So I've been reading up on a very Fun™ sounding RPG as of late.
Twilight 2000 4th Edition
Basically, it's game about roleplaying as the scattered military survivors of a limited NATO-Soviet nuclear war in an alternate 1998. It's set in the year 2000, primarily in either Poland or Sweden, though much of Europe and other places are fucked. The US, for example, may or may not be experiencing a three-way civil war between the forces loyal to the rump civilian government, military forces loyal to the JCOS that formed a parallel government due to the death of the entire original line of succession during or in the year after the nuclear exchanges, and a massive neo-Nazi militia group. The first two forces at least hate the neo-Nazis enough to work together against them on occasion.
The most well-off places in Europe are France and Switzerland, where life continues pretty much the same as before, even if northern France was abandoned after a Soviet nuclear strike heavily damaged Paris (though it doesn't seem to have been destroyed entirely, as it's referenced as having been abandoned later, which wouldn't be possible if it had been destroyed) and the Normandy region (which was being used as a bridgehead for NATO forces into Europe to fight the Soviets) and France is now under military rule... but Southern France is still pretty as ever, even if it's full of refugees! And in the old sci-fi companion RPG to the previous editions, by the next century, France ends up as the major world superpower precisely because it took so little damage. Vive la France!
It's a Very Cheerful™ system in which Everything Is Just Fine™.
Oh, and it's basically a license for the GM to fill the game with weird prototypes that never got adopted or failed IRL. In the older editions, one of the effects of the alt-history of the setting was that the Germans adopted the G11 as standard issue.
You are now trying to imagine a post-apocalyptic German soldier trying to do field maintenance on this beautiful piece of Kraut Clockwork Space Magic™.
It's become a meme in the game apparently that even if your group got its hands on a bunch of G11s, you'd never have ammo for them- there's literally at least one reference table that mentions a cache of 4.7mm caseless as a "treasure trove" iirc.
Also in the older editions, literally the most valuable team member wasn't anyone who could shoot a gun, but the min-maxed Support Services guy with max ranks Repair and similar skills.
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Hey, someone DM'd me asking if I had room in the Twilight 2000 game that I and @frogblast-the-ventcore are running, and I accidentally denied your message, could you resend? My finger slipped before I really caught your name, but I think it was something like ninjakitty or something? Please DM, we'd love to have you.
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Another character for my comic, Liza Bekzat. She is a kid born and grown in post apocalyptic Moscow. After Kitay Gorod, a city-state right in the middle of the ruined metropolis was attacked she fled with her older sister east to the Tsarist kingdom of Muscovy.
Now she yarns adventure, going out of the save zones scavenging for anything worth selling.
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Playing in Sandboxes: Twilight 2000 & Dolmenwood
The list of people I’d wake up to talk to about gaming at 6 in the morning on a Saturday is pretty short but MadJay is at the top of that list.
Thank you to the professional and amazing support staff at Big Bad Online.
In case you missed it, here it is:
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I bet a Twilight 2000 game would be great for the Half-life 2 type setting of a semi-post-apocolyptic eastern Europe destroyed by aliens
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Okay, someone just sent me a DM about joining the Twilight 2000 group, and I accidentally declined your DM. If you see this, please resend? I didn't mean to. I think your name had ninja in it? My finger slipped before I could really see.
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What is Inspiration Goat precariously balanced upon?
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