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Errata: Mapping woes

There is a clash between the illustrations and the text in the chapter „Building your own world of MOA“. Thanks to Whidou for spotting this! The issue is this: The …

Crowdfunding fulfillment nearly done

Hello Fellow Post Robbers! I’ve seen via social media that some of you have already received their books. Thank you all again for backing this campaign and being so kind …

The Kickstarter Campaign is live!

On Tuesday, we published the Kickstarter Campaign for the printed zine as part of Zine Quest 4: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jollyorc/zine-quest-mail-order-apocalypse?ref=card

Survivor of the Week – Machine Talker

You’ve rigged up some system that allows you to listen and maybe even talk to the machines. Maybe you spliced one of the overland wires, maybe you’ve hijacked a cell …

Survivor of the Week: Post Robber

Be it for the thrill of the take or just for plain survival, Post Robbers make a living out of ambushing, stealing or simple tricking the machines Mail Order Delivery …

Survivor of the Week: Roving Genealogist

All of the fortunes of man must by definition belong to some man. Well, to someone at least. Even the most convoluted dutch-irish-sandwich-tax-evasion-scheme boils down to someone owning the stock …

Randomness

I’ve come to love random tables. It took me a while, but these things are a very nifty tool to get creative juices flowing. One trick is to make the …

No movement on moves

After a big flurry of activity, I’ve hit my first big stumbling block: Writing moves for this game. All Powered by the Apocalypse games rely heavily on the construct called …