Afternow RPG
This is work-in-progress of the new Afternow RPG based on True20, a simplified version of D20.
What is Tales From The Afternow?
The Afternow is a future that wants us to prevent it from happening. It is a grim dystopian future that broadcasts warnings to the past using time transmission broadcasting. In The Afternow, the world has gone to hell in a handbasket. When you play The Afternow RPG, you're playing a character in that dystopian post-apocalyptic future.
What is True20?
True20 is a generic ruleset currently available in pdf at RPGNow. Green Ronin produced True20 from d20 to give more emphasis to story and less to tactics. Gamers like it. It uses familiar d20 conventions but with a different approach. There's easy conversion between the two and instructions are given, so it should be possible to take all that existing support material and use it with this.
Download printable True20 Quick Start Rules Download these to learn the basics of True20
Calling All 10th Rantiversary Afternow RPG Playtesters!
newsstory posted by lxpk Thu, 2009-01-15 04:40Groups: Afternow RPG, Afternow Games, Rantiversary Afternow Playtest Group
Calling All 10th Rantiversary Afternow RPG Playtesters!
I'm very excited to be getting this project started!
If you were part of the 10th Rantiversary Afternow RPG playtesting session, reply here! We had a big playtest group and I can't remember exactly who was and wasn't playing.
If you remember details about your character or even better if you wrote them down, please post them here.
Please post:
Your Name or alias
Name of your character
Details of your character
Where you live (for time zone considerations)
If you want to continue the playtesting campaign and game development process, please join the following group I have created for us.
http://www.empowerthyself.com/afternowplaytestgroup
This is just for those who were at the Vancouver playtest or those who would like to join the playtesting process.
Anyone who just wants to stay posted on developments in the Afternow RPG can do so with the main Afternow RPG group:
http://www.empowerthyself.com/afternowrpg
Right now I am in the process of posting from my notes and fleshing things out so things are still in an unfinished state there but we'll have a workable draft of the rules soon from which to begin a collaboration and resume the playtesting campaign.
We'll probably be playtesting via Second Life or Teamspeak or both depending on what works for everyone.
Thank you for participating and I look forward to seeing what we create together!
Afternow RPG First Playtest video
newsstory posted by lxpk Sun, 2009-01-11 19:49So we had the first Afternow RPG playtest in Vancouver after the 10th Rantiversary.
Yugo shot a video and promptly posted it online!
http://smf.rantradio.com/tales-from-the-afternow/afternow-rpg-video/0/
We'll find a way to reconvene online soon via Second Life and Teamspeak.
SPOILER ALERT!
Watching the playtest videos and reading the story text will spoil the playtest scenario for you! If you are thinking of GMing a playtesting group, read on. But if you are thinking of playing in a playtest group, avert your eyes and ask your prospective GM to read it instead.
The Story So Far
Session 1, Vancouver
Our first session went very well indeed.
The players all awoke as naked, enslaved prisoners on a Rocket Rig bound for who knows what kind of body bank organ harvesting center.
They escaped from the guards and armed themselves with some weapons and donned the guards' armor in an attempt to confuse their captors. Unfortunately for them, they were spotted on security cameras and an alarm was raised. They fought a second group of guards, attempted to hack the camera system but were locked out, and made it above deck to find themselves trapped between dozens of guards coming after them and a sniper shooting at them from the bridge.
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