So I picked up Gamma World the other day. My group will be running through a one off on Saturday as a few of the regulars can't make it. The only D&D we know is 4e as we've all just started this past summer, so we don't have any knowledge of previous editions of either Gamma World or D&D.
I'm looking forward to it after reading through the book and the alpha and omega mutation cards. The cards I find interesting. Had I heard about Gamma World and the card mechanic before I read Penny Arcade's take on them I may have passed it up because of the cards.
Further down the page, titled Gamma World.
This is the intro that comes in the book.
In fall 2012, scientists at the large hadron collider in geneva, swit embarked on a series of high-energy experiments. No one knows exactly what they were attempting to do but a little after 3pm on a thursday afternoon came the Big Mistake. Something unexpected happened and in the blink of an eye, many possible universes all condensed into a single reality.
In some universes, little changed; it didn't make a big difference which team won the 2011 world series, for example. In other universes, there were more important divergences: The Gray Emissary, who was carrying gifts of advanced technology, wasn't shot down at Roswell in 1947, the black death didn't devastate the known world in the 14th century, the dinosaurs didn't die out, nikolai tesla did conquer the world with a robot army, and so on. The cold war went nuclear in 83% of possible universes, and in 3 percent of possible universes, the french unloaded their entire nuclear arsenal on the town of Peshtigo, Wisconson, because it had to be done.
The year is now 2162 (or 151, or 32,173, or Six Monkey Slap-Slap, depending on your point of view). It's been roughly 150 years since the big mistake and earth is very different. The ruins of the ancients (you and I) litter the landscape of radioactive deserts, mutated jungles and vast unexplored wilderness. Strange new creatures, such as beetles the size of cars and evolved badgers with napoleonic complexes, roam the world. Humanity gathers in small tribes though humanity isn't really the term to use anymore. Most sentient beings are mutated freaks who look little like the humans of today.
I'll let you know how things go.
I'm looking forward to it after reading through the book and the alpha and omega mutation cards. The cards I find interesting. Had I heard about Gamma World and the card mechanic before I read Penny Arcade's take on them I may have passed it up because of the cards.
Further down the page, titled Gamma World.
This is the intro that comes in the book.
In fall 2012, scientists at the large hadron collider in geneva, swit embarked on a series of high-energy experiments. No one knows exactly what they were attempting to do but a little after 3pm on a thursday afternoon came the Big Mistake. Something unexpected happened and in the blink of an eye, many possible universes all condensed into a single reality.
In some universes, little changed; it didn't make a big difference which team won the 2011 world series, for example. In other universes, there were more important divergences: The Gray Emissary, who was carrying gifts of advanced technology, wasn't shot down at Roswell in 1947, the black death didn't devastate the known world in the 14th century, the dinosaurs didn't die out, nikolai tesla did conquer the world with a robot army, and so on. The cold war went nuclear in 83% of possible universes, and in 3 percent of possible universes, the french unloaded their entire nuclear arsenal on the town of Peshtigo, Wisconson, because it had to be done.
The year is now 2162 (or 151, or 32,173, or Six Monkey Slap-Slap, depending on your point of view). It's been roughly 150 years since the big mistake and earth is very different. The ruins of the ancients (you and I) litter the landscape of radioactive deserts, mutated jungles and vast unexplored wilderness. Strange new creatures, such as beetles the size of cars and evolved badgers with napoleonic complexes, roam the world. Humanity gathers in small tribes though humanity isn't really the term to use anymore. Most sentient beings are mutated freaks who look little like the humans of today.
I'll let you know how things go.