Netflix: Kingdom (Korean Drama)


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Just watched the first episode of Kingdom on Netflix and has made quite the impression. Well done, creepy as heck and it would make an interesting Pathfinder campaign.

Has English language track for those of you who don't like subtitles and the dubbing isn't bad.

A sick King
an evil high chancellor ruling in the king's place
a Crown Prince searching for the truth.

and zombies


It was quite good. I'm usually not much into historical dramas and definitely not zombies other than Shawn of the Dead or Zombieland Saga, but Kingdom made both work. Good script, great costumes and general appearance, good drama, decent characters: it all works very well.

I know nothing about Korean history so I don't know if this is set with real historical characters or, as I suspect, fictional ones set in a (mostly) real historical period, nor do I have any idea how accurate the costumes or portrayal of society is. All I know is I liked it.

As for any sort of D&D campaign, it would have to be a very low powered, low magic one. Even considering these would be mindless ghouls instead of zombies in D&D terms, this sort of thing isn't really enough to pose a big threat to most worlds - it's a minor local problem at worst before 4-to-6 murderhobos come along and murder the unquiet dead.


Easy to expand though. Imagine if the king, who is being kept well feed and safe, began to evolve becoming one of the higher class Ghouls, give him some class levels and have him emerge from his "sick bed" to reclaim his throne. the Rise of a Necromancer Empire begins.

Scarab Sages

I've really been enjoying it, but I can tell there are things about class and famine that are being alluded to that I don't have the history for. Still, a surprisingly good period zombie series.


Belabras wrote:
I've really been enjoying it, but I can tell there are things about class and famine that are being alluded to that I don't have the history for. Still, a surprisingly good period zombie series.

I've seen canibalism pop up in more than a few Asian period dramas. Dose make you wonder how often it really came down to that?


So I'm halfway into Season 2 of this now and it is getting a little nuts.

The southern part of the kingdom has pretty much been given up to the zombies. Lethal levels of political intrigue at court, with the WORST possible person coming out on top. The Prince has a pretty good start to a rebellion going but considering the WORST is already thinking "zombie army is a good way to help me stay in power" I'm not liking their odds.


Just finished season 2, and that was one helluva cliffhanger. I hope it gets another season.

On the whole, the season was easily as good as the first, great developments, a few twists I didn't see coming but which made perfect sense for the situation.

There are only two criticisms I can level against it. One, the zombies supposedly require head destruction to be put down, yet at least half of them went down to swords through the chest with no trouble. Two is that it really does seem as though the author is changing how the disease works as the story progresses, and lampshading the subject does not make it work all that well.

Still, these are minor issues in an otherwise good show.


I think it might be a Spine thing. The key is to stop signals from the brain getting to the body. Destroying the head is the safest way to do that but I think any damage to the spinal cord might be useful.

As for the disease itself, To me I don't think the rules were changing so much as, they made mistakes in their initial observations. Things like discovering it's the Temperature not the Sunlight that causes them to go dormant.
The main differences were in the two types of Zombie. What is it about boiling the infected flesh that causes the worms to become more aggressive. That's still a big unknown.

Plus the set up for season 3 is kind of nuts.


Casting a fitting Necro on a Zombie series thread, because we have a special movie coming in July

Kingdom; Aishin of the North

which promises to provide us with information on our mystery lady from the season 2 cliffhanger.

Looking forward to this and the upcoming season 3


Awesome hats

Plus a rather glaring thing. How do you tell who is a noble and who is a peasant?

Feed them. Peasant goes full slobber.

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