as you run away from the horde of animate corpses chasing you you come to the top of a hill where at similar times a bunch of different people arrive (The other PCs)
Maybe not the most defensible, but at least we can see em coming
Fet catches his breath, glad to have even a brief rest. Fet looks around for someplace higher up, or sturdy enough to get them through the night.
Perception:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 24
WS 40 | BS 47 | ST 36 | TN 32 | AG 38 | PER 36 | INT 25 | WILL 35 | FELL 30 Wounds 15/15 | Fate Points 3/3 | current lasclip 59/60 | current meltaclip 4/5
A big half-orc wearing a patched together suit of armor covered in dirt, dried up blood and gore came jogging up the hill, a gasmask dangling from his neck and a greataxe in hand.
He looked at the others and spoke with a hint of relief in his voice.
"Finally, some other survivors. I fought fiercely, but I am certain I was not bitten."
WS 40 | BS 47 | ST 36 | TN 32 | AG 38 | PER 36 | INT 25 | WILL 35 | FELL 30 Wounds 15/15 | Fate Points 3/3 | current lasclip 59/60 | current meltaclip 4/5
"I am no priest, but the Sun has gifted me with some of its divine power. However, now is not the time to discuss this. We need to figure out how to defend this hill or find a route away from the coming undead."
Annie advances toward the emerging gap in the zombies. She is careful to keep Finneus and Oravak between herself and them. She plugs another squarely in the chest.
WS 40 | BS 47 | ST 36 | TN 32 | AG 38 | PER 36 | INT 25 | WILL 35 | FELL 30 Wounds 15/15 | Fate Points 3/3 | current lasclip 59/60 | current meltaclip 4/5
Does it seem there are more coming? Or is the 10 that came up the hill it for now? Would seem stupid to run away if we just need a little longer to just kill what's left.
As the Party progresses they see the trampled corpse of a man wearing a tophat and clutching a bastard sword. Too freshly dead to rise again yet.
Sorry Guys, I overcommitted a bit, and a Swashbuckler is a poor fit for this campaign anyway as I look at it, so I'm ducking out as Hatter. Good luck and Happy Gaming!
WS 40 | BS 47 | ST 36 | TN 32 | AG 38 | PER 36 | INT 25 | WILL 35 | FELL 30 Wounds 15/15 | Fate Points 3/3 | current lasclip 59/60 | current meltaclip 4/5
Oravak walked over to the corpse and quickly checked its vitals. When he had made certain it was truly dead he said a small prayer and chopped of its head with a fast swing of his greataxe. "Can never be to careful."
He looked back from where they had come.
"At least it should be more difficult to rise as an undead abomination now. If anyone can use the weapon or anything else on him. Take it, but we must keep up the pace, so don't scavenge to long."
You are denizens of a that was once two separate worlds. One of Magic, one of Technology. 1 year ago they merged seamlessly, as if it had always been that way. 3 months ago a powerful lich declared vengeance on all the world and cursed it. That day, the dead would not stay down. You killed them, they would get up until you killed them again, even that wasn't a guarantee. for the most part, the military's been overrun. There have been rumours about safe havens but no guarantees.
Your goal:
Survive
Character creation:
2nd level
20pt. Buy
Core, APG, ARG(first 2 chapters), ACG, UC and UM are legitimate sources. Others by request
Wounds and Vigor will be used
1000gp
Equipment:
Piecemeal is encouraged, you'll be scavenging for everything. It makes sense.
Modern era guns. All guns, including Modern Firearms are at 10% price. Spas-12s can be bought for 700gp (after reductions) which function as normal Shotguns from UC but have an internal cartridge and a capacity of 6. Brass cartridges cost 1gp
Tech Items exist and can be bought at normal price.
I have another question, after reading what you said about equipment :
'GM Brains' wrote:
Modern era guns. All guns, including Modern Firearms are at 10% price. Spas-12s can be bought for 700gp (after reductions) which function as normal Shotguns from UC but have an internal cartridge and a capacity of 6. Brass cartridges cost 1gp
Am I correct in thinking that this would make the Spas-12s costs the same as a double barreled shotgun (original price 7000 GP which at 10% means 700 GP).
You also state that all firearms (including modern) are at 10% price. Does this mean that the Nagant M1985 revolver and Mosin-Nagant M1981 Rifle respectively cost 40 and 50 GP? Or are the prices in the table already calculated with this reduction in mind?
I have another question, after reading what you said about equipment :
'GM Brains' wrote:
Modern era guns. All guns, including Modern Firearms are at 10% price. Spas-12s can be bought for 700gp (after reductions) which function as normal Shotguns from UC but have an internal cartridge and a capacity of 6. Brass cartridges cost 1gp
Am I correct in thinking that this would make the Spas-12s costs the same as a double barreled shotgun (original price 7000 GP which at 10% means 700 GP).
You also state that all firearms (including modern) are at 10% price. Does this mean that the Nagant M1985 revolver and Mosin-Nagant M1981 Rifle respectively cost 40 and 50 GP? Or are the prices in the table already calculated with this reduction in mind?
Those two Nagants already have that reduction in mind.
You'd know general things, I'm not sure how in depth that book is.
It's geared toward a 'scientific' zombie plague (think, Resident Evil) so none of that would apply. But it contains a lot of practical advice for building defensive positions, long term survival and avoiding the undead horde.
Got some more question, more related to the survival/scavenging/... aspect of the game:
1) Will we need to track rations, water, weight of everything, ...?
2) Related to the first. Does the basic set of clothing we wear count towards our carrying capacity?
3) Does a set of brass cartridges have a weight?
3) What skills/feats does one need to maintain a firearm?
4) Can people start the game with mundanely crafted firearms/ammo?
5) Will there be specific skills bound to finding stuff while scavenging? Other than Perception to find stuff and Survival to know whether something is edible?
Got some more question, more related to the survival/scavenging/... aspect of the game:
1) Will we need to track rations, water, weight of everything, ...?
2) Related to the first. Does the basic set of clothing we wear count towards our carrying capacity?
3) Does a set of brass cartridges have a weight?
3) What skills/feats does one need to maintain a firearm?
4) Can people start the game with mundanely crafted firearms/ammo?
5) Will there be specific skills bound to finding stuff while scavenging? Other than Perception to find stuff and Survival to know whether something is edible?
1) Food and water will be important. Weight, not so much.
2) No
3) 60 cartridges weigh 1 pound
4) No
5) Not Directly, Stealth will be useful for avoiding notice while scavenging, Acrobatics for uneven, thin, slippery, etc. surfaces, Climb to go get stuff are just some of the things.
Am I the only one who thinks tech items are a bit out of place for this type of game? I'm good with early 20th-century firearms for sure though. Slap in an M1897 in place of the Spas-12 and I'd be happy.
I think high tech stuff alongside low tech in a piecemeal style is exactly in line with a PA type of setting (cause it's assumed that you scrounged what you have).
I mean, I get Pathfinder-world zombie apocalypse, and I certainly get modern-ish zombie apocalpyse, but super-futuristic zombie apocalypse? That's not a genre I have a lot of experience (or really interest) in. But if there *must* be futuretech, it would make more sense to me to just own it. Put us in a space colony or starship, and make ray guns and nanites the standard. In other words, by my reasoning, it should either be a tech campaign, or it shouldn't. Mixing old world, 20th-century, and 30th-century (or whatever it is) is just too much dissonance for me I suppose.
something akin to this already exists in our modern world. There are cultures in the world who have extremely limited contact with modern technology, there are 3rd world countries who known about technology, but have no or limited access to it, and then we have the first world, with things like instant planetary communication or near instantaneous travel. We can talk to each other continents apart, and we have sent things and people into space, all things that would be considered miracles to the aforementioned low tech countries. Even in third world countries, such things would almost be sci fi instead of things people can do on a daily basis (especially as inexpensive as our modern technology is).
@Vrog - Yes, but that's early 20th vs late 20th, not 20th vs 30th. A more accurate comparison would be to say that there are countries in the world with feudal-era military equipment, other countries with British colonial-era armies, and still other countries with truly modern tech. This, of course, is absurd. Once a technology exists, other countries do not experience the same transitional periods to reach that level of technology. Rather, differing levels of technology represent permeation of (approximately) current technology.
I have an Idea for a summoner going for the Redmage/Gunmage (Summoner) and Whitemage/Bluemage (Eidolon) Combo who of course come from the Magic world. The Summoner is crazy over all these new wonders of the Regular world but overprotective of his Eidolon to got too deep. The Eidolon is a Guardian spirit bound by his mother to protect the Summoner due to a trad in the past.
So since it's a zombie apocalypse, the question I wonder is: are we facing standard pathfinder zombies, or zombies who's bite attack infects and turns people into zombies?
Zombies, plague zombies, juju zombies, alchemical zombies, yellow musk zombies, void zombies... and that's just Pathfinder. There are probably also nanite zombies by now, but I can't say for sure.
I would guess plague zombies are the ones you're talking about, though there's certainly nothing wrong with alchemical zombies or even yellow musk zombies.
Zombies, plague zombies, juju zombies, alchemical zombies, yellow musk zombies, void zombies... and that's just Pathfinder. There are probably also nanite zombies by now, but I can't say for sure.
I would guess plague zombies are the ones you're talking about, though there's certainly nothing wrong with alchemical zombies or even yellow musk zombies.
Mostly plague zombies. But I will throw other undead at you, so be on your guard.
