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Old 01-30-2015, 05:11 PM   #7
malloyd
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Default Re: Post-Apocalypse Wasteland Adventure

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Originally Posted by fredtheobviouspseudonym View Post
You'll have to think a bit about how a TL-10 society can collapse so quickly -- probably there will be off-world settlements that might intervene if Homeworld goes kerblooey. As a player I would ask.
And as always, I'm going to recommend *not* doing this and just telling any such players it's a genre convention. When building an unrealistic setting (and let's be honest here, most post-apocalypse settings are fantasy worlds with a coat of paint, certainly any of them that have wasteland motorcycle gangs a generation on are) trying to make the backstory plausible is futile anyway, and spending a lot of word count in it is likely to make people think this is the *important* part of the setting, when that is exactly what it is not supposed to be.
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