I just saw there is a Zombicide RPG by the same guy that did The One Ring RPG.  I never got to play the board game but I love zombie stuff.  Would this game have a really goofy interpretation of zombies or can you play it seriously?

I wonder if I would be better off sticking with All Flesh Must Be Eaten.

Quote from: Batjon on January 31, 2022, 07:11:48 PM
I just saw there is a Zombicide RPG by the same guy that did The One Ring RPG.  I never got to play the board game but I love zombie stuff.  Would this game have a really goofy interpretation of zombies or can you play it seriously?

I wonder if I would be better off sticking with All Flesh Must Be Eaten.

Based on the board game (which is awesome), I believe it is more cinematic action than horror. It's not about survival; it's about amassing a huge kill count of undead corpses.

So, if you wanted to run a campaign in the veign of The Walking Dead, would you stay with the tried and true All Flesh Must Be Eaten or would you try out the new game, Zombicide, and give it a go? I want character death to be a really possibility and need some grit to it.

If you want survival horror, go with AFMBE.

I haven't played it yet, but there is a quickstart out there that should give you a good idea of what the game is like.

According to the text of the quickstart:

QuoteZombicide: Chronicles is a roleplaying game about a Zombie apocalypse (surprise!), but this isn't your father's, or grandmother's, nightmare about the undead. It is a game where you play a tough, gun-toting, chainsaw wielding, Zombie-killing machine. Someone who, instead of succumbing to the craziness that engulfed the world, decided to effin' embrace it.

You might not be the perfect neighbor anymore, or the best partner for a night out, as all this putting animated corpses out of their misery is taking its toll on you, but you are still alive and plan on staying that way. You are a Survivor

In Zombicide: Chronicles, you take the role of Survivors, a handful of individuals who, out of thousands, possess abilities that allowed you to make it against everything you have faced. At least, so far. You are the cream of the crop, true die-hards, or maybe just poor bastards who got luckier than the rest.

Quote from: Batjon on January 31, 2022, 07:38:37 PM
So, if you wanted to run a campaign in the veign of The Walking Dead, would you stay with the tried and true All Flesh Must Be Eaten or would you try out the new game, Zombicide, and give it a go? I want character death to be a really possibility and need some grit to it.

I'd look at Rotworld. It uses the old (percentile-based) Action Table from Chill 1e. Definitely an old fashioned system. Good, though. Pretty damn gritty. It handles Luck kind of like DCC does. You can spend it to influence rolls and escape death, but you need to check against it, like you do any other stat. And when it's gone, it's gone, unless you spend XP to raise it, which is VERY expensive.

Quote from: Batjon on January 31, 2022, 07:11:48 PM
I just saw there is a Zombicide RPG by the same guy that did The One Ring RPG.  I never got to play the board game but I love zombie stuff.  Would this game have a really goofy interpretation of zombies or can you play it seriously?

I wonder if I would be better off sticking with All Flesh Must Be Eaten.

I have both. It's not really goofy, it just assumes the PCs are 'survivors' not 'victims in waiting'. It's really good at setting up & running a campaign, in particular a sandbox city campaign. I really like the design work there - it's the exact opposite of the typical 1990s railroad approach. The rulebook's main lack is in fact there, there is a lack of endgame content or indications how to bring the game to a satisfactory conclusion, or expand its scope beyond the city sandbox (which is really really well done). I would say AFMBE would work well as a supplement to Zombicide Chronicles.

The tone is more 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Zombie Apocalypse' than 'The Walking Dead', but PCs are certainly killable. It looks easy enough to drift the tone from gung-ho to more horrific on a scenario basis. If anything I think the humour is reminiscent of how real people would actually react; soldiers rarely mull on the horrors of war, they crack a lot of jokes.

I couldn't resist.  I picked up the core rulebook, Gamemaster Starter Kit, and Stories from the Outbreak mission booklet at my local FLGS last night.  I also ordered the Field Guide and Mission Booklet from Free RPG Day from Noble Knight Games.