I like to do a lot of research for my RPG games like The Morrow Project and Twilight: 2000. Right now, I'm fleshing out a Morrow Project campaign to where my character (I'm the game master so it is an NPC, Non Player Character, sort of like myself but on steroids since he was a prodigy) representing me is driving around a gas turbine hybrid VW Iltis SUV they he was on the design team for back in the 1980's. Before the Project went to fusion power in 1987, in my game, our vehicles were gas turbine hybrids from the time it was started in 1962 until 1987. It has an orange gas plasma status screen and it doubles for navigation, think of a typical portable PC like Compaq or Compass had in the mid 1980's, you'll get the idea. I'm looking for numbers and research so I can calculate range and fuel consumption for the batteries and gas turbine engine. How geeky is that? B-D
The Morrow Project is a game that the characters are part of a private, paramilitary effort by Morrow Industries to rebuild the United States after an atomic war or the catastrophe of your choice. I've been doing a lot of research to what we have in the Western PA area where my game is set, from oil refineries to farms. The idea is to be frozen and you wake up 3 to 5 years after "The Oops" but things go wrong and we wake up 150 to 200 years later to a somewhat depopulated and Balkanized America. Im my game, he war occurs around 2012 (as to the game's canon war date of 1989) or so but the unrest starts in 2005 or 2006. I'm still trying to decideif things are the same historically as now up until things start to go bad or whether I want to have an alternate history to where we still have the USSR existing in 2005/2012 or so as part of the catalyst to the atomic war. The latter would leave me off the hook to where "well that didn't happen in real life historically." I'm also an "alternate history" junky.
Yeap, I was a "teenaged Orc" when it comes to RPGing but I'm getting close to being a "middle-aged Orc." B-)
VW Iltis, in Canadian service
The Morrow Project patch