What are your favorite kinds of post apocalyptic scenarios to run or play? Mutant wackiness like Gamma World, zombie hordes, natural disasters or civil wars?What systems do you find work best? Things more on the storygame side like Apocalypse World, OSR or adjacent stuff like Gamma World and AWN? Or more generic modern systems?Personally, I was thinking about running something in the spirit of a Canticle for Leibowitz with monks in the wasteland, but with the actual apocalypse being orbital megastructures hitting the earth.
>>98113665I tend to like a high level of strangeness mixed in with psychic or otherworldly intrusion that caused the collapse of life as we know it. Apocalyps World has been a go to for this for ages. Things like the moon being an alien base that exploded and rained mutating asteroids on the earth, angler fish with psychic lures, biker gangs with symbiotic alien appendages. AW isn't overly focused on realism and is for shorter campaigns so it holds together enough for about 10-12 and that's about all that kind of setting can sustain ime. The Quiet Year is a fun map making post apoc game. Only played Gaslands a bit but had a good time with it, very low barrier to entry and something about hotwheels gets people engaged.
>>98113665I liked Neuroshima because I used to be a retarded polack but I moved far away from there, changed my name and face to better justify my new citizenship.
>>98113665I like Mutant Future. It's simple.
>>98116003I thought it was out of print. What do you like about it over Gamma World, MCC, or Ashes?
I like AWN. I used to plug content from Mutant Future into Vaults of Vaarn and it worked great. Also, it is not exactly Post-Apoc, but I do love TTRPGing in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Zones is my fav right now.
>>98113665>What systems do you find work best?I'm using refluffed Myriad Song for a sci-fantasy post-apocalyptic game drawing a lot of inspiration from Destiny. It's working well enough I'm several years into it now.Planning a more gonzo 80-90s setting afterwards. Was going to try out RIFTs but I've been told it's mechanically clunky and dated. Might lean towards Savage Rifts or Genesys instead.
>>98113665I'm planning on running some Mutant Crawl Classics this summer. I have an idea for a weird sort of settlement management thing I want to fuck with. I really like the implied setting that MCC has.Vaults of Vaarn is tight as hell too.
>>98119110>>98119189>Vaults of VaarnI'll have to check it out if it's being rated so highly.I like that AWN is really flexible in the types of games you can run, and the tools for creating the crisis scenarios in addition to the hexcrawls is really playable.
>>98119355>I'll have to check it out if it's being rated so highly.NTA, the mechanics aren't everybody's cup of tea, they are based on KNAVE 1e but with to-hit and a little more crunch than anything Knave, but still less crunch that most OSR, I personally would not tolerate it if it wouldn't had to-hit rolls but it does. The GM tools are good, not the best, but encourages one to develop/homebrew better/taylored ones. The setting is kind of fun if you are into Post-Post-Apoc gonzo psychedelic sci-fantasy, also since it is so eclectic you can insert gonzo content from other RPGs and the tone will accept it and would feel natural. Leo's original art is charming in an amateurish way. The community is relatively large for a niche thing, and they share lots of content, homebrew and 3rd party, but the quality varies widely. So enjoying VoV is kind of an acquired taste, but is great fun if you get to adjust your expectations. I sincerely prefer it to Numenera (which is very close to VoV in genre/settng), for me it is better in both setting/lore and mechanics/ruleset than Numenera, despite not being as polished, Numenera despite its polish, feels clunky and doesn't "coagulated" for me as Vaarn did.
Are there any systems that handle irradiated or poisonous environments well? As in, mechanically interesting and not merely "put on radiation suit/gas mask and forget about the hazard entirely".
>>98119409Yeah, something about Vaarn clicks (in 50 pages) in a way that Numenera never did for me. It really captures that weird fiction, Dark is the Sun, Book of the New Sun weird fiction feel in a way that nothing else has.I'm hoping the newly Kickstarted edition actually sticks around for a second so I can pick it up, it's everything in the zines plus a bunch of new material like Settlement generators, which I'm very interested in, but I don't want to have to pay four times what it's worth on the secondary market.
>>98119414I mean, usually it's just damage and damage mitigation, right? A more gonzo system might have a chance for mutation as well. What would be a "more interesting" system, in your estimation?
>>98119355>I like that AWN is really flexible in the types of games you can run, and the tools for creating the crisis scenarios in addition to the hexcrawls is really playable.I like it too for the same reasons, but it's totally a different thing to VoV, I don't even consider VoV as post-apocalyptic. As you wrote AWN could be made into lots of post-apoc subgenres or franchises, for example I'm running a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. campaign with it right now and it is going great so far, I just had to do some little homebrewing and its set to keep going for long, we are using heart of chornobyl's zone map and I just added some hexes over it. That's a thing I couldn't do with Vaarn, if I would try to run a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. campaign with Vaarn it would just end being Vaults of Vaarn in the end, with an odd S.T.A.L.K.E.R. cherry on top.
>>98119110>>98119431I got Ashes Without Number around the same time as I started playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R Gamma and I really want to do something similar.Competing factions, radiation, strange artifacts, ammo and resource scarcity and mutants and the like.However instead of the chernobyl exclusion zone it would be a hard to reach island of the coast of the UK with random soul eating fog as opposed to blow outs.
>>98119702Check thismkn-publications itch io/zwn
>>98115914>Neuroshimabased & pierogipilled
We should do a post-apoc general from now on.Even a post-apoc trove too.
>>98113665>What are your favorite kinds of post apocalyptic scenarios to run or play? Mutant wackiness like Gamma World, zombie hordes, natural disasters or civil wars?All Flesh Must Be Eaten is dogshitDead Reign is what Eden wishes they had made instead of the Witchcraft abomination AFMBE
>>98115914>changed my name and faceTo where do you moved to? Fukushima?
>>98120033LOL that image>"What does a female feels when using dating apps">One of the zombies just facing away, not feeling the vibe, "Yeah, fuckit, I'ma outta here guys, the squeeze is not worth the juice.">Why the zombies aren't into attacking Chad? "I guess only foids are into Chad."
>>98120045take your meds
>>98120020I did see Zones but held off on buying it. This might be a good excuse, thanks!Big issue I'm facing is that Stalker seems to be dripping with atmosphere and that living world feel. Not sure how I would translate that over to not just a ttrpg and a different setting.How does everyone else make their players feel like they're in a larger world/wasteland?
>>98119702A lot of the tags and enclave/faction stuff are system neutral, and don't require the full version of Ashes. You can just lift them.
>>98120513Things shouldnt be static. The factions should be making moves behind the players whether the players are interacting with them or not. If the players clear a bandit camp and leave it, something else is going to move in. Factions are going to fight battles over territory even though the players are on the other side of the map.I'd also come up with generators for how the environment is constantly, subtly changing. Nothing should be static.
>>98120513>How does everyone else make their players feel like they're in a larger world/wasteland?Instead of them having random encounters, have they find the left-overs of someone's else random encounter. For example: caravan is trashed and barely anything organic is left. Checking things carefully shows a cut-off mandible here, a bit of non-human blood there. It seems they met a column of giant soldier-ants, which carved up and carried all the meat, plants and water, leaving the scrap, guns and clothing of synthetic fibers. It would be a nice loot if not for the issue that your group needs clean water more than ammunition right now. This particular species forms temporary hives out of themselves, hibernating around the organic hoard the roaming columns build up. How do you feel on entering a dungeon which is sleeping?Besides that, some of the caravan leftovers might point out they come from unknown lands, like open cans which say "Underbeaches Crabbies", or a pneumatic pistol engraved with "Good Peaks mark II". Names that suggest and might be expanded later, IF the players get enticed.
Besides "Objective: Survive" what makes a post apocalyptic game fun and different from a more typical campaign?
>>98122521Exploring the ruins of an unknown future? The ability to rebuild a society in any way you see fit? The power fantasy of the disintegration of the old ruling elites power structures? Why do people act as if the only post apocalyptic stories are the walking dead? As I said in another thread, if you look at most post Apoc gaming, it has a *lot* in common with the assumptions of old d&d. The biggest post Apoc franchise in the world (to the best of my knowledge, maybe there is some post Apoc Korean show that is massive popular in SEA) isn't really about "objective:survive" at all.
>>98122573I feel like even in more gonzo GW or Mad Max style games, privation and the harsh environment is a more serious and session relevant concern than even OSR style D&D.
>>98122903Not really? In osr style d&d, how much food and torches your brought with you is possibly the most important thing you've got to worry about at lower levels.
>>98120513>Big issue I'm facing is that Stalker seems to be dripping with atmosphere and that living world feel.Key is just drenching yourself with lots of lore, I guess lots of GMing is just more art than science.>Not sure how I would translate that over to not just a ttrpg and a different setting.Provide them props (even virtual, like images and such), Music (There's lots of exclusion-zone-related ambient), Help yourself with the wiki and steal moods, characters ideas and tropes from the lore.>How does everyone else make their players feel like they're in a larger world/wasteland?The zone's map helps a lot, it gives a spatial coherence to all that, then there's the zone's ecosystem, and I don't mean it by just the mutants and such, but also the factions, the anomalies, the radiation spots, the artifacts, etc. The usual game loop of improving little by little from going against all, etc.STALKER is kind of limited compared with other exclusion zone fiction, it is less "psychedelic", I guess because the video games are pretty self-contained stuff, but if you want to add more "weird" into it, you should check other exclusion-zone fiction outside of STALKER, like Area-X and the original Roadside Picnic. Other source of tools and inspiration could come from other TTRPGs like "Zone of Exclusion" and "QZ", these are more fantastical than the more self-contained STALKER stuff and have good GM tools in the form of tables and such.I loved the idea of that anon making his zone at an island in england, and the fog, etc. I had my own campaign originally set on a huge area between USA and Canada, north of Detroit, to give it a "Roadside Picnic" vibe, I used a program called Hexthingy to create hex overlays to use with actual google earth maps. Then I supported myself lots on the GM tools from Zones, QZ and ZoE. Made a compilation of "Zone" fiction, a single pdf at 2k pages, and when I feel stuck I just roll for a page in the huge-ass pdf, and get inspired by it.
>>98122955I actually want to rely a lot on resource management and such in my game but I've not actually played many OSR games before. Resource tracking and gauging travelling times and PLANNING a operation into a bunker sounds really cool but does it get tedious in practice? I imagine it needs the right kind of players.>>98120948This is really cool. Lots of potential threads for the players to note down to investigate or ignore as they desire. >>98123520There's a lot of good ideas here. Your zone sounds really cool, I'd love to hear more.I have...general ideas, mainly that fog island comes and goes throughout history and is very hard to access due to a permanant fog wall that surrounds it. It's been locked in place between England and Ireland for about 15-20 years now although was compelty cut off by the fog for about 10.Factions I thought up so far:Sovereign - Duty stand-in. UK detachment sent in 20 years ago before being cut off and basically self sufficient for a decade before recontact. Nominally "under the command" of the UK gov. Also, given that the island is closer to Ireland than UK, legally they've annexed the island from ireland.The Locals - Descended from pre roman britons and irish along later irish that arrived around 1600, fleeing from Cromwell when the island popped up again. Retained alot of iron age culture but are not primative. In an insurgent war with Sovereign.Mercs - Standard merc company with a small twist. The leader along with looking for the secret of eternal life for his super rich bosses is also investigating burial mounds and crypts for necromantic artifacts/knowledge. I was inspired a bit by loads of cool drawings of OSR mindless skeletons and wanted them in the game. Then I thought it would be cool if they wre in kevlar and kitted out with shotguns and lmgs and outsourced to Blackwater for sale to warlords. Some kind of robot faction - Still thinking on this one.Bandits - still thinkingMonolith standin maybe
>>98120033Here's the thing AFMBE and Dead Reign both don't want you to realize:Just about every freaking game out there has rules for zombies. Because of this a "zombie specific game" is about as necessary as an "attack dog specific game". The only question is how good is the system for general use, since both of those systems suck.AFMBE is good for when you don't know what kind of zombie game you want to run, and need some inspiration for use in a different and better system.Dead Reign is good for when you want to roll on a bunch of random tables to generate stuff for use in a different and better system.
>>98113665Depends on what I'm wanting I guess.Character focused kitchen-sink apocalypse? Deadlands: Hell on Earth for the weird horror with a 70's vibe, or Savage Worlds Low Life for the absolute bizarre ridiculousness.Faction driven world reclamation? Legacy Life Among the Ruins.Post-post-apocalyptic, where society has rebuilt and there are still vestiges of the super tech sitting around? Exalted 2ed.PA game I'm waiting to be translated into English? Tsukuyumi. Love the board game, looking forward to the TTRPG.Always hold a place in my heart: Rifts. The system is so bad it hurts the setting (which is a feat!), but I'm still too fond of the original to consider switching to Savage Worlds (even though it really does do a better job).
>>98124695>Also, given that the island is closer to Ireland than UK, legally they've annexed the island from ireland.Sounds touchy, heh.>The LocalsNice, gives "land of the lost" vibes.>MercsA modern merc lich lord sounds great, heh.>Some kind of robot faction - Still thinking on this one.I like gonzo settings, like Fallout, Rifts or Vaults of Vaarn, and those have robots too, recently I found Breachworld and the mini-six system is great.>Bandits - still thinkingIn my setting bandits are powerful, with ties to either corpos or mobs, they profit from the zone, and bribe the military, unregulated capitalism is a hell of a drug. And as in Anomaly/Gamma lore, mercs are their allies.>Monolith standin maybeYou need a monolith stand-in for sure, or at least some sort of weird religion/cult tied to the zone, people should be amazed by the zone's "miracles" and put religious connotations to it, or just be manipulated by paranormal agenda, etc.I liked the original idea of Shadow of Chernobyl development bible, it was going to have aliens and illuminatti, but they had to tone it down.
>>98125228Rifts seems pretty intimidating to get into ngl, because it feels like power levels are all over the place for player and enemy options. Very gonzo setting,
I love Apocalypse World, and hope that will not rustle too many jimmies.(more interestingly, I'm not sure I've ever seen an interesting take on postapo in RPGs, aside from that)>>98113665>in the spirit of a Canticle for LeibowitzDope book, but the idea sounds pretty boring in play.
>>98120034Fukuoka, actually.
>>98115914>NeuroshimaWelp, there goes the thread.
>>98128097Apocalypse World has some interesting bits, but it totally loses me with some of it. It's like it's trying to emulate a niche show that I'm not familiar with rather than the genre of post apocalypse. There's too many specific things about the implied setting for it to be generalist enough for me, and I dislike what is implied about the setting.
>>98129372>Apocalypse World >implied setting ...There was some sort of psychic apocalypse is about it. Doesn't even have to have that if you want, just don't use the Brainer playbook.
>>98129447One of the basic moves is about opening yourself up to the psychic maelstrom. It's a pretty big part of the implied setting. "Just ignore it, bro!" is dogshit advice. I will just ignore it, by not playing the game.
>>98128085>power levels are all over the placeOh yeah, for sure. Game balance wasn't really a consideration in that era. Trivially easy to make broken characters if you know what you're doing.
>>98125228>but I'm still too fond of the original to consider switching to Savage Worlds (even though it really does do a better job).Have you tried Savage Rifts?
>>98129528It's like the only part, and very fucking vague.
>>98128097>Dope book, but the idea sounds pretty boring in play.I mean in the sense that there are orders of monks preserving pre apocalypse knowledge from iconoclastic raiders in the wastes
I just got done watching a video on a Megami Tensei game that I never heard of. It's another of the post apocalyptic ones, so it got me wanting to run a hexcrawl post apoc game. I'm not really sure what kind of system would work since I usually just stick with fantasy so are there any good ones that have fantasy elements as well as guns? Are there any specific systems you would recommend for this kind of feel?
>>98133061Rift? Breachworld?If it is very custom, I would use some WWN injected into AWN.
>>98133061The path of least friction is mashing WWN into AWN imo, or vice versa if you want more of a fantasy feel
>>98134759How well does this work? I know all the Sine Nomine games are supposed to be compatible but not sure how it works in practice.
>>98135328>How well does this work? Highly compatible, works well, almost frictionless. Props and NPCs mix flawlessly, for character creation and advancement just refer to the book your character is based at.
Ran the Gamma World mini module for players and they had a good time with it. It was
Gonna be starting an apocalyptic game soon with Ashes Without Number cause why not. It's a 1-on-1 PbP game. There's basically a warlord who has control of the only functional oil refinery, so if you want gas, it has to come from him in some way. My question is, how realistic would this be for apocalypse + 30 yrs where the world population is 0.1% of what it was before?
>>98137548I mean, not particularly. A refinery relies on a complex and often global supply chain, and a 99.9 population reduction would probably send you back to the stone age.As a story? It's great.
>>98137579Refineries are also essentially giant bombs that require a massive amount of people with specialized knowledge to not fucking explode. And sometimes they still explode.But, like anon said, who cares? Make it ran by robutts or something.
>>98128085Honestly, it's a slog at every step of the way, RAW. You can cobble together a semblance of balance by requiring everyone to make characters at the same "tier" of play. So like Tier 1 are normies with nothing too special. Like a human Rogue Scholar, a human Headhunter, and so on. Tier 2 is the same as Tier 1, but now they have some optional psychic powers too. And maybe add some Dog Boys or Psi-Stalkers to the mix. Tier 3 you're getting into mechs and crazies and juicers and cyborgs and spellcasters and stuff. Tier 4 is like Godlings and Dragons and high end war mechs that regenerate (or Glitter Boys). But expect to keep the players on a leash during character creation regardless.As for gameplay, simply establish some NPC characters are "unnamed" and triple all damage they take (kinda' like the "Extra" or "mook" status in other games). This will speed up combat immensely, and recapture a feel that the setting is deadly while making PCs seem more badass.The game's still a mess, but those two steps should help.
Or just play Breachworld as an Epic.Man, Breachworld is such a modern tragedy underdog, ugly name, ugly art.
What survival and encumbrance rules do you like to use? How important is bringing enough or running out of supplies to your games?
>>98142945>survivalSomething abstracted, a meal and water every 24 hrs, is fine.>encumbranceSomething like Sine Nomine games, or Mausritter. >How important is bringing enough or running out of supplies to your games?Kind of important, enough to make abstractions to make it playable, but not going fully into ultra-detailed simulationism, volume and mass, I don't count Kilograms or Pounds, but supplies are important, so is a problem when running out of them.
>>98142945encumbrance calculated off of strength and a separate lootbag capacity, food and water are included but consumed automatically during adventuring in ruins or bandito camps, securing those is either automatic or a mini adventure if the PCs aren't focused on anything better.
>>98142945Usually something simple and abstracted like a set of tickable boxes called >fuel >ammo >supplies and marking them as used when appropriate contextually without getting too involved in the specifics because very little about post apocalyptic cars or power make much sense if you get into the specifics for very long. Been looking at UVG's Caravan stuff and find some of it appealing in measurements but haven't done the math to make sure it actually works and the authoer isn't really a math and functional systems kind of guy.
What are some underrated apocalyptic wastelands? I really enjoy the haunting desert of Now and Then, Here and There. And I think its premise fits really well with any system with some sort of trauma or psychological breaking mechanic.
>>98148727Abandoned suburbia
>>98148771Suburbia is really cool. You can look at parts of Detroit to see nature reclaiming things, and it's quite eerie.
>>98148771Coincidently considering the S.T.A.L.K.E.R discussion above, irl Chernobyl is a good example of this if you are looking for inspiration.
now that you anons mentioned breachworld, had you also played anarchy?It is also based on OpenD6, but it is not gonzo-kitchen-sink like breachworld, but still post-apocalyptic.Even if you don't like D6, It has good GM tools and random tables, (since it was made by the Dicegeeks guy)
>>98149852The nice thing about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. as a setting is that it has abandoned suburbia, forests, swamps, etc. There's even a novel, Southern Comfort, which happens in the afghan desert.
>>98145573Which character sheet do you use for UVG?I like the one from... Our Golden Youth I think? That has attack and defense for physical, mental and social damage. But it doesn't feel that compatible with UVG. Luka keeps changing them for each game and I can't tell if it's to fit the game or if he's trying to reinvent the wheel over and over again.
>>98148727I wouldn't say underrated, but this one is a bit different.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBRnfgHqup8>Summary: In the future, natural disasters (earthquakes, floods) have ravaged Earth, leaving a world where pockets of communities live within canyons while a violent wind known as the "slipsteam" is the only means of transport, via airplanes. Matt Owens is a nomadic adventurer who kidnaps a prisoner ("Byron") of two violent law officers so he can claim the bounty for himself. Traveling across the wind swept landscape, Matt and Byron are relentlessly pursued by the officers, and Matt finds Byron isn't what he appears to be, as they travel from community to community and encounter pockets of strange societies that live beyond the slipstream.The whole movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__LL9p3QKAwThere was also a sorta fantasy post-apoc, Dragon Flyz. Earth is unlivable, mutants everywhere, humanity lives in a floating city and rides dragons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eAbCgjHxow
>>98149926Honestly I wouldn't use any of his systems at all. I'd probably just convert it over to AW. The various location prompts are almost moves/clocks already.
>>98125364For my Monolith stand-in I think I've decided on a group called ALTER/ALTAR, both names and spellings used interchangeably as they see the island and its powers as a way of changing the world as well as something to be worshipped.For goals, I think it would be to spread outwards throughout the world, bringing their new abilities (and their dangers) to the masses. Fortunately for everyone else, they're persona non grata for every other faction, especially the ones that have access to shipping ports on the island.I've put there HQ in a church slap bang in the middle of the island making easy access through the woods very difficult and forcing traders and the part to trek all the way north and around. The southern route is also blocked to a huge and deadly fog-out covering what was the United Nations port before "something bad" happened just as they set up, further inflaming tensions between the factions.I am planning on having both the cultists and the fog cloud be something the players could deal with, opening up new routes on the island and serving as a beefgate they could stealth or think their way through.Pic is my shitty first past at my hexcrawl. Purple is the cultist base. South of them is the UN deadzone. I was planning on having the players start on the east side but maybe west is better now that I've drawn the mountains out. It is incomplete though
>>98155648What hex scale are you using? Do you expect players to mostly walk or drive a car?
>>981571153-5k per hex and walking but if I am understanding AWN travel rules correctly, there are 10 travel hours in a day and a normal hex takes 1 hour to cross.There'll also be some roads I need to add and also subterranean tunnels, potentially with a tram system to repaired ala Half Life 1.Looking at the book, swamps and mountains are much more punishing than I realised so I might need to tweak some of them.
I enjoyed Pauili Kidd's novels in the Gamma World and GeneStorm settings.A shark girl with a Hussar fixation riding a huge cockatoo called "Onan", because he "he would spill his seed on the ground", wielding a British Pattern 1796 Light Cavalry Sabre, that is based as FUCK.
https://derelictcomic.tumblr.com/archivehttps://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/what-it-takes/list?title_no=150125https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnpjjW8juPshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhREaCZLOfMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du9v7VclWDchttps://www.newgrounds.com/series/dead-rain
>>98160652thanks for sharing. I wonder if you had read this one:https://sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=1
>>98137548Gasoline? 0% chance of it working. However, what would work is diesel. The warlord taps one of the tanks that holds lightweight crude and then he distills it using any decent fire. That can be done at very low tech level. It's a whole lot less dangerous that trying to refine gasoline when no one has any idea what they are doing and they have one chance to get it right as getting it wrong means bye-bye refinery.
>>98161838>what would work is diesel.ntayrtI was thinking that but the 30+ years later and 0.1% population makes injectors and fuel pump parts a significant problem. There wouldn't be the manufacturing to replace and service those so everything will have fucked up and failed by then. Better to not worry about it too much and rule of cool it.
>>98161450No! This looks good, thanks.
There was an RPG released a year or two ago inspired by NausicaaNever played it, but I liked the cover. I'll find it after I wake up, go to work, come back to work, drink and if I remember posting this at all.
What's a game that's the best rip off of FalloutThe official Fallout game only focuses on 4 because Bethesda forced the creators to for some dumb reason
>>98164979GURPS after the end, certain sections of Neuroshima if you speak Polish, unlicensed fallout homebrewhttps://web.archive.org/web/20060827132423/http://www.diogenes-lamp.info/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Pagehttps://www.nma-fallout.com/threads/complete-resource-of-fallout-pnp-material.217890/
>>98164978You mean this?: >>98153528
>>98164979Bethesda is cancer.
>>98164979There's Exodus, it was supposed to be the official Fallout TT RPG, but they lost the rights.
https://swordinterval.thecomicseries.com/https://www.wanderingones.com/https://www.blastwave-comic.com/https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/romantically-apocalyptic/list?title_no=16298https://www.whatisdeepfried.com/comic/weapon-brown/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkoPYdeHF70https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpH1RUeNMas7yKWMm901hdc5S2_USNdo6
>>98164978Cloud Empress. Its okay, I'm not a fan of the Mothership System but ymmv. Rides heavy on the art, part naussica part mobius, largely good there. Sometimes doesn't really know what to do with the setting or game, its just a bunch of cool ideas that don't come together unless you do the majority of the work. Does the annoying contemporary artsy thing of adding random fat coloured women, not as much as a lot of other games but its there and I hate that shit.
>>98164979This Is Not A Test. Its skirmish wargaming with rpg warband stuff but its very obviously Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics.
>>98113665I like Dick Kicker McGee's Strange Guide to Slaying Mutant Strange and Other Wasteland Snatch, personally.
>>98165543Damn, there's about 16 years of material missing from The Wandering Ones. After some detective work, the author said an update fucked his site up and 2010 was the best they could restore it to.
>>98161450So that's where this came from.
>>98165764>italian dialects not being italian
>>98165764 >>98161450From what I recall this was a cool world and then the author went full Christ pilled (calvanist of all things) and then it crashed and burned.
>>98165543>https://www.blastwave-comic.com/Love me some Gone with The Blastwave.>>98161450Stand Still, Stay Silent was great. It's a shame the author ended the comic when they did. The setting and story line had a lot of potential. >>98164978>There was an RPG inspired by Nausicaa> Cloud EmpressHmmm, I'll have to see if I can find and check it out. Definitely liked the Anime setting.>>98165643>I like Dick Kicker McGee's Strange Guide to Slaying Mutant Strange and Other Wasteland Snatch,WTF is that? Links or it didn't happen (i.e. my google-fu turned up nothing).
>>98113665>What are your favorite kinds of post apocalyptic scenarios to run or play?I'm having a lot of fun running Pic related after it was recommended to me here on /tg/. Miraculously my group has so far managed not to lose any PCs yet, but they've come close a couple of times. They've finally figured out that not every encounter in the Zone has to result in combat, and that not everyone is trustworthy back at the Ark. They have discovered that they're missing vital information and that there are several interesting threads they can follow up on.
>>98167226List of Post Apoc RPG games I'm aware of:15 Years LaterAftermathAfter the BombApocalypse WorldApokalypseAtomic HighwayBroken UrtheCrawling Under a Broken MoonDegenesisDegenesis RebirthFallout RPGs (various)Fragged EmpireGamma WorldGaslandsGoddess - Adventures in a world of fire and bloodGURPSHell on Earth - Lost ColonyLonely WorldMetamorphosis Alpha (early Gamma World)Mutant Crawl ClassicsMutant EpochMutant FutureMutant: Year ZeroNumenaraOther DustPost Apocalyptic HeroRuinationsSavage Worlds (Hell on Earth / Hell on Earth Reloaded) (Broken Earth) (Darwin's World)Scrappers Sorcery & Super Science The Dying EarthThe Quiet YearThe Rad-HackThe RuinThis is Not a TestWreck Age
>>98167293There is also Barbarians of the Ruined Earth, Barbarians of the Aftermath (Barbarians of Lemuria Supplement, super out of print) and The Wasted Hack.
>>98167293You forgot Exodus and GeneStorm
>>98167163Oh God, they pulled a fucking Dave Sim?I should save myself the heartbreak and just stop reading. SHIT
>>98113665Silo the apple tv series plays in a closed bubble surrounding with post-apocalypse outside. Wanted to bring it up here as an option for borrow idea from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6t8KgImlwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kezyW6uy5zshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOPaaHSjMcwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpmU6TZ0hHchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihMP9WvgIzIhttps://m.ok.ru/video/2360034200091https://www.reelrank.net/watch/battletruck_1982https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa0enwohttps://m.ok.ru/video/10685887154690https://vk.com/video-136471876_456243168
>>98167293>>98113665>Mutant EpochSometimes I feel like I'm the only fanboy of this game on /tg/.
>>98167293You listed wargames there. They can have rpg elements but they're a different thing. Add>Vaults of Vaarn>Rifts >Ashes Without Number >CthulhuTech There's a bunch of Cthulhu post apoc stuff.
>>98168431Barbarians of Lemuria is a Fantasy RPG IRCC? (I've got the Mythic and Legendary editions) I'll have to check out Ruined Earth / Aftermath and see what I can find. Thanks!>>98169486>You forgot Exodus and GeneStormNot forgot, simply not familiar with them. But I'll check them out too. Thanks!>>98171276>>Mutant EpochI haven't run it, but it looks like a fun game. How does it play out in your opinion?>>98171308>You listed wargames there.Which ones? I can see gaslands being considered a war game / minis game for example. But I didn't list Neuroshima Hex as I know there's a Polish RPG, but I don't know if it's available at all in English and most people are only familiar with the board game / war game. As for the other's, thanks for the input. I forgot about Rifts and Ashes without Number. I'm not familiar with Vaults of Vaarn, and I didn't think about Cthulhu Tech as it seems more Horror / Cyberpunk than Post Apoc from what I know of it. I'll have to check out the Cthulhu Post Apoc stuff.
>>98171663Barbarians of the Aftermath is a BoL supplement. Barbarians of the Ruined Earth is an osr/NuSR thing in the vein of gamma world but with race as class.I owned a copy of BotA and ended up selling it, fucking stupid, one of the few losses I kick myself over.
>>98171663If you like WFRP 2e you'll be pleased that it has a similar feel.Character generation take a lot of time, but I love drowning in options or just rolling up a "dude" .I also like the way the books are written. You really get "a feel" for the author. Not for everyone, but I fucking love it.
>>98171663Gaslands is certainly a wargame. It can have rpg elements but its a tabletop wargame you play with hotwheels. This Is Not A Test is also a warband skirmish wargame strongly inspired by original GW necromunda. It has rpg elements but its a wargame first. There's this grey area of post-apocalyptic for me where its far enough after the apocalypse I'm not sure it counts but its likely being too fussy about it. Like a points of light post empire fall dnd campaign based on the fall of the roman empire and the dark ages is post apocalyptic but I'm not sure if that's what people are looking for when they say it compared to bald violent teenagers with cool cars. Ultraviolet Grasslands is like that, there have been several cataclysmic events, there's desert caravans, but there's still clearly rebuilt civilization so I wasn't sure. Or Death in Space, which is post cataclysmic event and things are decaying badly but there's still space travel. Mothership has Cloud Empress which is Nausica inspired post acoc. There's a pbta that isn't The Quiet Year but has generational settlement building, I forget what its called.
>The palladium general is off the waves again.I just wanted to say that I'm playing Breachworld at the moment, and it is being a delight to work with this flavor of mini-six system and the rifts-adjacent setting, its sleek, adaptable, scalable, gorgeous. And I don't care about the fistful of dice, yet, the "Rolling Limit" optional rule is a great fix to it.
>>98128981an extremely simple change for how Neuroshima's roll difficulty calculation is presented would be simply calling the modifiers degrees ° rather Percentages %.I also liked the 3d20 system but instead of 1 and 20 modifying difficulty in either direction I made it so that rolling two 1's or 20's is an instant success/failure, while triple roll is a miracle or instant death/critical injury due to how low the odds are.
>>98132676Yes.
Bought Mutant: YZ recently. Specifically the furry expansion. Mutant: Genelab Alpha. Excited to maybe run it some day. >>98167226Based. Do you have dozens of NPCs in your ark to keep track of, with all of their personalities and relationships? How do you manage it?
>>98176022>Mothership has Cloud Empress which is Nausica inspired post acoc.That's cool. I like Mothership more for the Alien and Deep Space stuff, but it's a nice system in general.>>98183562What do you like about the YZE? The setting?
>>98165103Damn never heard of this before
>>98184900Call me weird, but I kinda miss D20 slop for anything and everything. I even have a soft spot for Gamma World 6e.
>>98184551>What do you like about the YZE? The setting?I like the dicepool system, the basebuilding mechanics, the grid-crawl gameplay loop in contrast to the social plots back at home base. The setting isn't anything really special, but you get to play in your own region and that's always fun.
>>98184551>>98185751>you get to play in your own region and that's always funI think that's what drew me to the system as well. I haven't been able to drum up a group to play it with as of yet, though. There's a YouTube tutorial on how to make Zone maps that look like the ones in the book, I used that to make a Zone map of modern day Las Vegas. I grew up there, so it was fun playing with what it would look like after the apocalypse. If the thread is still up when I get home I'll see if I can't dig up that map and post it. Question for the thread: what source materiel do you guys use for inspiration?I've been idly putting together a list of baddies I'd like to include in the Zone as random encounters and location hazards that can potentially become plot threads on their own depending on what the players interact with in the Zone. So far, I've been pulling monsters from>Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (Having a growing population of carnivorous plants taking over sectors of the Zone)>The Fungus by Harry Adam Knight (Similar to the Triffids, maybe have a Mutant colony go dark, only for an investigation to find them infected by fungal growths)>Sea of Rust by Robert Cargill (A robot uprising could evolve from an isolated incident to a Zone-wide threat)
>>98171308>>CthulhuTechNot really postapoc. Midapoc, if anything. And, well, not good.There is Cthulhu Apocalypse for Pelgrane and Apocthulhu.
>>98193501Found my map of Vegas; I originally planned to have the PCs Ark be one of the casinos or hotels. I was going to use a map of the Storm drain system as a kind of mega dungeon under.the city proper, with tribes of cannibals living underground. I wanted to use a weather hex flower to generate weather patterns, so if it rained heavy the Cannibals would be forced to move around, or worse, come up topside. I had notes for using the Loop from Tales from the loop as well, the map of Boulder being an explorable area, with a plot surrounding the Loop having had something to do with the apocalypse, but I never really fleshed the idea out.
>>98194933And I forgot the map, sweet.
Shilling. mkn-publications.itch.io/bz
>>98113665I'm curious if anyone in the thread has this pic I've been looking for. My table is planning on running a All Flesh Must Be Eaten game and there's this one pic that is stuck in my head that I want to use for inspiration that I can't find. It is a police girl or maybe a SWAT girl in a bathroom or other tiled room collapsed to the floor while a zombie horde approaches. She has a pistol aimed at her head and is pulling the trigger but you can see the SFX of it going *click click click* showing that she is out of ammo and is doomed. It could have been Jap, but I checked gelbooru and didn't see it, but maybe it was tagged weird. Its was a really effective tone setter and it'd be great to show to the dudes.
>>98199114Nope man, sorry.
I wonder if you guys had seen this before: ApocalyptiaIt has good reviews at Drivethrurpg, I'm intrigued because it seems well done, it has that autistic level of detail and polish, and the art is so generic that it makes you wonder if the crunch is so good it didn't need fluff to entice, or is it just for autists, got to try it soon.
>>98205543>good reviews at DrivethruRPGThat is a huge redflag because most of their high rated indie games are storygames.
>>98205803it's pwyw, I'm just skimming over it, it is no a storygame, it seems crunchy as fuck, but I don't know if it is any good or not. I will know after playing with it at least for a session or two.
>>98205803Storygame it's a buzzword.
>>98194935I’m currently in O21 on that map lol
>>98119110i ran a short-ish campaign of AWN, it felt similar to the other WN systems in that it kinda unravels a little around the mid levels, though part of that might be that i allowed the Ash Sorcerer class and that shit was busted. i want to run more of it but focus the game style more, the campaign i ran was a sort of gonzo kitchen sink post-apocalypse with mutants and zombies and everything crammed into one. next time i might try something like a traditional zombie apocalypse, or a STALKER game like the other anon was talking about.
>>98216811If you don't mind the mausritter mechanics, try zones. I use the inventory and encumbrance method of WN systems with zones, it's been compatible so far with little tweaking.Also check this one too:mkn-publications.itch.io/zwn
Yo lads just starting a mutant year zero game, so far fair few things I've found.. strange in how they work or sort of the narrative coherency of some parts of the book and setting. I.e things like a d6 people die per session when my first session was a singular day, so I don't imagine the Ark is supposed to be depopulated in an average of 60-ish days and there should be fairly regular time skips. Though in general I'm going for a bit more light hearted/nobledark sorta hope and a meaningful future clawed out from the ashes of the ancestor's hubris and failure.. Though one of my players was immediately nearly clawed to death by a hawk so I got a good idea for how dangerous fights can be which I do like. Are there any general houserules and or other tips people would have for hosting it, or to pass onto my players? Got the colony book for a bit more advanced Ark rules since that was the main draw personally for MYZ then the other mechanics and setting I found overall pretty cool and fitting for what I wanted and seems my players are liking it.
>>98120027Damn those pierogies look good.
>Bandits sequestered person of interest, he knows where the McGuffin is>They want lots of money in exchange for him>Boss don't want to spit the money, says they should rescue POI in a risky maneuver, provides 2 extra snipers to the party>Party walks towards the exchange point, find some independents that warn them of bandits ahead, Party leader pays them and independents tell where the bandit sniper nests are>Party leader makes a plan, they are 5, she'll exchange the faux ransom for the prisoner, and signal to the team split in 2 when to drop explosives to the sniper nests from 2 drones, the extra 2 snipers will shoot them if survive.> Bandits had prisoner gagged and cuffed, and are fidgety at letting the prisoner be exchange, dissuasive roll from Party leader wins, and the bandits release him> Party leader signals for the drones to drop explosives on sniper nests, they succeed, bandit snipers are dead>Party leader tells bandits they are surrounded, better for them to leave, they do.>Party leader ungags prisoner, he tells her bandits rigged him with explosives, the rig is complex, prisoner tells the bandit negotiation leader has the detonator>Party leader signals to his 2 sniper teams to shoot at 3 bandits left, while she tells prisoner to remain there while runs towards them and shoots her shotgun, she fails>party snipers shoots Bandit leader, but the next bandit finds the detonator and blows up the prisoner, party leader gets hurt from the blast >party snipers kills the bandit that used the detonator, the last bandit morale check fails and surrenders>Party leader stands up after the blast, handcuffs the last bandit and kicks him to the ground>If only the boss would had gave them the money, even a percentage of it, this mess would had been avoided>Party has a psychic, they'll use him to track the whereabouts of Bandit's party reaching for the McGuffin since its obvious they extracted that info from the prisoner before the exchange>The quest continues
>>98218078Sorry anon, I got no knowledge of MYZ.I've seen a couple of MYZ posters roaming /tg/ but not really that many. I hope they'll see your post and share their tips.
>>98222552>drones
Shilling for one of my favorites, I wonder if you guys knows this one, Endure, its free at itchio, it's minimalist, based on tunnel goons, but its quite tight and well tuned to post-apoc. Worth checking it even if it is just for the vibe.
>>98120049that guy has a point. like yes cool image, evocative, but apparently they either don't give a shit about the man for some reason or he's already turning. she's still screaming when he's the only one holding her which, yes, she's surrounded so that's fair, but he could just yank her out because they're clearly not fast enough to stop him
>>98133061dystopia rising has psychic fungal zombies replacing humanity
>>98133061There's an actual Shin Megami Tensei TTRPG, but I don't know how much does it plays closer to the old CRPG.If I would homebrew it, I would need the bestiary stats tho, and then the equipment stats, it could be built up on that, but it will be a PITA if you aren't into homebrewing and instead you just want something tho play out of the box.From what I remember the old Sheen Megumi Ten Cents CRPG was a hybrid of mechanics from the games the devs liked: D&D, CoC, Traveller, Wizardry, T&T, TSGCP, T2K. From all the recommendations other anons had gave here, I think the easiest to run and play would be Breachworld, but with an occult explanation instead of scientific.
>>98233322Interdasting, I was reading it from being offered for free. But I guess many peeps wouldn't like the pool resource/HP death spiral, despite it being a great mechanic to instill dread and promote cautious, deliberate gaming. (I hated this in Numenera/Cypher btw)Also could work great as an introductory TTRPG for noobs since mechanics are simple enough.
Are there any other high-tech almost post-human post-apocalypses like Ashes Without Number or Eclipse Phase?
>>98241921D20 Gamma World has this with soultech AI and nanomachines (son) floating around everywhere. I wouldn't recommend the system unless you like D20 Modern and don't mind dealing with WW jank and unclear rule writing. However, the worldbuilding is pretty cool imo.
>>98241931Thanks for the heads up, I'll check it. Gamma World is great. I don't hate on D20, I get to revisit it when in the mood again.
