The Big Wet
A downloadable game
The world has flooded again. Maybe it's 2030, maybe it's tomorrow. But it's flooded again. You are scavengers, delving into the flooded ruins of the old cities to look for dry-world treasures that couldn’t be saved. The work is dirty, dangerous, and wet.
The Big Wet is a postdiluvian survival zine. Inside, you'll get:
- A straightforward d100 roll-under-over system using stats and your character's slowly-rising Wet score
- A fast and brutal combat system, where every shot counts and every bullet matters
- Simple but vicious terrain types and weather patterns, to ensure nothing is ever easy
- Two introductory adventures: a half-sunken skyscraper with a still-active helicopter atop it, and a totally flooded aquarium teeming with sea life and valuable biological samples
- Tables upon tables of gear, items, trinkets, and treasure
20 pages. 8.5" x 5.5", grayscale.
(The free demo is the older pocketmod version—similar rules, but mostly unfinished and without nearly as much content. Good if you want to get a vibe.)
You can also get this zine in print at Exalted Funeral!
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $5 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Download demo
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Found this at my local shop, picked it up and should be giving it a try here in a couple days. This is a very solid (short and succinct) piece of work that fans of Mothership should definitely give a try; it feels like a unique take and evokes The Last of Us level of psychology when playing. Great work!
Thanks!
Question- what damage do melee weapons do?
I just have them use the normal 1d100-under-Lungs-over-Wet roll based on the damage chart. I'm pretty generous also with classifying some stuff (a fire axe, a baseball bat) as big weapons for the extra +5 or +10.
Hi there, I just bought this intriguing zine from my local game store and I just have a question which may be obtuse but I'm brand new to RPGs so bare with me...is there a GM for this game? Or does everyone just get to be a scavenger?
Thanks in advance for your time, looking forward to playing either way!
Maiden Magma
Yes! At least, that's certainly how I play it, and I wrote the book with a GM in mind. You could... probably...? play without a GM? But it'd be tricky for sure, it wasn't at all really how I planned it.
If you do try, though, I'd be super curious to know how it goes!
Good luck!
ok that makes sense, I thought so just wanted to make absolutely sure. Thanks so much for the reply (and the game!)
As someone living in Manila, which gets rains and floods half of the year, this is setting is familiar to me. Also easy to integrate to local games. Amazing game.
And it's a goddamn funny to read and hear "You get WET by getting wet."
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy it.
I've been really interested in your posts about this game on your blog. At some point, could you release a de-pocketmodded version of the PDF, so I could read it more easily without printing it, and use it for online games?
Yeah, that shouldn't be too difficult. Bug me in a couple days if I haven't posted something.