Wise Turtle Publishing

Ok, so this post is only about zombies, but it's a catchy title ^_^

So last night (this morning...night shift) at work, I made up stats for zombies. I have been reading the Resident Evil books, and I got thinking about zombies. So I statted 'em up...and they seem pretty nasty, and they should be--no zombie in RE goes down easy, unless it's a head shot.

So, without further blabber, here they are:

ZOMBIES

Armor +2 (DR4)
Life Support +3 (Can survive almost anywhere)
Sixth Sense +3 (The living)
Strong +2
Tough +2 (60 Health)
Weapon +2 (Bite; Accurate x2)
Bizarre Appearance -1 (Deathly white)
Clumsy -1
Dependency -2 (Flesh)
Emotionless -3
Langourous -3 (10 Endurance)
Slow -2
Unnatural Weakness -3 (Head shots; 3x damage)


So, the idea is that, while Slow, zombies are quite Accurate when biting their prey. Obviously I made these zombies to be of 0 points, but can easily be brought up higher--for nastier zombies--ny adding a few more levels of Armor, Tough, Strong, etc. I figured that a 0-cost zombie would be a good starting point.

Also note that Bizarre Appearance is only -1. This is, again, a "fresh" zombie. The newly risen are harder to pick out than those that have been rotting for a while. For "older" zombies, just increase the Bizarre Appearance Weakness.

I hope y'all enjoy these flesh-eating horrors!!

TBP

Some good stats there! I might have to use them!
Will you be putting this on your site in an NPC database or something?

Maybe Bizarre Appearance should be -2, as some Zombies are rotting and have bits falling off them too. Just a thought..

Cheers!

ComicJam wrote:Some good stats there! I might have to use them!
Will you be putting this on your site in an NPC database or something?

Maybe Bizarre Appearance should be -2, as some Zombies are rotting and have bits falling off them too. Just a thought..

Cheers!

I definately will be publishing this to my site at a bit later date, I'm still not sure how I want to do it...either as part of the Resources page or a new page alltogether....prolly a new page, since I belive that I [and y'all] will have many more NPCs/monsters/whatnot to look at.

As for Bizarre Appearance, I mentioned that these stats are for "fresh" zombies, ones that have yet to decompose too badly. It would work just fine for a zombie that was a few days old...but like I said, these stats are a baseline to work from, not exactly an "end-all be-all" of zombies.

Also notice that I didn't put in an Ability that passes on the zombification. That actually was an unintentional oversight, I didn't really think of it until this morning, about an hour ago, so that needs to go in there, too. Any ideas on what level to make it?

TBP

I would have it at a high level as zombie biting is really bad business, unless you make it that you only turn when you die. Just imagine a PC is bitten then dies at a later date after they've forgotten about it!

Cheers!

You forgot Strange Personal Habit -1 "Chants 'Must Eat Flesh!' "

Kidding! Nice job TBP