Looking for a game with the feel of OSR fantasy but set in an apocalyptic world.

Yep, I'm a child of the 70s-80s and I loved me some Thundarr.

Gamma World, Wasteland Wanderers, Mutant Future, and OSR system the GM prefers.

So who's ready to run this thing for a very enthusiastic player?

Does Thundarr represent the basic experience you want to re-create? Not in the specifics, but as in "some of the trappings of post-apoc stories, but mostly as a side-order to a gonzo smashup of sword & sorcery & weird science"?

System-wise, I do really like Mutant Future. And when you say Wasteland Wanderers, are you referring to the D&D 5E supplement?

Have you ever come across "Rebels of the Outlaw Wastes"? It might be a little wackier than you're looking for (and, failing that, maybe a little less crunchy), but it does a really good job of emulating weird post-apocalypse (as opposed to gritty reality-simulation post-apocalypse).

This is accurate. Olde School Fantasy with Post-Apoc trappings.



I was.



I am not familiar with it but I will go look it up.

Cool beans. I like weird post-apocalyptic games and I've been in the mood for something OSR-related for a while.

Let me look through some PDF's and have a think. See if anything sparks joy.

Very cool!

I feel like Rebels of the Outlaw Wastes is a little outside what I'm looking for here. Love the art and overall theme of it though.

Yeah, I suspected it might be. It's more Tank Girl than Gamma World. Figured it was worth the look all the same. Just in case.

Tank Girl is exactly what it made me think of.

I am tempted to take the 5E Wasteland books out for a walk. I have a couple but haven't gotten to use them. But after some thought, I think your original impulse was correct, that the stripped down, freewheeling, player-centric (rather than mechanics-centric) nature of an OSR game is the way to go.

After some poking about, I think that, if I were to run this, I'd use The Black Hack (2nd Edition). Do you know that one? It's very simple, but has some nuance, and I think it emulates the right parts of the Old School experience.

It also has the benefit of a ton of supplements. Classes, monsters, fighting styles, settings. All kinds of excellent material. There are even a few "Hacks" for post-apoc games (and one, Barbarians of the Ruined Earth, that explicitly cites Thundarr as an influence). We can use any or all of that material, or we can stick with the basic game to start and wing it from there.

If I were to run it, I'd be willing to commit to one "Mini Series" worth of content. Five or six adventures, each the length of one three to four session around a table (or about what would fit into a 44 minute TV show), mostly episodic with some kind of overarching plot, and probably a cool boss fight at the end. Might even do a 'Mid Season Hiatus" and jump a couple of levels just to see how the system operates at different points.

Assuming that all words and we get through it in one piece, we take a victory lap and then we either shake hands and walk away or we decide what's next.

Would that work for you?

It most certainly would.

Hell, if it makes it that far it will be a top 5% RPOL game by most standards.

I don't have The Black Hack (2nd Edition) but I'm sure I can get it if I need it (Tomorrow though, Im poor today.).

Okay, let's do it!

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