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#830359 Mon 02/11/15 20:06 UTC
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There are pumpkins on porches and bonfires being stacked, which can only mean it's November. Yes, that's right, we're a month late with the Q4 genre survey, but at least we should be more in tune with the change of season.

So what do you fancy now? What did you fancy last time, back in Q2 of this year?

Back then we had an upswing of votes for "always a bridesmaid never a bride", Post-Apocalyptic. All this yearning for the apocalypse can't be healthy peeps! lol Always a popular choice, it's the first time I can remember post-apocalpse winning outright.

Alas, it didn't spawn any post-apocalypse games, so let's hope we get what we want this time. (Game, not apocalypse. wink )

Cast your vote now!

Genre of Game
multiple choice, up to 2 choices
Hot Hot Sexy Talk (4%, 1 Votes)
Fantasy (23%, 6 Votes)
Horror (12%, 3 Votes)
Science Fiction (12%, 3 Votes)
Post-Apocalypse (19%, 5 Votes)
Pulp Adventure (0%, 0 Votes)
Thriller (15%, 4 Votes)
Soap (4%, 1 Votes)
Historical Drama (0%, 0 Votes)
Combination of the above (or other) (12%, 3 Votes)
Total Votes: 26
Voting on this poll ends: Thu 31/03/16 22:59 UTC
nem #830362 Mon 02/11/15 20:22 UTC
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In the past I was mostly about FRP ... the further away from my daily grind the better. But this time I selected 'other' because I could not select one based on 'genre'. I am currently more interested in a 'fun' game irrespective of genre <g>


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Well, you are allowed 2 choices, if you so wish. wink

But yeah, not sure what I fancy.... Actually I always fancy horror at this time of the year but that might just be Hallowe'en. grin Let's say Dark Fantasy then.

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I have an urge for cyberpunk, espionage, and of course I had to pick post apocalyptic. smile

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Soap and Thriller for me... I guess watching Scream Queens is getting me in the mood for slashery type fun smile


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's funny, Mina ... I have always had a soft spot in my heart for a good Zombie movie, but never really liked the 'slasher' films all that much.


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Zombies are fun too! Love a good zombie movie!

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Ummmmm .... just curious ... is there such a thing? <gd&r LMAO>


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Technically we do have a post-apocalyptic game, post several apocalypses in fact, namely Pande's Numenera game. Scavenging through the relics of the high tech past, dealing with the strange creatures that resulted from the meddling of the predecessors, definitely meets the criteria.

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I liked Warm Bodies.


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True. I guess to me Numenera is so far in the future it is its own version of sci-fi fantasy. But your right it can be accurately termed post apocalyptic.

And Warm Bodies was fun.

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I agree Pande. It doesn't =feel= post apocalyptic to me either. Course, that doesn't mean I'm not enjoyin' da heck outa da game <g>


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Fun it is. smile

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Actually, when you think about it, most D&D campaign settings are post-apocalyptic in some manner. Greyhawk and Mystara both share the Blackmoor Catastrophe, for example.

But yes, the further back in time the apocalypse the more relevence it loses.

Just take the modern world and the dinosaurs as an example. wink

Anyway, with Post-Apocalypse making a strong showing again, did anyone have any particular game in mind?

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Well I have enjoyed films like The Book of Eli and of course the Mad Max series. But really I love the setting of Hell on Earth. <hint> smile

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Deadlands: Hell on Earth worked better for me than the original Weird West setting tbh.

I don't think there are that many more post-apocalyptic RPGs though. Earthdawn? That was post-apoc high fantasy, I guess.


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Planet of the Apes

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I was going to make a joke about Seraph of the End or be bitter sweet and mention So Ra No To Wo ... but then I decided to get serious.

Shin Sekai Yori - From the New World

Definitely post-apocalyptic but a very different sort of apacalypse, definitely a nightmare world once you pull away the facade of rural living and definitely swallow and oh-my-god-fridge-nightmare disturbing.

There are worse things than hell on earth.

Shin Sekai Yori asks the question "what would really happen if a certain percentage of the population suddenly developed paranormal (super) powers?"

And plays it completely straight.

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RPG-wise, I did miss a few classics. Twilight 2000, The Morrow Project, and of course the infamous RIFTS.

RIFTS is one of those post-apocalyptic sci-fi fantasy super hero space opera horrors. lol

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I have played all those. I think I still have a copy of The Morrow Project in a box someplace. I liked the premise and enjoyed play way back when.

I was hinting at the Deadlands version, that is the one I liked as well. But mechanics wise, Savage Worlds is what I was implying.

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Had a great time playing a short lived Morrow Project game with an awesome GM from this area that had written supplements for GDW's Traveler series. It was a sad day when the game fell apart <sigh>


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Yeah, I played a Morrow Project one-off recently and quite enjoyed it. It's a relatively grounded post-apocalyptic game, compared to something like RIFTS, although I have fantastic memories of RIFTS and some of the ludicrous, nonsensical munchkin characters we created.

Not sure what my next GM game will be. I'll square away HHE first, since it requires a bit more attention to explain the game as we go, which was one of my original goals with it. I think it'll end up serving as a pretty solid intro to 13th Age.

But yeah, next game will be one that doesn't need explaining. wink So definitely not RIFTS... although some might say there is no explaining RIFTS.

I'm trying to remember if Cyberpunk described itself as post-apocalyptic. I don't think so. It was "dark future", and there had been bioplague outbreaks and some nuclear conflicts, but not an apocalypse as such. I'd say to qualify as an apocalypse, civilisation as we know it has to be ended, right?

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We hit on a few post-apocalypse RPGs here, but the other day I realised something else.

Thinking about what post-apocalyptic game I could hypothetically run, to at least partially sate people's appetite for the genre, I suddenly realised that "post-apocalypse" is way too broad a definition.

It's possibly more broad than "fantasy" or "sci-fi", which at least have flagships of the genre.

Once upon a time (i.e., back in the Eighties), the post-apocalypse genre was synonymous with Road Warrior, but zombies changed all that, becoming a subgenre of their own. And what about the survival genre, that has dallied with the post-apocalypse on many an occasion?

In short, there are 5 votes above for a post-apocalypse game. What did those 5 voters mean exactly? grin

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Three words for the apocalypse:

Undead Cybernetic Squirrels

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OK, here's a question. Is RoboCop undead, or a cyborg?

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