Post Apocalyptic Gaming

[Darrin Drader]

I already posted this here: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=188090

But then I realized that nobody ever reads that forum and I'd be unlikely to get any meaningful feedback there.

So the question is simply this: (1) do you enjoy playing, reading, or watching games, books or movies in the post apocalyptic genre? (2) If I were to setup a messageboard dedicated mostly to post apocalyptic gaming, how many of you would be likely to join and visit regularly?

 

[Friadoc]

I've been a fan of the post-apocalyptic genre since I started gaming, since I had my first Gamma World session shortly after I started playing D&D back in 1980.

In fact, I've owned Gamma World since some of it's earliest pieces and versions, I even have Gamma Marauders back home at my mothers, through it's Alternity version and into the d20 version from Sword & Sorcery Studios.

When done right, be it in a serious vein or a humorous one, Post-Apocalyptic RPGs can be a blast, no pun intended.

I've been enjoying Armageddon's Children, recently, which is Terry Brooks' Great War/Genesis of Shannara series, that is a unique take on the post-apocalyptic story/genre.

So I guess the short of it, which I failed miserably, is that I know I'd look into something of this genre.

 

[Jesus_marley]

I love the post apocalypse genre. Anything from Stephen King to Terry Brooks to S. M. Stirling to Robert McCammon.

I would even like to play in a PA setting. I had an interesting idea about a game set in Apocalypse : Day 1. What would your character do if they woke up to the end of the world?

 

[DMH]

(1) do you enjoy playing, reading, or watching games, books or movies in the post apocalyptic genre? (2) If I were to setup a messageboard dedicated mostly to post apocalyptic gaming, how many of you would be likely to join and visit regularly?

Yes, mostly Gamma World.

No, I am already on 3- one for GW, one for all PA media and games and one for Alternity that has a GW forum.

 

[CharlesRyan]

My favorite genre, and the genre of my longest-running campaigns.

 

[Jawar]

I really miss not having played Gamma World...


At the time we had begum palying D&D Basic Set.
Fine, ok, but I would still like to have it a try, no matter what rules to play with.

So glad i had the CoC experience. That was one I didn't miss!

 

[Friadoc]

S. M. Stirling

I loved Dies the Fire, The Protector's War, and A Meeting at Corvallis, all three of which I just read this past winter, thanks to the Sci-fi Book Club.

In fact, I've loved it so much that I have a plan to do a one-shot inspired by it, although I'm not 100% sure of what system I'm going to use, and see if it leads to something more.

Odds are I'll probably use d20, although part of me would love to use GURPS, but my current group is 90% d20 and 10% Alternity, so that might not be possible.

Not only can't I wait for the next series of books to come out, set 25 years after 'The Change', but I'm planning on buying the Nantucket series here, too.

Anyhow, the post-apocalyptic genre has so much variance in it, aside from the simple mutant route, that it's not even funny. You can easily do it as a sci-fi or a fantasy, yet it's still the same thematics and drama.

 

[Shades of Green]

My answers to Whisperfoot's questions:

1) I enjoy reading post-apocalyptic literature (such as A Canticle to Leibovitz (sp?)); I like playing post-apocalyptic computer games such as Fallout 1 & 2, Bad Blood, Wasteland and UFO: Aftermath; ; I also like post-apoc TV series and movies such as Jeremiah and 28 days after. I haven'y played any post-apoc tabletop RPG yet, but I might go into that direction, either in D&D (a fantasy world after a devastating, magic-heavy war) or in a setting of my own (post-eco-collapse/bio-apocalypse set in the near future), possibly using the FUDGE rules.

2) I'll definitely visit regularly.

 

[Shalimar]

I loved Dies the Fire, The Protector's War, and A Meeting at Corvallis, all three of which I just read this past winter, thanks to the Sci-fi Book Club.

In fact, I've loved it so much that I have a plan to do a one-shot inspired by it, although I'm not 100% sure of what system I'm going to use, and see if it leads to something more.

Odds are I'll probably use d20, although part of me would love to use GURPS, but my current group is 90% d20 and 10% Alternity, so that might not be possible.

Not only can't I wait for the next series of books to come out, set 25 years after 'The Change', but I'm planning on buying the Nantucket series here, too.

Anyhow, the post-apocalyptic genre has so much variance in it, aside from the simple mutant route, that it's not even funny. You can easily do it as a sci-fi or a fantasy, yet it's still the same thematics and drama.

I really liked Dies the Fire, The Protector's War, and A Meeting at Corvallis, they are much more actiony then the Nantucket series. Towards the end of the Nantucket series I was getting lost in all of the various cultures that the bad guys were violating, I couldn't really keep all of the cultures straight, but the first book totally rocked. If you decide to run the game online let me know, I am jonesing for one and my attempt to run one fell apart when school started up.

 

[Thanee]

(1) do you enjoy playing, reading, or watching games, books or movies in the post apocalyptic genre?

Yes.

(2) If I were to setup a messageboard dedicated mostly to post apocalyptic gaming, how many of you would be likely to join and visit regularly?

Join: Possibly
Visit regularly: Unlikely at best (there are simply too many forums around )

When there was some active interest, like if I was playing (or especially game mastering) in a campaign in a post-apocalyptic world at that time, the chances would drastically increase. But just because it's there and the topic is interesting in general isn't enough of a reason, for me anyways.

Bye
Thanee