Friday night game recap: sometimes they come back!
Rachel is continuing to run her "Walking Dead" style story using the FATE system, although which each session more things that aren't very "Walking Dead" are making it into the game. For example the zombies appear to be more cogent. And they can metamorphose. And there's some kind of weird alien minotaurs running around.
This is kind of interesting for me, as a player, because it has that element of "what the heck?" that horror games should have. I noticed in the last session that people were saying "well, we know what zombies are, right, because we've seen zombie movies. So we shoot them in the head." This is contrary to The Walking Dead series, where zombie is never used and there seems to be no pre-existing mythology, popular or otherwise, about zombies.
So it's not so much a zombie game, it's a wide-open horror exploration game, which is infinitely superior in my book. Anyways, here's a few photos...
This is kind of interesting for me, as a player, because it has that element of "what the heck?" that horror games should have. I noticed in the last session that people were saying "well, we know what zombies are, right, because we've seen zombie movies. So we shoot them in the head." This is contrary to The Walking Dead series, where zombie is never used and there seems to be no pre-existing mythology, popular or otherwise, about zombies.
So it's not so much a zombie game, it's a wide-open horror exploration game, which is infinitely superior in my book. Anyways, here's a few photos...
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| Police hold off the zombie horde |
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| Various players take in the action |
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| Rachel illustrates how the zombies attack |
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