D20 Apocalypse: Other Ways to End the World?
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C. Baize
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There's always the Deadlands version...
Demons summoned up and they destroy and possess much of the population...
THE big earthquake... California is shattered; a large section of North America splits off from the rest at the Mississippi river; most large buildings collapse, including labs with super virii (and eugenic experiments, and whatever else you want to handwave in); several nukes go off or are crushed; a mountain range rises in one of the oceans creating a fetid salty swamplike inland sea off what was the coast of one of the continents; the spinning molten metal core of the earth speeds up or slows down, increasing or decreasing the Electro Magnetic Field of the earth and allowing either more or less of the sun's rays through to the Earth, and thus screwing up the climate by making it much hotter or colder (alternates of The Core)...
One of the critters from the Buffy series succeeds in laying waste to much of the Earth, then gets bored and goes back to his home dimension.
There is a critical de-salination of the ocean, which changes up the deep currents, and causes a new ice age (The Day After Tomorrow).
The possibilities are vast... only limited by your imagination...
Demons summoned up and they destroy and possess much of the population...
THE big earthquake... California is shattered; a large section of North America splits off from the rest at the Mississippi river; most large buildings collapse, including labs with super virii (and eugenic experiments, and whatever else you want to handwave in); several nukes go off or are crushed; a mountain range rises in one of the oceans creating a fetid salty swamplike inland sea off what was the coast of one of the continents; the spinning molten metal core of the earth speeds up or slows down, increasing or decreasing the Electro Magnetic Field of the earth and allowing either more or less of the sun's rays through to the Earth, and thus screwing up the climate by making it much hotter or colder (alternates of The Core)...
One of the critters from the Buffy series succeeds in laying waste to much of the Earth, then gets bored and goes back to his home dimension.
There is a critical de-salination of the ocean, which changes up the deep currents, and causes a new ice age (The Day After Tomorrow).
The possibilities are vast... only limited by your imagination...
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ukgpublishing
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Or my personal favourite.
Microsoft eventually achieve world domination of the software market, however increasing demand for new and better products leads to a further decline in the software reliability until the worlds systems eventually collapse spawning economic disaster, a multitude of small escalating wars and the collapse of civilisation as we know it. Out of the ashes rise new small city states , strange cults such as the First Church of Gates, Messiah reborn, and so on....
Microsoft eventually achieve world domination of the software market, however increasing demand for new and better products leads to a further decline in the software reliability until the worlds systems eventually collapse spawning economic disaster, a multitude of small escalating wars and the collapse of civilisation as we know it. Out of the ashes rise new small city states , strange cults such as the First Church of Gates, Messiah reborn, and so on....
jerichothebard
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Let us look to current headlines for an idea, shall we?
Two recent headline news items:
San Francisco to get stem cell genetic research lab
Massive earthquakes rock Northern California, causing tsunami warnings.
(Together, they fight crime!)
Two recent headline news items:
San Francisco to get stem cell genetic research lab
Massive earthquakes rock Northern California, causing tsunami warnings.
(Together, they fight crime!)
AdmundfortGeographer
Getting lost in fantasy maps
That's basically the "Rogue Planet" scenario, combined with the "New World" apocalypse era, both in D20 Apocalypse.Nuclear Platypus said:
DnDChick said:
Okay, now this sounds interesting, it's going in my file for future use. I can't believe your players weren't interested.
There's also the good 'ol Vingean singularity. A hyperintelligence develops, lays waste to the world in some weird way, and then transcends reality as we know it, leaving behind the shattered remains of civilization. Or, portions of itself may be scattered around, still interacting/testing/manipulating the remains of humanity... Or it may even seek to destroy the remenants of humanity for its own bizzare reasons. In Accelerando: [sblock]The posthuman AIs start dismantling the solar system and converting its mass into computronium, in essence 'smart' matter. Near the end of the story, they hatch a scheme to keep the remaining humans within the boundaries of the solar system so that their mass may be converted to computronium as well, instead of escaping...[/sblock]
Stormborn
Explorer
Somewhat inspired by Neutronium Alchemist etc.:
The dead come back. But not as undead/zombies. Instead the souls of all the evil people in the world comeback and start possessing people. Turns out hell is just a waiting room for judgement day where you feel nothing, but are completly aware of yourself and your lack of stimuli. All of these tortured souls want to FEEL something, and have some nifty psi powers to allow them to do it.
Now Hitler is the body of a hardware store clerk in Manhattan and he wants to restart the Holocaust. Capone is out to reorganize the Syndicates. Jack the Ripper is back in London. About 2 dozen Caesers want Rome back for themselves. And every sucide bomber, terrorist, or serial killer is out to finish what they started, and they know death wont keep them.
They have knowledge, they have power, and all the charisma and intelligence they possessed the first time around. This time, however, they have had a long time to think about their mistakes.
Global catastrophy begging for heroes.
The dead come back. But not as undead/zombies. Instead the souls of all the evil people in the world comeback and start possessing people. Turns out hell is just a waiting room for judgement day where you feel nothing, but are completly aware of yourself and your lack of stimuli. All of these tortured souls want to FEEL something, and have some nifty psi powers to allow them to do it.
Now Hitler is the body of a hardware store clerk in Manhattan and he wants to restart the Holocaust. Capone is out to reorganize the Syndicates. Jack the Ripper is back in London. About 2 dozen Caesers want Rome back for themselves. And every sucide bomber, terrorist, or serial killer is out to finish what they started, and they know death wont keep them.
They have knowledge, they have power, and all the charisma and intelligence they possessed the first time around. This time, however, they have had a long time to think about their mistakes.
Global catastrophy begging for heroes.
DnDChick
Demon Queen of Templates
How about this?
Simply put ... Cthulhu wakes up.
The fated day arrives, and R'lyeh rises. Cthulhu is manifest upon the earth. After years of being thwarted by clueless New Englanders in Arkham, the Cthulhoid monsters finally win the day.
This could be run as a cross between the Alien Invasion apocalypse (i.e. with byakhee and Mi-Go running rampant all over the place) and the Supernatural Apocalypse (with ghouls and cultists now having the upper hand).
Simply put ... Cthulhu wakes up.
The fated day arrives, and R'lyeh rises. Cthulhu is manifest upon the earth. After years of being thwarted by clueless New Englanders in Arkham, the Cthulhoid monsters finally win the day.
This could be run as a cross between the Alien Invasion apocalypse (i.e. with byakhee and Mi-Go running rampant all over the place) and the Supernatural Apocalypse (with ghouls and cultists now having the upper hand).
Masada
First Post
Pulled this link from somewhere... I can't think of another end of the world scenario...
http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm
Well aside from the really wild like Demons rip out of George Bush's skull and rampage across the world...
http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm
Well aside from the really wild like Demons rip out of George Bush's skull and rampage across the world...
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