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Gamma World (1e)

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Can you survive in a world gone mad? A world where civilization as we know it has been destroyed in a cataclysmic holocaust? What is left in this world? Find out and encounter such bizarre things as mutated plants and animals more terrible than you can imagine, radiation wastelands that stretch as far as the eye can see, and fearless machines gone uncontrollably beserk . . .

This is the setting for a GAMMA WORLDcampaign, with players taking on the persona of an individual character somewhere in this forbidding locale. In a quest for survival and in search of a better future, the players adventure across the land, enduring hardships and encountering dangerous obstacles and mysterious foes - never knowing quite what to expect. The result is a game which can go in many directions, but which will be challenging and fascinating no matter what the outcome.

The GAMMA WORLD™ Set includes all the basics needed to set up your own "world": game booklet (packed with terrible mutants, as well as guidelines for creating additional ones of your own), a large campaign map (designed to be easily modified by individual gamemasters), and a full set of polyhedra dice. The only other things necessary are a good imagination and a spirit of adventure! The GAMMA WORLDrules are also suitable for use with the ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONSTM rules.

The GAMMA WORLD challenge awaits you - are you ready?

This digital edition includes the PDF version of the book, and a ZIP file containing printable JPGs of the campaign map.

Note on the print edition: The maps and other elements have been added as bonus pages in the print book. If you plan on using the map at your table it is recommended that you purchase the "Multiple File Formats + Softcover Color Book" combo and print the digital version.

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Will L November 20, 2023 10:20 pm UTC
This is from TSR, not Wizards of the Coast. It doesn't matter if they acquired TSR nearly 20 years later.
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Matthew H March 31, 2022 11:30 pm UTC
The POD is solid. I got one from a secondhand sale, but it is indeed RPGDriveThru's own reprint. All the tables and matrices normally found on the referee screen are conveniently tucked in the back of the book, along with a two-page color map of the Gamma World setting. The text looks very clean - no blurring, no smearing, etc. Every page appears to be perfectly aligned, although I don't have the original GM1 book to do a formal comparison.
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Eric W November 15, 2021 1:18 pm UTC
Wotc should do a gamma world 2e hardback
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Jamie B December 15, 2022 4:24 am UTC
This is correct.
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charles B October 05, 2021 1:26 am UTC
I would like to see an osr conversion
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Grognard O December 12, 2021 2:50 pm UTC
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Have a look at mutant future
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Mikhail Joseph A March 17, 2022 11:38 am UTC
Mutant Crawl Classics
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Matthew H March 31, 2022 11:23 pm UTC
Mutant Future is based on this exact game.
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Alan W June 22, 2021 7:59 am UTC
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The scans here are super-high quality. WotC did a bang-up job on all of the 1E stuff.
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Chet S May 12, 2021 6:54 pm UTC
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Please make this available in a hardcover.
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Scott O April 18, 2021 3:33 pm UTC
Is the font size bigger and easier to read than in the original? TIA!
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Alan W June 22, 2021 7:58 am UTC
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No. This is essentially a perfect scan of the original.
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Scott O June 22, 2021 12:33 pm UTC
Thank you!
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Michael B March 25, 2021 9:19 pm UTC
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Just got my softcover today. Binding looks good and sturdy. This will encourage me to purchase more PoD products.
I do love the color map at the end of the book. Wish it would come out but heck I still have my original one from back in the day so it’s no loss to me.
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John R March 13, 2021 1:55 am UTC
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Hardcover would be nice option.
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Kyrinn E October 30, 2020 12:46 am UTC
I see that they have 1e and 3rd, 4th, but no 2e.
How about a PoD of the 2e rules + pdf of the 2e boxed set materials?
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Lazaro I June 19, 2021 3:15 am UTC
Hello Kryinn, no POD of 2e yet, but the PDF is available: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/359120/Gamma-World-2e?src=exclusively
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Brett C November 09, 2018 6:37 am UTC
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The GAMMA WORLD™ Set includes all the basics needed to set up your own "world": game booklet (packed with terrible mutants, as well as guidelines for creating additional ones of your own), a large campaign map (designed to be easily modified by individual gamemasters), and a full set of polyhedra dice.

This is misleading - it needs to be edited to indicate the "multiple formats/softcover" option only gives you the printed book, without dice. It's a relatively small matter except when you consider international customers, who are better off buying the pdf only and getting it professionally printed locally. You can't print dice - yet, anyway, although I expect 3D printers of decent yet cheap dice will be an option eventually.

I will say I was quite happy with the look of the paper book. It looks superior to the original, as far as I can tell.
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Jacques C November 01, 2018 4:04 pm UTC
Is this the rule book or just a setting?
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Frank W November 06, 2018 1:04 am UTC
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It's both a rule book and the setting.

It gives flavor for the setting including cryptic alliances and some light details on world building as well as the history leading up to 2471.

There are a number of creatures provided as well as a wide range of mutations and rules for creating plant-monsters and robots.

There is also a full-sized poster map of America which is on a hex grid and left almost entirely blank for the GM to fill in as they please.
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Michael S October 25, 2018 11:50 am UTC
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How long does it typically take to get the print version?
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Jordan B October 22, 2018 5:12 pm UTC
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You should update the description to clarify that a set of dice are not included.
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David J November 04, 2018 7:08 pm UTC
I'm hoping you're being sarcastic and/or ironic.
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Brett C November 09, 2018 6:40 am UTC
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Agreed, if they are shipping a hardcopy to you - which is the attraction here - then it's not unreasonable for them to toss in a few dice, as they said in the description.

I can see that that is not their intent but I can also see the description directly contradicts that ... which is a bad idea, legally!! The law cares about what you said, not what you meant to say.
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Kenneth M September 14, 2020 3:44 am UTC
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It says RIGHT IN THE CART...

"This is a scanned image print file."

You really want them to scan an image of a "full set of polyhedral dice" and send it to you?
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Frank W October 21, 2018 1:27 pm UTC
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This is going to be so much fun! I missed out on this when I played a lot of D&D in my youth so seeing it available now made me so happy.

The scan is very clean and the full-sized map is available in fairly high resolution, included as 6-JPG files which can be printed.

Really hoping the two modules are added as well GW1 "Legion of Gold" and GW2 "Famine in Far-Go"

Also would be great to see some of the Dragon Magazine Articles and Scenarios collected especially Dragon Magazine #25 which had some clarification around artifacts, more thoroughly fleshed out Cryptic Alliances and a map indicating where these alliances operate in relation to the ruined cities of 2471.

I'll definitely be picking up the POD version when I get closer to forming a group!
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