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Old 12-27-2009, 12:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Webstral View Post
This is such an important factor that I want to underline it, despite the fact that everyone on this board knows it already. At the risk of beating a dead horse, I think the gentlemen of GDW also understood that once the food situation sorted itself out, the other pieces would begin to fall into place for national recovery. Admittedly, the road to recovery would be long and painful; and a recovered nation would not necessarily look like its predecessor. Nevertheless, recovery loomed so likely that GDW came out with Howling Wilderness to preserve the chaos that they felt bred good gaming.
Pockets of recovery with reasonably high tech (for a post apocalyptic world) industries, dotted among vast areas of depopulation or chaos, lawlessnes and neo-barbarism.
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