Crowdsourced / Co-branded Alternative v4 Rules

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Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic

I have only one general comment to add, I strongly believe any T2k successor should be keeping the "Cold War gone hot" concept and presenting it as alternate history.

That has General Sir John Hackett's name written all over it. When we started with T2000 it was 1984 anyway, so essentially we played a T1984 campaign and largely ignored the T2000 setting. In a lot of ways, this was because the source material was contemporary and the T2000 setting was speculative. The 198X timeline is what spawned all the popular fiction about the Cold War in any case (Red Dawn is the niche to mass-market linchpin here).

Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic

I think an easier (although I hesitate to claim it would be "better" just yet) marketing approach would be to list it as a more real-world based post-apocalypse than other post-apoc games.

I tend to agree: apoc setting but with a 198X bent to appeal to both audiences. "Realistic apocalypse setting" without zombies, mutants or anthropomorphic turtles.