Day After Ragnarok Savage Worlds *OP

by Kenneth Hite

Submachine Guns and Sorcery! Mighty-thewed barbarians and grim mercenaries roam the desolate plains of Ohio. Giant snakes, and those who worship them, prowl the ruins of St. Louis. Pirates battle the Japanese invaders in the South China Sea. Bold British agents, equipped with experimental bio-technology, thwart the insidious infiltration of Stalin's humanzees. Sky-raiders strike from hidden bases in the Sahara, deros skulk in South American caverns, and the Texas Rangers fight electrical death worms to save Los Alamos. Kenneth Hite (Adventures into Darkness, Trail of Cthulhu) presents a world of savage swords and rocket men, of were-serpents and war-apes, from Australia's battered Empire to the proud city-state of Chicago. The Day After Ragnarok * Complete rules and guidelines for creating a hero suited for these dark times, including new Hindrances and Edges. * Dangerous ophi-tech devices built with knowledge torn from the Thing that nearly killed the fiber bombs, Marconi pistols, jet-packs, and more! * A grand tour through the post-apocalyptic world of 1948, from the drowned East Coast to the Soviet empire behind the Serpent Curtain -- including the Top Five Places to Be Attacked By Pirates, the Top Five Places to Find A Remote Castle Ruled By A Madman, and much more! * Stats for more than thirty foes to shoot, stab, or sneak Serpent cultists, Spetsnaz troopers, swamp devils, and ... snakes! Giant, 80-foot long snakes, that is! * Over 20 pages of pure Four campaign types, each with a sample campaign laid out in nine scenario seeds. A massive Adventure Generator, helping you build every tale from the Hook to the Henchmen to the Twist ending! Four worked examples, taking the Adventure Generator's raw numbers and running. * Plus old-school random encounters for the desolate wastelands of America -- will you face slave-raiding Klansmen, the terrifying fly-by-night, or a desperate band of escaped Wehrmacht P.O.W.s? And across it all lies the trillion-ton corpse of the Midgard Serpent, killed by Truman's atomic fire but still poisoning the Earth with every night that passes. Welcome to the world at the end of the world. Welcome to... THE DAY AFTER RAGNAROK

Genres: Role Playing Games, Gaming, Fantasy, Games

128 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2009

About the author

Kenneth Hite (born September 15, 1965) is a writer and role-playing game designer. Author of Trail of Cthulhu and Night's Black Agents role-playing games, Hite has been announced as the lead designer of the upcoming 5th edition of Vampire: the Masquerade.

Reviews

[Travis · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Nazis raise the World Serpent of Norse myth and the Allies nuke it, causing the impossibly giant snake to crash to earth, wiping out Britain, a lot of Western Europe, the Eastern United States, and more besides. Cut to a few years later and you effectively have pulp Dieselpunk Shadowrun with Robert E. Howard rather than J.R.R. Tolkien as the fantasy touchstone, and we proceed from there. Love it. Would run.

[Frances · Rating 4 out of 5]

Seriously, have you read the description? The description is lovely and sums up so much of it.

[Paul Baldowski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting and diverse setting with a lot of potential given the relative restrictions in technology, the pre-collapse political situation, and the nascent forces arising from the varied theatres in the aftermath. Well executed as a Fate Core supplement with plenty of ideas and lots of ad hoc potential.

Even if you don't choose to take on the setting, the random encounter tables make good fodder for a game in wild territories or any post-apocalyptic world. The bestiary of creatures, both natural and monstrous, will serve a GM well in populating many settings with interesting challenges.

[October Surprise · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most entertaining settings available for an RPG. It really fulfills Hite's rule of "starting with earth" since anything that existed in 1945 is fair game and often responds wonderfully to the changes in this setting oddly grounded in its gonzoness. I don't like the campaign frame of "fighting the commies" in pulp fashion in defense of the British empire, whose British section is mostly crushed by the world serpent from Norse mythology rotting on Europe and North Africa, but the groundedness really allows you to go with in lots of directions with its crazy high-concept.

[Stuart · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting setting for Savage Worlds. Haven't played yet so I can't really give any system pros and cons. The overall feel and cosmology are outstanding, and the rules seem reasonable. Some of the ophi-tech stuff seems a little unbalanced, but without playing or reffing it I can't really judge it accurately.

[Alfonso Junquera perez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Impresionante!!! El Ragnarok ha llegado y ha sido provocado por los Nazis. Europa ha sido destruida por la muerte de la Serpiente de Midgarth, así como gran parte de EEUU. Y mientras Rusia y Japón se preparan para iniciar otra gran guerra por lo que queda del mundo.