PUNKAPOCALYPTIC: THE RPG

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Post April 13th, 2020, 7:01 pm

New RPG from Robert Schwalb Entertainment, designer of the dark-fantasy game, Shadow of the Demon Lord. Love the warning label. :lol:
WARNING: This book uses naughty language, explores adult concepts, and shows a boob or three. For this reason, PunkApocalyptic: The RPG might not be appropriate for everyone and is intended for immature audiences of 16 years and older.
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Picked up the PDF of this and started reading through it, so far it's like Gamma World, dialed up way past 11. I'm fairly certain, I will have run this at some point for our group. While I'm not one who generally goes in for the bottom of the barrel fun, this looks like it would be a blast with the right folks. Might even have to throw something together for Gary Con 2021. Mwahahahahahahaha! :shock:

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Excerpt and overall concept of the game:
The world as we know it is gone. The why and how is subject to debate, but there are few left who have either the time or ability to wax philosophical about it. All that’s left is an extremely dangerous place, which, depending upon your point of view, is either a reeking open sewer, a radioactive shithole rife with wasting disease and lingering death, or a desperate place of hunger and want where anyone will trade anything or kill anybody just to survive one more day.

Actually, your point of view doesn’t matter. It’s all these things. And so much worse.

Deadly and violent, much of the world has become a deserted, barren land dotted with the remnants of whatever came before. The Wasteland, as it’s called, though, is not as empty as it might seem. Here live the wretched descendants of the undesirables, the impoverished, the castoffs, and every other asshole deemed unsuitable for entry into the great and mythical Megalopoli: fabulous domed cities built during civilization’s collapse that became more myth than reality to most of the rugged shitkickers trying to scratch out a living in the Wasteland. Oh, yeah… the mutants live here too—but we’ll talk about them later.
Just like in SotDL, "classes" for character run from the entry level Novice, through Expert, and up to Master, a system that pulls profession from Warhammer and then some.

And last, but not least, I definitely have to say I approve of the unique title used for the "bestiary" section of the book, haha.

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“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” - Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien

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Post April 13th, 2020, 11:05 pm

"[...] the loud and frightened bawling of their rotten-ass crotchspawn." :) :lol: 8-)
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Post April 16th, 2020, 1:18 pm

Honestly, it sounds like a good time. Bring it to PfCon 8-)
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Post April 16th, 2020, 2:24 pm

Is this game new? I have to check my PDFs, I think I've heard of it before.
Love the bunny ears, makes me think of this GW artwork:
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Post April 17th, 2020, 9:14 am

rredmond wrote: April 16th, 2020, 2:24 pm Is this game new? I have to check my PDFs, I think I've heard of it before.
Love the bunny ears, makes me think of this GW artwork:
Yeah Ron, it's a new RPG by Robert Schwalb, who is pretty well known in the table-top industry. He worked a lot with WotC during the 3rd Edition era, then moved on to other games and companies before finally starting his own and putting out the RPG, Shadows of the Demon Lord. After its success, he's been designing other new games using the SotDL system.

I've noticed quite a few things in the book, either text or art, that lends itself to other things. For example, see anyone that looks "familiar" below? :lol:

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Post April 17th, 2020, 9:20 am

Couple things look familiar, but I definitely see the Futurama cartoon cyclopean there. :)

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Post April 17th, 2020, 9:20 am

And a trolls doll :lol:

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