Skip to main content

Rad Zone


The world faces a terrible apocalypse. Without warning, the sun’s radiation spiked to alarming levels, and under this relentless and deadly barrage, humanity succumbed. People fell ill and millions died. Populations moved underground into fortified Rad Bunkers as the sun pushed people deeper into the darkness. Many plants and animals perished, and society collapsed. Food and clean water were rationed until people began to starve, and martial law was replaced by irradiated outlaws and bandits who roamed the surface, looking for some means of survival.

Rad Zone is a roll and write, print and play solo game set in a harsh future where you manage a group of survivors. They live in a Rad Bunker and strive to keep their home stocked with food, water, medical supplies, fuel, equipment, and raw materials. They must go on dangerous missions and salvage these much-needed items from nearby locations, at the same time avoiding bandits who roam the land in their radiation-induced craze. On top of this, they must be quick to avoid taking a dangerous dose of radiation.

What you need to play

Rad Zone uses a D6 (six-sided dice) system. You need at least three dice to play, of three different colours. You will also need a pencil and eraser and to print out the sheets to play. These include the Rad Bunker Roster, an Episode Sheet, Character Cards, Journey Charts and Location Sheets.

Gameplay

Rad Zone is a solo player game which revolves around a series of printable sheets. These are adjusted and updated while your characters are on missions. A mission sees one of your people head out and salvage resources for their bunker. A game session is played with one new character or one selected from the Rad Bunker Roster, a character you played before survived a previous mission. They will be experienced and consequently will have additional useful traits. The policy of the bunker is to send one person at a time in order to limit the level of radiation poisoning within the survivor population, as well as reduce casualties.


Rad Zone was successfully funded in May 2021 on Kickstarter. 

If you are interested in ordering a copy, incase you missed out on the Kickstarter, then please email jo@drgames.co.uk

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Presenting Dark Force Incursion - A FREE Roll and Write One Player Game

It has been on my mind for a while now as the Corona-virus spreads across the world . What can I offer those who are at home and unable to partake in their usual gaming sessions because of isolation. How can a creative mind help alleviate the stress of boredom and worry? I have seen other roll and write games and thought that might be a great way of giving something to the community to these very ends.    Looking at what I have previously worked on under the DR Games and the hex tile has been a feature. I decide that I would try and use this format, combine it with a number mechanism and inject it with a narrative. This became a scenario that fuel the fire of the story...and Dark Force Incursion was born.   " Y o u r l a n d h a s b e e n i n v a d e d b y a p o w e r f u l D a r k F o r c e . T h e s p e e d o f t h e i n v a s i o n w a s f r i g h t e n i n g , a n d t h e y h a v e t a k e n a l l t h e d e f e n s i v e f o r ...
10 comments
Read more

Board Game Stats Sheet

Board Game Stats Sheet Considering I’m creating a board game, and plan to do more in the future, I thought it wise to have a look at some of the stats of other successful board games. This table is just some of my research, but I thought it would be interesting to share here. These numbers are taken from Amazon and Board Game Geek (BBG) and so can vary and play time can stretch or shrink. Name BGG Ranking Amazon Price No Players Play time Ages Talisman 1397 £46.08 2-6 90mins 13+ Wingspan 25 £52.99 1-5 40-70mins 10+ Ticket to Ride 157 £30.95 2-5 30-60mins 8+ Settlers of Catan 355 £37.33 2-4 60mins 10+ Monopoly 18476 £21.99 2-6 60mins 8+ Dune 834 £40.0...
2 comments
Read more

Kickstarter Notify Me Page…do we advertise it?

It has been months in the making but now finally our card game Trade Nation is on Kickstarter. Well, I mean the notify page is up so people can go there, click on the notify me button, and they will receive an email when the project goes live on Tuesday. Of course, this whole process brings a certain amount of trepidation. It has been interesting setting up the Preview page because it raises a number of questions about how you run a campaign. It’s great to be able to pick up the clicks before the actual campaign goes live, so as I said before people receive their notifications, but do you actually advertise the notify me page or do you wait until the actual campaign goes live? It is a bit of a conundrum. I have put out a Facebook advert pushing the notify page but have decided to wait on the rest of my advertising budget for when the page actually goes live. I really do not know if this is a mistake and I am very curious as to what the standard conversion rate is for notify me clic...
Post a Comment
Read more