Last April I ran a one shot inspired mostly by Bubba Hotep about a retirement home that is attacked by zombies, and the elderly inhabitants plus one six year old grandkid (she was visiting, after her parents got really sick) had to fend for themselves in the face of the dead rising (it was caused by alien worms).

Anyway I'm trying to think up a sequel one shot to run for the same group of people. Does anyone have some suggestions of cool things to do with old people and zombies?

I need to go to work now, otherwise I'd post more details.

Matlock convention. Can they save him, or will they have to chop off his head?

Retirement home gambling junket to an indian casino. Tribe members practicing the old ways who dispise the casino. Through an ancient ritual call up zombies to bring vengence upon desecrators of the tribal lands.

Quote from: RoninRetirement home gambling junket to an indian casino. Tribe members practicing the old ways who dispise the casino. Through an ancient ritual call up zombies to bring vengence upon desecrators of the tribal lands.

With a Matlock convention?

Quote from: James McMurrayWith a Matlock convention?

Even better!

a AARP convention/matlock convention @ a large convention center.

Mobs of zombies outside.

By the way, do you have stats for the first one you ran? I'm planning on running an AFMBE game when we need a one night break. The first one will probably be the players as PCs, with the session starting with a zombie smashing through the patio door and dragging me off, but a senior citizen scenario sounds like a blast too.

I should have the file saved on my computer at home, as I recall the senior citizens were in their eighties and had 11-12 attributes, 50 skill points, and were all norms.

I gave out luck tokens to anyone who made bad decisions characteristic of horror movies, which made things really fun.

The zombies were really weak and slow (30-40 point zombies), but they had The Lunge aspect which made them dangerous if they got close, then they could leap on a character and over power them. They also would explode gorily if slain as per Explosive Personality, and if they rolled a natural "1" on an attack one of their putrefied limbs would slough off. I believe I gave them animal level intelligence.

The zombies were actually quite pathetic but so were most of the PCs so it made for a really humorous oneshot.

I threw in a description of one as a big headed grey skinned shambling creature (though it was outside the scope of the oneshot, the cause of the rise was alien worm creatures spreading from a crashed saucer).

Most of the PCs survived relatively unharmed in a stolen ambulance, and fled down a lonely Louisiana road into the night


I'm thinking of picking up from the ambulance, and doing a sort of Dawn of the Dead with really old people.


Might be neat to have them encounter the Matlock convention on the way.

Heck, make it a few years later, and the really senile ones have completely forgotten.

If you can find the file and email it to me I'd love to see it. Sounds like a blast and a half!

Quote from: mrlostAnyway I'm trying to think up a sequel one shot to run for the same group of people. Does anyone have some suggestions of cool things to do with old people and zombies?

Road trip to Florida in an RV.  If you don't think that would be interesting, you haven't seen the right movies with RVs...

(If it wasn't in the US, substitute another place where people go to retire.  Maybe Arizona if on the West Coast of the US.)