"Reflecting on Post Apocalyptic Gaming " Topic
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Tango01 | 16 Jul 2018 9:33 p.m. PST |
"I've long had fascination with gaming in a post apocalyptic setting, with the original "Planet of the Apes" probably inspiring my first thoughts of toys in a post apocalypse. Despite buying my first figures for my own post-apoc gaming in 1987, it has only been during the last year or so, that I have actually brought this to the table as a full blown gaming project. Oh, there were a few one-off games over the years, but I just didn't have much to bring to the table until recently. Though 'The Road Warrior" (1981) seems to have most directly defined the image of the genre, it wasn't until after The Terminator (1984), that I started to see the occasional post-apoc game at conventions. A little later, I started to see the more sci-fi heavy dystopian games, but rarely what I would truly call games of the post…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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rvandusen | 17 Jul 2018 3:01 a.m. PST |
Post-apocalyptic worlds are fascinating. My preference is for more "realistic" settings such as in the games Babylon's Burning or Twilight 2000 (though in the case of T2K the extremely detailed and complex rules are not my cup of tea. I would just borrow the setting and use Force on Force or Chain Reaction instead.) I'm sure that most readers will know that T2K is set after a nuclear war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, but Babylon's Burning is similar to the old novel Lucifer's Hammer – a massive asteroid is heading toward earth, the nations join together to stop it, but in the end their nuclear defenses merely smash the asteroid into several pieces that rain down on earth. The resulting catastrophe ends up wiping out 95% of the population. The game itself occurs several years later and the scattered survivors have formed different factions – enclaves, gangs, mercenaries, etc etc. |
Tango01 | 18 Jul 2018 10:58 a.m. PST |
Sounds Interesting….. Amicalement Armand |
Oberlindes Sol LIC | 18 Jul 2018 5:20 p.m. PST |
I was one of the many uncredited playtesters for Aftermath when I was a college student. I played it many times in until the mid-1980s, but haven't seen it around after that. It was a strange fun game, especially if you set your scenario in the place where you were living in real life. |
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