Neverending Night (NeN)

I totally get what you are saying about that. And of course, there are more "realistic" consequences. However, this isn't a realistic occurance in the first place. There is a purpose for the vagueness, as well. I thought that if I left it vague, then each individual could form their own opinions and play around that, making it more their own instead of saying "this is how it is, and you can't change it". I really wanted to provide the current setting the player is dropped into, and let them decide the past and future for themselves (if they are the GM) or let someone else paint the picture for them gradually (if they are the player). I thought it would be nice to take a basic framework and setting and let people build around it according to their tastes. Of course, all of this is very prelimenary, and may change quite a bit. A lot of it is because I came up with the setting, but I myself didn't know what got it that way, and I kind of like the way that felt. I thought the mystery of it added to the tension, at least in my mind.

Well, I really don't know what you exactly plan, but if you don't plan any timeline, than you could plan some moral or deeper reasoning caused by this happening. I just meant by "realistic causes" that I would (for my own game) require something to be thinked about or something to be felt or something like that. I understand that if you only provide a world with monsters, it will mean that the players will fill in the gaps, but beware, because it's not a random fact that you are the designer and they are the players. If you don't fill in the important parts, the players will fill it in with their own fantasy and it will become circular: the players feeding content to themselves. It can work, if you have mechanics about creating content by the players. But it's a whole another story.

So I just would like to see some reasonable background for the monsters, let it be that budget is spent on exterminating monsters OR that the monsters are our own demons. Anything, but there should be something aside the sheer fact itself. That's what I meant. That you should write down something that should excite the players' minds the same as it excited your own mind, or it will become just another hack-n-slash with thoroughly detailed sourcebooks wich noone uses. Like the above mentioned setting of the PC game Doom or the setting of Mutant Chronicles.

The latter has a really evokative setting, but if you want to make a character, it always turns out to be a badass soldier of the special forces or a badass soldier of some mystic force with spells. That's what I think is the most dangerous thing right now.

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Once again, thank you for your input. I totally know what you mean. I definitely want there to be some deeper meaning to all of it, but I myself don't yet know what that is. I want it to be really good, so I'm hesitant to just throw some haphazard explainations. Also, the "article" from the New York Times at the beginning seems to make it evident that no one is really sure what happened. The timeline of this game takes place maybe half a year to a year after the incident happened. Maybe I didn't make that clear enough. Being as such, however, no one really has a solid explaination of what really happened, and it seems to me that finding out what really happened would be part of the fun. like I said, though, I'm not sure yet. It's obvious that this is in the early stages. I'm sure things will come together and prove to be good once things start coming together in my head. I often work this way, starting with seemingly random fragments and peicing them together like a puzzle. It usually works, as I'm sure it will this time as well. Once agin, thankyou for your input and I look forward to further discussion with you.