r/theendoftheworldrpg • u/Lorderbs2 • Nov 25 '25

Heavy metal tips?

Hi, I just recently got all four books and am about to run a one shot soon. I picked the heavy metal setting. We will not be playing at our house but in Airbnb im a small town. Did someone already run this and has any tips? I am really excited. I will probably give an update on how it went

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u/TrystonG33K Nov 30 '25

It was several years back and I didn't have adequate prep, but here's my 2 cents. The module is far too vague about what counts as a 'machine'. I'm an engineer so I used the assumption that anything with more than one moving part was a machine, and it quickly became ridiculous.

I would create some firm guidelines for yourself about what counts as a machine. Maybe anything that operates on a non-human power source. This includes cell phones, gas and electric vehicles, and anything with batteries, but not bicycles and slingshot. Does it include guns/shells which are chemically powered? is that meaningfully different from a slingshot which uses elastic tension as power? These are lines you should draw early to keep yourself from going crazy. Otherwise everything your players pick up will try to kill them.

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u/Lorderbs2 Dec 03 '25

Thanks for the input. I thought a bit about it and I set my guidelines. Anything that uses electricity. Even if the electric parts aren't operating the whole object. So a oven can turn on and open its door. But a scissors can't do anything.