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Troll Lord has several books and the one I suggest the most is Nation Builder. Unlike Living Fantasy and EGG's World Builder, it is much more than lists. Theories and examples abound on how to create nations. But as for the best for any rpg, if you don't mind headaches, Aria. Yes, it is...

I don't think any issues are best, just specfic articles like 211's Ecology of the Dungeon, 89's Survival is a Group Effort, 102's A Thousand in One 138's The End of the World, 174's Bugged About Something and 200's The Color of Magic.

Looking at the closing date, it won't be for a long time. Of those listed, I voted UA. The bloodlines, environmental varients and variable modifiers are all highly useful in my settings.

Then how would you make them magic poor, one of the keystone concepts of the setting?

I own all 3 books and as soon as I can find a group willing to play, I will run it. I also started this thread on the setting: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=186768

That is where the phrase "rubbed out" comes from. :D

My first reply was to answer the OP's question (no or low mutant style PA settings), but if I were to answer what is the best, I have to say Gamma World and Mutant Bikers of the Atomic Wastelands. The latter is a Fudge based setting written by a friend (a much bigger GW fan than I) and can still...

Y2K, Reign of Steel and War Against the Cthorr are the existing PA settings. Y2K is about any kind of fall of civilization, RoS is like the future in Terminator, except humanity is much closer to losing and WatC is about an alien invasion based on ecology rather than guns and bombs (it is also...

If you want a lot of the files for the Fallout PNP game, you find them hosted here: http://www.paforge.com/

If you can find it, there is a spiffy, though short d20 PA game- Redline from Fantasy Flight (part of the Horizon series). More Road Warrior with optional mutant rules than anything else. I don't own it, but have heard good things about OcTane from Memento Mori Theatricks. It is both print and pdf.

3 depends on how large the planet is, but in most cases, moving the Earth's orbit would result in the last mass extinction. Bacteria might still be around, but we won't. 4 depends on the size of the asteroid and where it hits. Large impacts on land would result in a nuclear winter and the...

They are new epsiodes. This season they are new on USA and repeats on NBC as the parent company is testing the waters for the possiblity of doing the same for more of their line up.

Not a typo, I said that the show "does not (and it even mentions how meltdowns are impossible)." It is an innane statement and I wonder if they did it to reduce tensions over using nuclear power. Why it would matter if humanity is extinct, I have no idea.

Killing the innocent is boring, the killing or humiliating the annoying (ie heros) can be fun. Drowning in molten sugar, removing bits like teeth or ears and applying anti-coagulants, feeding them to lampreys, hagfish or those little Amazonian parasite fish, forcing them to decide which friend...

It is semibased on the book The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. Be warned, half the book is great and half is pointless drek. As for the "documentary", it was interesting but glossed over a lot. The book covers the long term effects of weather on nuclear power plants where the show does not...

Apathy in a majority of the population is fun to play with (and not totally unrealistic), but my favorites are disease and alien invasions ala The Screwfly Solution (ie there isn't a lot of gaping holes in the ground).

Benefical ones are rare, but not unknown. Extra fingers*, better eyesight, either larger jaws or less teeth, color changes (dark skin does help in regions with lots of sunlight), slight increases to longevity among others. If you want extreme, then implants and symbionts are the way to go...

http://www.aftermathrpg.com/ It doesn't do much better than Gamma Terra in terms of forum activity and the PA Forge has a lot more resources. I guess the genre doesn't have enough fans to keep the forums going.

Phantom fungus. It is easy enough to increase its intelligence and give it class levels or other templates to increase the power of individuals. The natural invisiblity is a good way to freak out players. Or go with phasms- the moon men have engineered themselves to work in any situation...

Some pdf publishers first Genjitsu's Metablades Expanded Edition and Shaping the Self (the latter is in my top 2 favorite rpg products) En Publishing's The Fantastic Science Primal Urge's Emerging Forms line, esp Esquam and Alathreen Distant Horizon's Paths of Power (I & II), Eclipse and The...