The Carbon Coast is my campaign concept that I've been working on for about three years, although my love of all things post-apocalyptic goes back several decades to when I lived within the primary strike zones of both Norfolk, VA and Washington, DC. Gamma World was always an attractive escape into fantasy when reality kept telling me that I was minutes from annihilation at any instant. The main NPC (okay, the only NPC) I've devised is Uncle Bayou , an intelligent humanoid alligator. While not directly based on Louis from The Princess and the Frog , that character is a useful reference. He runs an oil refinery/ water treatment plant/ wildlife rescue mission/ bazaar/ whatever else I need somewhere along what was once the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and a bit of Florida. As society collapsed, offshore oil drilling operations were attacked or abandoned, leading to massive spills affecting the Gulf Coast, which was already altered by a fifty foot rise in sea l...