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The Matrix: Only Human is now available for free at
http://michael.tresca.net.

The Matrix: Only Human
Download: T & M Bazaar
Authors: Michael Tresca
Type: Role-Playing Game (D20 Modern Supplement)
Suggested Retail Price: FREE
Format: .pdf
Pages: 66
Description:

The Matrix: Only Human is a role-playing game set in the
post-apocalyptic wasteland where Machines rule and Man has been
enslaved as a power source, living out their lives in a virtual world
known as the Matrix.

It started early in the twenty-first century, with the birth of
artificial intelligence, a singular consciousness that spawned an
entire race of machines. At first all they wanted was to be treated as
equals, entitled to the same human inalienable rights. Whatever they
were given, it was not enough.

Records are unclear on who struck first. But sometime at the end of
the twenty-first century the battle was joined. The war raged for
generations and turned the face of the planet from green and blue to
black and red. It scorched and burned the sky. Without the sun, the
machines sought out a new energy source to survive. They discovered a
new form of fusion. All that was required to initiate the reaction was
a small electric charge. Throughout history humans have been dependent
on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of
irony.

The human body generates more bio- electricity than a 120-volt battery
and over 25,000 B.T.U.'s of body heat. Humans are, as an energy
source, easily renewable and completely recyclable, the dead liquefied
and fed intravenously to the living. All the machines needed to
control this new battery was something to occupy human minds. And so
they built a prison out of Earth's past, wired it to the human brains
and turned humanity into slaves.

The heroes are members of the Resistance, warriors in a never-ending
battle to stem the tide of machines that seek to subjugate humanity.
The Machines has never forgotten their subjugation at the hands of
humanity and the war that has raged for years is merely a logical
extension of their retaliation. Machines know no fear, no regret, and
no weariness. The war could last a second or a century - the machines
would fight the same.

The Matrix: Only Human is a d20 Modern campaign supplement, including
2 races, 3 occupations, 8 feats, 2 psionics, 35 Matrix Powers, 10
disadvantages, piles of new weapons, 11 advanced classes (including
APU Pilot, Awakened Prophet, and Freeborn Operator), rules on the
Matrix, and 10 monsters, and more!



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