 Editor in Chief Bill   | 03 Jul 2018 7:12 p.m. PST |
In your post-apocalyptic gaming, what is the source of the apocalypse? * pandemic
* zombies
* nuclear war
* global warming
* aliens
* mysterious/unknown cause
etc. |
| Terry37 | 03 Jul 2018 7:49 p.m. PST |
As my backstory says, nobody remembers, just that there was one! And now it's survival time!!! Terry |
| Narratio | 03 Jul 2018 7:52 p.m. PST |
Pandemic. I fly international 12 – 20 times a year and, without fail, pick up some sort of bronchial infection. I can't be the only person with this lack of resistance so – I bet on pandemic carried by pressurised tin cans at 10kM where 200+ people breath each others recycled air. |
| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 03 Jul 2018 8:28 p.m. PST |
It was a hostile world, but the mining companies paid a lot for people to work there. Then one day, the galactic stock market crashed and all these people found that the supply ships just weren't coming around any more. And then it turned out there were natives living in the damn place too, not to mention the mutants and bioweapon research projects that weren't being contained anymore… OK, that was from my DarK Age Games days, but still… |
| CAPTAIN BEEFHEART | 03 Jul 2018 9:31 p.m. PST |
Just Zombies. But that's the rules talking. |
| Twilight Samurai | 03 Jul 2018 9:32 p.m. PST |
News of an apocalypse is all fake! Look around you, couldn't be better, right folks? Oh, and remember, tuesday is Soylent Green day. Stocks are limited so get in early! |
| Prince Rupert of the Rhine | 03 Jul 2018 10:23 p.m. PST |
Fallout is my favourite post-apoc setting so I guess Nuclear war. |
| JimSelzer | 03 Jul 2018 10:30 p.m. PST |
all the above why stop at 1 cause |
| Gaz0045 | 03 Jul 2018 11:06 p.m. PST |
"All of the above" says I from 'neath my foil hat…… |
ZULUPAUL  | 04 Jul 2018 2:16 a.m. PST |
Don't use a back story, just use zombies. |
| John From DE | 04 Jul 2018 4:09 a.m. PST |
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| rvandusen | 04 Jul 2018 5:02 a.m. PST |
* pandemic
* zombies
* nuclear war
* global warming
* aliens
* mysterious/unknown cause
etc. A saurian race of aliens, the Garn, attempt to change the Earth's climate back to Mesozoic conditions using giant stealth terraformers that hover at various points in Earth's atmosphere. The resulting rise in global temperatures melts the ice covering on the poles and releasing the long dormant spores of a variety of Cordyceps fungus that is deadly to hominids. Carried along by the jet stream, the fungal spores infect millions across the globe, turning them into fungus zombies that are compelled to attack the uninfected in turn, turning them into fungus zombies. Unable to discover the mysterious cause of the pandemic and climate change, the US, Russia, and China blame each other and launch nuclear strikes, but these are limited due to so many falling to the Cordyceps Zeds. As the story opens, small bands of human survivors face the return of the hungry Garn. |
| Coelacanth | 04 Jul 2018 5:39 a.m. PST |
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| Please delete me | 04 Jul 2018 6:10 a.m. PST |
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 Legion 4  | 04 Jul 2018 6:37 a.m. PST |
Eating all I can at a buffet and dying afterwards …  |
| Private Matter | 04 Jul 2018 9:19 a.m. PST |
As said before: EMP (which then happens to knock the safe guards on bio-warfare testing & development center which could create zombies/ragers if I am feeling especially creative) |
 x42brown | 04 Jul 2018 9:30 a.m. PST |
Asteroid impact
Alien non sapient live form (triffids)
Terrorist poising water supply x42 |
 etotheipi  | 04 Jul 2018 12:34 p.m. PST |
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| Legion 4 | 04 Jul 2018 2:19 p.m. PST |
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 miniMo | 04 Jul 2018 2:41 p.m. PST |
* Kaiju
hmmm, might go with Apes some day.
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| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 31 Jan 2019 1:18 p.m. PST |
What, no mention in the poll of: That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom. |
| joedog | 02 Feb 2019 9:39 a.m. PST |
Basic economic and social collapse, with the added threat of other nations sending in troops to try to take over/scavenge. |
