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Favorite Post Apocalypse game?

Started by weirdguy564, Today at 11:55:30 AM

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Today at 11:55:30 AM Last Edit: Today at 12:00:25 PM by weirdguy564
Palladium Books is one of my favorite game publishers.

It's a bit of a meme, but they make quite a few games set in a post apocalypse story.

1.  RoboTech: Invid Invasion (3rd Alien invasion in a lifetime, humans finally lose).

2.  After the Bomb (mutant animals).

3.  Rifts (magic & monsters ruined the sci-fi world).

4.  Splicers (biology vs technology)

5.  Dead Reign (shock: it is zombies).

But there are others.  I used to think Dark Sun was a D&D setting that's post Apocalypse, but I now know it's just a messed up world.

6.  System Failure (literally giant electrical energy bugs come out of the wiring during Y2K year 2000 computer scare).


Does anyone have a game they like set in a post Apocalypse setting?
I'm glad for you if you like the top selling game of the genre.  Me, I like the road less travelled, and will be the player asking we try a game you've never heard of.

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Today at 12:22:25 PM
-Loved Rifts. When it came out, it was like the pages of Heavy Metal magazine were given stat blocks. It was awesome. Then the bloat came. It was so hard to keep up. I have an entire shelf of Rifts material, and just a small portion of stuff available for the game.

-Gamma World will always have a soft spot.

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Today at 12:33:22 PM
My actual favorite isn't even an RPG, but a board game:  Fallen Land.

As far as RPGs go, it would be The Morrow Project.  Aftermath had a lot of great stuff in it, but like other FGU games, it was way overcomplicated.

GeekyBugle

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Today at 01:29:38 PM
MY still very much W.I.P. Totally-Not-Thundarr! RPG.
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Today at 02:10:03 PM
Twilight 2000 was the game I always considered to be the pinnacle of the genre. After actually playing it, though, I think when I played in the TW2K setting using GURPS it was a much, much better experience.

That said, there are games like Morrow Project and Aftermath that have excellent background material, but garbage rules. Lots and lots of those. If I had to pick something for the background and use the rules as-is, I'd probably do After the Bomb or Rifts because as for much crap as Palladium gets being trash rules, you can just run combat like D&D and toss out the rest.

Quote from: I on Today at 12:33:22 PMAs far as RPGs go, it would be The Morrow Project.  Aftermath had a lot of great stuff in it, but like other FGU games, it was way overcomplicated.

Literally was replying when I saw this...yep. Every single FGU game is overly complex for some inexplicable reason, and yet I love them all.




I mean, you could take BRP (I just got the new version, it's pretty good) and run Mad Max and be done with it. It'd be better than 99% of the crap on the market.
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Today at 02:33:05 PM
Earthdawn is probably my favorite post-apocalyptic game. I was using it to play emerging "vault dwellers" before I ever encountered Fallout.

weirdguy564

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Today at 03:31:52 PM
I saw this Shadowdark inspired game on Drivethru this week called Gammadark. It is what inspired me to ask this question.

Gammadark RPG

Anybody have any info on it?   

I'm glad for you if you like the top selling game of the genre.  Me, I like the road less travelled, and will be the player asking we try a game you've never heard of.

Neoplatonist1

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Today at 04:05:50 PM
Gamma World for the win. I swapped out the system for Phoenix Command and made it more like Mad Max (even set it in Oz), deleting the sillier mutations like the army hares and pyrokinesis, but I kept the giant radioactive moths and threw in some robots and packs of bald, diseased radioactive terror-cats.

Now that I've played it for serious, if I were to play a postholocaust game again I'd probably run straight-up Gamma World 1st edition and embrace the crazy.
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