Well, it’s been almost a year since
my last post and I’ve finally got the gumption to restart things here. Part of
what’s caused this is that a couple of old pals of mine were in a Rotworld RPG
with me when the game took an untenable turn and we bailed. Yet we still wanted
to play Zombie Survival gaming. What to do?
After some e chatting we decided to
go to my old love All Things Zombie. We discussed setting up a forum to run the
game and started looking at free forum options. Then it hit me. Why not just
revive this blog and run it via posts, with the guys posting in comments their
reactions?
I must admit Shelldrake’s ATZ games
via webcam inspired me some…but since webcam isn’t feasible we decided to go
with photos instead and a gratuitous amount of verbal RPGs. We shall see how
this work.
For ATZ purists reading this, don’t
expect the games to be 100% BTB. I’m using ATZ: Better Dead than Zed with a few
Final Fade-Out rules imported in and a bunch of house rules to increase the RPG
feel without some of the clunkier systems out of FFO. The rules suggest
starting out at Rep 5, but we agreed to go with Rep 4 instead. To cover this a
bit more (and increase the RPGisms) I’m going to allow Stars to start with 3
attributes instead of 2. We shall see how this works. I’m also going to try (at
least for the first game) to use both random zombie generation along with PEFs.
If we don’t survive I’ll revisit this issue!
Hang on everyone, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!
Zombie Chow
9 comments:
Welcome back, I for one will be looking forward to your new adventures.
I've finally got a few games under my belt with a conglomeration of ATZ and FFO with my own take on the rules.
Welcome back brother seems you lost your way out there. Run out of gas?
Thanks, and I suppose I did. Lost in the wilds of "real life"(TM)!
ZC
Very interesting! I'm about to embark on a similar project with a friend in another city. Although in my case I'm trying to play it 'as written' rather than as a more fluid RPG. Good luck with your project!
Thanks Chris... Best of luck on your project too!
ZC
This sounds like good viewing. Going to be watching with interest.
Thanks Bob, we'll see if we can keep it interesting... ;)
Though looking at the board I've generated we might not survive the first encounter. LOL
ZC
OK,
I think I have figured this out...
"help me...they want my brains...but I don't have any!!!"
Lucky you...! ;)
Ok, now that I know you (and I assume your brother can comment here) I'll get the setting up soonly.
ZC
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