Why The Zombie Apocalypse Would Fail Quickly

This is pretty funny and makes some great points.

We Don't Use the Zed Word

I always laugh when zombie movies and shows refuse to ever use the word zombie. George Romero gets a past because he created the modern zombie genre and referred his as ghouls, but others folks, not so much.

Character Creation Challenge - Day 4

 Today I give you a survivor for Bloat Games The Zombie Hack.

Name: Jeffrey Ryan Lang
Class: Survivalist
Level: 1
XP:

Str: 12
Con: 9

Dex: 9

Int: 14

Wis: 12

Cha: 10

Special Features

Advantage when testing Con to avoid damage from poison.

+3 Trap and Kill Animals

+2 Skin and Prepare Food

+1 to Charm

Weapons and Equipment

Football Helmet 

Spear

Goggles

Backpack

Canteen

$20.00

HP: 9

Armor: Football Helmet - 1

Attack Damage 

Spear - 1d6 - Range 10

Unarmed - 1d4

Jeff Lang was a "hippie" librarian that lived mostly off the grid. Though he loved his books and helping his community, he preferred to live a sustainable life. Though the portly and not in the best physical shape, Lang's knowledge and survival skills are a welcome asset to any survivor group he joins up with. 

Music Monday - Zombie Dance

A little rock, a little polka, and a lotta zombie!

Post-Apocalyptic Job Centre

This is a pretty humorous short film that seems oddly relatable.

Tubi Top 5 - Zombie Flicks

I’ve seen several top 10 horror lists and things like that for various streaming services. I haven’t seen anyone talking about Tubi though (which is a free streaming app here in the States). I am going to start making some. Please note, this is my personal opinion. You don’t have to agree.

Number 5

Number 4 

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Number 1

Bloat Games PDF Sale!

Click the banner below for some amazing deals on Bloat Games pdfs.

If you've wanted to get into any of the SURVIVE THIS!! games now is the perfect time. If you don't already have them, pick up Zombies! 2nd Edition, Dark Places & Demogorgons, and DP&D - Player Option and GM Guide. All Bloat Games books are high quality, but those are the essentials in my opinion. They have some other great books too. If you're into The Black Hack, they have a few fun variations. Also if you like OSR and zombies, White Box Zombies is a great book (especially if you want to add some spice to adventures like Death Frost Doom). I'm not sure how long the sale is going on, so you should get your pdfs asap.

Here are my reviews of most of the pdfs on sale:

SURVIVE THIS!! line

Zombies! 2nd Edition
Dark Places & Demogorgons
Dark Places & Demogorgons - Player Options and GM Guide
Dark Places & Demogorgons - Jeffersontown Setting Guide
Dark Places & Demogorgons - The Ghost Hunter's Handbook
Dark Places & Demogorgons - The UFO Investigator's Handbook
Dark Places & Demogorgons Werewolf Sourcebook

Dark Places & Demogorgons Vampire Sourcebook

Conspiracy Theories A SURVIVE THIS!! Zine Issue 1: The Dark Door

The Black Hack line

The Zombie Hack
The Complete Vigilante Hack (The Vigilante Hack, A City Full of Sinners, Sanctuary Asylum)

White Box line

White Box Zombies

The Zombie Hack Review

The Zombie Hack is another adaptation of The Black Hack by Bloat Games.

The pdf is 38 pages counting covers, legal text, dedications/acknowledgements, and such.

I discussed The Black Hack rules in my Vigilante Hack review, but here's another summary.

The rules are a stripped version of OD&D. There are a few new rules (such as Usage Die) and some familiar thing from modern games (Advantage/Disadvantage). Players do all of the rolling. Armor is damage reduction. This also has the Bloat Games Hack variants, such as multiple advantage and disadvantage. These are the classes: Fixer, Leader, Scavenger, Slayer, Survivalist, and Tracker. 

The enemies section of the book is full of the obvious... zombies!!! We're presented with rules for infection and 7 different types of zombies which do a great job emulating zombies from a variety of movies (such as Night of the Living Dead, 28 Days Later, and Return of the Living Dead). There's also a bonus pwyw zombie that you can grab here.  

The book ends with a short piece of in-universe fiction.

Because they are built on the same rules, you could unleash these zombies on some unsuspecting vigilantes... but that would just be mean. If you want a nice, simple set of rules to play a zombie game, The Zombie Hack is the game for you. It's simple, concise, and seems like a lot of blood fun. 

You can buy The Zombie Hack here. There's an alternate cover version too.