Post Apocalyptic Gaming

[scourger]

1) Yes. I cut my teeth on Road Warrior. I love playing Omega World and Hell on Earth.

2) No. I'm trying to cut back online stuff as it is.

 

[RainOfSteel]

I don't know, what about petitioning to create a new PA sub-forum here on En World?

Would the admins go for it?

You'd get the existing memebership as built-in potential readers.

 

[Lalato]

it's my favorite. I love PA stuff. That said, I'm not sure that I would visit a forum about it regularly... though I would definitely visit at some point.

--sam

 

[Twowolves]

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.

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.

I don't see why so many here seem to like S.M. Sterling. I read Dies the Fire and just hated it. Massive internal inconsistancies, infinately improbable luck, lots of religion bashing (and fawning over the author's fave), and page after page of droning on and on about.... food. It was so bad, by the time I was halfway finished with the book, I knew I could skip about 3 pages every time the characters sat down to a meal.

Back on topic, I love PA, own every edition of Gamma World, both editions of Darwin's World, hell, I even have an old .doc file of some guy's version of a Fallout p'n'p rpg. If the site was good, I'd definately check it out. If it were a sub-forum on ENWorld, I'd live there.

 

[Darrin Drader]

A subforum of ENWorld isn't quite what I have in mind. I have my own copy of VBulletin and my own web server, and since one site is moving off of it, I'm wanting to replace it with something that appeals to me personally.

On the other hand, there's nothing saying there can't be some synergy with ENWorld. Say we get known writers to take on a topic a week and feature it on the front page, or we get new news on new Darwin's World releases, the Fallout D20 RPG, or the much anticipated Fallout 3, I would expect that to be of interest to the people who post the news here. * No promises that any of those features will actually appear, but I wouldn't mind going in that direction.

 

[Friadoc]

I don't see why so many here seem to like S.M. Sterling. I read Dies the Fire and just hated it. Massive internal inconsistancies, infinately improbable luck, lots of religion bashing (and fawning over the author's fave), and page after page of droning on and on about.... food. It was so bad, by the time I was halfway finished with the book, I knew I could skip about 3 pages every time the characters sat down to a meal.

Honestly, as with a lot of authors, I think the style hits with some people and misses with others. Sure, that's a drawn out way of saying 'to each their own', but that's how it seems to be with him.

One point I'd like to disagree with, though, is the religion bashing bit, as there are characters in the plots who are Christian who are both good or bad, it is not that lopsided. At least, I don't thing it is.

Sorry for the sidestepped hijacking...

...back on topic.

I think it'd be hard having such a niche message board, however depending on what all it added, as well as it's full intent, a site devoted to the topic could be easily done.

 

[Darrin Drader]

I think it'd be hard having such a niche message board, however depending on what all it added, as well as it's full intent, a site devoted to the topic could be easily done.

It would never become a place with the kind of traffic ENWorld has, but I think there might be enough interest for it to become a healthy and active place.

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

I enjoy it, but haven't played a PA campaign in a long time. I really loved The Morrow Project. I'd take a look at the site.

 

[the Jester]

The postapocalyptic genre is awesome!

I'm actually running a game that's sort of "mid-apocalyptic" right now- a group of pcs from a very low-magic setting went back in time to the great magic war that got rid of the magic, and it's out of control. They can't see sun or stars; the sky is marroon, with a super-nasty epic spell flashing some distance away that's killing all the elves within some distance of it; there are NO friendly people alive that they have seen yet (though they've found multiple battle fields with hundreds of dead, and a line of crucified elves that stretched for miles). The entire place is devastated, with the ground often cratered broken rubble for miles. Our heroes are in pursuit of the black magic cult led by their nemesis, the traitor Sir Harth, who is seeking powerful weapons to take back to their home time and conquer it.

So, yeah, right now such a sight would be useful to me.

 

[Ghendar]

So the question is simply this:

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

Yes.
One of my favorite genres. I'm a total sucker for post apocalyptic comic books, movies, and games.
Favorite CRPG = Fallout series
Cartoons = Thundarr the barbarian
Comic books = Kamandi
Movies = Road Warrior (and many others)
RPG = Gamma World, Darwin's World

Love the stuff.

(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?

Probably not very regularly but only because there's only so much time in the day to visit websites. I would be interested in checking it out though.