Tiny Wastelands RPG

by Alan Bahr

TinyD6 gets apocalyptic!
The versatile and minimalist TinyD6 ruleset hits the road in this post-apocalyptic sourcebook. Containing new rules for settlements, vehicles, and mutations, Tiny Wastelands is your trust companion in the blasted landscapes of the near-future.

Powered by the TinyD6 engine, with streamlined mechanics that utilize only one to three single six-sided dice on every action, characters that can be written 3x5 notecard, and easy to understand and teach rules, Tiny Wastelands is here to be your rules-lite waypoint on your lonely apocalyptic road!

Included are over a dozen lightly detailed settings, written by some of the best authors out there. These “micro-settings” are light-weight, open-ended and designed to be inspiriational for your games and provide a fast, easy jumping point for your campaign! Covering a wide selection of post-apocalyptic genres and ideas, there's something for everyone in Tiny Wastelands!

Tiny Wastelands is a complete rulebook, but to fully utilize the scope of the game, a deck of Enclave Cards is required.

Genres: Role Playing Games

192 pages, Paperback

Published August 29, 2018

About the author

Alan Bahr is the lead designer and founder of Gallant Knight Games. A game designer best known for the TinyD6 line of games, along with other games such as Cold Shadows, For Coin & Blood, Planet Mercenary, and many others, Alan has been working in the game industry since 2015.
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​He’s an avid fan of Noir films, Arthurian mythos, smooth jazz, clever role-playing games, and his amazing wife.

Reviews

[Adam Windsor · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a minimalist RPG for post-apocalyptic settings like The Road Warrior (Mad Max). I think it's better suited for one-off or mini-campaigns rather than for long form play, but there's certainly nothing wrong with that approach, especially for a game where it's this easy to pick up and start. The settlement rules are probably the most interesting part. I haven't had a chance to test them to see how the balance is but just based on reading them they are a relatively simple and elegant way to address the concept of scarcity and survival for a wider community in such a setting.

[Daniel Yocom · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tiny Wastelands is a great RPG setting using the TinyD6 system. We played a single session game and everyone at the table had fun. Since playing that one session, the game has come up in conversation several times.

The system allows for flexibility for everyone around the table. Tests are quick resolutions for attempting an action that could fail, which allow the story to continue without getting hung up on all of the contributing factors.

You can read the complete review at https://guildmastergaming.blogspot.co...

[Geoff Gander · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another title that demonstrates the versatility of the TinyD6 "rules-lite" system. Rules for mutations, building enclaves in a ruined wasteland, and constructing patchwork vehicles of the apocalypse were seamlessly added, but to me the real value of this book are the sheer number of sample campaign settings (a typical feature of TinyD6 books, from what I gather.) Anyone who reads this book and then goes on to build a Mad Max setting is missing out on some great ideas.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

There's an excellent amount of content for a small footprint game; they hit all the major points you'd expect in a game with this title including vehicles and the Enclave.

One of the reasons it's a joy to read is that even though it's small on core crunch they don't skimp on layout or art. I've seen larger books where you can tell maybe the publishers let the author/writer do the layout when they should have hired someone with an eye for layout and look and feel. Not so here.

[Charlos · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice post-apoc rule tweak for Tiny D6. The enclave rules are a nice additional level of play that are easy enough to maintain without drawing from the main story, and could easily be applied to other systems, so they could be worth the look themselves. While I have found some of the microsetting collections for the other TD6 genres to be unimpressive, there are few misfires here, definitely many worthy of trying for a one shot or tweaking for your own campaign.