Races in After are a set of mutations that are packaged with a culture; however, if your group likes to create unique looking characters or even super powered characters, then utilizing After's Mutation System is the direction for you...
What will my character look like in After?
The goal of After is to mix fantasy with sci-fi futuristic elements. The background of this setting is recovering from a future apocalypse where most of our modern day technology was already obsolete...
Is After a 5e Horror Setting?
1. A world waiting to be discovered.
2. Unique Creatures.
3. Characters from concept-to-completion.
4. Create unique characters.
5. Intuitive magic system.
6. Fluctuating magic power.
7. Magic as a skill.
8. Mix of technology with archaic weaponry.
9. Story-based character leveling.
10. Simple barter system.
What Makes After Different?
While only some artifacts discovered helped the cause, the amount of help from one such object was worth all the effort. Staring at the wall, Klein recalled various monumental discoveries. Starting with the items for removing waste and providing clean water, which sparked an unprecedented influx of people to his cause, making him the Warlord...
Discoveries
Dailen tackled him to the ground, quickly smothering the flames with a wet blanket he had readied for this possibility. The one-room, half-buried hovel filled with the stench of burning flesh and smoke. Dailen grabbed what looked like a kid’s wooden pinwheel off the wall and began spinning it with his finger. As the momentum...
Micah's Arm
She focused on pulling the flow up toward her hands and pushing it into her staff. A gleam of light began above the tip, and with her excitement, she instinctively pulled harder at the cold stream running through her body, as the river stone disappeared, replaced by an orb of shimmering light surrounded by a...
Flood and Backlash
Forget what transpired, and do not seek that knowledge. Objects of the past are powerful enough to destroy everyone you love, be cautious. What is known now and how to survive is what is essential. The skies belong to the...
I was young when we started to venture back out into the world, slowly discovering others and sharing generations of stories leading to an understanding of the dangers in this new world. Somehow we fooled ourselves that understanding the dangers...
As my grandfather told my mother, as my mother told me, so I tell you. Hundreds of years had passed with the same fears and the same small joys. Sounds from the wilds at night were chilling to the bone...