We’ve all seen your standard post-apocalypse fare: yellows, browns, red dust, rusty machinery, faded-out greys. But it’s more likely to be vibrant green.
Without continuing industrial pollution, and human-driven upkeep on plants, they’re going to be thriving. Unless you’re setting your game a loooooong time after some kind of devastating destruction, or the destruction has been global and static (like a nuclear winter), plants will be around, and will be infesting whatever corners they used to be cleared from- cracks in concrete, roots underneath sidewalks and sewage pipes, ivy on walls. Your standard post-apocalypse is likely to actually be really good for the earth (eventually-ish), because all those plants are going to be eating up the carbon dioxide and monoxide in the air, and letting it just be oxygen again. A ‘vault dweller’ or someone who has been on a spaceship their entire life is going to notice the air quality immediately- it’s a taste thing. It may even give them a bit of a high, as increased O2 levels tend to do to people in high climates. So think about your ruined buildings and car-strewn highways, and compare to your lawn, which grows berserk every time it rains. Now multiply that by years of no maintenance or check on their growth, and think about what a nightmare it would be to be a groundskeeper in the post-apocalypse world. (Originally posted on Game Masters Stash on 12 February 2019) Comments are closed.
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