Editing PAW (section)

===Themes===
*Exploration by the PCs to try and learn more about humanity's predicament.  Presumably they will be the type of characters driven to learn more about their surroundings and how they can improve things.
*Humans will have [d]evolved into different groups and insular societies with strongly diverging opinions, fostered by varying opinions on the cataclysm and how to manage society.  There will be communist collectives, religious cults, scientific sects, local dictators, etc.
*The PCs may feel obliged to find other humans that they can trust to help maintain their "safe area(s)" that cultivate crops and protect shelter and safe drinking water during their travels.  Eventually they will take on henchmen-types and then become community leaders.  Unless they simply decide to take the more dangerous route of traveling to regions unknown.
*Communication is relegated to the speed of travel.
*Humans are imperfect.  Characters will have to deal with mental, as well as physical challenges in the harshness of this setting.
*Exploring real modern communities like Chicago, Rockford and East Troy post-cataclysm to solve mysteries, scavenge for non-perishable foods and valuables and trade for goods and news of the world.