Roleplaying Games
4e is Best When It’s ‘D&D Gamma World’
In which you can play a Psychic Plant-Person with a Miniature Tank
“You are playing a male Demon AI. He has curving black horns and seams where the parts all connect. He owns a cellphone earpiece, a package of fruity gum, and jumper cables. He dresses in a naval officer hat and pool noodle armour and wields a pistol.” — Gamma World Bot
This game has gone by a few names. Officially it’s D&D Gamma World, but it’s also been called “Gamma World 4e”, and “Gamma World 4th edition” because it shares D&D 4e’s rules. It’s even been called “Gamma World 7TH edition” because it’s the 7th incarnation of the game.
Gamma World has always been a post-apocalyptic game, but almost every edition has a different explanation of how the shit hit the fan. This edition’s conceit is that a disastrous experiment with the Large Hadron Collider layered a bunch of alternate realities on top of each other for a split second. This was called The Big Mistake.
It’s now 150 years later and Earth, now called Gamma Terra, is FUBARed. Every nation has collapsed…
