[Dalillama]

I just ran the first session of a Road Hogs/After the Bomb campaign using the RAW 1980s-era Palladium proto -Megaverse system. The players have had some very tart things to say about the character generation system, but we're going on. The setting can be summed up as "the world of the Ninja Turtles,but post-apocalypse" or as "Fallout: Zootopia meets Mad Max: Furry Road:" everyone is an animal with a greater or lesser degrees of anthropomorphism and humans are nigh-extinct. A road gang with imperial aspirations and materiel support from a high-tech fascist state on the East coast has take over much of the Pacific Northwest and pushing south The PCs are Northern Oregon and Southern California (that were), brought together in the wake of the fighting and now cruising the wastelands in a heavily armed schoolbus called the Queen of the Desert doing what it takes to get by.

Normally that consists of moonlighting on maintenance projects of various sorts, the bat mechanic has most of a machine shop built in behind the living quarters and the mink civil engineer has some surveying kit and places that hire her are expected to provide their own materials, labor, and/or machinery (the other two party members are their driver, a fox with serious debts to unpleasant people, and a grizzly bear formsr former road ganger whose old outfit came second in a fight with the Road Hogs; he handles security.)

Today they have chosen to fill the underfloor cargo space with dynamite, foisted on them by a dodgy fellow representing a resistance group they've never heard of. He says the rail bridge over the Klamath River is being repaiy, and the dynamite is to wreck it again, harder this time. So far they've dealt with freelance border patrols for both sides, the second of which climaxed in a high-speed late-night machinegun battle, while the 8 track playe Dolly Parton classics sung by a wren with a guitar.