Watching the 'Walking Dead' yesterday got me thinking of a post-apocalyptic fantasy game where the living has become hordes of undead minions, the power of the faithful is waning, and those that believe in good are making one last stab at the heart of darkness that has spread across the land.I think the idea would work in almost any fantasy related game; Shadowrun, for one, could be used to base this horrific reality. Using sources like 'All Flesh Must Be Eaten' or Dungeons & Dragons' 'Elder Evils' could provide some nice insight into running your own zombie game. I imagine that the start would be some plague/pox/sickness that spreads through the land as a pandemic, slowly changed the serene landscape into an overwhelming horde of macabre neophytes. Just exactly how to stop this could be the quest of long running campaign. Perhaps the ultimate goal is a very alive typhoid mary that must be purged by the Ankh of Ra.
How ever you plan to run this Festival of Blood (infamous shout) all I can say is 'C'mon get down with the sickness.'
It'd be fun to run a campaign during the second VITAS outbreak of 2020. Then set up then tension just like a horror setting by supplying the audience with information that the people in the narrative aren't privy to: Give the players the historic perspective as seen from 2060 and build the campaign tension around player knowledge versus PC knowledge.
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