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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 7475300" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Depends upon style of play.Storygamer, no difficulty levels: Apocalypse World (I found the rules impenetrable until I read a few other, more intelligible, versions of the engine. Not my cuppa, but many love it.)Storygamer, with difficulties and tasks: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">End of the World (FFG) - pick which core based upon desired flavor. Warning: it's very open ended, and intended for playing oneself. Some tweaking may be needed if not playing that way.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Mutant Year Zero - dice pool system, lots of good press, people whose tastes I trust love it. Assumes PC's are mutants.</li> </ul>Traditional Gamer, Serious mode, military: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Twilight 2000. edition 2.0 or 2.2 (My preference is for the 1d10 v 2.0). Fairly easy to learn and play. Electronically available from Far Future Enterprises. Compatible with both Cadillacs & Dinosaurs and Dark Conspiracy 1e.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Robotech RPG by Palladium. Simple mechanics, and the "reconstruction era" is well mechanically supported. Lots of writing if you don't have the preprinted Character Sheets. I'd avoid the Shadow Chronicles edition - skill bloat from hell.  If in the Macross Reconstruction Era, PC's likely to be military. If in the Invid Invasion era, PC's are presumed to be freedom fighters and/or Mars or Jupiter Division RDF survivors. Limited character customization, though.</li> </ul>Traditional gamer, silly mode - PC's likely to be mutants: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gamma Troll World Tunnels and Trolls meets Gamma World. need piles of d6's</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Radz - 2d6 based system. simple rules, evocative setting. More serious than gamma world.</li> </ul>Traditional gamer, Zombie mode -All Flesh Must Be Eaten- Unisystem (Full) - 1d10+Stat+Skill for skill uses, mostly opposed rolls. Lots of supplements. Most rolls are opposed, rather than fixed difficulties. Fairly straightforward.Hellmouth-style: Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Ghosts of Albion, and Army of Darkness. All are PDF only these days. All are unisystem light - all rolls made by players (NPC rolls are essentially "Always a 6" - for resisting NPC's, the TN is the same as if the NPC rolled a 6), and damages are base plus success level, but otherwise compatible with AFMB. Planet of the Apes: Terra Primate - Unisystem Full. Several flavors of "Apes have taken over" - from silly to deadly. Alien InvasionNote also: Any game with foraging rules can be made "post-holocaust" pretty easily - just don't have functional urban sub-settings, and food has to be found, not bought. Using D&D this way can be quite amusing... but also quite deadly.</blockquote>

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