Any of yall remember Dark Future?

Post by **Dorian** » Sun May 09, 2010 8:57 pm

Hey guys

I randomly stumbled across some old pics of the old Games workshop game, Dark Future, the awesome mad max styled game of theirs from the late 80s.

I was wondering if any of you old GW fans remember it? If so, do you not agree that it would make for an awesome RPG?

The rules to the old game are available for free on GW website. It wouldnt take TO much work to splice them with a more conventional RPG to run some sorta sandbox style game.

Post by **Goatkiller666** » Mon May 10, 2010 3:12 pm

Yo dawg! I ain't never heard of that game, yo. But you know I'm always down for playing whatevs.

Who would RUN it, though? I think all the game masters are already running games right now.

Post by **Dorian** » Mon May 10, 2010 3:44 pm

I can barely keep up with my own game to start another

Post by **Seska Karantanija** » Mon May 10, 2010 3:49 pm

I'll preemptively say "No" before GK sends me an IM suggesting it.

Post by **Montresor** » Mon May 10, 2010 11:02 pm

I remember it. Check out the Jack Yeovil (Kim Newman) novels about it. It was like an alternate 1980s, in which the world had collapsed. Elvis Presley was a road policeman, John Lennon was the leader of the British oppossition, Nixon had inadvertently turned the US into a giant desert. Great stuff.

One of the Yeovil novels had Presley encountering a cult of Ku Klux Klan who worshipped a giant alligator in the Florida swamps.

I can't run it . . . anyway, Borderlands is close enough to the theme.

Post by **Goatkiller666** » Tue May 11, 2010 1:45 pm

Oh yeah. When's that gonna happen? I'm liking Andrea enough that I wouldn't mind if Borderlands took a while, though.

Post by **Drokken** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:14 am

The guy who runs the gaming club (also the owner of JKLM games) I go to has a copy. I remember there being some nice artwork on the box. I'll have to give it a go at some point...

On a sideline note, someone please take me under there wing and get me involved in a roleplay on here, if not I think my brain my implode.

Post by **Kalindriel Ec'urb** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 1:05 pm

Oooooh! I wouldn't want to miss that.

[Waits impatiently for brain implosion]

Post by **Goatkiller666** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 1:35 pm

Drokken, all of the PnP games except Darkwood are full up right now. Darkwood has one open slot, but the DM for that game just went out of town until the middle of next week. But, if you're interested in some old skool D&D 3.5 action, send a PM to Seven Words expressing your interest.

Syl had said there was room in Acropolis a couple turns ago, I'm not sure how he feels about it right now. It's a turn-based deity game, set in a single city. Similarly, Aesir has had some attrition recently, so Odin might be willing to let you join. It's also a turn-based deity game, but set on a whole world.

Post by **Dorian** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:06 pm

Theres always room in mine but I struggle to keep up and hardly update so I wouldn't recommend it

Post by **Montresor** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:25 pm

Drokken wrote: On a sideline note, someone please take me under there wing and get me involved in a roleplay on here, if not I think my brain my implode.

I hear rumours of Lore doing another Zombie Apocalypse game. It's not strictly RPG, but it can be played a bit like one.

I've given thought to allowing a new PC into Rogue Trader, but I may just over-tax my output if I do.

Goatkiller666 wrote:Oh yeah. When's that gonna happen? I'm liking Andrea enough that I wouldn't mind if Borderlands took a while, though.

I'm not working on it unil I submit my PhD. In any case, I won't run it until I have finished the Rogue Trader campaign.

Post by **Goatkiller666** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:48 pm

If Lore is starting up a new game, I'll be the first to suggest resurrecting his Requiem game. I miss Ivan.

Post by **Montresor** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:58 pm

Goatkiller666 wrote:If Lore is starting up a new game, I'll be the first to suggest resurrecting his Requiem game. I miss Ivan.

He's running that over the table. I think it's too much work to do online. The game he told me he's doing is another Zombie Apocalypse game, like his original. This is all rumour, of course.

Post by **balon!** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:29 pm

ohmygawd, I would play ZA hard-core.
Jack Frost the hobo lives on!

Post by **Goatkiller666** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 2:04 am

Read the signature. If it's in GT, I'll play it.

(I just KNOW someone's going to want to start up a Care Bears game, just out of spite. Fear not, SkullF---er Bear has a plan.)

Post by **Seska Karantanija** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 2:44 am

I've always wanted to run a Strawberry Shortcake game!

Post by **Goatkiller666** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 3:33 am

Someone needs to do an old skool Paranoia game. Or, my old favorite, Human Occupied Landfill.

Post by **Seven Words** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:35 am

I may well be the only one who HAS Paranoia. The 5th edition, to be exact.

Company folded about 10 years ago, and nobody else has bought the rights to it.

I also have Teenagers From Outer Space. Goat, Seska.....either of you remember playing that one night at college?

Post by **Drokken** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 8:19 am

Ohh... they're two of my favourite words put together... Zombie... Apocalypse...

Just having finished The Zombie Survival Guide, and World War Z, something like that would be great

However, How would it be not strictly RPG?

Post by **Dorian** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 8:28 am

Yeah, that would rule. I had World War Z. awesome book.

Ive been looking for a good Zombie Survival PC game for ages that isn't just kills the swarm. Perhaps I should give up and just wait for Lores game

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