So if you haven't notice by my posts I'm an avid lover of converting things... in this case game settings that can be used to populate the Milky Way.
Worlds
RIFTs by Palladium Games ; the Coalition in many respects mirrors the Imperium of Man - perhaps the Coalition is a remnant of a bygone age on some backwater world - now - unable to leave that world the Creed has been molded into something different...
A.R.C.H.I.E. - sounds like either a faction of the Mechanics that went awol or or perhaps a faction of the Coalition who defeated the Mechanicus long ago and thusly has evolved into what it is today... Perhaps a new A.I. has arisen either which way possibilities here are many and varied.
The actual Rifts themselves - sound like Warp Gates - perhaps the things that come into our material realm can't leave this world - thus whats found here is localized and not found elsewhere in 40k
Mutant Chronicles ; this is something I'm toying with right now - just replace the names of the Corps and Institutions - and at the end of the day who can deny that Mutant Chronicles is a watered down 40k clone...
I placed the whole campaign in its own "lost" sector - thus I can use the Earth SOLAR SYSTEM backdrop they describe albiet with a few name changes...
Algeroth and Ilian and such; sound like Chaos Champions or Daemon Lords from 40k - SUFFICE TO SAY not Space Marines who've turned - but rather humans who were transformed - at least that's how I'd covert them - if actual things from the warp never born aka Daemons then no further explanation is necessary LOL
Paranoia ; even this old RPG can be giving a place among the stars that make up the Imperium of Man...
Depending on what you want to do - if visiting such a location - then the PCs can learn by window dressing how an A.I. can go wrong - on the other end of the spectrum - maybe the players are captured - this game would be good for that type of scenario too - otherwise this RPG can serve as a good setting for a blatantly awry world...
Cyberpunk / Shadowrun ; depending on your bent - these setting would serve as a wonderful backdrop to a Luxury World and or a Lost World - whereby technology is "being" understood - i.e. people are or have been learning that technology is tech and not spiritual in nature - such a world would provide any visiting PC with the opportunity to gain unseen and unknown cybernetics - if going for more of a Shadowrun feel - replace "mana" aka magic with all forms of Psychic phenomenon - in SR there is an event known as the Awakening - maybe here that event unlocked psychic potential in much of the population!
EXAMPLE: SR - Shadowtech BOOK - Page 89 "Compounds" would work perfectly for Biologis types! (just saying)
Dune ; a limited run RPG that's hard to find - in my what has been deemed on this forum as Morbidverse (lol) can be found in the Andromeda Galaxy - long ago when the first people went out to their foothold during the old night maybe a ship got lost and ended up in the next nearest Galaxy - from that one ship - enough breeding stock would in time give rise to an Empire like that found in Dune... For me I'd use this as a one off adventure in my campaign or perhaps as a strange encounter - offering up something familiar and close to the heart for some who love Dune but not overshadowing the 40k experience.
What Game Systems have you used to populate your Campaign?
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Morbid
Edited by MorbidDon