Black Ops!
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Black Ops! is a Rolemaster setting for modern time ('80's) spy adventures. I have only used this as a frame for building a modern style high fantasy world with weak magics. I have added the skills, the race Modern Man, the modern professions, and the training packages together with the skills, races, professions and training packages from all other Rolemaster setting to form this world.
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The World
A quick summary of the world: Take a world map of earth, nation borders goes aproximately as shown on the map. Any majore towns are places of interest. Population data's are of less importance, as various races and cultures will have very different habitation paterns than the mentioned nations. Roads, railroads, airports, canals, power grids and other infrastructures are subject to change. Political aliances, military aliances, cultural aliances, all these have no resemblence with aliances in the real world. The magic field on this planet is weak, though there are possible to generate locally more powerful areas (through the construction of power nodes). There is lots of devine interference in this world, and religious conflict is not just because of relics and influence, but because the gods are actually fighting. The technology is something similar to what we had on earth in the 80's (except for fashion, there is no excuse for that hairdo).
The world is devided in continents (just as our earth).
List of continents
Asia
Australia
Africa
Except for the northernmost part where there are a few countries bordering to the Mediteranean and Red Sea coasts, Africa is mainly populated by tribal people of various races. The tribes have floating boarders, and many tribes can share some areas, while other areas might seem close to deserted.
- Algerie:
- Egypt:
- Libya:
- Marocco:
- Tunis:
Europe
Europe is a highly devided continent, the various races have been at war with each other for as long as anybody can rememeber, and the situation didn't improve with the coming of the celestial war. The lands are devided in many small countries, where each country is predominated by one ruling race. Aliances have been formed and falled many times, and frontiers have been formed all around. Much of the technological development on this planet have been fueled by the conflicts on this continent. See list of countries for futher information about the history, races, and political situations for the different places.
- Andorra: Used to be a human dominated vice dutchy. One day a band of travelling Kender passed the small place, and as often with Kender, took anything that wasn't nailed down. Unfortienately, anything that could be pried loose wasn't counted as nailed down, and that included the key to the city gate. Items changed owners quicker than you could say "appleschnaps", and in the end, the vice duke, and the rest of the humen fled the country. The kender quickly established the citystate as a kleptocracy.
- Finland: The land of a thousend lakes are perfect for the Gratar, a frog like race living in the wet lands and hunting in the forests.
- France: A food loving Hobbit country, where much of the culture have been refined together with the art of refining wine, cheese, and other culinary delicacies. Except for the odd landmark building, the Hobbits have prefared to build low houses behind gardens and huge hedges, or cozy neighbourhoods with 3 story flat buildings with its homy sidewalk restaurants at the front. Almost all highways and railroads are bordered with huge hedges and long raws of huge trees to protect the towns and villages from the traffic noise.
- Germany: An industrial nation built up by the Uruks. Along its coast they have built ports to handle import of raw materials such as iron ore, and for export of finished products, such as cars. From its ports they have built a road and railway network for easy transport of goods between their large factory cities and the ports. In the south towards the alps, a few mines are found, most of which are drained and left deserted, while a few mines still are in production, some of which are populated and operated by dwarves. Along the french border some valleys are settled with humen and hobbits, who mainly have farms.
- Norway: Land of the Trolls, literally, though the coastal areas humen of Viking culture have settled.
- Switzerland: Dwarven mining communities is the mayority here, though the peoples of the naighbouring countries have settled in the vallies close to the border.
