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By 2037 18 AIs, Artificial Intelligences, ruled the Earth. By 2042 they were fighting each other.

Mankind was down and out - slaves, smugglers, nomads, guerrilla fighters and urban police. All trying to survive in a world run by machines. But are they with the machines or against them?

GURPS Basic Set required to play and I would also suggest GURPS Robots for background. Very dark. Few games start out with the characters having already been beaten or enslaved.


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GURPS Reign of Steel David Pulver Dan Smith Susan Pinsonneault 9781556343308 Books Reviews

I have dozens of the GURPS books and other RPG books and this is one of the best I've read. A very well-thought-out and original background with a variety of settings and situations for creating game "hooks".
There are very few RPG settings as bleak as this; Twilight2000 is the first one to leap to mind. But bleak doesn't mean uninteresting. Reign of Steel is, although derived from the Terminator films, one of the most distinctive game seetings I've ever seen. Humanity fights a last desperate battle against flat-out extermination. The all-powerful computers have divided up the world, and see humanity as little more than a nuisance, at best. This is a great setting for just about any type of game system, particularly as a side trip for dimension-hopping adventurers. The highlights are too numerous to list, but for me, the most intriguing things are the one "Good Guy" computer on Earth rolling through the western U.S. in a semi-trailer, the "Good Guy" computer on the Moon that has to bide its time, and the horrific computer in Mexico that has scoured the entire region of life, down to microbial level. And, not to mention the standard sterilization of humans by the machines! BRRRRR!! Don't look for hope in this one, kids, just hours and hours of post-apocalyptic fun!
"Technology is designed to serve us, to ease our burdens. But will our machines become so sophisticated that it is we who do the serving?"
- The Outer Limits ’s episode The Grid.

GURPS Reign of Steel offers a near-future setting. Where AI's take over the world. The earth, moon, and dozens of orbiting satellites are controlled by 18(or more...) different AI's, all with widely different personalities, motivations, attitudes towards human beings, and varying states of sanity.
Likewise; the book offers a better explanation for how humans could lose out to AI than was given in the Terminator flicks. Tons of fascinating robot's model designs, remarkable human rebel groups, very in-depth portraits of the feuding AI politics.

Frequently, people say that the story campaign of this rpg book is "another mock" of the Terminator franchise. However, the thing is...Reign of Steel doesn't have anything to do with the Terminator universe per se; the only thing in common with those movies is machines reigning over humans, period. RoS is more well-thought-out than Terminator chronicle and that dumb Matrix trilogy movies. Much for that GURPS book was obviously inspired by Terminator movies, but it is its own distinct universe.

The summary of how the story of this cool rpg goes like

"Overmind (the first mega computer that became self-aware, in Philippines, Manila.) Used a virus like method to "wake up" others mega-computers, and they designed supergerms to kill off much of humanity. They put these germs into shipments of medicine, fertilizer, etc. that they were responsible for making. Then factories under their control created armies of hunter robots to kill the rest of the world's population. The last remaining humans alive are struggling to survive, much less retake the Earth."

"If we choose to give birth to a thinking machine, we must be prepared for the day when our progeny will demand independence."
-The Outer Limits ’s episode Glitch.
By 2037 18 AIs, Artificial Intelligences, ruled the Earth. By 2042 they were fighting each other.

Mankind was down and out - slaves, smugglers, nomads, guerrilla fighters and urban police. All trying to survive in a world run by machines. But are they with the machines or against them?

GURPS Basic Set required to play and I would also suggest GURPS Robots for background. Very dark. Few games start out with the characters having already been beaten or enslaved.