Hi guys, i thought it would be cool if people could come here and ask what other people would think of something, wether its somethign they are doing, an opinion or a choice they made. Whatever it is.
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What would you guys think of a text based RPG set in a Threads style scenario, as in a nuclear attack on a city, no mutants, no punks on bikes shooting shit, just plain simulation, to the point where you can use a nuclear survival manual as a manual for the game.
What would you guys think if that was made as a tabletop RPG instead, maybe hosted on in the forum games section?
I'd certainly find it fairly interesting, although I'd wonder what time scale would work best for it. Without any punks or mutants, than it might have to be fairly long in scope, and that tends to take some of the fun out of apocalyptic survival, at least in my mind.
I wanted it to be like day to day survival. And of course there would be the millitary being a greedy bunch of opressive fucks once things start getting desperate enough, and people with horrible burnt faces and missing limbs, desperately trying to gnaw through your back door would replace the mutants for good, just that they are weaklings instead. What i wanted to was to simulate each citizens mind wich then based on some psychological factors would act accordingly, thus wether it means sitting in a corner and crying yourself to death or getting out and fixing shit or wether they are going to rip shit out of dead peoples hands. Im just saying that there wont be super mutants, but if the RNG allows for it, looter gangs could form(though it would be likely they would collapse again due to internal pressure and pecking order)
It would include a rather deep improvisation system, so you could go and collect plastic backs, cut em into sheets and tape them together to form a larger surface, wich you could then make a tent of. If you are desperate enough, you could even do that with the remains of people and animals!
If you manage to survive long enough(very unlikely), a new world would dawn, in a sort of dark medival age. If the simulated elder citizens were killed off, there might not even be anybody capable of reading!
So uhm, there wont be any zombies or mutants, but rather alot of desperate, fragile, disease infected, irradiated victims of a nuclear attack, that arent harder to kill than any civillian.