Setting talk:The Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap

What's out, what's in

Things like SLBMs and such are probably going to be limited, I'd hazard a guess that they'd be in the pens when the missiles fire, and be wiped. ABM systems will be near non-existent, maybe they'd be able to scramble some units but not enough, not in a short enough timeframe, at least in America. The Aegis SLABMs from the Arleigh Burkes would cut some of them, but a massive launch would burn through rapidly. Washington is fucked. It's gone and dusted. National Guard, if any left, would pick up the pieces. They would go with remaining US Armed Forces. Militas would form to defeat raiders and keep some semblance of order. The remains of global comms tech would start contacting others. I'd think that some civvie platforms would still operate. At least, these are my thoughts. Post what you guys got. --Washington001 (talk) 05:09, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Timeline

we seriously need a timeline for the entire world starting from the point the nukes were launched. --- how's Friday at 12:30 PM sound for a launch-time?

Nuclear Strikes & Other Events

I moved the list of nuclear strikes in this section to a Google map, and made it open and editable. Please feel free to edit it - there is a lot of room for improvement - but if you do, please make a note as to what you changed and why.

I did not add marks to denote the riots and disturbances - if someone else would like to, they can feel free to grab them from the history. It seems bizarre to note riots and disturbances after a nuclear war - shouldn't the list basically be all inclusive? Shouldn't the absence of riots and disturbances merit more notice?

Further, I do think the number of nuclear strikes is excessive, so I'm going to add a note that the strike locations are reported strikes, and may be incorrect. The way things were set up... there wouldn't be much left to play in. --Virulent 23:30, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Excessive? Hell no. You could actually add more nukes and still have plenty of livable space. Of course, I'm assuming these are all 1.2 megaton ICBMs, since that seems to be the typical explosive yield. Then again, you might be dropping Tsar Bombas all over the place, so my estimates might be way off. Diplodocus 05:31, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Background

as the starter of this project, I'm starting to realize that the greater this project is contributed to, the more deviation of overall setting will occur. Now for me the project has no real purpose other than to get Jericho/Twilight 2000 type genre versions of local and regional conflicts smaller than the state level from people familiar with those areas, and that seems to be succeeding. So I want everyone contributing to know that they can remove or alter the background if they wish. I suppose a general spread out civil war isn't too constraining as far as the American regions are concerned, it was written to be flexible since this is such a multiple POV project, but in general it's really an unnecessary window dressing at this point. Everyone knows what the broad genre of post-apocalypses that aren't a hundred years or more later and with crazy mutants or a generation later and dealing with Mad Maxian nomads is like. Twilight 2000 is rather popular in the RPG community, Jericho was a popular show, and in general Cold War post-apocalyptic scenarios are popular in world society in general. So even though the tone concerning the specific effects of nuclear war might change from person to person, there's subgenre cohesion even without a specific background. Anyways, yeah, if I want to write about the post-apocalyptic civil war more, I'll write my own idea. The same way that if someone wanted to detail the whole world being effected in what they think nuclear war is like, they can make their own thing. As this is a multi-contributor project the point here isn't to come up with a single setting as much as give an interesting collection of points that are similar enough to be connected to with maybe just a little bit of alteration, which a Gamemaster is going to do when he uses something regardless. So I'm still 100% behind this project, I just don't want my "man NPO and the Cold War bunkers make great plot devices" and Twilight 2000 inspired US civil war bits to bog anyone down. I've already got a wild tangent going to explore those things further myself and I might post about them on /tg/ at some point because sharing is caring and whatnot. So if you like the civil war, include it in your locale, if not don't. It's presented in such a way that if a person wants to use all the collected material and edit it to include or exclude that one way or another they can without probably too much trouble.

I dig your setting very much. I've been "contributing" a lot today - hopefully positively. Could you please give me your opinion on a 3rd premise I added, under Nuclear Winter? --Virulent 23:30, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

That's actually what triggered my statement here. I read it and at first I was concerned, but then I realized it was right. I think a consensus on there not being Fallout esque mutants or power armor and such around is correct, but there are many ways to interpret a "realistic apocalypse" - from actually realistic, to grimdark, to cinematic, and so on. That is we stay in the same subgenre of post-apocalyptic stuff, but let people address the tone as they see fit. Also it's not that unrealistic to think that some areas would get lighter attacks than others, hence a person with a gloomier look at the effects of fallout and so on can represent such. I think that the sheer value of the individualized localized content outweighs any tyranny by majority type plans to enforce some strict rigidity on everything.

Region Articles

Hawaii

No idea if this project is even still alive but I just made a bigass article for Hawaii. Anybody care to critique? --Petro 06:14, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

• Cool stories bro, megusta. --FlintTD 19:53, 25 August 2011 (UTC)