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Post Apocalyptic Western.

Posted by Faceplant
Faceplant
member, 17 posts
Sun 14 Jan 2018
at 18:00
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Post Apocalyptic Western

I'd like to run a sort of post-apocalyptic western style game, set after the fall of civilization. Not quite as "kitchen sink" as Deadlands. Scenarios:

1. The Civil War ended when the dead rose, turning the United States into a mass grave of shambling horror. In the East, where the population was more concentrated, hordes grew quickly, but out West settlements are sparse enough that people live on in camps, homesteads, and small towns ruled by Trail Bosses and Ranch Lords competing for scant resources. The game's focus isn't on the walking dead themselves so much as it is on the PCs efforts to get by.

2. It's 21XX, and the world has been devastated by climate change into a freezing/boiling dustbowl. Pockets of humanity remain, eking out what they can, separated by wilderness that's too hot to survive in the summer and too cold for habitation in the winter. The players are a small group of nomads making the trek between isolated communities, those who can pay for the occasional "service" but can't support more mouths to feed, looking for a place to someday call their own.

Options: Mutants? Psychic powers?

3. You were there when it happened. You watched The Hero lose his mind, watched him go berserk, saw him spark the battle that killed the world. You couldn't stop him, and you might only be alive because you didn't try. But there's no denying it; Earth's superhumans destroyed the world they'd sworn to protect. Now you travel the ashes, hiding your powers from the survivors who would rightfully hate you for what you are, trying to make amends to the souls of the billions who perished.

Sort of a Kingdom Come/Irredeemable/Incorruptible superhero apocalypse with a twist from Paranoia - they have minor powers that it's a tremendous risk to ever actually use. Or you might be someone like Batman who doesn't have powers and is safe as long as he doesn't reveal who he used to be.

System Options: Fate, Apocalypse World, or a hack thereof. World or Chronicles of Darkness or whatever. Maybe AFMBE for #1.

Love to hear the thoughts of someone who might be interested in playing.
kbdevil1a
member, 100 posts
Sun 14 Jan 2018
at 19:02
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Post Apocalyptic Western

I'm interested! I would say 2 or 3 would be my preferred options. I think the involvement of lost technology or superpowers would add an interesting element
OakMaster
member, 93 posts
"Choose you this day
whom ye will serve..."
Sun 14 Jan 2018
at 22:02
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Post Apocalyptic Western

First choice: #3.  Second choice: #2.  :)
CrazyIvan777
member, 224 posts
Wed 17 Jan 2018
at 17:43
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Post Apocalyptic Western

2 sounds really interesting.
mediiic
member, 169 posts
Wed 17 Jan 2018
at 18:13
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Post Apocalyptic Western

I'd go for Fate version of the choice number two, really. One thing that comes in mind is Winter World comic style world.
Faceplant
member, 22 posts
Wed 17 Jan 2018
at 20:46
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I'm not familiar with Winter World... got a link?
OutlawJT
member, 251 posts
Wed 17 Jan 2018
at 21:15
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Am I the only person who loves 1 and think the other options are just 'meh'?
Gray-Exile43
member, 349 posts
Wed 17 Jan 2018
at 23:24
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I, also, like the first option. I would be willing to play as long as the system was one I knew or could be taught.

My second choice would be for the second option as long as the idea for mutants didn't have X-Men style powers.
I would prefer the mutants be more grotesque versions of normal creatures then super powered individuals.

That being said, I would still rather play the first idea.
Faceplant
member, 23 posts
Wed 17 Jan 2018
at 23:27
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Yeah, idea 2 would be more Hills Have Eyes than X-Men.
Raiu
member, 50 posts
Fri 19 Jan 2018
at 03:11
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I like 1, if only for the fact you could have a party consisting of both Confederate and Union soldiers, putting aside their war (which is still technically going on) to keep the dead from eating them. It would be an uneasy peace, that's for sure.
mediiic
member, 170 posts
Fri 19 Jan 2018
at 06:04
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Mortixx
member, 287 posts
Wed 24 Jan 2018
at 08:06
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You got me at post apocalyptic western. And then toss in the option to run it in Apocalypse World?

Color me greatly interested if thats the getup.
Cadrac
member, 98 posts
Now matter where you go
There you are
Wed 31 Jan 2018
at 23:02
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Post Apocalyptic Western

Do you have A Fist Full Of Zombies for AFMBE?  Ready made western zombie apocalypse.  Count me in, pardner.
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