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Post by ericfromnj on Oct 15, 2012 7:20:51 GMT -8
So...trying GURPS for the first time will be put on hold because even if she ends up hating it, my wife is going to try a tabletop RPG for the first time.
She elected to try Savage Worlds. Some of my friends who agreed to play with her have pushed for a zombie apocalypse angle.
My wife also really enjoyed The Tudors, no matter how much I pointed out the historical inaccuracies. I watched it anyway because I enjoyed the tits of history.
That being said, and believing that surviving each other and not the zombies are the fun of the zombie apocalypse, I am thinking of an inn surrounded by zombies trying to get inside.
The inn is filled with both Protestants and Catholics.
Sound like it can work?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2012 7:23:39 GMT -8
LOL - I think it sounds AWESOME....
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Post by savagedaddy on Oct 15, 2012 22:20:59 GMT -8
Now, that's SAVAGE!!!
This is the thing I LOVE about this game system. It is perfect for any kind of genre mash-up you can think of. For example, I have an adventure prepared to Smurf-pocalypse (Zombie Smurfs).
You should definitely, absolutely, beyond a shadow of a doubt run a zombie outbreak in the Showtime Tudors' universe. Recreate her favorite characters from the show. How about Tudors meets Shawn of the Dead? If it were me, I'd have the castle fall to zombies first and leave a cramped pub as only fortified hiding place left for leagues upon leagues.
Good luck. I look forward to hearing how it went.
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Post by ericfromnj on Oct 16, 2012 4:39:21 GMT -8
Actually we are going to be avoiding the main characters for the first one and keeping this on a slightly smaller scale, because since she is new to RPGs if she might have any hope of actually playing again (she might not - she is doing it for me to see why I have had a hobby for over 30 years) I want a scenario where there is a "winning" outcome if at all possible.
Now that you have given me an idea for a castle later, though....Oh, the sweating sickness will have an interesting side effect...
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Post by greatwyrm on Oct 16, 2012 5:22:30 GMT -8
I like it. Consider having an evil sorcerer outside (and completely hidden in the darkness), sending in crawling claws and skeletons and such. After the first couple of volleys, he offers to leave if he gets the person who wronged him. Let the PCs and NPCs guess amongst themselves who that is and decide if they sacrifice him/her or not.
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Post by shadrack on Oct 16, 2012 8:33:27 GMT -8
For example, I have an adventure prepared to Smurf-pocalypse (Zombie Smurfs). I'm positive there was an actual smurfs zombie-ish episode. They turned purple when they got bit, and then went after the other smurfs. hehe
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Post by savagedaddy on Oct 21, 2012 13:14:10 GMT -8
You are correct, Sir. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_SmurfsIn 1963, six years before George Romero filmed Night of the Living Dead, Peyo introduced a Smurfs storyline called Les Schtroumpfs Noirs, or "The Black Smurfs" (they changed them to "The Purple Smurfs" in the U.S. for the obvious reasons). In it, a Smurf is bit by an unusual stinging insect which spreads a virulent disease that turns its victims into angry, insane black creatures that hop around shouting "GNAP!" while also mindlessly trying to bite every smurf in sight to spread the plague. As the Smurfs try to contain the infection, the Smurf patient zero regains enough intelligence to disguise himself as a regular Smurf, infiltrate the village and further spread the Smurfy disease. And just when it looks like lone survivor Papa Smurf has developed a cure... he's goddamn bitten and transforms too. But luckily, he knocks the cure into the fire, where it explodes, curing everyone and bringing everything back to normal. Except in the original comics, where the first bitten Smurf never regains his normal happy outlook on life and becomes known as... Grouchy Smurf. Which is understandable. You'd be grouchy too if you almost brought about the Smurfocalypse. Attachments:
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Post by ericfromnj on Oct 21, 2012 18:05:35 GMT -8
Wow. Never realized the original story was the origin of Grouchy Smurf...
T minus 5 days until I run my wife through her first scenario. Going with something a little more straightforward Lovecraftian. Parishoner found pages of a cursed text, glanced at it and became ill. His family gave to local priest, who looked through it to see if there was information to help the man. The pages of the cursed book (don't have name yet, not using Necronomicon, maybe since no Dean Koontz fans playing I can call it Book of Counted Sorrows) started turning priest into monster. Priest used rites on pages to infect communion, and infected everyone receiving communion that Sunday.
Only survivors were the infirm or those who had hoped that their presence was not missed - the Catholics. The cursed hosts have transformed the congregation into horrid undead stalking the streets of the small town partaking in the flesh of the Catholics.
Into all of this enter a group of Anglicans, their only bond is that they have all met a man named Kane...and unknown to them not all of them are Anglicans.
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Post by jazzisblues on Oct 22, 2012 6:44:04 GMT -8
Sounds like a great story idea. Good luck and have fun. I am looking forward to hearing how it plays out.
Cheers,
JiB
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