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I also have to note plenty of post-apocalypse settings have had partial recovery at least in part. Arguably two of the (at one time)...

Is that a contradiction or a realization the "medieval" is a form of post-apocalyptic setting? Go back to the 400s. The Roman...

Is anyone under 40 going to know what the source material?

Cartoon characters having "skills" is probably an area they can streamline. More modern games will just go off of player-defined tags...

My opinion of this set up is going to depend entirely on how you utilize mental illness in your campaign - have you put mechanics around...

Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to share a campaign I wrote back in 2010. It predates the Covid Pandemic by 10 years...

It was but a lot more slow moving than many people would think, and induced by multiple events, including the Antonine Plague, the...

Well with plagues, famine, and roving warbands the collapse of the Roman Empire was apocalyptic for Europe, hence the Dark Ages :)

Are these harsh realities, or just the norm in medieval settings? Maybe not. But the dinosaurs' apocalypse led to the threat of...

I think in Genre terms post-Apocalypse implies that the "effects of the collapse' are still ongoing. The Bell Riots/Eugenics War/WW3...

As bad as they are in the moment, apocalypses often have benefits. For example, if you check into historians such as Walter Scheidel or...

Not all apocalypses result in a bad long term outcome. The Star Trek universe assumed that Earth suffered a WWIII and still had enough...

Many fantasy games and genres have an apocalypse as part of their backplot. Lord of the Rings is set in a time of longterm decline with...

A big thing is you need to define what caused your apocalypse and how big the scale was. Realistically, modern things like...

I do think its important to distinguish between hard post-apocalypse (Mad Max*, Book of Eli) where scarcity and social breakdown are...