I need help homebrewing my own post-apocalypse campaign world. It's going for a Mad Max feel although there's still some interesting near-future technology laying around still intact to salvage.
My question is what would "civilization" generally be like if 6/7ths of the world population suddenly died within a few days (I'm thinking something simple like a few big meteors hit the Earth), about 10 years after the apocalyptic event? In terms of how much infrastructure would be left over assuming it didn't explode in the initial apocalypse, and what human society's remnants would be like?
>>54389369
>a few big meteors hit the Earth
There wouldn't be much more than a few bacteria, primitive plants and insects around.
>>54389746
Humans could have broken up the initial impacts into thousands of tiny ones and infrastructure literally got fucked.
Tech is still around but you don't have networks or powergrid nor the means to create or fix them.
People live in smaller communites with strong central authority and fewer civil liberties to try and rebuilt/become prosperous.
Geographic regions are split between haves and have nots and trade becomes lopsided, leading to raids.
Logically there should be factions or remnets of factions left over from before the event. Like the US government, The military, the police force, biker gangs, nig nog gangs, mafia, miltia, or even hippies. The could be very similar to the original group or very different (like how the US army became thw brotherhood of steal in fallout).
As for infrastructure, I'd think very complex systems like sewers, internet, or power grid would be fucked. But non-nuclear power plants, solar farms, small windmills, wells, hydroelectric damns, mines, small factories could probably be kept in fuctioning order for at leat a couple decades.
>>54389369
>my own
>I need help
pick one
>>54390916
Were your parents siblings?
>>54394326
Don't reply to trolls, dummy.
Make the cause mysterious. No one needs to know what caused the apocalypse. It seems scarier that way. Also finding out what happened could be a quest line later on. And, 6/7ths of the population gone (wtf on that particular fraction) would do nothing. Try 99% or more dead.
Do this
>>54397169
>The storyline, the Earth has been ravaged by pollution and natural disasters of all sorts.
>To escape this, humanity built vast underground cities in which they lived for approximately 600 years.
>Upon emerging, the humans found that the world had been reclaimed by previously extinct lifeforms
>In the new 'Xenozoic' era, technology is extremely limited and those with mechanical skills command a great deal of respect and influence.
Sounds good