Focusing on Armageddon Overdrive
Armageddon Overdive (AO) is my translation of Armageddon Accelerated (AA) that I’ve worked off and on for a few years, inspired by the Dresden Files (Fate) Accelerated ttrpg by Evil Hat Productions, over to a Forged in the Dark version. Apart from the FitD SRD, I’m inspired by terrific Bump in the Dark ttrpg by Jex Thomas – a revised edition is on the way now.
What are these Armageddon games you speak of?
Here’s what I have from an old image and blurb…
MYTHIC MISSIONS. ANGEL-MECH ACTION. AFTERLIFE DRAMA.
It’s pre-2000s and the world is on the way to annihilation. The European Union has splintered. The Internet has become a corporate-controlled data-net. Poverty, disease, and terrorism are taking root, while fear spreads faster than hope. The signs are appearing to those who know how to read them. And only HALO has the ability and willingness to intercede on behalf of the struggling world that seems hellbent on tearing itself apart in the shadow of suffering and despair. Demons howl and the night bleeds fiery vengeance. The call to arms goes out to you …
Armageddon Accelerated is a game about pre-millennium cold war conspiracies and warfare between The Powers That Be and The Shadow. Both sides use agents to advance their agendas and to manipulate the Doomsday Clock towards or away from Armageddon.
The players take on roles as the agents on the side of The Powers That Be. These agents are recruited at Death’s Door for an opportunity to help prevent Armageddon, AND to get another shot at resolving the life they left behind.
Over the course of service, these hand-selected agents may work to return stolen artifacts of sacred power from fiery pit demons in a long lost pyramid, prevent The Shadow from possessing the bodies of world leaders at a peace conference in time to prevent WWIII, and tussle with things 20,000 leagues under the sea and beyond the scope of the Book of Revelations via sacred weapons of mass destruction and their uplifted angelic Vessels.
I’ve made progress on:
- Agent character sheets
- A quickstart document I’m planning to take with me to run the game
- A massive reorganization of the content work
- However, the parish sheet is waiting in the wings
There’s plenty more editing and tinkering to be done. When I feel it’s ready for a pre-convention playtest I will put the call out.
As a thank you, I’m including what I have for the character sheets at the moment. Please let me know what you think.
Let me know if you’d like to join my Discord server or be added to the playtester list!
Be well and happy gaming!