GURPS Zombies: Day One

Kromm · 04-02-2015, 12:17 PM

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— A retort

Like a hungry ghoul walking day and night to find sweet, sweet flesh, GURPS Zombies covers a lot of ground. Usually that's a blessing – usually, but sometimes that kitchen-sink approach is a curse that turns the overworked GM into the biggest zombie of all. Infected mingle with undead, runners with shamblers, and supernatural with superscience, turning your brain (mmm . . .) to mush.

GURPS Zombies: Day One brings relief in the form of eight campaign seeds to help you get started. Each one filters out everything irrelevant to a particular type of zombie story, pointing you at just the parts of Zombies (and other GURPS supplements!) you need to run a game with a specific flavor, be that the umami taste of brains, the herbal essence of Datura, or the chemical tang of super-soldier serum. While it doesn't shy from providing details, it doesn't over-prescribe: You pick the town, nation, or planet, and then Day One blights it with zeds. You set the dials on the PCs' power level, abilities, and gear, and then Day One helps work out the implications. The idea is to fill your brain (mmm . . .) with sinister plots and to keep players who buy the supplement from knowing exactly what to expect – not to turn anyone into a mindless slave to our ideas.

Already running a campaign? Day One still has lots to offer! It includes something for every genre: action, conspiracy/weirdness, fantasy, horror, post-apocalypse, science fiction, and even supers. It spans tech levels, from collapsed societies and quasi-medieval lands, through modern times, to the not-so-distant future, and it tosses in mad-science stylings as well. Almost everything here could be a future development or a chilling discovery in a game that was zombie-free – until now.

And of course we think the backgrounds themselves are amusing in their own right. Any of them could be blown out into a full-fledged worldbook. They're certainly worth a read, especially if you learn that your GM already has a copy . . .

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04-02-2015, 12:17 PM	#1
Kromm *GURPS* Line Editor Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Montréal, Québec	GURPS Zombies: Day One Rahr grahr argh gragh raaagh? Guugh aaargh grrr raghgrah RAHR gragh Braaains ungh grag more braaains — A retort Like a hungry ghoul walking day and night to find sweet, sweet flesh, *GURPS Zombies* covers a lot of ground. Usually that's a blessing – usually, but sometimes that kitchen-sink approach is a curse that turns the overworked GM into the biggest zombie of all. Infected mingle with undead, runners with shamblers, and supernatural with superscience, turning your brain (mmm . . .) to mush. *GURPS Zombies: Day One* brings relief in the form of eight campaign seeds to help you get started. Each one filters out everything irrelevant to a particular type of zombie story, pointing you at just the parts of *Zombies* (and other *GURPS* supplements!) you need to run a game with a specific flavor, be that the umami taste of brains, the herbal essence of Datura, or the chemical tang of super-soldier serum. While it doesn't shy from providing details, it doesn't over-prescribe: You pick the town, nation, or planet, and then *Day One* blights it with zeds. You set the dials on the PCs' power level, abilities, and gear, and then *Day One* helps work out the implications. The idea is to fill your brain (mmm . . .) with sinister plots and to keep players who buy the supplement from knowing exactly what to expect – not to turn anyone into a mindless slave to our ideas. Already running a campaign? *Day One* still has lots to offer! It includes something for every genre: action, conspiracy/weirdness, fantasy, horror, post-apocalypse, science fiction, and even supers. It spans tech levels, from collapsed societies and quasi-medieval lands, through modern times, to the not-so-distant future, and it tosses in mad-science stylings as well. Almost everything here could be a future development or a chilling discovery in a game that was zombie-free – until now. And of course we think the backgrounds themselves are amusing in their own right. Any of them could be blown out into a full-fledged worldbook. They're certainly worth a read, especially if you learn that your GM already has a copy . . . — Store Link: http://www.warehouse23.com/products/SJG37-1683 __________________ Sean "Dr. Kromm" Punch <kromm@sjgames.com> *GURPS* Line Editor, Steve Jackson Games My DreamWidth [Just *GURPS* News]