I put on my robe and wizards hat

"I am Andrew Ryan, and I am here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

'No,' says the man in Washington, 'it belongs to the poor.'
'No,' says the man in the Vatican, 'it belongs to God.'
'No,' says the man in Moscow, 'it belongs to everyone.'

I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose...

Rapture.

A city where the artist would not fear the censor,
where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality,
where the great will not be constrained by the small.

And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city, as well." -Andrew Ryan

These are words I have memorized by heart, and live on as one of the most amazing speeches seen in a video game, next to the infamous words of SHODAN. I mention them because of a project my friends and I have considered seeing to fruition. A few months ago we considered putting together a D20 supplement for Bioshock; Since I have never really bothered with D20 AT ALL... That proved a little difficult for me to stay able to contribute. Without me to contribute anything my friends didn't know where to start either and we eventually got bored of it.

While working the night shift, I am required to stock drinks in the 7-11 cooler; unless the door is open its impossible to be heard, and anybody hearing me anyway usually just smiles and carry's on their business. I found just mumbling and humming to myself helps the time pass so naturally I went through famous words until I finally had myself saying "I am here to ask you a question: Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?" This reminded me of the project we started, so as I thought I continued "NO, says the man in Washington 'It belongs to the poor.'". A major hurdle that stopped us was a D20 friend of ours was convinced we could not roll a big daddy as a damage resistant creature, it had to have complicated armor. "NO, says the man in the Vatican. 'It belongs to god'" We also were attempting to fit characters into classes tailored after play styles, in the end having a medic, a 'bookie' (Plasmid user), a brawler, a shooter, and a engineer. It was a good idea but didn't seem very Bioshock. "NO, says the man in Moscow. 'It belongs to everyone!'" Plasmids were confusing as well, it was hard to explain how it worked in a magic system as they were not spells earned by leveling, but by consumption of Plasmid syringes

"I.... rejected these answers. Instead I chose something different, I chose the impossible, I chose..." That night I talked to Anne, convinced we can try again; I then began to rant about how we know nothing of modding DnD, if only it was something we were well skilled in, like WoD. "Rapture" Suddenly we realized it was kind of silly to consider D20 just because that's what everybody did, thinking it would be easy. World of Darkness by its very nature is held together by hundreds of small rules that make up a large, playable composite; due to how the system works. As was stated in my earlier WoD post, The various races are structured as supplements to the core book (which allows creation of vanilla mortals AKA: Common folk) so naturally its designed for it to be pretty easy to just tack on rules you like and dropkick anything you don't.

Vampires are resistant to damage because of a rule in the vampire book that says "Bullets only do bashing damage to vampires" and "Vampires may use blood points to heal". Sounds to start like if Fluxx was a roleplaying game, doesn't it? In way thats both a blessing and a curse. Its a blessing because ST's can add, use and neglect rules at will without damaging the gameplay experience for the players. The curse is... people will be tempted to play vampires, werewolves, and changelings in this Ayn Rand inspired hellhole we call Rapture.

Is that bad? Well, no. Luckily we realized that off the bat last night. Though it is quite the slap to the face of canon its not exactly impossible. Since Andrew accepted basically anybody who accepted his rules and was shunned by society or otherwise willing to leave the surfac; its not exactly too impossible for vampires, changelings, or mage's to feel being cooped up with thousands of humans oblivious to their nature at the murky depths of the ocean (An no sunlight, for vampires) is leagues better then the surface. Changelings liking the solitude, Mages for being able to express their intellectual needs, and Vampires for their new found ability to not only be a hundred percent safe from sunlight but have plenty of people to feed from as long as they are smart about it.

Werewolves have a less obvious excuse, a gigantic dog in the middle of the sea floor in what could be translated as a hamster cage like design complete with tubes and such is not a good idea. Though who knows, such individuals would probably not be shunned by Ryan if they came out of the proverbial closet to him in favor for being hired as Ryans security force.

Lost styled Changelings would probably adore the prospect, especially those who served under water-styled true fae. Protected by Ryan, able to do essentially anything that betters the quality of life. Its basically a 'get out of hell free' card. At least until the Rapture Civil War erupts.

The key thing is the notion of combat, due to extremely violent nature of Rapture post-RCW; regaining health will be relatively easy. Another key thing is we are not going to change who Jack is. So no Vita Chambers will be around to rez you. The players will take place of survivors or other people who somehow ran into the lighthouse (Who knows, there may be more lighthouses at sea to welcome people to rapture)

We're of course aware Bioshock two is coming; using much of the logic they did with our supplement. Since only a small portion of Rapture was shown in Bioshock 1, maybe 3-5 of the many buildings underwater, we can get away with having plenty of room for original rooms and buildings to be shown. Same with plasmids, there's bound to be plenty not showed in Bioshock. So that gives a opinion to being able to home brew plasmids.

Its impossible to give any thing like a due date, or much more then what we have. Expect updates in coming weeks