Ot/ Name that game

[LT. Ox]

Name me the game that is set in Australia, You wake up laying in a Cryogenic unit naked and have to survive from that point.
Oh yeah robotic units abound inside and mutations are everywhere outside.

[LT. Ox]

AFTERMATH
not five min after posting after three days of trying :o to remember.
any on ever play?

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Ha! Aftermath.
I had a few ideas but I was not thinking of Aftermath. I own the game but never had a chance to play it and I haven't read the books for some time. I thought the main setting was the USA and the Australian bit was just the one adventure - looks like I'll have to pull the box off the shelf and give that introductory scenario another read (it has been quite a few years, probably about seven or or eight or so...)

[Cdnwolf]

AFTERMATH usually comes English and Biology... :D

(I will be here all week folks!!)

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Ya know, somebody will be "afteryou" if ya don't keep them lame jokes outta here! :p


As a point of interest, FGU are still producing books for AFTERMATH! including a double-release of two old and hard to find adventures, one of which happens to be the one I believe the LT was talking about (Scenario Pack A1: Operation Morpheus).
http://www.fantasygamesunlimited.net/fgu/618-2/

[LT. Ox]

yer right about the setting.
And to Cdnwolf;
I am so going to get some traps set for you ..after I stop laughing.

[pmulcahy11b]

Sounds like The Morrow Project.

[Cdnwolf]

I have the PDF of the Game including the intro scenario and the Chicago City setting. DrivethruRPG had them.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Sounds like The Morrow Project.

Yeah that particular scenario does sound very much like it and AFTERMATH! came out around the same time as The Morrow Project but it's just the one scenario. The beauty of AFTERMATH! is that there could be any type of apocalypse, depending on the wishes of the GM and Players - alien invasion, meteor strike, disease, WW3, nature strikes back and so on.

Operation Morpheus was just one of the possible campaign types that was on offer and considering that it was written by an Australian and considering that The Morrow Project (TMP) was barely even known about here in Oz (and still isn't well known here even today**), it's entirely possible that he may not have been aware of the parallels.
Op Morpheus was one of two Australian packs, the other being Campaign Pack A2, Sydney: The Wilderness Campaign.

Now the REALLY, REALLY, REALLY interesting thing (did I stress "really" enough?) is that the writer of Operation Morpheus is Phil McGregor... who just happens to be on this forum with the forum name aspqrz, the same guy who recently posted about his new modern military game in the works. So yeah, if anyone was still wondering how much he knows about making post-apoc rpgs, he can add at least two AFTERMATH! products to his resume.
http://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.php?t=4876

Amazon also has an author's page for him here: -
http://www.amazon.com/Phil-McGregor/e/B00J6VGPJE/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1


** for example, I am the only person I know of in the rp-gaming crowd in my city that has even heard of TMP let alone has a copy - I own most of the TMP books except for the latest edition and modules.
EDIT: aside from Targan that is :D

[LT. Ox]

Thank you Sir for that info.
I really Loved that game but could not get any locals to stop all the other games we had going.
Hmmmm, Looking in the stored list, I have the box set still in the basement hope the mice have not read it.

[LT. Ox]

What is it about you people form the penal colony and Mad Maxing stuff.
Not that it is not the best, but err is it the water or the food or the history?

[Legbreaker]

It's the dangerous wildlife.

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[StainlessSteelCynic]

Well we also don't have any neighbours to bother cos' we're a bloody big island that has lots and lots of desert and lots and lots of jungle, so ya'know, we start getting a bit restless and maybe a little crazy...

I'm guessing that most people here have not seen The Cars That Ate Paris, the movie that inspired the entire Mad Max series? You think we're a little bit strange now, wait 'till you see that movie...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071282/
The trailer showcases much of the strange/weird/crazy in the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKrZ8eTcdK4

[LT. Ox]

one in ten attacked?
so amazed that is all with the statistics on drinking and driving here in the states I was sure it would be higher.

[pmulcahy11b]

Thank you Sir for that info.
I really Loved that game but could not get any locals to stop all the other games we had going.
Hmmmm, Looking in the stored list, I have the box set still in the basement hope the mice have not read it.

I could tell where I got my electronic copies but I'd have to shoot you in the face...:)

[LT. Ox]

I could tell where I got my electronic copies but I'd have to shoot you in the face...:)
That is the only part of me that has not been Blown up, cut up, shot up or overly beaten.
Quit looking at the scars and broken nose!
Goes back to reading "Patriots" on SCRIBD

[Targan]

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[LT. Ox]

You are ALL banned.
I have hurt myself laughing and it is your, all of you from that place, Fault!!!:gewehr_gr
Ok now I have the hiccups.

[Draq]

There's a game on steam called neo scavenger with a very similar setting. I downloaded the free demo. You die alot...

[unkated]

... and they are all so competitive. Almost worse than Texans...

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/96/14/db/9614dbfe1feb9cf3bb22b12c6cfedbdb.jpg

Like size is all that matters :)

Uncle Ted

[Cdnwolf]

Targan going for a swim...

[StainlessSteelCynic]

... and they are all so competitive. Almost worse than Texans...

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/96/14/db/9614dbfe1feb9cf3bb22b12c6cfedbdb.jpg

Like size is all that matters :)

Uncle Ted
Competitive, no we're not, I'll tell you about compe...

Umm, oh... I see your point...

[Legbreaker]

Australian's aren't competitive, we just like to prove what we already know - we're better than the rest of the world.

[Legbreaker]

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[Targan]

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[kcdusk]

After reading the first post, i was thinking of this RPG i bought back in the day ...

https://rpggeek.com/rpg/1051/hunter-planet

[aspqrz]

According to mates in the Army when the US Marines were out here in the ... late 80's IIRC ... for some joint exercise with us Aussies ... well, us Aussies are known for our peculiar sense of humour, shall we say ... and the Briefing Pack given to all the Officers and NCOs contained mostly true information ... mostly ...

See, there are some nasties up in FNQ ('Far North Queensland'), real nasties ... some of the most poisonous reptiles and arachnids around, just for a start. So all of them were in the briefing package.

Along with the Drop Bears some of you seem familiar with :D

But were you aware of the Kangaroo Trapdoor Tackle Spiders?

Big things the size of Dinner Plates, and larger, who live in concealed lairs in the ground ... and sense passing vibrations of, oh, size 12 Marine Boots, for example. They wait till the vibrations have passed overhead and then bound out of the concealed lair, grabbing the ankles of the passer by, tripping them.

The victim has one slim chance of survival - they must immediately swivel around and stare the predator down. Not blinking once, till they slowly withdraw into their lair.

(Lots of roots to trip on in FNQ! :-))

Then there's the Killer Kangaroos. Look exactly like regular K's to foreigners … which, as everyone knows, commonly hop down the main street of Brisbane … but, well, they have bigger brains (regular Ks have relatively small ones), are carnivorous, have much stronger and better developed forearms with better grasp (almost human!). And they can hop faster than a Marine weighed down with an 80lb pack can run … and they have been known to grab tree branches and beat their prey to death!

Then there was the (if true) sad story of some Track commander who didn't duck when travelling too fast along a rough track on one of the exercises … and got brained by a low hanging branch … which was immediately attributed to Drop Bear attack by the rest of the vehicle crew who buttoned up and had to be coaxed out by some Aussie medics …

Is it any wonder that the Marines left the briefing muttering dark things about the dangerous wildlife?

As for the two Campaign Packs for Aftermath I was, indeed, responsible for them ... but was also quite well aware of The Morrow Project (had 1st Edition and 2nd Edition ... probably still do packed away somewhere), the problem was getting any of the adventures, scarcer than Hen's teeth down here in Oz.

Not impressed by the more recent Hardcover version, though. Great cover, terrible interior ... art? ... poorly laid out and klunky rules compared to the really very good earlier versions. And the background? While some attempt has been made to update it, it's about as good an effort as the rest is ... not a patch on the original two versions, IMO (but I'm probably just being a cranky old codger). :(

Phil

[Legbreaker]

Those killer kangaroos are real! I've hunted down a few myself.
Buggers are tough though - Don't try taking one down with anything lighter than a .303 or 7.62N, or better yet 12 gauge slugs at a dozen yards.
Lost a few good dogs in the process too.

[LT. Ox]

Phil I thank you for the reply and the work on a great game!
Legbreaker;
Well, just you , well, I thin ...well er
Phil can I ask a favor please write in the demise of a certain MG operator, I owe him an do not have the talent to repay.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Phil I thank you for the reply and the work on a great game!
Legbreaker;
Well, just you , well, I thin ...well er
Phil can I ask a favor please write in the demise of a certain MG operator, I owe him an do not have the talent to repay.
Hey LT, Legbreaker ain't the only Aussie MG operator here :evilgrinb

I used to be a '60 operator before I got put into a recce platoon.

[aspqrz]

Well, I did fire an M-60 ... exactly once ... other than that I was a Radio Operator in the Signals Company of Sydney University Regiment (CMF - '
Citizen Military Forces' [Chockos or Chokos ... 'Chocolate Soldiers'] back in the day, 74-75, now Army Reserve ... rather like the US ROTC) and my main weapon was an SLR with a missing foresight screw (completely inaccurate, couldn't be sighted in :() ...

We used AN-PRC/25 sets, leftovers from Vietnam, while the Regs had -26s ... ghu knows what they have now!

Phil

[LT. Ox]

My First MOS Airborne radio operator.
Eight weeks of Morse code so I could carry around a prick 25 errs perhaps I should not put it that way but that was the name we gave all the prc radios.
Lucky I went to Arty OCS and traded the radio off to a spec 4. A few years ahead of you in 66 to 70.
Laugh you may have e had my set let me see did it have the initials HO and d BD in the left bottom?

[LT. Ox]

Hey LT, Legbreaker ain't the only Aussie MG operator here :evilgrinb

I used to be a '60 operator before I got put into a recce platoon.
I did say certain ;)

[aspqrz]

My First MOS Airborne radio operator.
Eight weeks of Morse code so I could carry around a prick 25 errs perhaps I should not put it that way but that was the name we gave all the prc radios.
Lucky I went to Arty OCS and traded the radio off to a spec 4. A few years ahead of you in 66 to 70.
Laugh you may have e had my set let me see did it have the initials HO and d BD in the left bottom?

Don't recall any initials inscribed anywhere :D ... and at least they were better than the old Korean war era HF sets that kept drifting off frequency (which we were shown during training, had in unit store, IIRC, but certainly never used) ... Company Sigs were purely voice or telephone, no Morse, thanks be to Ghu!

Phil

[LT. Ox]

I never could understand the training. We were to use code if the voice was too difficult to understand say below a 2by2.
Never happened. Operator did have a key issued but like I said I never used nor knew of anyone using one.
I was the FO and my radioman did a whole lot of adjusting when the shmue hit the fan and I was a bit far for voice contact or it was a bit loud.
I was not about to jog over to his position if we were separated and I had no intention of calling him to me so we had an understanding after about two weeks that he became a designated FO.
I lost two radiomen the first tour One KIA and the other bad hit. None the second but then I did not finish, only a little over six months.
A bit of advice; do not sit in a jeep on several of the old flak vests and use a vehicle mounted radio when stopped on a command detonated landmine.

[Legbreaker]

A bit of advice; do not sit in a jeep on several of the old flak vests and use a vehicle mounted radio when stopped on a command detonated landmine.

Yeah, that will tend to put a bit of a crimp in your day...

[WallShadow]

Yeah, that will tend to put a bit of a crimp in your day...

"a crimp in your day"???
More like needing a crowbar to pry your "day" out of Where the Sun Don't Shine.

[LT. Ox]

"a crimp in your day"???
More like needing a crowbar to pry your "day" out of Where the Sun Don't Shine.
See the flying young man without a trapeze. Result;
Hit tree with left shoulder at mach too fast:megawall:
Left arm then pointing from left breast area, push arm back into somewhere close to socket while laying on ground pull .45 and hold over head while in supine position and empty said weapon as fast as I can pull trigger, drop mag with one hand and reach to get next mag on belt forgetting that left arm is not quite right, pass out.:uzi:
Next memory
Being kicked in the feet by Sargent who askes “LT. Ox you alive or dead” while reaching down to give me a hand, yep he is holding his 16 in his right with the butt on his hip so he is reaching down with his left and of course the nineteen year old idiot that has just experienced his second near death episode reaches IP with his left hand sergeant takes hand Lt. passes out and wakes to the wonderful sound of whop whop whop.:confused:
Ears no longer at rated ability
And another war story is told yet again.