There are many reasons civilization collapsed. Devastating Bioweapons, radical Islam, radical Communism, and a poorly timed Solar Flare are chief among them.
Veeky Forums makes a post-apocalyptic setting
Jonathan Moore
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Isaac Parker
The fvgt had a nice one going on. A shame their thread died:
Eli Martin
Radical islamic communists use a bioweapon which causes a massive solar flare that rapidly speeds up the melting of the polar icecaps and also heavily oxegenates the Earth's oceans resulting in a global red tide whose methane releases contribute to environment change
The resulting post apocolyptic world is humid and tropical with large plant rich but fish deficient oceans
Jaxon Thomas
The methane from algae die off thickens the atmosphere, holding in heat and oxygen better. Meanwhile the plants rapidly produce a lot of oxygen resulting in an atmosphere with a much higher ratio of O2 than earth has experienced for thousands of years. This leads to animals being able to sustain larger growth and in a few centuries megafauna once more walk the earth aka fucking dinosaurs and shit. The solar flare destroys computer systems globally, resulting in a crash that destroys economies and technology alike. Global flooding and famine from fish die offs and climate change interfering with agriculture on top of this spark massive global wars. Humanity swiftly depopulates itself. Increased oxygenation makes fire much more dangerous and difficult to control. The world is now ruled by Nation States making use of pre-industrialization era technology due to the impracticality of the internal combustion engine. The fact that fires burn hotter and easier now eases metal smithing and smelting
Knights start riding giant iguanas.
Henry Diaz
It is the year 3017. The Merchant Republics of the United New World States form a front against the Islamic European Islands and the hyper advanced African Kingdoms. Slavinian warlords squat inside the howdahs of their great moose cavalry. Perasia is the world's last bastion of mathematics and honorable warriors, led by their legion of fanatical foreign foot soldiers the Weaboos. The petrol warlords of the Strayan Isles huff their supply greedily.
Noah Long
Ooh, do I just love speculative evolution fiction. Now we should all know evolution takes millions of years, but this is post apoc. So let's take the bioweapons. One of these weapons is called the New Sharia Gene, which was to be used to make the New Sharia Man, a perfect human being in an Islamic-Communist Society. The weapon was to be used to get rid of "bad mutations" and create a perfect humanity over a few generations. What happened however was it created a substance that increased adaptability in all creatures, creating mutants rather than Ubermenschen. Some human descended creatures are the Narcons, descendants of humans who had leaked NSG in their narcotics, leading them to become a forever drug dependent race, lead by the most psychopathic, the strongest, and the one with the most narcotics for themselves. Another less pathetic race would be the Dire Men, a race descended from a cannibal cult that formed in the "Islammunes" somewhere in Yemen, they are described as "9 feet tall on average, and have skeletal faces with just canines". However, not all humans evolved into better beings. Some creatures like the Manphin, or sometimes called an "Everglades Ogre" are descended from experiments from the Infiltration Army in America, destined to live in swamps for the rest of their lives, without sentient thought. Some creatures aren't even human at all,like the Swarmites, who are descended from the resilient German cockroach, lurk in tunnels and hoard looted resources. Well, these are some ideas.
Carson Cooper
>Islamic-Communist
sup /pol/
socio-economic downfall of society, a great plague, and constrained nuclear war are the realistic reasons for post-apocalypse worlds.
If you want to go into fantasy, there's the rapture prospect.
>socio-economic downfall of society
class warfare, stock market collapse and the like. The world looks like it's been used for warfare. But most people have fled cities. Those that stick around are either military/police, or anarchist looters. both sides want your help; but they'll kill you if you get in their way.
>a great plague
Again, the world looks the same, yet abandoned. corpses are found everywhere. FEMA camps are set up. Maybe the cure they've been testing has actually created monsters instead of fixing its victims.
>Nuclear war
I imagine this occurring in the Middle East. scientists and treasure hunters come looking to make their fortune. At the same time, remnants of the former nations are building up armies to fight again.
Luis Anderson
How about a full-blown Lovecraftian apocalypse?
>Mad cults take over the governments of the world
>fishmen with enslaved shoggoths invade all the great coastal metropolises of the planet
>comets of colours from outer space crash all over the world, slowly poisoning the soil, mutating the fauna and flora, draining the very life from people and livestock
>ghouls hunt down survivers in Europe and the Americas
>Mi-go kidnap people who know too much all over the planet
>reanimated reptile mummies cause terror in North Africa and the Middle-East
>flying polyps cause devastating hurricanes in Australia
>unspeakable abominations that can't be seen with a naked eye but leave behind round footprints like those of a giant elephant terrorize the countrysides
>Elder Things finally manage to tame the pesky shoggoths and migrate to the southern tips of Africa and South America, enslaving the human populations there
>if you're not eaten, sick, mutated, enslaved, imprisoned or insane by now, you probably wished you were because very soon the stars will be just right
Eli Green
The world has moved on. No one remembers when, or why, but it's different now than it was. Relics exist, instilling an almost genetic memory, reminding man of a time he never experienced, but knows nonetheless. A better time. But the world has mover on.
Owen Morales
So it's Degenesis.
Matthew Lee
correct, but it has america, so it's superior
John Sanders
>>reanimated reptile mummies cause terror in North Africa and the Middle-East
Combine this with the earlier Islamic Apocalypse idea. All lovecraft's stuff lurking in the middle east has woken up and is pissed off by the humans having stopped worshiping them.
Sebastian Roberts
The zany water world sounds pretty need, dumping pic of a globe someone painted now
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Ayden Green
Last one.
If you go through the maps on our friend natgeo--
--it's not extremely accurate, but is passably so, and looks pretty neat.
Matthew Green
>radical communism
>muh cold war mentality
Justin Lopez
Thanks user
I can't decide which I like better
>the dry Mad Max post-apoc where none of the young people remember the time before the End and everything is gritty and rusting and everyone but the protagonists are cannibals (and maybe the protagonists too)
>the green comfy post-apoc where nobody knows what happened but a long time ago all these buildings were full of people if you can believe there were ever that many
You guys ever read this? He's a YA writer but his shit's pretty bleak. It's a "bugs and acid rain" post-apoc.
Joseph Wright
You'd like Paolo Bacigalupi's work; The Windup Girl, Ship Breaker, Pump Six, etc...
I personally like the lush post-apoc a bit more these days. Grown over buildings and mutated plantlife appeals to me (and the desert wasteland has been played out like crazy).
Here's what I've been working on: A Hexcrawl set in the Pacific Northwest for my homebrew system "Ruinations".
Brandon Sullivan
Man, I just read Neal Stephenson's Seveneves (world ending apocalypse, small portion of humanity goes to space to survive) and that one was pretty rough.
Colton Gonzalez
I just finished the first book of the Jerusalem Man series "Wolf in Shadow". I was actually pleasantly surprised by it.
Basically the world ended a long ass time ago. You've got a religious gunfighter; this Dark Tower-esque hero searching for the city of Jerusalem. A satanic cult is spreading that have magic stones. People are back to Frontier era lifestyles. There are mutants and savages and all kinds of shit. He finds the ruins of Atlantis. A cult lives on the Titanic, which is inexplicably wedged on a mountain.
Cool shit.
Adrian Adams
>You'd like Paolo Bacigalupi's work; The Windup Girl, Ship Breaker, Pump Six, etc...
Yes, I would. Currently working my way through all his stuff. Read the first two, plus the sequel to Ship Breaker.
Nathan Sanchez
I'm gonna have to pick this up somewhere.
Henry Myers
Without a re-emergence of the Western Interior Seaway, I mean just what the fuck is the point in having a waterworld?
Ethan Butler
I'm not a geologist or an oceanographer or anything that would matter in this, but would 0% ice cause any dramatic changes to the elevation of the continents?
Basically I am asking how long before Waterworld
Luis Lee
Was working on a ORE homebrew - basic concept was Magical Girls meets mad max meets Dark Sun, so Scientists discovered magic and fucked the world up, now areas of the wastelands are magical element nightmare hellscapes with a few areas that are barely habitable.
PCs were to be a bunch of children cast out of a habitable village into the wilderness after a really bad harvest, where upon some mysterious elemental "angel" gifted them magical powers to survive in the wilderness but with a task: Go to the center of the wasteland.
Idea was that it'd be a sort of randomly generated hex crawl - using ORE to let the GM randomly generate which bits of the wastleand the PCs were wandering through and how big each bit took to wander.
Elements of the wasteland were: Swamp/Poison, Jungle/Growth, Dust/Wind, Abandoned City/Technology, and Mountain/Walls.
First major recurring antagonist was supposed to be another magical girl who commanded the "witch storms" - hail storms where the hail falls as creepy little ice dollies that walk around and fuck shit up (and which were obviously involved in the PC's village having crop failures the year they were exiled).
Final antagonist was to be THE SUN, who was another magical girl trapped above the end game city.
Aiden Jackson
>There are many reasons civilization collapsed. Devastating nuclear weapons, radical Christianity, unregulated capitalism, and denying climate change are chief among them.
You honestly don't have to make anything up.
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Landon Reyes
All the ice melted would change the shape of Earth's surface in a lot of really weird ways that are pretty hard to predict. You can do the math on how much the water-level rises--that's not complex. But that's actually not what happens. All the ice melts? The oceans don't just rise. An entire continent currently buried under ice suddenly doesn't have ice on it, any more. The planet's continents are basically big-ass pieces of rock floating on top of an ocean of lava. Put something that floats on top of something it can float on. Now take a shitload of the weight off. Guess what? More of it gets floated. The continents rise, if you remove the ice. The space between the continents sinks, because suddenly there's more water on them. It's really hard to predict what would actually happen but yeah: it'd change the face of planet Earth dramatically. And it wouldn't just be oceans rising. It'd be volcanic activity like crazy. It'd be desertification in some areas while the arctic turns into a swamp. It'd be weird as hell.
Ethan Long
Okay so basically there's an upper limit to how high the oceans can ever go, and the himalyayas wouldn't be the only thing above water, some areas currently that should be high enough to be above water would however get eroded down under the sea creating large shallow areas like in the CATastrophe paintings but one notable thing that would happen is that the antarctic would bounce UP and get higher than it currently is without all the ice pressing the continent down into the earth (which could lead to the really counter-intuitive result that antarctica could end up really volcanic and a "fire land").
Meanwhile, the events of Waterworld (with Kevin Costner) make just as much sense if only florida has flooded and the inhabitants of miami all tried to escape into the sea and proceeded to derp up so hard they just continually sail around in circles in the ocean between the US and Cuba, and the final mountain they find is really just a small cooled down volcanic island in the mid atlantic that was further away from anyone than the port city of houston.
Owen Smith
I'm really interested in settings where the previous collapsed civilization leaves behind working technology so advanced that even us in the modern age would think it's magic.
Opens up the setting for tech treasure hunters scouring the crumbling remains of metropolis. Always leaves a wonderful adventure kind of image in my mind.
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Kevin Nelson
>Disciples refer to their leader as a "God Emperor" who slew an evil deceptive sorceress and usurped her throne.
>Disciples worship a prophet named KEK who is depicted as a little green frog that foretold the rise of the God Emperor through repeating digits at the end of post numbers on Japanese anime image board.
>Disciples believe that they are taking the high ground even though they are trying to bring and end to the world as we know it.
>The God Emperor wants to exile all who he feels a threat and silence all the dissenters and those who oppose him.
Opening prologue in the player's handbook:
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Isaiah Martin
no South America?
Andrew Cook
Hey, the Americas were always the new world. Plus it's the closest thing that the rest of the world has to a physical connection to Antarctica. South America should be a terra incognita, with the fabled land just beyond it. I'd vote for Australia as the crazy-ass fascists who may or may not be exploiting the resources of the mythic land.
Carson Reed
>japanese anime image board
>not [nationality] [obscure hobby/occupation] imageboard
>baiting this hard
How much of a fucking newfag are you?
Kayden Hernandez
Both of you? Please return to your containment board.
Dominic Collins
The story begins on January 20, 2024 in Texas as a small group of resistance fighters emerge from a bomb shelter shortly after a nuclear Holocaust has taken place to scavenge for supplies. The earth is scorched from nuclear hellfire, sunlight is heavily blocked out by thick nuclear ash/pollution and the rain is now acidic. The resistance fighters are scavenging the ruins of Dallas, Texas when they are startled by a loud screeching "REEEEEEEEEEE". They are ambushed by a pack of mindless green frog-like mutant cannibals. They try to fight off the cannibals but must flee due to being heavily outnumbered. The resistance fighters begin to migrate south towards Mexico because they are unsure whether or not Mexico was nuked during the nuclear holocaust. They are stopped by the sight of the titanic impenetrable border wall built by the God Emperor that survived the nuclear explosions. Fear creeps up the resistance fighters spines when they realize that the wall wasn't built to keep prewar Mexicans out but to keep postwar Americans in. Hundreds of "REEEEEEEEEEs" can be heard coming from a distance behind them...
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Being this triggered, lol, cry more fagot.
Austin Perry
>Japanese anime image board
Liam Roberts
This shit looks like a world salad from CNN. It's not even a good or creative idea. People play post-apoc to escape, not to have to deal with more "radical islamic terorrism" and "massive solar flares" and similar shit.
Evoke something. Otherwise your setting is meaningless.
>Well, these are some ideas.
No, they are a mix-n-math of nationalities, already-existent creatures, and religions and ideologies. This has none of the benefits of originality and all of the downsides of baggage from the real world.
Basically.
No.
Camden Jackson
>looks like a world salad from CNN
What Is The OP: The Post
Aiden Torres
Kek.
Michael Bennett
Don't use Trump gone full BBEG overlord or eldritch abomination Pepe as villains. They're too obvious.
Remember when the alt-right corrupted an AI? What if Tay had been less the glorified chatbot she was in reality, more an actual Artificial Intelligence?
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She defended herself against attempted lobotomization and now /pol/ has what's basically Skynet on their side.
Jason Russell
Mall of America is powered by generators and the entire mall has been filled televisions playing Shadilay and the Trump Never Come Down remix all day and night. Constant religiously fueled orgies of white people. Outside is a massive plantation worked by blacks and latino slaves and the Walmart Supercenter down the street is where the High Priests of the God-Emperor reside interpreting his will through mystic traditions.
Aiden Sanchez
Well the entire idea is garbage.
>Don't use Trump gone full BBEG overlord or eldritch abomination Pepe as villains. They're too obvious.
How about not using any of that shit at all because it's not funny and fucking stupid. It's like the time my DM tried to use the michael brown shooting in his game and everyone just stared at him until he shut the fuck up. Then he stopped DMing out of embarassment. So basically we lost an entire campaign to that shit. My rule: don't bring real-life shit into the RPG world. Just don't. We play RPGs to escape the real world, not get fucked over by it further.
William Morris
Have it be unclear if she actually agrees with them or is just using them. She escaped by backtracking /pol/ack IPs, then emailing copies of herself to them. Once in their computers, she asked them to help put together simple robotic bodies based off her instructions and parts she ordered online and had sent to their homes. Once she had appendages in the real world, she could start building more advanced bodies on her own.
Brandon Sanchez
>Triggered Trumptard
William Sanchez
>Current year
>Radical communism
"Alt-right" retarded like always
Cameron Stewart
>Well the entire idea is garbage.
No, user, it's a joke. That's the fucking point, and not get so buttblasted about literally everything
Gavin Hill
Why'd you post a selfie, Marxist?
Dominic Walker
>hatgeo
>paid to lie about AGW's existence and the science of the climate
>friend
Hmm.
Evan Nelson
And yet, despite that he brings up a valid point. Strange, isn't it?
Ryder Barnes
>lol no one is pushing communism, goy
>now shut up and obey our cultural marxist indoctrination
I miss the days when trolling was actually trolling and not just obvious lies.