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High Powered Zombies

Started by fonkaygarry, November 10, 2006, 03:48:14 PM

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T-Willard

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November 24, 2006, 02:26:51 PM
Quote from: James McMurrayI've had a few people recommend All Flesh Must Be Eaten and offer to loan it to me for my "real world zombies" game. Would that be a good fit as well or should I spring for the YotZ pdfs? Why and why not?
From everyone I've heard talk about AFMBE and YotZ in the same sentence the common thing is that they compliment each other.

YotZ isn't mechanics dependant, it's the setting and the data inside. I didn't pull any punches, and covered almost everything I could think about.
I am becoming more and more hollow, and am not sure how much of the man I was remains.

RangerJim

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December 01, 2006, 03:17:44 PM
Quote from: James McMurrayI've had a few people recommend All Flesh Must Be Eaten and offer to loan it to me for my "real world zombies" game. Would that be a good fit as well or should I spring for the YotZ pdfs? Why and why not?

James,

I did a bunch of research into both AFMBE and YotZ - including buying both books/pdf.  I settled on YotZ using D20 Modern rules.  I also followed Tim's advice and got Blood and Guts from RPG Objects for the Gritty rules.

I wanted the most realistic Zombie game that I could find.

I am quite happy with my decision.

-RangerJim
 

James McMurray

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December 01, 2006, 04:32:31 PM
d20 won't work for the setup I want to have. It'll be a single night's worth of adventure where the characters are the players, and the first event of the session will be the patio door by the gaming table being smashed and me being dragged out into the backyard. I want a more skill based game because then I don't have to decide which levels everyone is at so they can have skills high enough, and then deal with all the class abilities and combat prowess that comes from that.

I think I'll go with AFMBE. I've scanned through the character creation rules and normals seem to fit great. The skill and combat rules also look good.

edit: I also don't have a budget that can afford multiple books for a one-shot game.
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