Post Apocalyptic Gaming

[Voadam]

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?

1) Yes.

2) No. If there were downloadable files for d20 I would pick them up but I'm not interested in joining another messageboard.

 

[Wik]

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

So you've said before. As kind of an aside, I wish more designers would write forewords for their products. I miss that.

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I love Post-Apoc. I've been using a mish-mashed system that's part D&D (I made up the classes), Part d20 Modern, a large chunk of d20 Apocalypse (my favourite wotc book, I think), and some random stuff from other systems (such as the mutations from Omega World, but a bit more serious). That evovled into "THe Mutant Game", which is probably my group's favourite overall setting, although it's a pain for me to GM (mostly because the rules were all over the place, and I had a tendency to give too much away).

So, I rewrote the setting as "Scavenger", and built it all into a standard d20 Modern/D20 Apocalypse game. It's not finished yet, but I'm really looking forward to playing it.

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It's a good genre. You can keep a lot of that fantasy feel (warlords, a world that's waiting to be explored, "dungeons", and all that jazz) but throw in a lot of modern viewpoints and technologies. Plus - and I think this is why I love it so much - it's very survival-oriented. Much like Dark Sun, Post-Apoc is the type of setting where you can get away with giving the PCs nothing more than a place to sleep and some food and water as a reward for an adventure. You can't really pull that off in high fantasy.

As for joining a messageboard... nah. I've got enough on my plate already. But PA rocks.

 

[mcrow]

I'd post a lot there, PA is my favorite sub genre of Sci-Fi.

 

[Shayuri]

Love PA!

WANT TO PLAY!

Another messageboard? Maaaaybe. If it had games. Articles and such would be iffier.

 

[Darrin Drader]

I can totally understand having enough messageboards to post to. Some people will make it over and some won't. I certainly don't expect that this will change anyone's posting habits here, but it will hopefully give them a good resource for what I consider to be the #2 genre in roleplaying.

And on that note, I've made the decision to go ahead with it. I'll have more information soon, but expect to see something more than a nifty idea on a messageboard appear in a week or two.

Another messageboard? Maaaaybe. If it had games. Articles and such would be iffier.

I intend to have a play by post forum, and I'm hoping to get a built in dice roller modded in, so it will be true pbp instead of some weird approximation.