Not...dead...yet...

Nope not by a long shot!

I created a fantasy skirmish game this week for my Heroes & Other Worlds fantasy RPG.  Wouldn't you know it, it just groaned to be turned into a a new Zombies Attack game.

Zombies Attack Skirmish is a simple and fast playing miniatures based skirmish game.  If there is enough interest I can look at adding more and creating additional rules sets!

You can download the rules in pocket mod format right now in the link to your right!

Zed City Wranglers

 

notes from the underground...

Back into the bunker

Well I gave it a try, but there doesn't some to be much interest in the ZA game, so I am putting further work on hold for now.

Next for Zombies Attack RPG: Wretches Gallery or Sandbox City?

I am torn between doing a sand box city setting for Zombies Attack or a Wretches Gallery containing some NPC's and plot hooks as well as some variant zombies you could add into the game.   Myself, I like the shamblers, but the kids these days love their running zombies, and bomb zombies and Rob Zombies.  Who am I to say no? 

Anyway let me know which idea you dig more and I hope you are watching The Walking Dead on AMC every Sunday night AND playing Zombies Attack! the other six days of the week.

The dead start walking again on Sunday

As the debut of the second season of AMC’s The Walking Dead on Sunday, October 16th draws near, reviews of the first two episodes of the season (including the 90-minute Season 2 debut) are beginning to appear.  In Variety, Brian Lawry made note of the turmoil surrounding the production of the second season of the adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s long-running zombie saga from Image Comics (see “Trouble Ahead for The Walking Dead?”), but doesn’t think that it is discernable in the final product, concluding: “The behind-the-scenes tumult surrounding The Walking Dead and departure of showrunner Frank Darabont certainly isn’t evident from the first two episodes, including a 90-minute premiere that niftily reestablishes the premise and the characters while containing one sequence that is a modern gem of prolonged suspense.”

In his review Lawry characterizes the series as “a post-apocalyptic soap opera, in essence, with enough of an ‘ick’ factor to attract men,” and predicts that “the ratings will also provide AMC with an early Christmas present.”  Good ratings would be a boon for pop culture retailers since ICv2 has determined that The Walking Dead TV series is currently the #1 media sales driver of graphic novels in both the comic shop and bookstore markets, and two board games based on the property are due out this fall.

In other The Walking Dead news, The New York Times reports in a very humorous piece how the producers of the show managed to deflect the advertising minions at Microsoft who wanted to inject a product placement for the software giant’s “Bing” search engine into The Walking Dead.  When the producers explained that there was no reliable electric power in the post-apocalyptic world of The Walking Dead, the ad men came back with the idea of a library with its own generator, which the producers thankfully shot down.  Microsoft’s agency quickly moved in a more sensible direction and produced a clever ad featuring two actors in full zombie drag (provided by the makeup wizards from the series) that is currently running on AMC and will be aired primarily during episodes of The Walking Dead.

In yet another indication of the show’s popularity, Netflix, which is constantly looking for more material to add to its video streaming array, announced a deal that will allow the video distributor to add the first season episodes to its streaming service right away.  Future series of The Walking Dead will be available for streaming via Netflix just prior to the airing of the following season, which means that Second Season episodes will be available to Netflix consumers in 2012 shortly before the Third Season episodes begin to air on AMC

Quick note

I did some quick tweaking this morning to the ZA main rules, nothing major at all, and no game play changes just some formatting and spelling/ word fixes.

ZA: Scavenger's Guide now available

Okay Zed Heads you can now find a pocket guide to scavenging   with a quick missive on barter and quite a few random charts useful for generating building contents, condition and all sort of good stuff.  A smart person could even generate a simplistic city or town using these charts and some brains..assuming the zombies didn't get to it first!

You can find the rules and the scavenger guide in the link to the right for download.

For now that's going to be it for Zombies Attack, not much buzz about the rules yet so I'll wait and see if its worth pursuing further or maybe just let it shamble off into the sunset.

Stay frosty!