The Day after Ragnarok The Day after Ragnarock - Ein neues Savage-Setting von Ken Hite

The Day After Ragnarok
A Savage Setting by Kenneth Hite

Know, O Prince, that between the years when the Serpent fell and the oceans drank America and the gleaming cities, and the rise of the Sons of Space, there was an Age undreamed of, when nations guttered low and flared brilliant across the poisoned world like dying stars – California and Texas each claiming the flag of the West, France torn asunder and facing the desert, harsh Mexico, slumbering Brazil, Argentina where the seeds of Thule lay waiting, ancient lands of Persia and Arabia and Iraq between two empires, the coldly clutching Soviet Union whispering behind its Wall of Serpent, Japan whose warriors wore steel and silk and khaki. But the proudest kingdom of the world was Australia, the last green and pleasant land, ringed around by its dominions and bulwarked by the sea.

Welcome to the world at the end of the world. The skies are shrouded with burning, oily smoke, the Earth groans under a poisoned corpse, and the only way out may be deeper into the belly of the beast. This is a world about a flavor and a feel as much as it is about extrapolation. That said, this world has something of an edge to it – it’s a world nearly killed by the death of wonder, although far from all the wonders are dead. Put the “grim” back in “grime” and see the world outside the smeared Perspex windscreen.
See it smolder. See if you can save it.

Coming Winter 2009

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* The Principality's loyal ally Atomic Overmind Press has a product page up for The Day After Ragnarok. Check out that awesome "Lancer Paperback I found at a garage sale" cover look. The book wound up being somewhat larger than I had initially thought it would, but I fondly hope it also wound up being somewhat better, too.

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Kardohan schrieb:

Hab mir mal den Teaser durchgelesen. Stalin, Sowiets? Häh?!? Ok, soll auf historischen Tatsachen beruhen, aber was zum Geier ist das für ein Endzeit-Setting?

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All of those things take time; none can really be done on schedule. For The Day After Ragnarok, my "Conan the Barbarian: 1948" Savage Worlds Savage Setting, it's the second and the third that are making the project such a joyous hell right now.

I've come up with a kind of neat idea for that most dire of creative challenges, presenting setting: the "Savage Shortlist," in which I reveal "The Top Five Places to Get Mercenary Work" and "The Top Five Places To Find A Remote Castle Ruled By A Madman," and so forth and so on. And on the subject of new, exciting things to add to the book, there's nothing that makes a game designer happier than discovering a half-million Nazis legitimately wandering around a setting where you hadn't thought you could put any.

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wjunky schrieb:

Und wenn ich schon 1947 Alternate Earth spiele, dann weil Hitler die Datenautobahn gebaut hat und die Datenschlacht noch immer tobt. Bot-Netz Weiße Rose, auf in den Kampf.

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Ein Urteil wird natürlich erst möglich sein, wenn das Ding tatsächlich draußen ist.

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