Waste Runners is a small 34 page game set in a changed near future, its kind of a post apocalypse setting not not quite. Rather than the entire world being devastated a huge swathe of central Europe was ruined in a flash. Most of the people are gone, those that remain are "changed".
The PCs come into this game as "Waste Runners" people, agents, soldiers, or operatives tasked with entering the waste and recovering, discovering or investigating.
I find the whole background fascinating, going into this strange waste armed to the teeth and likely to meet almost anything gives you an endless variety of scenarios. "Changed" survivors gives you tons of possibilities, and when you throw in competing waste runners and foreign militaries there is just so much fun to be had. Militaries going in to recover weapons, criminals seeking bullion, scientists needing to study, lots of opportunities. I've even got a couple of scenario ideas in my head that might make it to published products at some date in the future.
The rules are based on the Cowpunchers game system, based around the three stats of Vigor, Finesse, and Smarts. It uses D6s, and skills and penalties add or subtract dice from your roll. Every 5-6 you roll on the dice is a success, and various tasks may require different numbers of successes.
This game is for you if you are a gun-fan, nine pages of guns are listed and stated, so your operative can get truly geared up. A bullet-types, armor types, vehicles, along with survival rules (food and water) create relatable environments where surviving may easily become the only part of the mission that matters.
In short, as you can likely tell, I like what this game offers, and at the price its a bargain too.
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