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d20 setting: Fallout's Manchuria
« on: September 03, 2016, 04:43:06 AM »

Manchuria is a promising setting for a Fallout game looking to explore post apocalyptic China. Manchuria is in the northeast of present day China, borders North Korea and Russia, and is close to Mongolia and Beijing. The area offers interesting possibilities.

Here are factions that I see existing around the late 23rd century.

  • The Chinese Communist Party
    High ranking party members survived the Great War in bunkers, but the majority of their population perished. They theoretically control the majority of the Chinese mainland, but their grasp on regions outside of the core provinces of Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei, and Hunan is tenuous at best. In practice, the majority of China is in control of warlords, or left in a disordered mess.
  • Great Plains Horde
    China claimed the province of Inner Mongolia for itself after the Communist revolution, while the Soviet Union backed an independent country of Mongolia to serve as a buffer state. Since the war, these two regions have become unified into a single entity, lead by a Khan once more.
  • The Great and Glorious Eternal People's Democratic Republic of North Korea
    The isolationist state of North Korea survived the war mostly intact, due to no one caring about them enough to target the area. They are lead by their Glorious Comrade Kim Ban Yoon and have crossed the Demilitarized Zone in a quest to finally unify the Korean Peninsula under one ruler. They possess the same antiquated technology as before the Great War, but that performs quite well in post-apocalyptic times.
  • Siberian Federation
    The Soviet Siberian Federal district and Far Eastern Federal District have merged into their own independent state,  but geography and climate keep it from expanding. Their navy is significant in the post-apocalyptic world due to control over the port city of Vladivostok.
  • American Occupation Forces
    The remains of the Yangtze campaign control territory along the east coast and up the Yangtze River, known as the American Occupied Territories. Nicknamed "Iron Devils" due to their use of power armor.


Locations of note include, but are not limited to:

  • Harbin
    Harbin is an old Manchrian city which features a mixture of Chinese and Russian architecture. Examples are St. Sophia's Church, which used to be the largest Eastern Orthodox Church in China, Zhong Yang Jie (Central Street), which is an unique Russian style street with buildings of various styles including renaissance, baroque, eclectic, and modern style, the Siberian Tiger Park, river docks, and Harbin University, which has two branch campuses for Science and Engineering.
  • Changchun
    Major industrial base in northeast China, located southeast of Harbin. Known as China's Automobile City, though it produces many other things as well.
  • Puppet Emperor's Palace
    This was built for Puyi, the last Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, by the Japanese when they convinced him to head the puppet state of Manchukuo, and turned into a museum after the war. It features a distinct blend of Chinese and Western architecture, and was modeled after the Forbidden City. In fact, many scenes in the biopic The Last Emperor were shot here instead of at the Forbidden City. It is located in the northeast of Changchun, and would make a perfect residence for an aspiring khan.
  • Eight Ministries of Manchukuo
    These are eight institutions of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, namely, Department of Security, Department of Legislation, Department of Economy, Department of Transportation, Department of Agriculture, Department of Culture and Education, Department of Diplomacy and Department of Health. Located near Xinmin Street in the center of Changchun.
  • Shengyang
    Shenyang is the capital city of Liaoning Province, located southwest of Changchun (and by extension, far southwest of Harbin). It is an important industrial center in China and the transportation and commercial hub of China’s northeast. Shenyang shortly served as the capital of Qing Dynasty before it moved to Beijing; as a result, it contains the Mukden Palace, a Manchu Imperial Palace which was also built to resemble the Forbidden City.
  • Dornod Province
    Mongolian province in the northeast part of the country. Used to be a site of uranium mining during the Cold War.
  • Khamariin Khiid Monastery
    Located southwest of the Dornod province, it was established on a site of powerful spiritual energies. The monastery was razed in 1937 by Mongolian Communists and the monks forcibly disbanded. Good site for the development of martial arts with a supernatural aspect.

The Supernatural

Although Fallout is mostly a setting of SCIENCE!, supernatural influences are present. Ghosts, psychics, and eldritch abominations lurk just beneath the surface of the normal world. In many parts of the world, the existence of the supernatural is taken for granted, even if more educated societies view it as primitive superstition.

The martial arts are rooted in an metaphysical worldview, and practitioners with the proper mindset can develop extraordinary powers through rigorous practice and meditation.










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