Entropy City: Making a Wargame

First things first I want to make a correction on something I said in my original post, I said this had been in the works for 3 years but it’s atleast double that, this really has been a long term project I continued to get distracted away from. Maybe part of e wasn’t quite willing to bed honest about it for some reason I don’t know but this idea started pre-existence of Gaslands which in and of itself should give you an idea of its age.

Game lore is something that some people find absolutely crucial whilst others can take it out leave it and whilst I for into the first camp a lot of my story is still just a skeleton and that is a deliberate choice on my part as I wanted to hand the game right first. And then build the world around it so I’m allowing myself some flexibility.

The original concept was very very simple, cruiser bikes vs sports bikes vs dirt bikes vs law vs heh can I make scooters work?

But the longer I’ve been looking into this the more I’ve realised that realistically there needed to be more than just that to separate them in the lore. I also had to be smart in the way I did this because I cannot give the impression that I’ve based any of my factions on certain real life groups, which I haven’t..

At this stage the world is a split in the timeline, a few crucial moments that whalebone these organisations in real life just never went the way they were supposed to. Leaving these groups with more power to be in the open than within our world, and I want to make it clear in this world they would be gangs, it’s all shades of grey here there no real “I’m clearly the goodie twoshoes” in my head at all at this point, atleast not from wise.

The law faction could be used in a number of ways, first and foremost I want them to perform an npc role within the game itself, much like the monsters you find in games such as Frostgrave, Judgement and others mainly because I feel it’s missing something weight that threat. However I very much see a place in the game for a corrupted side of that force. Allow people to game in the gaps so to speak, come up with their own reasons etc.

Stereotypically there are a few different types of biker games we see portrayed in pop culture the Cruisers type being the most common bug I do intend to explore this properly.

As things develop further I will begin to share names and so fourth for the factions and gangs but for now I want to concentrate on the rules.