Post Apocalyptic Image Dump Thread

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>Roughtly a century of overgrowth over the bridge
>Still wearing industrial-grade T-shirts

>a century of overgrowth
That's a bit of a reach.

How long do you suppose a box of t-shirts wrapped in plastic would take to biodegrade?

>Roughtly a century of overgrowth
You sorely underestimate nature that's a few decades at most.

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This is the only thing close to a post apocalyptic bard I have.

I've always wanted to run a campaign with the PCs as escaped slaves from the gladiator pits and try to do a post apocalyptic Spartacus rip off.

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Obviously that user has NEVER seen Kudzu in action. That isn't a century or even a few decades of overgrowth. That could be a matter of weeks or months. Look at how fast the plant life took over in any of the abandon areas in Louisiana after the hurricane. Pic very related.

I said a maximum of a few decades because assuming you don't have something like kudzu a stone bridge in a temperate climate could last a while before being totally greened. Louisiana is basically a tropical climate and those do overgrow pretty much instantaneously.

I agree with you - I was simply pointing out to the doubting user that you were being generous compared to some current 'real world' environments. Kudzu is a bastard to get rid of in parts of the southern U.S. and amazingly destructive to boot. Daily grown can be measured in inches per day on some species. Yah! Kill it with fire!

Assuming absolutely perfect storage conditions - 50-60 years, depending on quality of the fabric.
And that's a century of overgrowth - trees growing up on walls, with minimal soil and enough residue to survive.

You greatly overestimate how fast tree can grow in London climate

This is neither New Orleans nor kudzu, so kindly fuck off.

And in4 anyone of you will start bitching of the possibility of climate change - that doesn't mean suitable or climate-specific plants will appear ex nihilo.

> Nit picking 'incorrect science' in artwork for a fictional event.
> Failing to comprehend the meaning of 'Willing suspension of disbelief' for the enjoyment of a good story.

Doubtless you are the life of all the parties you never get invited to attend.

>When out of argument, try playing "willing suspension of disbelief" card
There is a fuck-huge difference of suspending ones disbelief and shit like this. It's like you would try to rationalise heavy metal covers with "but they look cool".
And that's the reason they rarely try to use any actual landmark, you fucking moron.

Neat thread, OP! I'm planning on running a fantasy post-apocalypse game starting next month with some of my friends, using my own usual homebrew traditional fantasy setting (plus one Armageddon). I saved some pictures, so now I must contribute.

I'll dump pictures until I run out, which is sadly not that many.

This picture used to give me nightmares, and is a large part of the inspiration for the campaign.

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Neat, I got dubs! That might have been the first time.
How is everyone tonight?

This picture is a photograph of real-world cannibalism. You were warned.

I've been trying to find good non-Fallout images of tire armor since I think it's such a visually appealing idea for the wasteland. Unfortunately I can't seem to find much so this is greatly appreciated.

Thoughts on the state of vital services, such as medicine, post-Apocalypse? I think it mostly becomes pic related. Spoilered as it is a famous photograph of a man performing surgery on himself.

No problem! I have been having similar problems. That is the only non-Fallout image I have of it myself.

I have an idea for wasteland wuxia monks that's based on this picture. I just can't decide whether to make them mute atomic monstrosities enforcing a draconic moral code or noble wanderers righting the world's wrongs.

I guess the difference is simply perspective eh?

Captain America or Evil Knievel? I like them both, they smack vaguely of some kind of American Gladiators thing, but with real gladiators.

Twice in one thread, nice. Anyways, how about either cave paintings about the mysteries of the Apocalypse's cause, or even non-modern apocalypses?

What's the setting like user?

That pic makes me think of Lovecraft in the most unsettling human way.

pic related

New Vegas had my favorite idea about medicine. The Mormon church provided free medical attention to any and all but sent missionaries out to the feral tribes in exchange for their expertise. I love the idea of trying to civilize the savages through medicine.

This also allowed Mormons to freely move among the wasteland since no one wanted to piss them off and risk losing their only reliable form of healthcare.

I also like the idea that the only ones crazy enough to go the nonviolent path in the wasteland are so good at what they do that it ACTUALLY works.

All of these digits must mean that my game will go over well. The numbers have spoken. All hail the signal.

I have been reading Lovecraft for some ideas on things, but most of the setting is about the aftermath of magical nuclear warfare in a fantasy world. Essentially, the bad guys won at the end of the day. The world was at the point of late 1800's technology with a few things from the early 1900's thrown in and explained by there being long-lived races and magic to help speed certain advancements along. During peacetime, several nations developed nuclear weaponry to keep everybody in line, and it was a bad idea. A terrorist group of doomsday cultists trying to push their religion's idea of a hard restart up a tad caused nuclear Armageddon, and the fabric of reality was torn by the blasts. Chunks of the world simply vanished, beings from other universes and the heavens and hells started showing up, and a setting that had no undead for the twenty years I've been running it suddenly had various deadites running about. It's going to be bloody freaking carnage, I'm hoping, amid sessions of dodging wind changes moving radiation clouds about that the world has nothing to protect them from.

Basically, I'm going for Mad Max/Fallout with Elves, Dragons, swordplay, radioactive mutants, and magic. I'm hoping that it's fun.

Also, I'm fascinated at the idea of locales where there was already clearly an Apocalypse a long time before this Apocalypse, which is what pic related reminds me of for some reason.

Just before Armageddon, the world was essentially at a point of slightly-less- and slightly-more-advanced World War I with the threat of magical nuclear annihilation looming over the defeated aggressor nations' heads. 's post is fun for me to look at, because radios had just become household items in some places, and usually they don't pick anything up, with the exception of the Numbers Stations that had mysteriously started broadcasting right at the dawn of radio technology to everyone's confusion. Those Numbers Stations still broadcast. I'm recording my own weird alphanumeric sequences to play audio of in the background during sessions featuring them currently.

New Vegas is actually the only Fallout game that I've played. Are the others worth checking out? Also, I'm definitely with you on the N.V. Mormons, that concept was a lot of fun.

they're not mormons , they just inhabits the mormon fort in new vegas.

the followers of the apocalypse are doing really bad too, because in the way they see good in everyone, they don't realise that sometime, you can't argue with them and shooting them ultimately will save time, money and lives. (for instance, they would love to be able to help the fiends, but the fiends would just shoot them on sight to get their next dose of jet faster)

also, the only reason the fiends exist in the first place is because the Great Khans supply them with drugs, and they're only able to make such drugs because the followers gave them the knowledge after the bitterspring incident.

most of the rape/torture/theft/murder going on in vegas is because of the followers.

fallout 1 is a bit wonky at times, but the story is nice. fallout 2 is one of my favourite game ever because of how dark it really is. most people hate it because it's full of pop culture references that shouldn't be there (and i agree) but the whole tone is just so interesting, all the factions are well fleshed out, and the universe in general is very much alive and "realistic" : the porn industry is back alive being distributed through holotapes, most buildings in reno are either casinos, shops or brothels, and the game doesn't fear showing rape, for instance. (there's 3 instance on top of my head where your character can be raped, and another 2 where he can do the raping)

fallout 3 is a generic action shooter seemingly set 10 seconds after the bombs dropped, and fallout 4 is "bad escape from tarkov" meet "minecraft" in the 30s. you should pirate them all because interplay doesn't get paid anymore for fallout 1 and 2, and fallout 3-4 are not worth the money imo.

Aww shit you're right. I was conflating them with the Mormon church from the cancelled Van Buren game.

Ah, causality! What a bitch she can be.

I'm also really enjoying trying to think of how different types of settlements would be differently affected by Armageddon and its aftermath, such as pic related versus your standard walled Utopian metropolis.

Thanks, user! I've been meaning to check them out, and I've been thinking of them as a homework assignment because of my upcoming game.

New Vegas is far and away the best of the recent entires. No surprise considering the writers were part of the original studio that created Fallout. The DLC is also easily the best I've ever seen from any major studio in a game that size(full disclosure: I have not played The Witcher 3 though).

If you really want the isometric post apocalypse though try Wasteland 2. It has its weak spots but overall it provides a nice setting without the 50's aesthetic of Fallout which may or may not be a good thing depending on your views.

the witcher 3's DLC are really fucking good. the combat is still boring but the story, voice acting and characters are gorgeous. also, i live in southern france and the sights of Toussaint from blood and wine are exactly what most traditional village/towns are like here. it's uncanney.

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Armageddon Paladins. The possibilities...

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Now with guns.

and hockey sticks

Like I said.. hockey sticks

bump

>muh realism

Right, let's break out the art we made after that one apocalypse happened, we know that stuff's legit.

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