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Whats up with this new Zombie RPG i keep hearing about.

It's apparently a post apocolyptic/horror/revenge game. Kevin talked a bit about it at the radio show last night

I LOOOOOOOVE ZOmbie games. Love love love um. I have all the "ALL FLESH MUST BE EATEN" stuff even though it kinda... well yeah it sucks. lol

A Zombie game from Paladium? I'd SOOO Buy it. Count me IN!!

Josh Hilden wrote:Not sure what the final title is going to be.

The title of the Rifter version is DEAD REIGN. But my writing partner, Sanford, and myself are not 100% sure if Kevin is going to stay with it.

That ball is still in the bingo tank.

Can't give to much away at this moment, but I will say that it is a newer take on the zombie apocalypse genre.

There will be a shortened, but perfectly playable version, in Rifter 40.

[Jason Richards]

Buy three everybody!

[/Jason Richards]

Sounds cool.

S.D.C.-based game? Using the basic Palladium system?

Sounds interesting looking forward to seeing what it looks like.

I'm all about that game when it comes out! I LOVE ZOMBIES! When is this bad boy supposed to come out?

BTW, I really like the title! Hope, Kev sticks with it...

duck-foot wrote:kev likes post hoocaust games doesnt he

Yeah, what's up with that, eh? After the Bomb, Rifts, Systems Failure, Chaos Earth, and now Dead Reign . . . all post-apocalyptic settings.

I think it's because it's fun tearing down the world we know and twisting it into a nightmarish and alien environment that mixes the familiar with the bizzarre. Or maybe we're all nihlists. Gosh, I hope not.

Sincerely,
Kevin Siembieda

I like post apoc settings because they give you lot's of room to move around creatively.

Besides, who wants to play "Life As We Know It, The Role Playing Game" anyways?

Not I.

Morrowcale wrote:I like post apoc settings because they give you lot's of room to move around creatively.

Besides, who wants to play "Life As We Know It, The Role Playing Game" anyways?

Not I.

Hey, I like playing my 4th level Lawyer.


On the bright side thanks to the Zombies!!! board game will have plenty of miniatures.

Kevin wrote:

duck-foot wrote:kev likes post hoocaust games doesnt he

Yeah, what's up with that, eh? After the Bomb, Rifts, Systems Failure, Chaos Earth, and now Dead Reign . . . all post-apocalyptic settings.

I think it's because it's fun tearing down the world we know and twisting it into a nightmarish and alien environment that mixes the familiar with the bizzarre. Or maybe we're all nihlists. Gosh, I hope not.

Sincerely,
Kevin Siembieda

You forgot

SPLICERS
NIGHTBANE (kinda - Post Dark Day)

All we need is a Post Apoc HEROES UNLIMITED setting (well Skraypers kinda might be Post Apoc or Post Alien Invasion)

Armageddon Unlimited might put HU one step closer to being a post apoc setting!

I wonder how LJ will feel about this.

Sweet....

First PB get Robotech back and now they are doing a zombie game... its like I'v died and gone to post-apoclyptic heaven!

Rifter #40 huh, gotta pick it up as soon as my FLGS gets it in.

And plays into my real life as well, since I have been working 3rd shift for the up coming holiday season my wifes been running a BTS game but will be wrapping that up in a few weeks so that a friend can run a zombie stomp game using Systems Failure (minus the Bugs of course), but now with Rifter 40... she wont have to fake up the zombies.

Ninjabunny wrote:YES!!! Finalily PALLADIUM GOES DAWN OF THE DEAD ON MY SORRY COTTEN TAIL BEHIND!!!!

On skimming the thread, my mind turned this into something perverse and disgusting.


... That's really all I have to contribute right now.

Kevin wrote:

duck-foot wrote:kev likes post hoocaust games doesnt he

Yeah, what's up with that, eh? After the Bomb, Rifts, Systems Failure, Chaos Earth, and now Dead Reign . . . all post-apocalyptic settings.

I think it's because it's fun tearing down the world we know and twisting it into a nightmarish and alien environment that mixes the familiar with the bizzarre. Or maybe we're all nihlists. Gosh, I hope not.

Sincerely,
Kevin Siembieda

it also makes it easier to write for. for a game set in 'our world', you have to consider the effects of everything. want to add giant robots to the american army? well what would the soviets do about it? the germans? ect. this even factors into minor things like a new town somewhere or a new company.

for a game not set in 'our world', like phase world, star wars, and so on, you have to make the reality whole cloth. a lot of writing involved in that. and you really don't have any anchors to grab people with. you have to put a lot of detail into thing because its not like they can go find an atlas and look up a spot.

but a post apocolyptic games has the best of both worlds. civilization collapses, but the world stays much the same. you can put what you want in, but you can get by with saying "denver is a burned out shell of a city infested with mutants" because people know where denver is, you don't have to tell them. you don't have to say "mos eisly is a spaceport city on tattoine, a desert planet in the outer rim of the star wars galaxy."

and since post apocolyptic games usually use existing places, you don't have to be too fancy to describe what players would see. you can skimp, and they'll go find pictures of the places and use their imagination to make them worn out, blasted, mutant infested shells.

Kevin wrote:

duck-foot wrote:kev likes post hoocaust games doesnt he

Yeah, what's up with that, eh? After the Bomb, Rifts, Systems Failure, Chaos Earth, and now Dead Reign . . . all post-apocalyptic settings.

I think it's because it's fun tearing down the world we know and twisting it into a nightmarish and alien environment that mixes the familiar with the bizzarre. Or maybe we're all nihlists. Gosh, I hope not.

Sincerely,
Kevin Siembieda

Invid invasion is also very post-apocalyptic. I've always joked that if folks from that one were zapped to Rifts, it would be about a month and a half before they noticed much difference.

Cyclone Rider (Rolling his eyes at a Xiticix): "Here they come, 75% less crab, 60% more cockroach. Meet the new alien overlords, same as the old alien overlords."

I know nothing of this. Haven't known anything about anything for several months. Not a thing. Not a blessed thing.

mumah wrote:I know nothing of this. Haven't known anything about anything for several months. Not a thing. Not a blessed thing.

Duuuuude Mumah did they have you doing some art for it? I love your stuff man.

Still want a print of that Ecto man. lol

Zombie RPG with Mumah illustrating? Im SOOO In!

Pepsi Jedi wrote:

mumah wrote:I know nothing of this. Haven't known anything about anything for several months. Not a thing. Not a blessed thing.

Duuuuude Mumah did they have you doing some art for it? I love your stuff man.

Still want a print of that Ecto man. lol

Zombie RPG with Mumah illustrating? Im SOOO In!

Someone needs to read the press releases....

I'm doing the cover.

Josh Hilden wrote:Not sure what the final title is going to be.

The title of the Rifter version is DEAD REIGN. But my writing partner, Sanford, and myself are not 100% sure if Kevin is going to stay with it.

Congrats Josh!

FYI, there was another paper and pencil RPG named REIGN that came out earlier this year.

http://www.leisuregames.com/acatalog/Re ... olze_.html

mumah wrote:

Pepsi Jedi wrote:

mumah wrote:I know nothing of this. Haven't known anything about anything for several months. Not a thing. Not a blessed thing.

Duuuuude Mumah did they have you doing some art for it? I love your stuff man.

Still want a print of that Ecto man. lol

Zombie RPG with Mumah illustrating? Im SOOO In!

Someone needs to read the press releases....

I'm doing the cover.

Mmmm BRAINS!!
Dig zombies!
And mike doing the cover just sweetens the deal!

Take yer time do it right, but hurry

mumah wrote:

Pepsi Jedi wrote:

mumah wrote:I know nothing of this. Haven't known anything about anything for several months. Not a thing. Not a blessed thing.

Duuuuude Mumah did they have you doing some art for it? I love your stuff man.

Still want a print of that Ecto man. lol

Zombie RPG with Mumah illustrating? Im SOOO In!

Someone needs to read the press releases....

I'm doing the cover.

That's great Mike. (( Can We call ya Mike or do you prefer Mumah?)) Are you doing inturnal art too? I love your work. Been to your website and all.

I will be doing a few internal pieces as well, but I'm not posting any of them until Rifter #40 ships. And I prefer Mumah.

Pepsi Jedi wrote:

mumah wrote:

Pepsi Jedi wrote:

mumah wrote:I know nothing of this. Haven't known anything about anything for several months. Not a thing. Not a blessed thing.

Duuuuude Mumah did they have you doing some art for it? I love your stuff man.

Still want a print of that Ecto man. lol

Zombie RPG with Mumah illustrating? Im SOOO In!

Someone needs to read the press releases....

I'm doing the cover.

That's great Mike. (( Can We call ya Mike or do you prefer Mumah?)) Are you doing inturnal art too? I love your work. Been to your website and all.

You should see whay mumah did in Hades


Carl

Thanks, Carl.

Oh? Was he one of the main artists on that one? I haven't picked it up yet.

Saw the concept cover for Rifter 40, looks awesome. can't wait to see it in color. Which reminds me I need to call and make sure my subscription is still valid.. I think it is but I can't remember if I've gotten 3 or 4 since I paid.

If Mumah did alot in Hades it'll definatly be an add for me to get it.

Pepsi Jedi wrote:Oh? Was he one of the main artists on that one? I haven't picked it up yet.

If Mumah did alot in Hades it'll definatly be an add for me to get it.

Yes Mumah and Jeffery Russell did a lot, but in all there were seven other artist, well eight if you count me for doing the maps. The artwork throughout was awesome and I still just crack it open to soak in the details of each piece.

Carl

I think I did six or seven pieces in that one.

mumah wrote:I think I did six or seven pieces in that one.

I've seen some of what you did for Dyval and I just kept going WOW, cool, thats better than I imagined. Keep up the good work.

Carl

Kevin wrote:

duck-foot wrote:kev likes post hoocaust games doesnt he

Yeah, what's up with that, eh? After the Bomb, Rifts, Systems Failure, Chaos Earth, and now Dead Reign . . . all post-apocalyptic settings.

I think it's because it's fun tearing down the world we know and twisting it into a nightmarish and alien environment that mixes the familiar with the bizzarre. Or maybe we're all nihlists. Gosh, I hope not.

Sincerely,
Kevin Siembieda

Who is this Kevin guy, anyways?

Danger wrote:Who is this Kevin guy, anyways?

Kevin, he's just this guy, ya know?

What about us people who dont have the money to buy rifter #40 we need more details.

MrMom wrote:What about us people who dont have the money to buy rifter #40 we need more details.

You need more than zombies and a preview of the new RPG?

Josh Hilden wrote:rampant speculation...so much I want to say...

...buy Rifter 40!

Its not out yet!

...buy it when it comes out.

The Galactus Kid wrote:...buy it when it comes out.

I will.

And arent you supposed to be finishing up Triax 2.

working on it. Yeah, about that too, my computer had Novell Client on it because I purchased it through my Graduate School. Well, when I went to change the network so my roomie and I could play Starcraft together, it wouldn't let me backon to my computer. It was lame. I finally got back on the other day so i can keep working on it.

I was Joking Mumah.

MrMom wrote:I was Joking Mumah.

I know.

The Galactus Kid wrote:working on it. Yeah, about that too, my computer had Novell Client on it because I purchased it through my Graduate School. Well, when I went to change the network so my roomie and I could play Starcraft together, it wouldn't let me backon to my computer. It was lame. I finally got back on the other day so i can keep working on it.

Whats that saying about excuses?


But glad to hear its still in the works.

Heh I just finished World War Z recently. I could do with a GOOD zombie game.

I don't get it....

this is one game i am excited about

I've called Palladium twice to make sure my subscription was still good though October. Twice a rather polite individual took my information and promised somone'd get back to me and twice, noone has. If I miss rifter 40 I'm gonna perturbed.

Long live C.O.W. praise be to Sanford.

Having been given a limited amount of material for my contribution to the game, I can say honestly that zombie fans will be pleased. It's a zombie-palooza.

Dude.. Zombie film fest at my house this weekend!

Wait until you see my surfing zombies. Scary.

The Galactus Kid wrote:working on it. Yeah, about that too, my computer had Novell Client on it because I purchased it through my Graduate School. Well, when I went to change the network so my roomie and I could play Starcraft together, it wouldn't let me backon to my computer. It was lame. I finally got back on the other day so i can keep working on it.

Back-up that bad boy, stat!!

I don't want another reason to hate Novell!

Remembers mention of this from WWZ* Oh this should be interesting...