It can be a most excellent training tool.

The post apocalyptic virtual survival video game or the post apocalyptic virtual survival RPG?

Jeanette Isabelle

YO Montanero

Hope you are doing OK.
I'm about 9 days late with a reply to your post.

I'm getting ready for a big trip outside the USA ... but I can't figure out where. all I want is a location where the people are honest and lead simple lives. But apparently that place doesn't exist any more :-) Hahahahahahahaha!!

cheers,
Pete

Yes.

Benjammin, I'm asking you which one.

Jeanette Isabelle

Why not both? I see some value in each.

I don't play games like Fallout 4 so I may be wrong; the problem I see is you don't play yourself. In an RPG you put yourself in the virtual survival situation and respond as you believe you would for the given situation.

As I said, after twenty-four hours of game time, the post-apocalyptic RPG got locked.

Jeanette Isabelle

Jeanette, you are probably having in mind some real world post-apocalyptic RPG we don't know about? Or what is that about?

Five years ago someone, by the screen name The Nobody, started a post-apocalyptic RPG. He did not have the drive to see it through so it died.

Having the drive and the permission, I rebooted the RPG. The Nobody never revealed the story to me so I had to come up with one of my own. I had help from an online friend I have known since I was a teen. Despite the fact my online friend helped to create a new plot, we constantly fought over it once the RPG began and it got locked.

The reboot was a combination of The Setting and Rules that The Nobody established, a bit of fantasy to drive the story and what I had researched then.

Jeanette Isabelle

There was a discussion on the post-apocalyptic RPG in this thread:

http://forums.equipped.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=276349&page=1

Jeanette Isabelle