Post-APOCALYPSE #1: Rolls and risks, in-game and out
August 25, 2026
In case you missed my possibly too subtle footnote in Five Years in the Apocalypse, APOCALYPSE FRAME 2nd Edition is in the works.1 When envisioning what this would look like, I decided to take this back to some of the first principles mechanically. One huge one from the start was the core rolling mechanic.
The initial approach #
LUMEN uses a variation on the FitD-ish roll Xd6, take highest. It’s the same kind of roll, but FitD splits the now-relatively-classic ternary as such:
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