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"We've got everything we could ever need here. All we gotta do is bar the door, board up the windows, brick up the chimney, seal the air vents, and make sure nothing - and I mean nothing - can see us moving in here. It’s basically paradise." ~ A survivor who has clearly thought of everything ~
Journey straight to the apocalypse with The End of the World roleplaying line, four settings of horror and survival set amid humanity’s last days.
If you’ve ever wondered how you might cope in the face of the apocalypse, this RPG line gives you the chance to find out. In the majority of roleplaying games, you take on the persona of a fictional character – ranging from an elven thief to a half-orc war-mage to a human soldier, and beyond. The End of the World line changes all of this by inviting you to play as yourself amidst the tumult of the world’s ending! You’ll use your own physical, mental, and social attributes to create yourself as an in-game character, allowing you to come as close as you (safely) can to experiencing the apocalypse first-hand.
Since you’re playing yourself in every game of The End of the World, your starting gear is also limited to what you can find close at hand when you sit down to play the game. You could start with a cell phone, but how long will it stay charged? Who knows how long the cash in your wallet will be accepted as viable currency in light of the world’s ending? You might want a good shotgun to defend yourself, but that could mean venturing out of your friend’s apartment. Kitchen knives might be your only available weapons for defending yourself against hordes of ravenous zombies or conquering aliens.
Of course, the different variations of the apocalypse are nearly limitless, and you may find humanity threatened by mindless zombies, the rise of artificial intelligence, alien invasions, or the wrath of the gods. The End of the World consists of four books: Zombie Apocalypse, Wrath of the Gods, Alien Invasion, and Revolt of the Machines (release TBA). The world can end in countless ways, and in each of The End of the World books there are five different scenarios for you to experience. Because these scenarios function like different campaign settings within the same theme, you can enjoy all of these scenarios time and time again.
Every scenario includes a plethora of characters and locations for you to encounter throughout the apocalypse and post-apocalypse. Your search for food, water, and other key resources may force you to flee from undead rats in the sewers beneath your city, or you may witness Cthulhu heaving himself ashore while exploring a seemingly abandoned ocean village. Whether you battle robotic killers from street to street or bargain with your alien overlords in an exotic mothership, you’ll find plenty of NPCs and locations to create encounters within each of these scenarios.
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