environments, and a nice spaceship part for all your robots and technical weirdness.
A fun exercise is to use the Wilderness Encounter tables from your Expert D&D rule book or other game of your choice to help create your Domes.
I'm going to use my D&D Expert rules charts on page X57 to create an example couple of Domes for our small-scale Warden.
Let's see, we have ten categories: 1)Clear, Grasslands, 2)Woods, 3)River, 4)Swamp, 5)Barren, Mts, Hills, 6)Desert, 7)Inhabited, 8)City, 9)Ocean, 10)Jungle.
Rolling a D10; I get a - 7 Inhabited. ok, now I will roll again - 4 Swamp.
So Dome 1 is going to be a Swamp environment that is inhabited. Now lets see by what... rolling our d8 we get a 3 for Inhabited - Humanoid, and 8 for Swamp - Dragon!
Dome 1: home to a tribe of mutant humanoids (descendants of crew who became trapped here long ago) that are in a constant battle for survival against mutant-giant alligators "dragons".
Now for Dome 2: we get a 1- Clear ,Grassland & a 5- Barren, Mtns, Hills.
D8 comes up with a 4 -animal for the Clear, Grasslands & 2-flyer for the Barren, Mtns, Hills.
So I think the Dome 2 environment will be a large nature preserve, like a mini Yosemite National park. I can fill this with all sorts of mutated versions of regular animals etc.
Do this process four more times, adjust or re-roll if you get too many similar results and you are off and running with a mini-warden ready to be explored.
The players can start as members of one of the inhabited domes or crew freshly awakened from cryo-sleep and sent to "fix" a problem in one of the domes by the now Insane or malfunctioning ship's A.I.
Have fun!
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