Second Game: Zombies of Orion

[Robotech_Master]

This game had four players, at a gaming-group picnic a friend put on.

I proposed as the the first tenet, "Orion needs to be rescued."

The guy to my left then said, "It needs to have zombies. Lots of zombies." What a surprise.

It came out that Orion was a secret service agent with a strong antipathy toward zombies, who crashed on an alien planet infested with them. There were not one but two nasty alien races who created and rode zombies: the Icks and the Necronauts. There was a team of adventurers gathered together (with an Adventurer master class to account for their equipment) to go find Orion.

The first scene was a little slow, as adventure characters were created and had a brief argument with each other over terms of pay. Then the next scene had Orion on the zombified planet blowing away zombies with a shotgun. After that we ran out of time to play.

We had fun, and a couple of the guys I played with were interested in possibly buying a copy of the game off of me. All in all, it went very well.

[Valamir]

Now you know why I put a special zombie example section in the revised edition :-)

I don't know why...people just have this thing for zombies.

[Mike Holmes]

How specific did you get with the equipment for the adventurer master class? Was it just like "Equipment" or "Zombiscope" and "Zomberadicator Ray"

Mike