That’s the tagline for Gladlands, the latest season of Dropout.tv’s actual-play series Dimension 20 — and it isn’t just flavor text. From the moment the season opens, with its heroes racing through a sandstorm to deliver thank-you notes to donors who participated in a blood drive, Gladlands makes a bold, subversive argument: The apocalypse doesn’t have to be cruel, and survival doesn’t have to be violent.

