User summary: The second edition of the role-playing game. Rules are similar to the first. Eventually released as a PDF for free under the GNU Free Documentation License. From the rulebook intro, titled "Read This or Die": The world of deadEarth, the ideas that go into it, and the thought that created it all stem from one belief: "That which does not kill us, makes us stronger." -Friedrich Nietzsche Your goal as a player of this game, a reader of the stories surrounding it, and a believer in its truths is to survive. Life is a game, survival is the key and there are no rules. Play hard! Play to win!