Okay, I think there's enough interest to make it worth putting a thread up.

One last question before I do: Red Markets has a lot of world-building collaborative rules that could be used to create the local enclave (basically, where you guys weathered the apocalypse) and some of the world around you. So, for instance, you might be set up in a university campus in California, a prison in Montana, a high school in Wyoming. Everyone would have some input in creating the enclave, how it fuels itself, what it needs to keep going, what the local competition is etc. Alternatively, I can write that all up for you to help you focus on just making a character that fits in. Which would y'all prefer?