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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 4022183" data-attributes="member: 40177">Yeah, I kind of like the Plague approach, myself.  I just started reading The Stand yesterday, and I have a pretty big flu bug, so it's doubly scary.A huge plague wipes out 90% of the population, and then cue in crazy gun-wielding psychos...But, truth be told, for an RPG, I think you need to have some element of the supernatural or supertechnological, simply to add variety to encounters and to diversify PC roles.  So, I would go for the "RIFTS approach", and make the apocalypse a sort of "Psychic explosion".My own post-apoc game went this way, with many animals becoming mutated by some strange virus that "awakened innate psychic ability", a la Akira.  It's a lot of fun... our group had a blast trying to avoid a giant Purple Worm while driving about the ruins of Vancouver on dirt bikes.</blockquote>