Shackled World

This world is being systematically contained by an outside power. Some ancient autonomous defense grid, robot law enforcement, alien artifact, or other force is preventing the locals from developing certain technology, or using certain devices, or perhaps from developing interstellar flight. This limit may or may not apply to offworlders; in the former case, the PCs may have to figure out a way to beat the shackles simply to escape the world.

Enemies

dice: [[shackled-world^enemies]]

dice: 1d4	Enemies
1	Passionless jailer-AI
2	Paranoid military grid AI
3	Robot overlord
4	Enigmatic alien master

Friends

dice: [[shackled-world^friends]]

dice: 1d3	Friends
1	Struggling local researcher
2	Offworlder trapped here
3	Scientist with a plan to break the chains

Complications

dice: [[shackled-world^complications]]

dice: 1d4	Complications
1	The shackles come off for certain brief windows of time
2	The locals think the shackles are imposed by God
3	An outside power greatly profits from the shackles
4	The rulers are exempt from the shackles

Things

dice: [[shackled-world^things]]

dice: 1d3	Things
1	Keycode to bypass the shackle
2	Tech shielded from the shackle
3	Exportable version of the shackle that can affect other worlds

Places

dice: [[shackled-world^places]]

dice: 1d3	Places
1	Grim high-tech control center
2	Factory full of workaround tech
3	Temple to the power or entity that imposed the shackle