Story setting from the book
3:16 is a role-playing game set in the far future
It's a Science Fiction setting where everyone plays members of the elite 3:16 Expeditionary Force. This military force left Terra over 10,000 strong many years ago with an explicit mission.
Their whole mission was to fight, and defeat, everything in the Universe that they could find. Alien civilizations, intelligences and life of any kind were to be wiped out to protect the future safety of the people home on Terra. Threats were to be neutralized at their source.
Terra is a prosperous place. No one works any more and there is no disease, no hate and no crime or trouble. People are sterile nad have to seek permission of the Terran Council to have children. Successful applicants have medical modifications made that allow for procreation and the children themselves are sterilized at the onset of puberty. They leave childish things behind them and become a citizen of Terra.
Life expectancy is now essentially a meaningless statistic. How long do you want to live for? You only leave this life when you want to, and who would want to?
Paradise is a reality.
When the Council formed the Expeditionary Forces they found it easy to recruit. After all they offered a life of excitement and adventure. See the cosmos, travel and live life to the full. Don't drop yourself in a suicide booth, serve your fellow Terrans by joining the Force. Child permits were raised as necessary to meet the demand, and everyone rejoiced in the plan.
Later recruiting posters featured wholesome troopers drinking cocktails on a cosmic beach on the edge of known space - an ideal that many wanted to live. Terrans had a taste for this glamorous promise. So they sought adventure in the Force.
For years they have recruited Terrans for the Expeditionary Forces and sent troopers out into space. The players all play characters that joined the elite 3:16th unit. The 16th Brigade of the 3rd Army.
These characters will experience a series of events strung across the vastness of the cosmos. And perhaps one day they will return to Terra.
That is 3:16.
3:16 is a high-combat, high-non-combat game about kicking alien arse and causing genocide in the name of Terra. Your sole purpose is to take as many alien scumbags with you to the grave! Also, how you deal with the absence of your distant home and how this separation affects you and your fellow Troopers.
It is an extremely simple system, and very fun to play. I strongly recommend people into science fiction games to consider getting a copy. It's similar to Starship Troopers, except a little more gritty.
There is currently openings for 2-5 troopers. As always, I will prioritize people who are not in my games over existing players. One spot has been previously reserved (through lots and lots of begging, and don't let claims that will allow the player to retain his dignity to convince you otherwise), and I will also make exceptions to potential players from my FF4e game that I recently closed.
If this is popular enough, I might allow two different companies (and thus, two different but connected games). But let's start with just one, yeah?
Don't worry about character creation yet. 3:16 is a very open-ended game, and the GM is encouraged to allow players to flesh out setting specifics as such situations arise. Specifically, characters are supposed to be made very generically, and detailed AFTER play has begun (via a "Flashback" mechanic). Players who sign up, I'll go into those details later.
Openings
1.) Mongooseh
2.) Arc Vembris
3.) Michael Bladebreaker
4.) Meditatus Sanctum Mien
5.) buzzxf
6.) SporkMaster5000
7.) NayrVentess
8.) Raganui Minamoto
