Could be cool for a one-off though.
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Then give them a character sheet each with only basic info. No powers.

You make cards for each powers and you hand them out as they use them. At the end of the adventure, if players want to explore the world more, you make new PCs and everyone chooses their own Vampire powers.

Otherwise, I’d give everything to the players and have them describe how they discover each player and how their character react to that discovery….

And all the time, have a ‘hunger’clock, slowly ticking down, making each vampire angrier, weaker and more fearful (i.e lower their attacks and defenses as well as their will/brains).

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Plus, if I go for the Mayan calendar trope, I also had to go for the Heroic Vampire one too. I mean come on!

after last weeks posts i was inspired to run a one-shot halloween game around the idea mentioned last week.

But instead of beginning the game after the full fledged infection i started with the players as themselves waking up to the ‘dawn’ of infection and they had to survive whilst escaping to a secure and maintainable area. Was a great night and one-shot.

The Vampire PC idea is awesome, especially the need to find human survivors only to feed off them, some of my sadistic players would enjoy playing wolves in sheeps skins with the human NPC’s only to feed on them later.

Very inspirational post.

Thanks Chatty

Scott

The band is a group that hasn’t been wiped, but why? Is there a cure? Where? How?

p.s. i soooo want to play a zombie

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@River: Yup, It’s fun when you can weave in current events with myth to create something ‘playable’. The 2012 apocalypse idea was first voiced by a commenter as a throwaway joke… it was a great jump start idea for the post. Add evil corporations and Vampires, mix and serve.

The adventure idea is quite cool! If I were in any position to do a game, I would try it. I also really like how you tied it in with the Mayan calendar kerfluffle.

@Lanir: That’s a great way of applying the idea, I love the ‘flavour’ part. Especially if the plot involves identifying people with the same flavour.

Having the Vaccine be a Vampire invention (assuming Vampires pre-dated the plague) is also very rich in potential.

In my world the failed vaccine that causes the zombies would be of human make. But with enough pushing the PCs might find out that it was originally based on vampire work designed to add flavors to blood. I’d buy some samples of several varieties of apple from the store and slice them up for the game. So the PCs would be able to bite someone and amidst all the usual drama and horror of eating people they’d get to hear how this one is a “granny smith”, that one’s a “red delicious”, etc. It just sounds like a fun thing to do for a Halloween inspired game.