The Dead Are Coming - A Zombie Apocalypse Survival RPG for #BastionJam

Chris McDowall is organizing a game jam over itch.io called #BastionJam, encouraging people to create material based on Into the Odd and Electric Bastionland. You can basically use the system without copying the text directly form the books to create anything you want. So you can make adventures for these games, supplements, new setting or even entirely new games!

Possible cover!

So that's what I am going to do. I am making a new game called The Dead Are Coming, a Zumbie Apocalypse Survival RPG using these games as inspiration and, as usual, a lot of other sutff too!

Introduction

The Dead Are Coming is a zombie apocalypse survival role-playing game. You and 2-5 friends play make-believe to create a shared narrative of a group of survivors trying to keep on living in a world that has gone terrible wrong. The rules help keep the story you tell consistent, interesting and challenging.

You play as a desperate survivor in a post-apocalyptic world, where zombies are a real thing and they won’t stop until they devour your flesh. You also need to secure a refuge for you and your companions and stock it with food, water and other resources. And, of course, other people will try to take it from you.

This book contains all the rules players and Referees need to play the game. However, it does assume that you know what a role playing game is, and have a basic understanding of how to play one. If you don’t, a quick Google search will provide you many answers and watching a few actual plays on YouTube will clarify a lot of things. But in the end, the best way to learn is to ask someone who has played one (use the internet)!

The Dead Are Coming is inspired by all the zombie movies and series I ever watched (Zombieland, The Walking Dead, Pet Sematary, World War Z, Night of the Living Dead, and others), as well as games I’ve read and played (Into the Odd, Electric Bastionland, Mausritter, Into the Bronze, Zombie Hack, Shotgun Diaries, Terra Devastada, Mothership, and others). I’ve taken all of that and mixed it with my own experiences to make a quick, simple and resourceful zombie apocalypse survival role-playing game!

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