General Discussion

[WritesNaughtyStories]

We're having a conversation about what the world looks like now. Part of the conceit of the game is that the oldest people currently alive might have been small children when what was before collapsed.

The characters in Apocalypse World are kind of like The Feral Kid from Road Warrior - born into the aftermath. Maybe even a second generation of survivors. They have no direct knowledge of the world before and most of what they do know comes from what they've heard.

@Chiyako has asked for not zombies. So that particular apocalypse is off the table.

We're currently looking at something like Megacity One but what ruined the world we don't know. It is rusted, crumbled and decayed. Who knows what might lurk in the ferrocrete caverns below the broken streets and tumbled hab-blocks.

But that's not certain. Did global climate change flood the world and let the jungles reclaim what man had foolishly named his own? Did the pollution change the environment to a toxic swamp of plastic and petrol?

@Warning, do you have thoughts about what the world might look like?

[Rob4ix]

On 22/01/2026 at 23:15, WritesNaughtyStories said:

Do we have any other voted besides Apocalypse World?

I know @DreamsnThings was hoping for Monsterhearts, Masks or Monster of the Week but I have no inspiration for Monster of the Week - I have literally never seen a single episode of Supernatural, Super heroes fucking confound me - I can give you great fight scenes but why the hell anyone is there I cannot ever come up with. "Random bad guy shows up and starts breaking shit" is my eternal answer to superheroes. Monsterhearts is teen drama - that doesn't work well here any more and the last game fizzled spectacularly - largely on my watch.

What about dungeon world or some other similar, i just dont really like apocalypse setting for erp.

[SataiRolePlayingGuy]

I can only try to read up on so many things I am unfamiliar with at a time.  I won’t hold it against anyone if something else is chosen, want the group to go with what the majority find most fun, and don’t know how likely multiple games are to come out this discussion.  But Apocalypse World is probably the only one I have much chance of committing to.

[Rob4ix]

17 minutes ago, SataiRolePlayingGuy said:

I can only try to read up on so many things I am unfamiliar with at a time.  I won’t hold it against anyone if something else is chosen, want the group to go with what the majority find most fun, and don’t know how likely multiple games are to come out this discussion.  But Apocalypse World is probably the only one I have much chance of committing to.

Dungeon world is a hack/based off of apocalypse world, as well as monsterhearts and lots of other systems. I chose dungeon world as a fantasy version of apocalypse world since i dont really wanna do apocalypse erp.

[SataiRolePlayingGuy]

13 minutes ago, Rob4ix said:

Dungeon world is a hack/based off of apocalypse world, as well as monsterhearts and lots of other systems. I chose dungeon world as a fantasy version of apocalypse world since i dont really wanna do apocalypse erp.

Well, I will wait and see what other people think.  I’m liking the concept of Apocalypse World so far, but if more people like switching to something else that has enough similarity, I might look at it.  But will wait to see what the group thinks.

[WritesNaughtyStories]

The issue becomes that I have almost no interest in a fantasy game. I have never had any interest in Dungeon World. I don't own it and don't want to. I'm open to other suggestions - court intrigue might be something I could be sold on.