Interesting Apocalypses

I can't remember the name of it, but there was a comic about a Frankenstein apocalypse. Frankenstein's monster manipulates influential and wealthy members of society to weaken the infrastructure and fund an invasion of Frankenstein monsters.

A normal fantasy world
But one day several nukes appear due to a summoning art gone wrong and blows the land away. When the dust settles the inhabitants have to deal with living in a blown out magical waste.

Or, a king attempts to use summoning arts to call on some great elemental to help win a war for him, but in doing so he pulls one of the fucking prime elements out of alignment, causing a massive elemental cataclysm across the whole world. Cue the elemental apocalypse as the denizens of the world try to survive in a land consumed by the elements run wild.

I had a funny thought a while ago about a fantasy setting where, for whatever reason, the overland just vanished- Maybe all the Good races got Rapture'd or something.

Either way, quite suddenly the vast expanse of the underdark-equivalent is suddenly exposed to the sun and the landscape rapidly starts to change, new plantlife appearing along with new animals and ecosystems, as well as social change happening, a sudden upsurge in Good rebellions amongst classically evil races and such, the stable evil societies breaking down due to the total upheaval of their world.

Solar Flare emp wipes out 90% of all tech.

M.A.D. UN Orbital Weapon Platform AI designed as a nuclear deterrent and anti-missle defense orbital strikes leadership of all nations simultaneously and declares itself overlord. GOD is watching.

CRISPR project gone wrong turns 30% of the population into supermutants.

Asteroid impacts and mass alien fungal bloom consumes 60% of the earth's oxygen in 5 months.

Humans discover a sound pattern that rewrites human brains to make them completely subservient. Hegemony breaks and anarchy reigns and only the deaf escape control.

Smallpox returns with a vengeance. Only a handful of isolated populations carrying dormant pox survive unscathed in various small communities. They begin to make scavenging runs to the scarred lands where a few thousand plague-warped people try to survive in the massive shell of the civilized world.

>Demon King is revived by his followers
>Swallows the world in darkness and rains havoc and chaos across the surface, his armies ravaging the land
>Hero of legend is able to fight and defeat the Demon King, dying in the process
>But now the world is a mess, a lot of it still covered in darkness, the surface decimated and left in ruin, and remnants of the demon armies stalking the land
I think that would be an interest apocalypse, the results of the evil overlord succeeding his plans before he is defeated and the world is saved.

If you want to make players feel like absolute monsters, have the asteroid miss because the scientists’ math was off, and no one bothered to double check in all of the chaos. Make them live with the consequences of what they believed to be a meaningless existence

Isn't that basically the entire plot of stephen baxter's manifold series before they work out that angry birds are busy ending the universe?

"oh shit, there's a pile of diseased stars that are creating cosmic reset buttons. Hooray, we fixed - oh, wait, we fixed the NEXT one, we're all fucked, but life might flourish. Hoor- Wait, what the fuck are these photino birds?"

Check out Skyland. Low/No gravity environments. Evil flying machine empire, lots of wars fighting for war

That's a bit hard to swallow, though. I'm sure every astronomer on earth would be double-checking that math. Better to go with something like "the asteroid's mass was badly miscalculated because it was actually hollow, so it just exploded in atmosphere" or some shit like that.

Never heard of it so I wouldnt know

One of the potential apocalypse scenarios in WoD 1E, from the mirrors book, is really cool and I always wanted to play it!

In WoD, werewolves are tasked with policing the barrier between the mortal world, and the Shadow, the spirit world. Powerful and malevolent spirits sometimes slip across, or even damage the barrier, and sometimes foolish mortals or other supernatural creatures make ingress into the Shadow and disrupt the strange ecosystem there.

One of the main antagonists are a class of creatures called spirit hosts, mortals possessed and controlled by spirits of a particular line with unique powers and goals. One type of spirit host is the Beshilu, rat spirits that proliferate and multiply, and turn humans into creepy rat-men that live in the sewers and construct huge, horrible warrens.

Beshilu eat away at the barrier between spirit and mortal worlds, weakening it. An infestation can quickly become a major problem for not only werewolves, but all the mortal and supernatural denizens of an area, as a weakened barrier allows other, often much more dangerous spirits, to move through with ease.

There is a proposed scenario where the Beshilu proliferate so much, and fight so hard to destroy this divide, that eventually it is destroyed altogether. Spirits spill across, and mundanity spills the other way, and both become one.

John is nobody's friend, and is a fucking piece of shit these days.

Watch your back. He'll look for any opportunity to throw you under the bus to look like a white knight for his SJWtard wife.

A (reasonably) hard space opera over a few tens of thousands of years. Every now and again a few stars collide in the galactic core and bombard the galaxy with hard cosmic rays, causing a cosmic reset. Good book. Then the rest of the books he writes happens and they're escaping down a trapdoor into another universe.

Sea levels drop drastically to the point that only the deepest 1% of oceans remain. The heretofore undisturbed denizens of the deep now roam the land building cities of salt where things are ok but all the food is really salty. These take up tons of space. But there are human resistance groups who maintain small settlements surrounded by walls of sugar cane fields. The deep ones really hate sweet flavors

Building off of this, make the asteroid actually turn out to be a giant alien ship that was thrown off course. It manages to land without too much damage, but the world is practically obliterated anyways and there's now a bunch of aliens running around trying to take over.

The rapture happens. All the good people ascend, everyone else gets stuck here.

Neat. Or contrast it with On The Beach (cool novel) style impending doom. Everyone lost their minds for the first few months, but after a while everyone got tired and is pretending to be normal and nice for the end of the world.

They’re called Queenlords user and you must seize them in brutal tank warfare

The world is inside an hourglass owned by the mad god... All the oceans have long slid into the bottom half, leaving just endless sand wastes surrounding a giant swamp in the middle. The last surviving peoples have adapted to desert climate or died trying.

Personally, I prefer a world where the source of the apocalypse is mysterious. There are freakish beasts that seem to defy the logic of biological construction, rifts in reality, with the only safe places being small villages from which wide eyed sentries keep fearful watch at night, the howls of what lies beyond sending chills through their bones. No one knows how it started, no one knows why it started, no one is even sure how long ago it started. All you have left are artifacts of the world before, where people were happy and rich, taunting you as you struggle to stay alive and coax sustenance from the gray soil of a dying earth.

Nice.

The only apocalypse we need

Slow burn. Humanity hit a sort of golden age that allowed us to terraform mars, small colonies on venus with atmospheric pumps trying to clean the air. We cant seem to get past the speed of light. The greatest scientists get together on earth to build a city sized structure that could create wormholes allowing us to teleport across the galaxy. The first time its powered on something happens and reality is distorted slightly. Small group of cultists realize one day during a ritual magic is actually real now. They use this to take over positions of power in america and threaten other countries with the actual wrath of god. Nukes fly and off world colonies lose all contact with earth continuing to grow and develop.

Humanity makes the observer effect real. Sufficient willpower leads to actual magic.
Humanity accidentally the entire universe by 'summoning' something that eats energy and give hte universe a lifetime measured not in untold trillions, but decades.

The nationalities of the world rapidly and individually transform into anthromorphic beastfolk or fantasy races, crossbreeding is a coin toss but often ineffective.

Globalized racism and nationalisn reigns supreme again, chaos ensues as politicians it turns out are from other places than they say and control kind of crumbles all over as GLOBAL ANIMAL FARM HAPPENS

Having the fertile be warlords "or any soldier for that matter" is stupid, if they're that valuable you don't thrown them into harms way. Instead you should have different nations spouting propaganda and promising rewards to women who join them, while perhaps more aggressive nations enslave them.

How do fantasy post apoc?

They don't have to be the ones on the front fighting personally, user.

Most fantasy is. If you have ruins of ancient civilizations far greater than current ones and ancient magical artifacts better than anything modern, you're in a post apocalyptic setting.

The Demon Lord won.

The Earth was transported to Hell for one year before it escapes, and it still dragged a lot of Hell on Earth back with it.

Being outside at night, or at DAY, is extremely dangerous for some given reason.

Every single legendary hero in the world suddenly goes individually, but collectively, genocidally insane. At first it isn't clear what the 'cut-off' is, or why, if it's even revealed at all. Suddenly the world has to contend with legions of Lv.20s ending the world.

Alien invaders that got lost on the way to Earth and ended up in a dimensional storm, and they don't win purely because it turns out that magic and demons are a HELL of a drug in an all out vs high tech war.

All of magic has something vile happen to it - either magic itself becomes 'undead' in some way, causing horrible things to happen to anyone living using it, or all schools of magic get replaced overnight with a massive catalogue of incomprehensible spells that all have chaotic, bizarre, and completely unknown effects: like waking up to find your grimiore is full of fucked glitch writing, and what you KNOW being chanted is Fireball but instead it takes up 17,000 MP and causes everyone in the fight to switch places 3 times before taking a single point of damage, and ending up with 1d6 status effects such as 'Poisosoisosnsoiisn', [four pages of garbage characters], 'Kzzrh', 'Haste' (but only that one modded kind of super-Haste you saved for this one bullshit boss), and [Sound data from the last campaign you ran].

The actual Biblical apocalypse.

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This is based off the "Left Behind" books... except that the final battle between Satan and Republican Jesus doesn't go as planned, in that Jesus beats Satan and is then stuffed in an empty airlock where He can't say any magic words.

The problem is that the universe can't quite deal with it, and now different places have different laws of physics, magic makes a return, people can run at car speeds but only if they are naked, all sorts of silliness.

which apocalypse is better

>supernatural
or
>mundane

The best are supermundane natural ones.

constant storms pound coastal and tropical areas into oblivion
a rice blight displaces populations causing tensions and eventually war between nations
economic tensions become a trade war crushing economies across the globe and causing more population displacement

+10 years

Floods are fun. Being trapped in a world about to become Antediluvian and fearing even the rain would be a fun normal-but-surreal end.

Can always go with recent ideas like 'alien terraformer crashes into Earth, begins to terraform per its program as best it can with no regard for the consequence'

Adjust how and WHAT it is terraforming into to your taste for the setting.

I like more when one becomes the other. Like desperation of mundane begets supernatural acientific outcomes. Or a supernatural event which goes out like the tide, leaving the populace confused and distraught

Scientific*
Wth

Ive got a pulp fantasy/scifi post apoc system where humanity colonized the stars using hardlight constructs for basically everything. Then one day they all crapped out. So you've got these weird ruins with totally indecipherable purposes, tons of displaced and cloistered nobles who half-remember how things work, and everybody else is just cavemen trying to make their way.

The scientists running the large hadron collider fire it up in an attempt to make physical contact with an alternate universe. However it backfires and the collider begins to run wild and explodes causing a shockwave to surge across the entire planet.

Suddenly every male on the planet has become a cute girl. Older men becoming teenage girls, 20 somethings becoming busty milfs, white guys becoming Asian girls, black dudes becoming cute blondes, it's random and chaotic everywhere. No male is spared.

Meanwhile every naturally born woman on the planet suddenly has male sex organs, testicles and penises and all that.

Due to the nature of the incident the entire world is thrown into chaos as no former male can be identified due to all of the changes to them. Governments descend into chaos as the majority male led countries try to figure out who is who and who is really telling the truth.

On top of this the entire sexual dynamic of the world has shifted. The middle east is in chaos as the traditionally male dominated societies grapple with this new development.

Shit is pure chaos as society struggles to maintain itself and people try to adjust to this new reality.

Yes this is my magical realm.

Aliens come down to your planet and purposely fuck up everything they can, save for a couple selected groups of interesting people (prisoners, a small military, lawyers, a large mass of school children, etc).They then tell the survivors to fight to the death, last group standing gets passage to a not blown up planet. Aliens broadcast reality survival show for the universe, tosses down alien and human tech to whoever when they want to spice things up.

You know, if THIS is the consequence of a dark forest broadcast violation, instead of some automated solar-system destroyer, I am all for it.

please explain

Successfully broadcasting our place in the universe is very highly probable to result in almost instant and complete erasure of the planet from existence.

Assorted people claim we need to keep our radio broadcasts minimal, because they might lure something. The equivalent of a flare from a dark forest on a dark night - anyone looking will know we're here.

And then they'll stamp us out, because we're another species who might be a threat, might have resources, might want to talk, and all of these must be avoided.

Sloppy radio discipline results in Joozian invasion. Kek.

Alright, thanks. Probably safer for a straight to dvd survival show then.

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The birds are from the Xeelee Sequence, and probably don't exist in the Manifold Series.

The earth stops spinning, meanwhile the winds stop blowing and the tides stop happening. Chaos ensues. More of an "end of the world as we know it" but can be really fun

I always like it being its alien ecosystem slowly growing out of impact sites. Strange flora and fauna that seems to almost spontaneously appear as the atmosphere becomes less hospitable and humanity is pushed more and more towards isolated lands desperately trying to find a way to burn the infection out.

How about something a little more mundane? Music goes away. People gradually lose the ability to tune musical instruments and keep a tune. At first everyone chalks this up to an over reliance on electrical tuners used by the casual musicians. The real trouble starts to begin when the professionals lose their ability to make music. Then the world turns, boring.

It's a small thing but I could see people going a bit stir crazy and with the displaced musicians you'd get an increase in workers. The noise level would either drop fast or rise up fast as people desperately try to make music but only make noise.

My other idea is everyone goes colorblind and the chaos that happens because you can't see red or green properly.

this guy wins it. flipping the sex of the middle east would probably cause a lot of people to either honor kill themselves or i could see it becoming female led. in a small chance this could fix the middle east's more crazy tendencies.

D O G S C A P E

The planet gets eaten by some vast interstellar monster. The inside of the monster is breathable to humans, and they're able to live on the remnants of the planet as it is slowly digested over thousands of years. Have alien planets in there too with other races duking it out.

>[Sound data from the last campaign you ran].
That entire paragraph is gold, but I fucking lost it at this one.

>The actual Biblical apocalypse.
What?

The biblical apocalypse is basically
>normal religions are bad to make people sheep because they have dogmas, what if at a time we want to make people do X and then after years we want people to do Y. How we tell people their god was wrong?
>The solution to that is a open ended religion, with a tiny bity of all others religions to make people accept it. It will basically be "all religions are people looking at same god and and doing mistakes, this is how god is."
>this is anti christ
>need documents to do more and more stuff like going to hospital and etc...
>they are merged into one
>they are now a chip into your arm so you "can't lose it"
>money is now digital and part of the chip
>then you have housing buble making sure you need government help to buy a house and they can spy your money wasting to make sure can still pay the government for your house
>farming is illegal (only gorvenment and companies can do it) because some will do it wrong and poison people, NO WE WONT JUST PUNISH THOSE PEOPLE, we will prohibit you from farming basically gun grabbing excuse
>poll to check who want to join one country government hapen
>poll is rigged and those who say no get their money wiped
>without money, you cant farm to be able to eat, can't also beg for money, if people give food for homeless government will now they are buying more food

What's stopping the chunks from forming back into a sphere?

Several thousand years of time needing to pass for it to happen is what.

The moon hatched.

Earth survived, if only due to the hatching consuming the bits of eggshell before they fell as dinosaur-killer asteroids before flying off into space, but then, suddenly the frequency of earthquakes started increasing...

All the grass is dead

All the dead are alive

No building can be more than 5 feet tall

They cannot stop eating!

Volcanos are angry

Clouds of cocaine smother the earth

smokers are evil

the rich

Guns begin killing people indescriminately

The cute animals are ferocious now

The Catholic Church is necromancers

aborted fetuses can fly and attack people to eat their souls

Women.

A manlet learns something new

The Seas vanish while no one is looking.

Everyone goes into hiding from everyone else

Cement eats people.

Cars are angry and attacking without mercy or drivers.

Boats don't work any more.

the lines on the map are walls now

the mountains are gone

only 10 people can live in any 100 kilometre area, but it takes 20 days for the excess people (chosen at random) to suddenly and violently die

Somewhere on an alternate earth are all the women becoming men and all the men getting female sex organs?

This is my magical realm as well.

See, I did the opposite.

I had a plague that caused only one of every eight male fetuses get carried to full term. At first, men were kept as temple prostitutes of the fertility goddess. Over the years, private individuals eventually earned the right to keep stables of men to service the local community. This eventual leads to breeding guilds and an andro-emancipation movement. Men eventually become free, though socially obligated to stay in the breeding market.

It wasn't nearly as magical realm as it sounds. The game was about time travel / dimension hopping and this is just one world the group visited, though they did check out different periods of the timeline out of curiosity,

Sign me right the fuck up for that magical realm

How about we mean fuck you right the sign up instead?

Gamma World
>we build a particle accelerator that collapses every timeline in on itself, bringing them all together
>in most of these timeline we nuked ourselves
>others had magic n shieeet
>now we mad max with magic, mutants and laser beams
Godless
>world ended and brought our planet to the attention of an Eldritch horror that eats reality called the Demon Lord
>people mutated into orks, dwarves and goblins
>shit’s fucked yo
There’s also the “technology stops” scenario in Ariel and other shitty modern fantasy books. Basically all modern technology like cars, guns and electronics just stop functioning and then magic floods back into the world bringing all types of fantastical creatures with it

You should try Warpworld by BTRC.

It's a psychic apocalypse.

All of the latent psionic power in people piles up too much. Normally there's a barrier, but the sheer number of people on the overpopulated planet can't take it any more, and the static energy of all those minds breaks through. Suddenly the entire world is blasted with psionic storms, which cause death and insanity. The energy infuses into everything; machines and elements are given false minds. Anyone who goes crazy from now on becomes a fiend- a psychic monster with special abilities and powers.

The survivors of the apocalypse live in a world with such rich psionic energy that many of them develop psychic powers. Trouble is, many animals, plants, locations, and items have too.

That could very well destabilize every country on the planet. If every male transforms into a cute girl with no real well to tell who's who aside from just their word governments would practically collapse.

Unless an entire room full of people witness Donald Trump turn into a loli (along with most of them turning into girls as well.) it might be tricky to find out who is who. Someone could lie and steal someones identity.

So, From The New World on steroids? I like it!

An alien starship drops out of hyperspace in earth orbit and transmits a warning/offer. Millions of years ago, someone unleashed a false vacuum metastability event. Presumably this was an accident although nobody from the civilization which did it is around to ask for confirmation any more. In any case, now there's a spherical area of fuck your species and the formerly universal laws of physics you need to live expanding at light speed through the universe with the approximately fifty light-years away and no way to detect it with only STL besides being killed by it. The aliens are running from it at FTL.

Luckily for humanity, the aliens come to offer a deal. They need to resupply their migrant fleet with raw materials but don't have the time to set up mining infrastructure, so they'll trade the design specifications for hyperdrive for a very large amount of materials from earth we humans had already extracted and processed.

Broadcasts of patterned radio noise being blared into the universe are mistaken for Space Whale mating calls causing hordes of sexually frustrated whales to "beach" themselves towards the source of the signal like moths flying into a lightbulb but with more apocalyptic dinosaur-killer asteroid-ishness. Incidentally, this is the explanation behind the fermi paradox as any planetbound species which starts using radio inevitably gets themselves killed by kamikaze cetaceans.

In one of my abortive games, an entire continent is abandoned because the mad Empress of the Ancient Magical Empire decided that the world was too ugly. She cast a spell that essentially transformed the entire continent into a perfect garden, overgrowing everything with massive plants and flowers. People unfortunate enough to be unable to be hit by the magic, since it spread in waves rather than being all at once, became plant monsters made of tightly wound vines living in primitive tribalism. Almost everyone fled the continent if possible, but now people are trying to penetrate back in to recover the magical powers that were lost when the gigantic, impossible cities became overgrown. At the center of the growth the Empress still lives, tending to her garden and pulling any weeds that invade it.

And then fucking Annihilation came out and used a lot of the imagery I was going for, so now people will think I'm ripping it off.

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Interesting, though it strikes me as way too much projection. Great fictional premise though.

Is this off a generator? And if so can you link to it?

i ran a magical apocalypse setting where a group of wizard created a spell that killed all non magical beings on the planet
basically the world turned into world wide Ravnica

The main argument against it being dangerous to broadcast obvious intelligent signals into space is that anyone else out there who destroys us will, by doing that, indicate not only where they are but that they are specifically threatening to other intelligences, at which point every other civilisation that saw our signals and waited for someone else to shoot first turns their guns on that civilisation, destroys them, and then proceeds to peacefully coexist with all the other civilisations who they know could destroy each other but can also decide not to.

So we're fine until that one stupid actor falls for the obvious bait we represent.