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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 4030652" data-attributes="member: 40177">First off, I love Post-apoc gaming, and post-apoc fiction.  LOVE IT.That being said, here's my take on Post-Apoc RPGs:1)  D20 Apocalypse:  It runs fairly well, and the book is great because you can use it as a starting place for your own creations.  There's a lot there in such a small book - the barter system works fairly well, though it does get a bit weird in areas (guns are fairly cheap, which makes sense... but cars are incredibly expensive.  I kind of figure in the united states, it'd be much easier to find a car than a gun, you know?)  Really, though, it's easy to adjust.The parts sytem is the best part of the book - it handles fixing and making stuff PERFECTLY for a post apocalyptic setting.  And it's actually quite a bit of fun in play - our mechanic character had a field day collecting mechanical parts every time we went scavenging.There's enough in this book, by the way, to start you off in any post-apoc game you want to play.  The three campaign models are all pretty interesting, too (one is your standard mad max world, one is a devils vs. angels world, and the third involves the PCs getting frozen and waking up three hundred years later after aliens have invaded earth).  2)  Omega World d20:  someone else mentioned it, and I *highly* recommend you try it out for a one shot.  It's wild, quirky, random, and fun in a way I forgot RPGs can be fun.  It pretty much says "Who needs game balance?" and makes a game based around random chance.  Very old-school, in a way, and just an incredibly wild game.  My players were wary about a system where pretty much everything about your character is random (you even use organic PC generation, so you have little control over your ability scores!) - after all, you could roll a close-combat mutant when you really wanted to play a psychic.  But after the first session, they fell in love with it.3)  Twilight 2K:  I got this one for free during the free RPG Giveaway.  CharGen is a bit wonky, and some of the rules get a little obtuse, but the world itself is fairly neat.  Personally, though, I'd use a d20 system to run the game.4) RIFTS:  Don't bother.  Some people, a lot of people in fact, say that RIFTS is a great post-apoc setting.  Personally, I think it's a sci-fi setting posing as post-apocalyptic - there's just too many suits of powered armour and mega-lasers for it to really seem apocalyptic at all.  And it's really a kitchen sink campaign - everything's in there, making it far too chaotic.  PLus, the rules suck.If I were gonna run a post-apoc game tomorrow, it'd be with SW.  But, since the OP wanted "gritty", I'd go with d20 Apocalypse, and just slow down XP Gain.  Low level PCs have a high risk of death in d20 Modern Rules (hey, even at higher levels they can die quickly, what with massage damage threshhold and all).</blockquote>

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