Looking for a system that for the most part...

-Leaves the players with no access to internet or supernatural powers.

-Is post apocalypse or dystopian future.

-Survival focused.

-Not exactly light, but not Shadowrun or Eclipse Phase crunchy.


Please and thank you community.

I sugest world of darkness usaly it's a simple system that can easly be adapted for anything and both classic and new have a large assortment of weapons and combat menuvers listed

It supports mortals and skills for story driven games well, and new has been streamlined to make combat simpler so it don't take up as much time.

There are also rules for stuff like drugs, addiction, hunger, exsaustion, traveling long distances, dehidration, and various other servival stuff

Some may be hard to find but best place to look for them is the Wild West books, lots of people getting stuck in the sands alone lol

I like it for such games for the backgrounds, merits, flaws, and skills making a solid char with good detail into them.

I would be careful though that not every dumps points into stanima (survival heavy stat) and skills like survival and repair.

Though in a servival heavy game I would not allow survival as a skill and brake it down into more than one skill like scavenging, hunting, trapping, or the like

Have a look at atomic highway totally mad max style with no mutations or powers unless you buy the add on supplement that contains those thing for people who want them :)

I second atomic highway, a bit of crunch but not too heavy.

Savage Worlds also works for this sort of game from my experience.

Here, this is a sugested sheet to go with





Chr name:                       Nature:                          Old Occupation:
Player:                         Demeanor:                        Residence:
Role in Party:                  Height:                          Weight:

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                               Attributes

Physical                        Social                           Mental

Strength - 1                    Charisma - 1                     Perception - 1
Dexterity - 1                   Manipulation - 1                 Intelligence - 1
Stamina - 1                     Appearance - 1                   Wits - 1

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                               Abilities

Talents                         Skills                           Knowledges

Alertness                       Animal Kin                       Academics
Athletics                       Crafts                           Area Knowledge
                                                (separate knowledge for each area)
Brawl                           Drive                            City Secrets
                                                (separate knowledge for each city)
Dodge                           Etiquette                        Computer
Empathy                         Firearms                         Finance
Expression                      Hunting                          Enigmas
Intimidation                    Herbalism                        Investigation
Leadership                      Melee                            Law
Scrounging                      Performance                      Linguistics
Streetwise                      Security                         Medicine
Subterfuge                      Stealth                          Naturalist
Haggling                        Traps                            Science

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                               Advantages

Backgrounds
<add those taken>

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Virtues
Conciseness -   1
Self Control -  1
Courage -       1

Willpower - ?current? / ?perminate?

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                    Merits                           Flaws

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                          Equipment


Weapons, maneuvers & armor
Weapon name
*<dice roll for, diff, range, firing rate, clip size>
*Details of weapon, added affects, if it can be hidden

Armor name <armor rating, dex reduction>

Maneuver name
*<Dice roll for, diff, damage>
*details of maneuver

---

Money
Moeney on them: ######
list of other places money is held or stolen cards and when they where stolen.

Items
List other important items

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I would limit the number of people who can take skills as there primary point dump.
This message was last edited by the user at 07:05, Fri 13 Mar 2015.

In reply to Andrew Wilson (msg # 1):

World of Darkness would work for horror, you'd just have to deny access to the supernatural character types, of course.

As others have suggested, Atomic Highway is also good: it's basically designed to be a Mad Max vehicle apocalypse game. And if I recall, it's free.

There is also Other Dust, which isn't free. It's an old school D20-based post apocalyptic system. It has options for mutations and stuff which could grant 'supernatural'powers, but you don't have to use them. Other Dust has some nice rules for handling food/sleep/water deprivation, too, as well as nice scavenging/exploration rules.

Apocalypse World would work perfectly, too, you just need to leave out the psychic maelstrom, and a couple playbooks.

If you think Weird would leave the game unbalanced, you can just replace it with something like intuition, or technological affinity.

The system is centered on survival and has a nice addition to play the scarcity of resources.

Really old game, not sure if copies exist anymore. Aftermath.

While it didn't call for it the hit location chart could use the D30. Are there any of those still out there?

This message was deleted by the user at 16:59, Tue 17 Mar 2015.

Their is a book for Savage Worlds called Broken Earth that I've been mining for information for my own apocalypse system. If I played Savage Worlds I'd run it, the background is pretty solid. Though it has mutations, those could be ignored, its based more around the players being community leaders attempting to make that community prosper.

Also Broken Earth is a cool name anyway.

I also suggest Savage Worlds. I seen it run post apocalyptic with no weird powers. I belive they have a mad max like supplement somewhere.

GURPS works for almost everything, of course :)

Count me in as another vote for Atomic Highway. I think the game is free. It does not need a vehicle supplement, or a waste land supplement as that is what the game was designed for. Very good game and easy to learn and run.

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This message was last edited by the user at 20:00, Mon 16 Mar 2015.