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Originally Posted by M-Type
This is heavily motivated by Cormac McCarthy's The Road, which I'm sure many are familiar with, and the recent video game The Last of Us, though there will certainly be no zombies in this campaign. It will not be as depressing as The Road, at least initially, but who knows what could happen. I will be sticking pretty closely with the v1 chronology, though it'll be moved beyond it. I know GDW made the after-war timeline so it meshed with Traveller, but that was technically the 2.X edition, so I figure I'm in the clear designing this as I see fit. I also call shenanigans on the whole drought thing they talk about in Howling Wilderness, so while it is certainly a challenge to make sure you can feed your enclave, it's hardly the problem they were making it out to be.
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I loved
The Road but it definitely was a depressing read (the movie was suitably depressing too). The after-war timeline written by GDW was included in the first edition of Traveller: 2300 which was published in 1987, which makes it T2K v.1 canon, not 2.x. Also, there is no suggestion in Howling Wilderness that the drought affecting much of the US in 2000-2001 continues after that time. The rains may have been plentiful from 2002 onwards, that's pretty much up to each individual GM to decide. Having said that, I completely understand your motivation to have a future timeline where the drought never happened and you ignore the T:2300 back-history. If you're trying to create a specific 'feel' more akin to
The Road and charting a long, slow, hard road to recovery for the CONUS, writing your own timeline from 2000 onwards is probably the best way to do it.