I ran a Zombie Post-apocalyptic campaign using the d20 Modern system. I had a handy Resident Evil companion guide for some of the more iconic monsters and some additional sub-rules like Called Shots for zombies, etc.

So the system wasn't the best for that style of play. The d20 system is.......sketchy and riddled with lots of penalties, required stats and proficiency, and not all that angled towards gritty fast-paced action with guns and technology. I mean, it can be but you have to work at it. Regardless my group seemed to have fun the handful of times we ventured there.

The setting was taken from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (hometown) and because of that intimate knowledge it was a LOT easier to detail the surroundings as well as gauge the time/distances of getting from place to place. It also helped the group form a better picture of the landscape and feel of the environment. Parts of the game took place in a quarantined section of Downtown and used the Rivers as natural barriers from the Undead -ever see Land of the Dead? It's like that- that acted as 'Green Zones'. From there, I'd use current maps for the players to strike in terms of getting supplies, finding pockets of survivors, and furthering The Umbrella Corporations machinations.

Adventures included a lot of resource management, especially ammo and food/water rations. It also included a lot of difficult choices when it came to coming into contacted with infected people (including kids) who haven't turned yet, and what to do with them. It also incorporated their efforts in getting parts of society working again such as a better transportation system like our local railroads and boats. Because the PCs were working for Umbrella (the supposed savior in their eyes), they were also tasked with finding important stranded doctors and researches in the immediate area that had become over run.

All in all, we had a fun time playing the game. It's been brought up a few times, especially with how popular Zombies are in mainstream, to do a few more sessions but working with that system really has me wishing there was something better out there. When we get the Zombie itch, I always just suggest the game Zombies!!! because it's fun and there's no prep work.

Quote from: Kiero;1037655Are you using any variant rules for unarmed combat (to make it suck much less than default)?

Yes. Characters with martial art training have better unarmed combat damage, and depending on the combat school they've trained in will have special abilities.

I haven't run any post-apoc campaigns, but the Mutant Future wiki lists a ton of interesting settings. I really wish I could play some kind of crossover setting which includes Fallout, Mad Max, Gamma World, Omega World, Darwin's World, War Against the Chtorr, Blue Gender, Left Behind, Shadow of Chernobyl, Metro 2033, UnderRail, Wasteland, Vampire Hunter D, Deadlands, Rifts, etc.

Like, IDK... the rapture, nuclear/chemical/biological weapons, alien invasion, reality distortion, etc all happen and turn the world into a post-apocalyptic nightmare. Time travel and planar travel mean that different universes and post-apoc time periods interact.

Does Mutant Future support that sort of thing?

Of course, my famous DCC Last Sun campaign (which has playlogs archived in the RPGPundit's Subforum here, and has a number of RPGPundit Presents issues dedicated to it) is a post-apocalyptic campaign, it's just that the apocalypse happened a long time ago. Of course, it's still going on.

I used to run this kind of thing a lot, generally zombie survival for the most part. On one memorable occasion they turned a diesel train into a mobile home base of sorts, which worked really well until they parked under a bridge and zombies falling over the sides to try and get to them manage to make it into the train.

I ran a post comet-strike game once, styled after Lucifer's Hammer, that was so long ago I can't remember too many specifics but it ended up very much like the original series of Survivors, only with some cannibalistic Royal Marines - IIRC.

I did run a very, very grim post-nuclear game once, but it was too much like misery tourism.

I'm plannign to release a trio of survival/post apoc based games in the near future, based around the themes of family, generations, cooperation and heritage.