Walking Dead / Zombies

[RandyT0001]

Anybody use zombies or walking dead like in the movies or TV show?
If so, are the zombies slow walkers or fast like in World War Z?
If so, is the zombie disease spread by bites, bites & scratches, or is everybody infected but one has to die to turn?

[stormlion1]

We had the Blue Undead to fill that role. There missing from 4th edition though.

[RandyT0001]

IMO they are not the same. They attack differently. The way to destroy Zombies and Blue Undead are different. Blue Undead attacks do not create new Blue Undead. Blue Undead were used as a area denial creature. Zombies are more of a wave attack kind of threat.

Too different to say that they have similar roles within the game.

[ArmySGT.]

Hmmmmmmm maybe write up a new timeline.

Bruce Morrow gets it wrong. It isn't war with the USSR. It was the last ditch to halt the zombie apocalypse. The world wide contagion that reanimates the dead can be killed with fire (or nuclear fire) and destruction of the brain.

It is 150 years later. The Dead still rise from locations the contagion hasn't been scorched away.

Might be a good scenario for players that know the game and the modules to well.

Give them a curve ball.

[mikeo80]

Interesting idea. The nuclear war is due to zombies. HHHHMMMMMM,,,,,,

I need to think on that....But it does pose interesting ideas....


My $0.02

Mike

[welsh]

I got a campaign called zombie apocalypse at another threat play@yog-sothoth.com going a couple of years ago. It is still in play. At the micro-level it is a zombie apocalpyse game, but at a macro its a cthulhu/mythos story- with giant worms burrowing beneath the world, and alien invaders who arrive via metoerites (actually eggs carrying giant mosquito like monsters that help spread the zombie apocalypse). Fun stuff if you are interested.

We used mostly slow walkers, but a few runners and zombie animals too.

[Craig R]

Originally Posted by ArmySGT.

Hmmmmmmm maybe write up a new timeline.

Bruce Morrow gets it wrong. It isn't war with the USSR. It was the last ditch to halt the zombie apocalypse. The world wide contagion that reanimates the dead can be killed with fire (or nuclear fire) and destruction of the brain.

It is 150 years later. The Dead still rise from locations the contagion hasn't been scorched away.

Might be a good scenario for players that know the game and the modules to well.

Give them a curve ball.

Heheheh. I like how you think!

[bobcat]

it also makes radioactive undead much more plausible. you know i could really work with this.