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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #40 on: October 14, 2009, 11:06:03 PM »
Plunge them straight into a "help the stupid commoners survive" situation. As in, Have a village full of commoners that don't know what a zombie is suddenly have a zombie problem, and keep the players trapped with them in it!
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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #41 on: October 15, 2009, 03:06:56 PM »
and once the infestation is taken care of, now they must fortify against the oncoming horde.
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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #42 on: October 15, 2009, 10:54:41 PM »
Maybe not force them into a save the town thing and instead give them a left 4 dead style, go all the way to this ship so you can escape the continent thing.  Bonus XP if they manage to save someone other than themselves.
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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #43 on: October 15, 2009, 10:59:21 PM »
Hmmm I'd like to keep this contained, as I don't want to ruin my interactive campaign world though :(

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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #44 on: October 16, 2009, 12:27:43 AM »
Hmmm I'd like to keep this contained, as I don't want to ruin my interactive campaign world though :(
Bah, that's silly. Haven't you ever heard of parallel universes? Hell, even comic books and the star wars novels use them! Or maybe one of them wakes up afterwards and it was all a dream. :P
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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #45 on: October 16, 2009, 10:43:53 AM »
Hmmm I'd like to keep this contained, as I don't want to ruin my interactive campaign world though :(
Bah, that's silly. Haven't you ever heard of parallel universes? Hell, even comic books and the star wars novels use them! Or maybe one of them wakes up afterwards and it was all a dream. :P

You can even go a step further and have some freakish oneiromancer screw up with their minds INSIDE the dreams!
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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #46 on: October 20, 2009, 09:36:34 PM »
Hey all, I need some sort of think tank to process all my new kinds of zombie for the next mission, I think my players never read this until AFTER the game so it should be safe, but just to be sure I'll put spoiler blocks up and ask them not to look.

Other BG boarders, you,re welcome to look it up and review them.

I mainly take my zombie types from www.thezombiehunter.com, since I think they're pretty cool :)

NEW Crawler zombiesHunter ZombiesBasilisk ZombieMoaning ZombieBerserker ZombiesSpitter zombies
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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #47 on: October 20, 2009, 10:08:59 PM »
Two cents:

1) Make the basilisk zombie's gaze not give off anything other than a magical aura WHEN ACTIVATED, thus making it hard for the players to identify the basilisk zombie too easily. Their paralysis seems a little TOO strong though, thanks to the stupidly long duration (it's a TPK set-up even if they can tell which zombie is doing it!); maybe give them an additional save when attacked or per minute/round?

2) Same advice applies to moaner zombies, except that nauseated for 1d6 rounds isn't as hard a shaft into the collective player behind as potential instant kill.
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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #48 on: October 21, 2009, 10:48:16 AM »
Seriously the last two are TPK machines, even at level 4. Make the durations 1d4 rounds for each and it's plenty powerful. Your players will hate you if you bring them these last two unmodified.

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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #49 on: October 21, 2009, 10:57:06 AM »
Hmmm good calls, they're supposed to be annoyances not tpk material.  The spitter zombie and the berserker zombie will be more powerful but not debuffing ...

Also, i plan on giving them, like, 4 vials of antidote to the disease, and none of the zombies will coup de grace, they like eating their prey alive.

But yah, I'll retool the duration.

EDIT: Done.  I'll maybe make them meaner with longer durations on the next inquisition into zombie land, when they will be around level 7 and have access to things like iron heart surge, panacea, and other nice things ^^
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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #50 on: October 21, 2009, 12:41:39 PM »
Just specify that the Moan ability is [Mind Affecting], and you don't have to state specifically that it doesn't affect zombies. It won't affect any undead.
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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #51 on: October 21, 2009, 12:51:37 PM »
Or make it a fear-based effect.
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They don't/haven't, was the point. 3.5 is as dead as people not liking nice tits.

Sometimes, their tits (3.5) get enhancements (houserules), but that doesn't mean people don't like nice tits.

Though sometimes, the surgeon (DM) botches them pretty bad...
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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #52 on: October 21, 2009, 12:53:34 PM »
I was thinking more along the lines of subsonic vibrations making your body vibrate and respond in nauseating way.

It's a fort save anyways, so it won't affect the undead.

Because they have an abjurer, if they're all mind affecting, he just has to cast circle of protection from evil and they're kinda immune, i want to have SOMETHING left to threaten them with :D

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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #53 on: October 22, 2009, 11:20:05 AM »
Got a question: with your zombie disease, does it behave like a normal disease in that two successful saves in a row means you overcome the disease and are cured, or is it more like mummy rot in that unless a cure disease spell or the like is used, it's permanently infecting you?
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A gygaxian dungeon is like the world's most messed up game show.

Behind door number one: INSTANT DEATH!
Behind door number 2: A magic crown!
Behind door number 3: 4d6 giant bees, and THREE HUNDRED POUNDS OF HONEY!
They don't/haven't, was the point. 3.5 is as dead as people not liking nice tits.

Sometimes, their tits (3.5) get enhancements (houserules), but that doesn't mean people don't like nice tits.

Though sometimes, the surgeon (DM) botches them pretty bad...
Best metaphor I have seen in a long time.  I give you much fu.
Three Errata for the Mage-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Barbarian-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Monks doomed to die,
One for the Wizard on his dark throne
In the Land of Charop where the Shadows lie.
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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #54 on: October 22, 2009, 09:13:41 PM »
Got a question: with your zombie disease, does it behave like a normal disease in that two successful saves in a row means you overcome the disease and are cured, or is it more like mummy rot in that unless a cure disease spell or the like is used, it's permanently infecting you?

Option 2, it's meant to be insanely frightening.

Also, remove disease doesn't work, it takes remove curse+remove disease, in that order.

So unless you come heavily prepared and are really high level, 2 people in the group are bitten and one of them is most likely going to die.

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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #55 on: October 23, 2009, 11:02:23 AM »
Nice. Just started an E6 game inspired by this. The players are loving it so far.
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A gygaxian dungeon is like the world's most messed up game show.

Behind door number one: INSTANT DEATH!
Behind door number 2: A magic crown!
Behind door number 3: 4d6 giant bees, and THREE HUNDRED POUNDS OF HONEY!
They don't/haven't, was the point. 3.5 is as dead as people not liking nice tits.

Sometimes, their tits (3.5) get enhancements (houserules), but that doesn't mean people don't like nice tits.

Though sometimes, the surgeon (DM) botches them pretty bad...
Best metaphor I have seen in a long time.  I give you much fu.
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Seven for the Barbarian-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Monks doomed to die,
One for the Wizard on his dark throne
In the Land of Charop where the Shadows lie.
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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #56 on: October 28, 2009, 06:58:06 PM »
Done with all my zombie kinds.

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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #57 on: October 28, 2009, 07:29:18 PM »
I'm going to avoid the temptation of reading them, since it might encourage me to metagame (and reduce our fun in the Way of the Wizard game). :P
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A couple of water benders, a dike, a flaming arrow, and a few barrels of blasting jelly?

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...thanks
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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #58 on: November 28, 2010, 09:48:38 AM »
Heh, I've run (well, apparently still running as the players liked it) a Microlite d20 zombiegeddon. Although it sort of went from "night of the living dead" to "army of darkness" really fast. They threw a cabinet on the zombie horde coming up a set of stairs at one point.... 

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Re: DM diary: The zombiegedon!!!
« Reply #59 on: November 28, 2010, 10:09:39 AM »
so a zombie (havent checked the new ones yet but the commoner and the crawler behave like this) need to grapple you to bite you

so if you chop their arms off they cant grapple anymore and thus cant bite you?  :D