tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post7223492349022305752..comments2024-03-28T17:48:19.196-05:00Comments on The Other Side blog: D&D Zombies vs. The Walking/Running DeadTimothy S. Brannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923526503305233715noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-36108814548885318002012-09-01T14:13:39.904-05:002012-09-01T14:13:39.904-05:00Scrivener,
I get your point, but since healing ma...Scrivener,<br /><br />I get your point, but since healing magic can cure it I wanted to be an "oh shit! we got bit moment."<br /><br />1-6 hours though is ideal.Timothy S. Brannanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02923526503305233715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-68282085804662225802012-09-01T01:22:22.548-05:002012-09-01T01:22:22.548-05:00I like this article. Plague zombies will scare eve...I like this article. Plague zombies will scare even epic characters.Mike Bridgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17741591268012556455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-24639104775760394432012-08-31T16:06:21.186-05:002012-08-31T16:06:21.186-05:00If you want to go all terrifying, then let it take...If you want to go all terrifying, then let it take a while for the infection to spread, and don't make it seem obvious that the PC is going to go all walking corpsey on the rest of the group. Let it be a surprise a couple of nights later...<br /><br />An extreme of that is brought to you Unhallowed Metropolis, in which the world is so messed up that anyone dying, even if they never had a bite taken out of them at all, has a chance to come back anyway. This chance is increased by how much of a bugger the character was, and if they died in an area that was riven by poverty and disease etc...<br /><br />In other words; no one is safe...thesethingsthatiwritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06983724061115538291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-71587966336862447262012-08-31T15:59:36.630-05:002012-08-31T15:59:36.630-05:00Contagious bite makes them immensely more like the...Contagious bite makes them immensely more like the movie version. PCs will take these guys seriously, lemme tell you. <br /><br />1-6 ROUNDS, though, might be overkill. Unless you want them to go up against higher level PCs, maybe go more with 1-6 days, maybe enough time to get somewhere a Cure Disease might be obtained. Maybe.ScrivenerBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04861652415900436411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-26936343527784920782012-08-31T15:15:17.152-05:002012-08-31T15:15:17.152-05:00I wrote up an idea for a different spin on zombies...I wrote up an idea for a different spin on zombies the other day: http://www.heropress.net/2012/08/monster-mash-zombies-with-bite.html<br /><br />I think the trick is escalation. Start with one or two, but then the noise of the adventurers hacking them up attracts a dozen more then that fight attracts 20 or 30 and so on... Tim Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03845783872464372488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-90516214720112576682012-08-31T14:57:22.532-05:002012-08-31T14:57:22.532-05:00I think a big problem is putting zombies into a fa...I think a big problem is putting zombies into a fantasy game at all. Even at a low level, the basic shambling corpse won't be much of a challenge. What makes them more terrifying for me is the unrelenting horde of them. <br /><br />Think of zombie movies; only a few of them, dealt with quickly would make a pretty boring flick. It has to be hordes, coming quickly because no one knows how to stop them at first, or even believes in them regardless of countless reports. A cleric who knows what they are, and can turn undead would have no problems at all, unless there were so many that they simply couldn't deal with them all. <br /><br />In other terms, having a gun and knowing to shoot in the head is all well and good against half a dozen animate dead, but three hundred coming after you is just down right scary, no matter how big your gun is...thesethingsthatiwritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06983724061115538291noreply@blogger.com