Everyverse RPG Future History

By Dennis J. Parizek

This is the second supplement to EVERYVERSE RPG. Future History is 10,000 years of possible human history game settings. Future History is divided into 10 Eras with general information and atmosphere with adventure seed ideas.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Release date: Nov 12, 2018
• ISBN: 9781483478432

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PARIZEK

Copyright © 2017 Dennis J. Parizek

Interior Art Credit: Tyo Adi

Production: Debra Hoenig Parizek

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ISBN: 978-1-4834-7843-2 (e)

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Lulu Publishing Services rev. date: 12/08/2017

This supplement was produced thanks to the generosity of these kickstarter backers:

Jim Poland (AKA Brighton)

Duane Hartse

Terry Owen

Jeff Becker

Willykaceres

Bryant Stevenson

Luis Campos Castro

Mary & Delaney Mckinny

Rob Baldwin

David Holden

Ian Dominey

Andre’ Roy

Luke D. Zimmerman

Scott Crandall

Brian Quirt

Jason Italiano

Mark van Esch

Thozmp

Alvin Leadbetter

Charles Myers

Ryan Kent

Chris Snyder

Lee Boswell

Olivia

Walter Manbeck

Dan Elwell

Walt Larson

Tiffany Towles

Craig Huber

Thanodin

Luc Teunen

Senator Cybus

Stephen Gros

George Monnat, Jr.

Gabriel Tanenhaus

Kevin Harris and Katrina Bresnick

Robert Dempsey

James Pacheco

Mark Edwards

Heidi

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to EVERYVERSE RPG Future History! If you are ready to take the next step in roleplaying, we are ready for you. EVERYVERSE RPG Future History provides generic elements you can assemble into configurations that suit your needs exactly.

Many of the best science fiction stories are parts of the author’s vision of a larger tapestry. The reader is rewarded with the unfolding of a cohesive future history.

This book contains a number of historical modules, or Eras. In the overview of each Era, there is general information and notes on the atmosphere that affect everyone that lives in the Era plus adventure seed ideas. All but Era 10 have mid-Era and hinge, or turning, point adventures. Era 10 has only the mid-Era adventure seed idea. String these Eras together in any order and any number, or begin with the example configuration and tweak it to your liking.

The appendices include possibilities for continuing to customize your setting. Options suggest what may await Humanity as it increases its technological capabilities and expands into space, as well as some decision points not covered by Eras. The Local Group and Stellar Clusters offer a definition of known space. Put all of this together for a Future History unique to your gaming group.

Future History Eras

This table includes the name of the Era, the date range and the number of years in each time period. It also includes an SD score range so, if you wish, you can let the dice decide when your adventure will take place.

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THE FIRST ERA: CYBERPUNK

GENERAL

Applied science for its own sake brings us technology we cannot control and if we do not control it, it controls us. The result of this unregulated stream of wonders is a society-wide case of future shock.

Uncertainty brings anxiety. How can you make wise decisions about the future when it changes every day? The basic problem is that civilization in all its facets is more intimately connected to technology than we like to admit. Change the tech level, and civilization must also change.

If we knew how to make these changes, there would be little difficulty. The trouble is, we do not. We introduce a tech advance, and are taken aback by what it does to us. We begin slowly to adapt, albeit with many false starts and in many misguided directions, not to mention, a great fear of the unknown.

We humans are the most adaptable species on Earth,