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Which system should I use for a kid-friendly post-apocalyptic campaign?
  • @Hollow_knight I did my last P-A game with GURPS, which unless radically stripped down ain't exactly kid-friendly. What's your core story in this game? Crafting and skill trees sounds almost as complex as 5E, especially given that the kids already know the latter... Might have a look at some of the simpler derivates of 5E (Five Torches Deep, Shadowdark), create a few custom classes…

    I've never been a big fan of PbtA, so I'm not a big help there. Within that rules genre, I'd have a look at FATE Condensed plus the cliffhanger mechanic from the Masters of Umdaar setting (PDF available for free).

  • what are you itching to run?
  • @PTR_K Well, of course every group and individual has their own rules preferences. I kinda like GURPS, it fits my mental model quite well.
    But my conception of "stonepunk" wouldn't mean ice age/neolithic in a pure/historical form, as I'm not that fond of Quest for Fire/Clan of the Cave Bear storylines. Mixing in a bit of spirit-based religion or even Sword & Sorcery would be possible, but my conception of "stonepunk" would go quite beyond that. Meso-america mixed with early dynastic egypt and mesopotamia, with some anachronistic tech based on "weird rocks".

    @Red_Ed

  • Battlestations! What are you gaming on?
  • i3-10100F, 32 GB RAM, Nvidia 1050 Ti, 23" acrylic Cinema Display

    The tenth generation i3s are surprisingly capable, similar performance to the old staple i7-4790k with much lower power requirements. And I like running graphic cards that don't need their own power cable.

    It's enough for Skyrim, Witcher etc.,

  • what are you itching to run?
  • Homebrew stonepunk setting with GURPS

    Duskvol with HERO (don't care much for FitD, but the setting seemed cool)

    AD&D 2nd Edition game in a post-cataclysmic Forgotten Realms, where magic is only done by specialty priests and thus cults are getting increasingly important. Basically a mixture between regular FR, those wu xia movies with lots of hidden sects and the cults of RuneQuest.

    Speaking of RuneQuest, now that BRP/ORC is out, I want to use it for something. Torn between a Qin dynasty not-quite-Wu Xia game and MERP-style Middle Earth.