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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 5490367" data-attributes="member: 5948">My opinion (not canonical in any way...) is that there's not much of a more hopeless setting around than a post-stars-being-right DG earth.Surviving humans would be very rare, cowering raving and weeping in holes, insanity scores out the wazoo, waiting for something to either absentmindedly obliterate them by accident while doing something entirely incomprehensible or to notice their existence long enough to swat them like a bug.There wouldn't be a resistance, in any meaningful sense.  There wouldn't be organisation enough, with most of the human population dead or insane, and the laws of causuality and spacetime twisted into mindbending pretzels.  Anyone earthbound (not on the lunar colony) would be entirely concerned with survival, scavenging enough leftover tinned food or hunting rats or less pleasant things for meat.This is probably sounding like a very limiting setting, and I'd have to agree, unless you're very big into gritty (the grittiest!) survivalism.  NPC interaction is a big problem too - a Lovecraftian apocalypse as I envision it doesn't leave a lot of people around the place to talk to!  That leaves the GM in with the choice of either having a completely combat-based game with no NPC interaction at all, limiting PC interaction to agents from the lunar colony, or allowing PCs to communicate/negotiate (to a point) with mythos entities, which is ... thematically questionable, let's just say!Alternative, somehow there are humans around being kept alive by a mythos creature or creatures for a purpose of their own, which is how they've managed to survive this far.  The Great Race of Yith could be an option, stretching across time trying to keep a few potential hosts still active, just in case.  Ghouls could be another one - right now there's millions of bodies rotting all over the streets, but the smarter ghouls are asking what the hell they do when the good times are gone, and have captured some of the lucky survivors and are preserving them as breeding stock and then future food supply.</blockquote>

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