Burning Wheel

RPGTM: Burning Wheel Zombie Apocalypse (a.k.a. Burning Dead)

Posted in Burning Wheel, RPG Thought of the Moment on May 4th, 2009 by DeadGod – 2 Comments

I love zombies.  The amount of zombie movies I’ve seen is absurd.  I also love gaming with zombies.  The survival horror aspect is something that is the most basic of plots, but somehow remains one the most compelling.  I’ve ran quite a few zombie scenarios in RPGs.  I own (and have actively used) All Flesh Must Be Eaten.  One-shots are always tons of fun, but I’ve tried to run a zombie apocalypse campaign, and I’ve run into a big hitch:  after you are done whacking zombies for a couple sessions, how do you keep story momentum?  I could run another, “we need to loot canned food from the zombie-infested store,” but that quickly approaches ad-nauseum.

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