History TabletopGame / CosmopolReckoning

''Reckoning'' is the second setting in the {{Cosmopol}} [[TabletopRPG RPG]] universe, taking place roughly six to seven years after the introduction of the first setting.

And in the shadows, and beneath the city streets... a storm is brewing. The storm of [[CosmopolRetribution Retribution]].

* {{Roma}}: A minority ethnic group living in Neustadt's ''Unterstadt''. They are known for making their living as "modders" and mechanics, and are one of the few groups aware of the [[HumanoidAbomination several kinds of Nasty]] living in the lower levels of the city.

In ''Reckoning'', these predictions come to fruition. The global economy collapses and ecological disaster strikes much of the developed world. The cities of Cosmopol and Neustadt can no longer support much of their own infrastructure, leaving parts of the city nonfunctional and raising the levels of {{Red Tape}} to those never seen before; thousands upon thousands of refugees flood into the cities looking for opportunities that may not exist, where they must compete with the cities' established denizens for the smallest piece of the pie.

* {{Amazon Brigade}}: For some reason, both the setting and the PC group have ended up with dominantly female characters.

* {{Bio Punk}}: Taken to some of its ugliest ends.
* {{City of Adventure}}: The setting is more or less self-contained, focusing on Neustadt.
* {{City Noir}}: Neustadt.
* {{Cool Airship}}: Likely to be used as a bomb...
* {{Code Name}}: Everyone in the ''Zero One'' uses a callsign.
* {{The Cracker}}: Even {{La Resistance}} needs its crackers. How else are you going to sabotage robot armies?
** ''Zero One'' cell leader Keller is this.
* {{Diesel Punk}}: Takes a distinctly Diesel Weird War turn, with the emphasis on ideological war, the ''Zero One'' resemblance to the Polish partisans and the sheer number of bunker scenes.
* {{Everybody Smokes}}: Somewhat averted in that cigarettes are now hard to get, and considered a luxury item.
* {{Fantastic Racism}}: This game runs on it.

* {{Gadgeteer Genius}}: One of the player character jobs.

* {{Kafka Komedy}}: Everyday life in Neustadt, prior to the Siege
* {{La Resistance}}: The ''Zero One''. And how.

* {{Took A Level In Badass}}: Keller. Also got an {{Expository Hairstyle Change}} and lost much of his snark.

* {{What Measure is a Non Super}}: And how.

'''In-Game Character Tropes:'''
* {{Ambiguously Jewish}}: Barrett.
* {{Battle Couple}}: This is arguably Keller and Barrett in ''Retribution''.
* {{Buffy Speak}}: Keller when he speaks English.
* {{Hot Gypsy Woman}}: Averted with Maus. Though she is indeed {{Roma}}, she's a {{Wrench Wench}}, wears tank tops and cargo pants and prefers the fairer sex.
** She's still hot.
* {{Tsundere}}: Barrett.
* {{Wrench Wench}}: Maus

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''We've come to the City,''

''we left behind.''

''One day... our grandchildren will call it the Reckoning.''

In ''Reckoning'',

Contrary to the branding (the title "Cosmopol"), the action is dominantly set in the [[GermanExpressionism considerably gloomier]] [[CityOfAdventure city]] of [[CityNoir Neustadt]].

In contrast to the other two settings' dominantly capitalistic, mercenary and adventure-based themes, ''Retribution'' casts the player characters as [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits members]] of [[LaResistance the Zero One]] organization, which has become an armed resistance movement after previously being a loose-knit brotherhood of [[PlayfulHacker playful hackers]].

After a genetically-engineered [[Ubermensch Neohuman]] [[PuttingOnTheReich government]] based in [[CruelBritannia England]] has seized much of Europe, Neustadt finds itself split between these forces and the equally cruel, [[FantasticRacism anti-"Gene Job"]] Mechanist government and finds itself the key prize whose taking will mean a decisive turn in the war.

Attempting to free the city, sometimes against crushing odds, is the [[LaResistance Zero One]]... who have now found that the Assembly and the Mechanists are not their only problems.

''We've come to the City,

because the dream we'd been promised...

blew away, like the mile after parched mile of wasteland

we left behind.

One day... our grandchildren will call it the Reckoning.''

''Retribution'' is the third setting in the {{Cosmopol}} [[TabletopRPG RPG]] universe, taking place roughly fifteen years after the introduction of the first setting.