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Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Progress Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Chapter 1: Postapocalypse

Campaigns . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Choose Your Apocalypse . . . . . . . . . .6

Alien Invasion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Biological Disaster. . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Environmental Cataclysm. . . . . . .7

Asteroid Strike. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Judgment Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Nuclear Armageddon . . . . . . . . . .8

Rise of the Machines. . . . . . . . . . .8

Rogue Planet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Supernatural Invasion . . . . . . . . .8

Mixing Destruction. . . . . . . . . . . .9

Postapocalypse Societies . . . . . . . . . .9

Depraved Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Devout Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

The Ethnic Society. . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Lawful Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Militant Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Savage Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Tribal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Totalitarian Society . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Different Societies

in One Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Postapocalypse Eras . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Aftermath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Generation 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Dark Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

New World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

The Heroes and the Campaign . . . . 12

Devastation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Massive Destruction . . . . . . . . . . 13

Sources of Massive

Destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Radioactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Flash Radiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Fallout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Blast Zone Irradiation . . . . . . . . . 15

Fallout Residue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Chapter 2:

Campaign Rules . . . . . . . 16

The Ruins of Civilization. . . . . . . . . 16

Exploring Unsafe Structures. . . . . . 17

Scavenging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Postapocalypse Gear . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Trade Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Starting Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Wealth Increases . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Bartering Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Equipment as Rewards . . . . . . . .24

Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

New Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Vehicles and Fuel. . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Making and Fixing Items . . . . . . . .30

Additional Vehicle Rules . . . . . . . . . 31

Modifying Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Overloading Vehicles. . . . . . . . . .34

Hang On!—

Movement on Vehicles . . . . . .34

Falling from a Vehicle. . . . . . . . . 36

Other Driving Rules . . . . . . . . . . 36

Long-Distance Travel. . . . . . . . . . . . 36

The Highway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Mounted Combat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Combat on Animals. . . . . . . . . . . 38

Environmental Hazards . . . . . . . . . 39

Acid Rain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Fallout Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Ghost Storm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Joy Buzzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Mutations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Fantastic Mutations. . . . . . . . . . . 41

Additional Mutations . . . . . . . . .42

Creatures of the Apocalypse . . . . . .44

Apocalypse Demon (Template) . .44

Combat Robot T-C-4 “Tin Can” . .46

Combat Robot M-G-8

“Meatgrinder” . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Donkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Horseman of the Apocalypse . . . 47

Mutated Creature . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Rad-Roach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Thinking Swarm . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Viral Deathspawn (Template) . . .52

Using Existing Creatures . . . . . .52

Virulence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Supervirus Descriptions . . . . . . .54

Secondary Infections. . . . . . . . . . 55

Chapter 3:

Character Options. . . . . . 56

Starting Occupations . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Academic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Adventurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Athlete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Blue Collar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Celebrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Criminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Dilettante. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Law Enforcement. . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Military. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Religious . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Rural . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Diplomacy (Cha) . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Craft (Int) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Repair (Int) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Research (Int) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Survival (Wis) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Feats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Advanced Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

Techie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

Investigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

Personality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

Road Warrior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

Salvager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

Chapter 4:

Earth Inherited. . . . . . . . 64

Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

Campaign in Brief. . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

Role of the Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Campaign Traits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Department-7 in

Earth Inherited . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Progress Level and Rules . . . . . .66

Magic and FX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Power Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

The Avengers of Humanity . . . . . 67

The Damned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

The Heavenfire Coalition . . . . . .68

Order of the Machine . . . . . . . . .68

Friends and Foes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Angels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Fiends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

The Damned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Barge Fortress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Chapter 5:

Atomic Sunrise . . . . . . . . 76

Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Campaign in Brief. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Role of the Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Campaign Traits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Department-7 in

Atomic Sunrise . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Progress Level and Rules . . . . . . 77

Magic and FX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

The Landscape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Power Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Prewar Power Groups . . . . . . . . . 78

New Power Groups . . . . . . . . . . . 79

The Compound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Advanced Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84

Lawbringer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84

Chapter 6:

Plague World. . . . . . . . . . 86

Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86

Campaign in Brief. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Role of the Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88

Campaign Traits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88

Department-7 in

Plague World . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88

Progress Level and Rules . . . . . .89

Magic and FX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89

The Landscape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89

Power Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89

Adeptus Dei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89

The Kin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90

Tyrannis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Friends and Foes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Spanthi Reaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Spanthi Trueblood. . . . . . . . . . . .92

Rip Van Bunker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Advanced Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Evolutionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

FOREWORD

I’ve played a lot of roleplaying games in

my twenty-five years in the hobby. Like

many gamers, the bulk of my adventures

have been in the fantasy genre, but my

favorite setting, bar none, is the posta-

pocalyptic campaign. In fact, when I

was on the d20 Modern design team,

I started up a campaign in the office

to playtest our rules—and my setting

of choice was postapocalyptic. From

the launch of that campaign almost a

year before the d20 Modern Roleplaying

Game was published, my players are

still traversing the wastes, battling

bike-gang marauders, and delving into

the supernatural origins of the nuclear

doomsday today.

I’ve long believed that the postapoca-

lypse is a perfect setting for roleplaying

games. Postapocalyptic worlds feature

high adventure in a gritty setting. The

landscape is the epitome of lawlessness—

a make-your-own-rules world in which

adventuring heroes thrive. As in fantasy,

anything is possible in a world twisted

by mutations or the incomprehensible

effects of alien assault or supernatural

incursion. And postapocalyptic settings

blend the best of modern worlds—

firearms, technology, and a modern

outlook—with fantasy’s powerful

foes and epic stories.

Beyond all that is the fact

that postapocalyptic games are

inevitably thematic. The world

as we—the players—know it has

been destroyed. Can civilization

recover? Will the heroes be a force

for order in the chaos, or just

another part of the problem? A

fantasy world allows for all vari-

ety of motivation: If a character

simply likes kicking in doors and

taking on the monsters, that’s

enough. But in a postapocalyptic

game every player, consciously or

A survivor surveys the

wreckage of his world

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not, makes a decision about how he relates to the

world his character has inherited.

The most compelling aspect of a postapocalyptic

setting, perhaps, is how it is at once familiar and

alien. We’ve all seen abandoned buildings with

their broken windows and weeds growing in the

corners, and dented hulks of cars collecting rain-

water and rust. We’ve heard the breeze blowing

through a quiet city block in the early hours, when

there’s no sign of a living human being. We’ve

watched scenes of environmental cataclysm—or

even just urban decay—on television. And we can

look around us today and overlay that vision on the

local shopping mall, the highways, the skyscrapers

downtown—even our own neighborhoods. Unlike

a fantasy setting, the postapocalyptic world is all

around us.

What You Need To Play

The d20 Apocalypse supplement is intended for

use in any d20 Modern or d20 Future game.

You will need the d20 Modern Roleplaying

Game and the d20 Future supplement to make

use of the material in this book. In addition,

d20 Apocalypse contains references to the d20

Menace Manual and the Urban Arcana Cam-

paign Setting, but neither of these books is

required to use this one.

Progress Levels

The Progress Level (PL) of your campaign setting

will be heavily influenced—if not completely deter-

mined—by your choice of apocalypse.

The apocalypse could occur today, sometime in

the not too distant future, or far into the future.

Some types of apocalypse, such as a biological

disaster, alien invasion, or asteroid strike, can occur

during any Progress Level, but others, such as rise

of the machines, are directly tied with civilization’s

level of technology. You’ll need to determine how

much or how little civilization has advanced from

its current Progress Level.

Also, the apocalypse can occur in the past. An

alien invasion, for instance, could feasibly happen

at any time in Earth’s history—but if the Progress

Level at the time of the invasion isn’t high enough to

offer humanity some chance of surviving through

the use of technology, it won’t be much of a game.

(For an extreme example, think dinosaurs versus

big rock, 65,000,000 years ago.)

Some apocalyptic events are clearly tied to a

minimum Progress Level and won’t occur earlier.

For example, if you want to set your game during

the Age of Reason, a PL 3 environment, your apoca-

lypse cannot be a nuclear Armageddon because

nuclear technology does not exist in PL 3.

Each of the three postapocalyptic campaign

settings described in this book is designed for a

Progress Level of PL 5 or PL 6. After the cataclysm,

of course, Progress Level often doesn’t really mean

what it used to: Rather than an indicator of a state

of technological development that, “pervades all

aspects of a culture” (as stated on page 5 of d20

Future ), PL might become a measure of the kinds of

technology that survivors can discover or salvage

from the ruined environment.

In d20 Future, for instance, PL 5 is described

as a time when “computer technology and elec-

tronics rule supreme.” In a postapocalyptic PL 5

world, however, instantaneous worldwide com-

munication might be a thing of the past—the

world at large only at PL 3 in this regard—and

any functioning computer terminal would become

a heavily guarded resource. Even though the

technology is out there to be found (albeit in

limited quantities), the apocalypse has fractured

the culture and society that the PL 5 technology

once spawned.

Charles Ryan

Brand Manager for Roleplaying Games

Wizards of the Coast

INTRODUCTION

Civilization, the defining characteristic of humanity,

is the cooperation and organization of individuals

for the advancement of the community as a whole.

It is marked by progress in agriculture, livestock

maintenance, metallurgy, writing, mathematics, and

science. And though it would seem that its existence

can be taken for granted, civilization is fragile.

As humankind progresses, advances in technol-

ogy grant great boons , but also hold potential keys

to humanity’s undoing. Innovations in nuclear

technology, medical science, and computer tech-

nology are of enormous benefit to humanity in

general, but each technology has the potential to

contribute to humanity’s demise.

Even without these human-made threats, other

dangers from outside the planet pose perils just as

deadly as those humans bring upon themselves.

Whether due to our own hubris or a power

beyond our control, the known world ends. The

apocalypse—the end of civilization—is here.

This supplement gives you the tools to play in

the postapocalyptic world. This book provides you

with descriptions of the most likely possible causes

of an apocalyptic event. Within this supplement

are additional rules that build upon those found

in the d20 Modern Roleplaying Game and the d20

Future supplement to bring the postapocalyptic

world to life. These rules are modular, giving you

what you’ll need to create the postapocalyptic world

of your choice. In addition, there are three distinct

campaign settings that allow you to explore some

of the grim futures that might await humankind.

Each setting derives a great deal of flavor from the

cause of the apocalypse and the amount of time that

has passed since the global society has fallen.

With this book, the apocalyptic future is yours

to explore.

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