serpentfall
Jun. 13th, 2009 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reverancepavaneIf they keep producing interesting campaign ideas for Savage Worlds like Neccessary Evil and The Day after Ragnarok I might just have to get an actual copy of the rules. <grin> The Day After Ragnarok is by Kenneth Hite and features all the juiciness that this implies. The basic theme is that in the closing stages of WW2 the Nazis succeeded in summoning the Midgard Serpent. Unfortunately for them, before they could make full use of this massive weapon of destruction, the eye of the Serpent had an encounter with the fruit of Project Trinity. Result: one dead serpent, clouds of radioactive venom circling the Earth, a crushed Europe, a tsunami-deluged Atlantic seaboard, and a humongous corpse dividing East from West. The Cold War continues, albeit with a Serpant Wall rather than an Iron Curtain, but with interesting pulp additions, such as creatures mutated from contact with the Serpent's blood and venom, magic, and even strange devices ophiotech devices developed from excavating the corpse of the Serpent (via the efforts of intrepid speleo-herpetologists). Pulp with very interesting twists. On a side note I'm contemplating the idiocy of running a strategic space campaign using Starblazer Adventures. This probably means I'm totally loopy, but until I find my copy of Star Probe and Star Empires it might have to do. |
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Date: 2009-06-13 12:36 pm (UTC)Boom
Date: 2009-06-14 05:59 am (UTC)'Trinity' was the first test-firing of a nuclear device, the 'Gadget'.
Pedant mode off. ;)
Re: Boom
Date: 2009-06-14 01:35 pm (UTC)Yep. Mea culpae. Really should have been Manhattan Project in the above statement. [Although it was the actual Trinity device that was used to down the Midgard Serpent apparently.] My fault for starting to wax poetic and not completing the change in sentence.
Still it's an interesting post-holocaust world. There's not that much pulp-era stuff set post WW2, and it's an interesting take on the genre. Even if it does include more mythic elements, such as the secret Nazi submarine base in the Antarctic. For example, I didn't realise the rather infamous South African Bureau of State Security didn't exist until 1969 (although there are hints of it's accelerated formation in the post-apocalyptic world).
Plus lots of serpenty goodness. And Frost Giants. And...
How's life treating you these days?
Re: Boom
Date: 2009-06-16 07:46 am (UTC)Life treats me reasonably at the moment thank you.
Again I work for the University.
Which puts me in town every weekday, we should catch up during one of these days to recharge our bio-reactors at some stage. I believe there are still some good eateries near the campus.
I am after all much better at talking than typing.
A gaming discussion could be interesting...
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Date: 2009-06-18 10:58 am (UTC)Happy birthday! Hope you had a delicious dinner.
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Date: 2009-06-19 07:15 am (UTC)That's cheating!
But thankyou.
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Date: 2009-06-19 07:52 am (UTC)