I had a friend asking for a suggestion for a Frostpunk RPG. Any suggestions?

ansorca, 9 months ago

Maybe a modified twilight 2000 or Mutant Year Zero? It depends on how grim or heroic he wants the game to be.

My guess is he wants a steampunk setting with survival and base building mechanics.

crbn, 11 months ago

Can you elaborate on what frostpunk means and what you want out of a frostpunk rpg?

GrumblingGM, 11 months ago

Not exactly frostpunk because it misses the whole steampunk setting, but forbidden lands expansion : the bitter reach is all about hardcore survival in a frozen wasteland and does include settlement building rules as well. It might be worth looking into though it'll need a lot of homebrew to make it exactly like frostpunk

5too, 11 months ago

I'm only marginally familiar with Frostpunk as a genre - what sort of game is your friend looking for? Gritty apocalyptic survival with some settlement building aspects?

Ironsworn could be easily tweaked to fill that need, I think. I suspect Savage Worlds could too. I see a lot of suggestions at https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/frostpunk-tabletop-system-recommendations.858901/ too.

If I may ask, why is GURPS not desirable? I know it has a few supplements for exactly this; including character templates to simplify chargen.