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Eric42 wrote:(I hope that this won't be too much on the nose or any kind violation of forum policy. If it is, just let me know.)

The following is a "new" setting for a Dead Reign game. It's not exactly "new" but more of a reworking of an existing idea from the core rulebook.

It began in 2019 in China. People came down sick with a new virus that was called the Corona virus, or Covid-19. Despite efforts from the rest of the world to stop the spread of the virus, the virus spread anyway across the world. In March 2020, it became obvious that it was going to be bad as people got sick around the world and many were dying. Vaccine companies rushed a vaccine into production but it takes a while. As the world waited for the vaccine to be made, the number of dead rose. By the end of 2020, the death toll had nearly crossed a million and a half. Thankfully, the vaccine began a slow roll out ahead of schedule in December 2020 and by April 2021, nearly 60% of the world's population had received the vaccine. And the world began a slow return to normalcy... or so they thought.

Late in 2021, people began complaining of various sicknesses. And once again, the emergency rooms began to fill up. At first, no one had any idea what the cause was. But finally, the connection was made: every person that came down sick had also received the vaccine. By the end of the year, they began dying. Very quickly, the death toll was more than three times than that of the virus itself. But then, something unthinkable happened: these dead began to rise.

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I'll stop there for now and see what others here thinks. It's a rough first draft, of course.

Fenris2020 wrote:Well, it does go with my joke on Twitter that I'll worry about COVID when it starts turning people into zombies. For myself, I got it back in July, and kicked it about as quickly as any flu.
Perhaps the majority of people who have recovered could be the carriers of the zeke virus when it happens in-game... or they're the survivors who become the player characters.

Eric42 wrote:

Fenris2020 wrote:Well, it does go with my joke on Twitter that I'll worry about COVID when it starts turning people into zombies. For myself, I got it back in July, and kicked it about as quickly as any flu.
Perhaps the majority of people who have recovered could be the carriers of the zeke virus when it happens in-game... or they're the survivors who become the player characters.

I actually had it just last month. I didn't have bad thankfully and only had a sore throat (and a bad cough) and bad case of fatigue, which I am still somewhat suffering from, though it is getting better.

I don't know what the "zeke virus" is? Google suggested zika virus? Is that what you meant or is it a reference to some other zombie thing?

Fenris2020 wrote: Zeke=zombie. Same as zed.

Pepsi Jedi wrote:I lost my father to the virus, only a few months ago.

If someone tried to pitch this to me in real life, as a game, for fun, to sit around and roll dice from and enjoy, and role play out and what not. They would very likely be in the market for expensive dental work.

No.. You don't make this into a game. Any more than you make 9/11 A terrorist simulator.

Over 600,000 people in the US alone have lost their lives to this.

Seriously people. What the frak?

Warshield73 wrote:

Pepsi Jedi wrote:I lost my father to the virus, only a few months ago.

If someone tried to pitch this to me in real life, as a game, for fun, to sit around and roll dice from and enjoy, and role play out and what not. They would very likely be in the market for expensive dental work.

No.. You don't make this into a game. Any more than you make 9/11 A terrorist simulator.

Over 600,000 people in the US alone have lost their lives to this.

Seriously people. What the frak?

I actually agree with this but I can't tell you why this is not appropriate as we do this all the time with other events.

We RP in WWI and WWII. Those were horrific events but we still use them in fiction. My wife's family is Vietnamese and I have been to that country. I have seen the damage the US did firsthand and we use in not just RP but the background of half the movies and TV shows from 1970 to 1990.

At the very least you would say it is way too recent. I don't know if having a game centered on the recent pandemic is perse bad but I think at the very least you want to discuss it with players up front to see if anyone has a problem.

Fenris2020 wrote:

Warshield73 wrote:

Pepsi Jedi wrote:I lost my father to the virus, only a few months ago.

If someone tried to pitch this to me in real life, as a game, for fun, to sit around and roll dice from and enjoy, and role play out and what not. They would very likely be in the market for expensive dental work.

No.. You don't make this into a game. Any more than you make 9/11 A terrorist simulator.

Over 600,000 people in the US alone have lost their lives to this.

Seriously people. What the frak?

I actually agree with this but I can't tell you why this is not appropriate as we do this all the time with other events.

We RP in WWI and WWII. Those were horrific events but we still use them in fiction. My wife's family is Vietnamese and I have been to that country. I have seen the damage the US did firsthand and we use in not just RP but the background of half the movies and TV shows from 1970 to 1990.

At the very least you would say it is way too recent. I don't know if having a game centered on the recent pandemic is perse bad but I think at the very least you want to discuss it with players up front to see if anyone has a problem.

Glad you saw the damage the US did firsthand... did you also see the damage the communsists did when they took over, as well?

oger333 wrote:So world war Z is off the table , any game that deals with death is off the table. If one can't explore the concepts of death because someone some on knows died, then every game / every store told would never happen. I'd be game. Because people die from the Flu every year, people die in car accidents, if it was just people stopped dying. and walked the earth. Could it be a virus or supernatural power, a mutation. Rifts Open up and release energies

Eric42 wrote:I hope that this won't be too much on the nose or any kind violation of forum policy. If it is, just let me know.