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Post-Apocalypse Survival in a Nuked Soviet Metro: Cooking Characters in RAD

RAD by Hipólita definitely caught my eye as a Mausritter-inspired post-nuclear sovietica OSR-style adventure game. Bullets, mutations, community building, and resource management are promised in the game's description, and I am all for it. I got a copy of it from the Ind of the Year 2023 itch bundle . You can check the book here . There is no definitive version number in the book, so for documentation's sake, version I'll use is from Jan 2024 download I've made. And as of writing this, there seems to be no new update. Putting a naive but curious character would be fun in a post-apocalypse survival game, so we'll take note of [Dimasilaw] archetype when making the character. See  Cooking Characters Primer  for more details about archetypes. So let's dive in and make our post-nuclear explorer! kill fascists and look cool doing it Step 1. Roll 3d6 for each of the main stat , keeping the two highest die result as the score. If the total value of all stats is less tha...