Rpg Overwatch

Rpg Overwatch
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In May 2016, Blizzard launched Overwatch, a game where players clash with colorful heroes on battlefields around the globe in the near future. Last time on the Campaign Trail , I looked at the Chrono Rogue , inspired by the video game Overwatch. This week, I’m returning to my campaign setting series, looking at the world of the video game Overwatch. The developers of Overwatch have provided details of the world and its characters with bios, webcomics, tweets, blog posts, animated shorts and more, but they haven’t provided all the details. All of this provides an excellent base for a setting that let’s the gamemaster and players extend with their own details.
In Overwatch, you control one of several heroes in competitive 6-person team shooting matches. The game requires players to battle over objectives, take down the other team, and achieve victory. Like many tabletop RPGs, roles are specialized, so there is a heavy emphasis on teamwork. This video does an excellent job providing an overview for the gameplay of Overwatch.
Unlike many futuristic distopic settings in the future, Overwatch’s earth is “bright and aspirational”, taking place after a golden age of prosperity and technological progress. Overwatch takes place 60 years in the future of a fictionalized Earth and 30 years after the “Omnic Crisis”. The Omnic Crisis began when the “omnics” (human developed robots with artificial intelligence) started building hostile robots which turned against humanity. The United Nations (UN) quickly formed an international task force to combat this threat and restore order, called Overwatch.
Overwatch successfully subdued the robotic uprising, but a rift developed between two founding members, Gabriel Reyes and Jack Morrison. For a time they settled with Morrison leading Overwatch and Reyes running convert operations in a group called Blackwatch. For decades Overwatch maintained peace, but several allegations of wrongdoing and failures by the organization led to public outcry, in-fighting between its members, and a UN investigation. The in-fighting climaxed with an explosion that destroyed Overwatch’s headquarters and the presumed deaths of Morrison and Reyes. Overwatch was disbanded with the passing of the Petras Act by the UN.
The game of Overwatch is set around 5 years after the Petras Act in a world without Overwatch. This world needs heroes to stop corporations from taking over, break up fighting and terrorism around the globe, and to stop a second Omnic Crisis. The game begins with former members of Overwatch deciding to ignore the Petras Act, recruiting new and old friends to reestablish Overwatch as illegal vigilantes.
Looking to learn more about the lore behind the game? The backstory to Overwatch is described through animated shorts and other information distributed by Blizzard in promoting the game.

Tracer is an offensive character who zips around the battlefield.
The cast of Overwatch is diverse and there is a place for any type of hero including gunslinging cowboys, android ninjas, gorilla scientists and time traveling pilots.
The important thing to consider for your Overwatch inspired setting, is which races fit the world you want to tell stories in with your players. Here are some ideas from Overwatch and my own brain.
Overwatch was disbanded thirty years after its formation, and in the five years since, the world has become a darker place full of enemies to battle. If your group has killed its share of kobolds and dragons, an Overwatch inspired setting could change things up by having your players battle enemies that are typical fought by action and super heros.
Past articles in my campaign setting series have looked at settings such as prehistoric/lost world , steampunk , and post apocalyptic wastelands.
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Shawn is an author and co-founder of Tribality.com. He first got into tabletop RPGs through ninjas and then by playing a Kender in Dragonlance. Years later, he can be found running games in the Nentir Vale and his own Seas of Vodari campaign setting.
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