"Are You a Post Apocalypse Gamer?" Topic

I thought that this had been asked relatively recently on TMP, but couldn't find it searching back to 2005. Please feel free to add a link to it, if I just missed it.

So, on the chance that it hasn't been recently asked, are you a post apocalypse gamer?

I am, though haven't had opportunity to do much of it in recent years. I have spent a fair amount of time over the last year or so working up to starting a PA campaign game. It will be a dry and dusty setting, some years after the event in 28mm with homebrew rules.

Sounds fun! I am a post apocalyptic gamer but not the zombie style game.

No
Well, not me, but if my buddies want to run a zombie or GorkaMorka game with zombies or Isis I'm game.

Like many things that have piqued my interests in regards miniature gaming I have wanted to collect/play/run Post Apoc games but the shear amount of terrain and conversion work required has put me off taking on such a project. And then there is the what kind of of post apoc setting? Road Warrior was one I have considered mainly as it would be Car Wars with miniatures.

No.

I am former staff from Dark Age Games, so I *was* a Post Apoc gamer. Not so much any more.

Not really – but I would game it if someone else had the minis and rules

No.

Yes. Iam on the fury road almost every weekened with Axis & Alloy II.

No. I have been tempted to get into something Fallouty, but I have too many other genres underway.

Savage Worlds Fallout, Upstate NY area, Udiga("cause any trouble here and you digga you're own grave")-soon to add vehicles, various city-states trying to clear I90.

Added -Gorse, a hybrid goat/horse mutant animal
One vault at Ausable Forks are all sentient apes
Added Zepps and Ultralights
Laker communities, Thousand Island communities and Supermutants at Boldt Castle.
No Deathclaws or radscorpians just radcats, braindeer, various neoanimals, the Iron Sisterhood, lotsa TechReavers and Tribals…just converted Growlers from Vor:the Maelstrom to scare/maim/kill/devour the players.

Catskill Game Farm became part of the Jurassic Park franchise before the war…

It's like a Spaghetti Western with a good reason the firearms sound like howitzers.

Yes. I saw ( and immediately bought ) some of the Lead Adventure figures ( link ) .
Now only to find rules I like…

Have to wait for the apocalypse and see if I survive.

Gamma. World.

This is a genre that exerts a strong pull on me every once in a while. I'm currently in one of those periods, so it's funny this was brought up.

So my answer is no, but one of these days I might be. My angle would be either

1.) Thundarr
2.) The Road Warrior--I like the "scavenger-punk" vibe
3.) Gamma World

All with a dose of humour (1&3 almost demand it). Nothing too dark.

I work in Saint Louis City 5 days a week. Why would I want to game it when I can live it?

Yes.

Generic rules in a Stalker/Metro 2033/Twilight 2000 setting.

In theory, yes. In practicality, no.

I'm certainly interested, but am still looking for the rules that fit the type of world I want to run.

& then there's actually creating the buildings & figures which is just one of many projects.

Sure, almost all my games are set after the KT boundary's creation :-)

I like the STALKER Universe (Zone) and have been painting up some factions, mainly GZG 25mm. I like the idea of Anomalies and an overgrown Earth feel. Here's an interesting concept for wargamers-the terrain in more lethal than the opposition. I favour over-grown 20th century ruins and cold-war kit in states of decay.

Not yet. Despite that we've been averaging an end-of-the-world prediction nearly every year of my life, I'm still happily a pre-apocalypse gamer!