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Contamination Europe

Image Description
This is the cover artwork for the classic post-apocalyptic role playing game “Contamination Europe”, I’ve developed.
It was the first piece of concept art I created for Contamination Europe. It should represent the whole feeling of the game at first view. The enviroment is covered with reddish-brown dust and ash. Thick, radiated clouds cover the sky. The sun only spends a diffuse glow on the scenery. The radiation in the air nearly can be seen.

On the picture you can see the remnants of destroyed Berlin. In the background is the town’s landmark – the Brandenburg Gate.
A scattered Panzer-League soldier, equipped with a Panzer-Suit II and a modified 8,8 cm Flak-Gun roams the ruins of the city, to get back to his comrades. The city is a deadly place, because it’s the home of the Plague Mutants.

Brief Background Summary
2.065 a worldwide nuclear war destroyed human civilization and killed nearly everyone and everything on Earth. Only a few survived the war and formed some new factions/organizations or communities in the remnants of destroyed cities. As time passed, new species are created due to the radiation.
89 years later the world is still a rotting graveyard, where the few survivors fight to see the next day.

Contamination Europe plays in 2.154, in post-apocalyptic Germany. Before the nuclear war, a yearlong bloody trench warfare with the russian army for the last coal deposits takes place in eastern Germany. Because of the general shortage of raw materials, hardly no motorized units could be deployed. Whole armies of tanks and airplanes were useless, so the war was an infantry war, similar to the first world war.
Some day the russian army used biological and chemical weapons to break up frontlines, but this attempt failes. The use of B and C weapons continues for some years and even after the nuclear war, wide areas are still contaminated with deadly viruses and chemical gases. This regions are know known as the “Toxic Fields”

In the years after the bombs, several new factions like the Wasteland Tribes, the Bandit Clans, the Trade-Union or the Panzer-League and others had arisen from the nuclear ashes and pursued their goals.

The players are wasteland dwellers, who explore the deadly wasteland for equipment or food. They earn or loose reputation by the different factions depending on their decisions. They may play the good or bad way, that means help or steal/kill others.
Players can find or buy their own base and equip it with various upgrades like water filter, furniture, power plants or automated guns, minefields or a howitzer.

Design Thoughts
I want to point out, that I don’t wanted to make a Fallout clone. Well I know, every new post-apocalyptic RPG is compared to Fallout, but that’s a little unfair, because Fallout has not the claim to be the one and only post-apocalyptic RPG. Besides, there are some important differences:

-Contamination Europe (Con Eur) focuses on Europe, not the USA (perhaps in later Sourcebooks, who knows)
-Con Eur doesn’t play in an alternate reality like Fallout does. It’s based on a fictional continuation of our history.
-In Con Eur there’s no 50s style art deco at every turn
-Con Eur should be really depressing, in style, artwork and most important: feeling of the game
-Con Eur is much more realistic, so you won’t find super-duper-mega-high-tech-big-fucking-guns every 5 meters. Its really hard to get good equipment, because this stuff isn’t produced since 90 years. You have to count every round. And you can’t eat food that has rested the last 90 years in a refrigerator without power.
In general: All that’s pre-war is hard to find and very valuable.
-And you only can carry a limited amount of weapons with you, depending on your strength and the size of a weapon. So don’t expect to carry the armory of a whole army with you.

Look / Feeling
It was especially important for me to create a dirty, rusty, rotten look and feeling for Con Eur. I think this is most important for a believable post-apocalyptic scenario.
So every concept artwork was created with these thoughts in mind.

Features of Contamination Europe
1. Free character creation through allocation of points to attributes and skills
2. Altogether 6 attributes, 20 skills and 5 resistances
3. 40 experience levels
4. 50 advantages to choose from
5. More than 120 weapons
6. More than 60 pieces of armor
7. Consideation of size and weight of the carried equipment
8. Inventory consitst of backpack an belt system. Only items in the belt system can be used at once (more realism)
9. Attribute and skill trials according to the same rules with a D30.
10. Dangerous enviroment conditions: Radiation, biological and chemical contamination, fire and acid.
11. Rules for shooting and dogfight
12. Easy trading system, which considerates the trade skill
13. Easy rules for pickpocketing, lockpicking and hacking computers
14 Crafting-System for many different items
15. Rules for mines, booby traps and explosive charges
16. Bioimplants und teaching books
17. Rules for chance encounters
18. 14 different factions
19. Reputation system that displays the effects of the player’s actions and the change of his reputation for the different factions
20. Characters can build and upgrade their own base
21. Rules for base defense
22. Characters can join a faction or create their own faction
23. Background information for historical incidents, factions and special places

Ingredients of the Game

- 1x Rulebook
- 1x The post-nuclear World (Background Information)
- 1x Equipment Handbook
- 1x Enemy Handbook
- 1x Rule Summary
- 1x Character Sheet (2 Pages)
- 1x Enemy Sheet (1 Page)
- 1x Beginner Scenario for 3-5 Characters of level 1-5
- 2D6
- 2D10
- 4D30

Contamination Europe – A post-apocalyptic Role Playing Game is now available in English and German as PDF file and print version:

PDF version, English, 186 pages, Letter format, only $ 6.95: [link]
PDF version, German, 186 pages, DINA4 format, only € 4,95: [link]

Print version, English, 185 pages, Letter format, only $ 19.95: [link]
Print version, German, 185 pages, Letter format, only € 19,95: [link]

Character Data Sheet, English, Letter format, for free: [link]
Character Data Sheet, German, DINA4, for free: [link]

The complete Contamination Europe Soundtrack "Radioactive Winds" with 25 songs in MP3 format is available here: [link]

Take a look at my other game Galactic Conquest: [link]

Check it out

Description
Contamination Europe

Image Description
This is the cover artwork for the classic post-apocalyptic role playing game “Contamination Europe”, I’ve developed.
It was the first piece of concept art I created for Contamination Europe. It should represent the whole feeling of the game at first view. The enviroment is covered with reddish-brown dust and ash. Thick, radiated clouds cover the sky. The sun only spends a diffuse glow on the scenery. The radiation in the air nearly can be seen.

On the picture you can see the remnants of destroyed Berlin. In the background is the town’s landmark – the Brandenburg Gate.
A scattered Panzer-League soldier, equipped with a Panzer-Suit II and a modified 8,8 cm Flak-Gun roams the ruins of the city, to get back to his comrades. The city is a deadly place, because it’s the home of the Plague Mutants.

Brief Background Summary
2.065 a worldwide nuclear war destroyed human civilization and killed nearly everyone and everything on Earth. Only a few survived the war and formed some new factions/organizations or communities in the remnants of destroyed cities. As time passed, new species are created due to the radiation.
89 years later the world is still a rotting graveyard, where the few survivors fight to see the next day.

Contamination Europe plays in 2.154, in post-apocalyptic Germany. Before the nuclear war, a yearlong bloody trench warfare with the russian army for the last coal deposits takes place in eastern Germany. Because of the general shortage of raw materials, hardly no motorized units could be deployed. Whole armies of tanks and airplanes were useless, so the war was an infantry war, similar to the first world war.
Some day the russian army used biological and chemical weapons to break up frontlines, but this attempt failes. The use of B and C weapons continues for some years and even after the nuclear war, wide areas are still contaminated with deadly viruses and chemical gases. This regions are know known as the “Toxic Fields”

In the years after the bombs, several new factions like the Wasteland Tribes, the Bandit Clans, the Trade-Union or the Panzer-League and others had arisen from the nuclear ashes and pursued their goals.

The players are wasteland dwellers, who explore the deadly wasteland for equipment or food. They earn or loose reputation by the different factions depending on their decisions. They may play the good or bad way, that means help or steal/kill others.
Players can find or buy their own base and equip it with various upgrades like water filter, furniture, power plants or automated guns, minefields or a howitzer.

Design Thoughts
I want to point out, that I don’t wanted to make a Fallout clone. Well I know, every new post-apocalyptic RPG is compared to Fallout, but that’s a little unfair, because Fallout has not the claim to be the one and only post-apocalyptic RPG. Besides, there are some important differences:

-Contamination Europe (Con Eur) focuses on Europe, not the USA (perhaps in later Sourcebooks, who knows)
-Con Eur doesn’t play in an alternate reality like Fallout does. It’s based on a fictional continuation of our history.
-In Con Eur there’s no 50s style art deco at every turn
-Con Eur should be really depressing, in style, artwork and most important: feeling of the game
-Con Eur is much more realistic, so you won’t find super-duper-mega-high-tech-big-fucking-guns every 5 meters. Its really hard to get good equipment, because this stuff isn’t produced since 90 years. You have to count every round. And you can’t eat food that has rested the last 90 years in a refrigerator without power.
In general: All that’s pre-war is hard to find and very valuable.
-And you only can carry a limited amount of weapons with you, depending on your strength and the size of a weapon. So don’t expect to carry the armory of a whole army with you.

Look / Feeling
It was especially important for me to create a dirty, rusty, rotten look and feeling for Con Eur. I think this is most important for a believable post-apocalyptic scenario.
So every concept artwork was created with these thoughts in mind.

Features of Contamination Europe
1. Free character creation through allocation of points to attributes and skills
2. Altogether 6 attributes, 20 skills and 5 resistances
3. 40 experience levels
4. 50 advantages to choose from
5. More than 120 weapons
6. More than 60 pieces of armor
7. Consideation of size and weight of the carried equipment
8. Inventory consitst of backpack an belt system. Only items in the belt system can be used at once (more realism)
9. Attribute and skill trials according to the same rules with a D30.
10. Dangerous enviroment conditions: Radiation, biological and chemical contamination, fire and acid.
11. Rules for shooting and dogfight
12. Easy trading system, which considerates the trade skill
13. Easy rules for pickpocketing, lockpicking and hacking computers
14 Crafting-System for many different items
15. Rules for mines, booby traps and explosive charges
16. Bioimplants und teaching books
17. Rules for chance encounters
18. 14 different factions
19. Reputation system that displays the effects of the player’s actions and the change of his reputation for the different factions
20. Characters can build and upgrade their own base
21. Rules for base defense
22. Characters can join a faction or create their own faction
23. Background information for historical incidents, factions and special places

Ingredients of the Game

- 1x Rulebook
- 1x The post-nuclear World (Background Information)
- 1x Equipment Handbook
- 1x Enemy Handbook
- 1x Rule Summary
- 1x Character Sheet (2 Pages)
- 1x Enemy Sheet (1 Page)
- 1x Beginner Scenario for 3-5 Characters of level 1-5
- 2D6
- 2D10
- 4D30

Contamination Europe – A post-apocalyptic Role Playing Game is now available in English and German as PDF file and print version:

PDF version, English, 186 pages, Letter format, only $ 6.95: [link]
PDF version, German, 186 pages, DINA4 format, only € 4,95: [link]

Print version, English, 185 pages, Letter format, only $ 19.95: [link]
Print version, German, 185 pages, Letter format, only € 19,95: [link]

Character Data Sheet, English, Letter format, for free: [link]
Character Data Sheet, German, DINA4, for free: [link]

The complete Contamination Europe Soundtrack "Radioactive Winds" with 25 songs in MP3 format is available here: [link]

Take a look at my other game Galactic Conquest: [link]

Check it out