Degenesis General?

Does anyone still play Degenesis? I’ve been running it pretty frequently but haven’t gotten the opportunity to play, it’s such a cool world and a pretty fun system, I wish it was more popular here.

> What is Degenesis?
A post apocalyptic role playing game which brands itself as ‘primal punk’ and uses a d6 dice pool system, set in Europe and North Africa following the ‘eshaton’ an event where meteors rained down on earth seemingly destroying everything else. The game is set 500 years after this event, Europe is rough but livable and Africa is prosperous and relatively safe. Various cults from German Doctor - Soldiers and Neo-Gnostic farmer crusaders to Libyan Merchant Lords and various clans work together and against one another for survival or profit. However the threat of the psychonaughts and psychovores, fungus mutated people and plants, threaten all of humanity.

The last splat book, Black Atlantic comes out in spring after being delayed forever. I’m going to upload the books in a few hours but if anyone has the QR code pic, that’d be great.

I ran it for a little while and didn't like it too much. The character creation is way too easy to abuse. The dice system strips a lot of tension out of noncombat encpunters, everything is either too easy or impossible. The setting has a nice aesthetic but the meat of it really isn't too interesting.

Overall I wouldn't say I hated it or anything but the flaws really keep me from running it again.

Bump for interest.

Had a great campaign with the game, after playing a Scrapper with an Enemoi background. The rules are very feast or famine sometimes, but I had fun. The game was pretty simple and standard faire, right up until I looted an astronaut suit from the untouched ruins of a museum.

Then that shit went from being a 6/10 campaign to an 11/10 campaign, as my Scrapper pimped the shit out of that suit.

I've got the books, but I still haven't managed to run or play in a campaign. I did a demo session once and had a lot of fun, but life's just too busy to actually sit down and play it.

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I'd love to play it but I live in a dark and horrifying world where I have no network of friends locally to play with.

That sounds shitty.

Actually have ran a one shot of this and plan to continue when my players and I can fit it into our schedule. Everyone freakin loves it. Just have to be prepared for how lethal it is.

Ran it, loved it and may do it again.

Saving up to own the book because the artwork is high Tier.

I'm in a sort of love/hate relationship with Degenesis. The setting is rich and imaginative as fuck but most of the "side rules" are hot garbage. The book is filled with epic shadowplay between cult leaders and ancient beings but such mundane things as food and basic necessities simply are not present in game's core. And I feel like it's true for the entire system. Top level content is amazing, but for low levels, Sixmorevodka gives only a small example module. For every mind-blowingly good thing, there is one that frustrates me.
I've been running it for some time last year, but now I want to play something more refined and consistent.

How did you get around them?

Can't say ive ever played Degenesis.

But ive used its art for a fuckton of 40k RPGs

My LGS is apparently one of the few brick-and-mortar places where you can get it in America. I had a look and played a demo. It seems to have the same problem as World of Darkness games - all the splats are different factions that hate each other, but the players are supposed to get along despite being different splats.

A lot of sleepless nights spent homebrewing half-assed substitutions. Also, there is some fan work on old Degenesis covering things like food and overnight stay.

>Europe is rough but livable and Africa is prosperous and relatively safe

Wow not even trying hide the progressiveness.

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Was it autism?

As an aside (even though you don't care because you just want to stir shit) Africa has killer plants that are crawling up the continent

Anyone have pdfs for the splats?

My group has been playing it sporadically for over a decade and we'll be getting back into it this week with The Killing Game.

Degenesis has suffered from this kind of shitposting since the early days of the english edition.
There's just something about America not being the only thing in the spotlight, Africa not being a shithole for once, vault people being total losers, the severe lack of firearms and rugged innawood survivalists dying like flies that triggers certain people beyond belief.

Cults are awful in concept and made worse by implementation.

Setting is generic.

I run two degenesis games at the moment, one is just two clanners trying to become heroes.

The other campaign has most of the players being pretty new to pen and paper games, I knew that most of them wouldn't even read the rules, so I made a adventure about a bunch of people with amnesia and used prebuild characters.

It's such a simple yet clever mechanism to keep worse than useless shits away from Degenesis. as evidenced here. I've never realized how easy it could be.