Thread: Settings for DF
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Old 02-06-2012, 10:48 AM   #11
Randyman
 
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Default Re: Settings for DF

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Originally Posted by lachimba View Post
Another two:

Postapocalyptic

The world was great.... that times over.

Now the survivors eke out their existence; they scavenge old cities full of monsters and try to rebuild their world one gold piece at a time.
Gamma World, anyone?

And, quite frankly, there have been ruminations that the default setting assumptions for D&D (the primary genre source for DF) are exactly this, only the pre-apocalyptic civilization wasn't necessarily "modern Earth".
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