tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6423678674802842720.post5975841041463247381..comments2023-11-02T14:32:01.517+02:00Comments on Cradle of Rabies - From role to games: Raggi (LotFP) and monstersAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04674233268949925440noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6423678674802842720.post-85297945750613091272012-08-22T07:37:33.956+03:002012-08-22T07:37:33.956+03:00I think that DFD zombies are not monsters but the ...I think that DFD zombies are not monsters but the machine. They are monsters in a sense of being walking dead with statistics characters can fight with, but these zombies have a bigger picture. After DFD if the zombies rise it's not about the individual zombies being all "fleessshhh" but the wholesome situation. That is well done and written.<br /><br />I give one example here. The video game Left For Dead. No one cares why there are zombies nor cares what happens everywhere else in the world. People just sneak, kill zombies and try to reach next checkpoint. In meta level or the thought what happens after the game or what happened before the game doesn't excist. DFD is backwards thinking. It is not relevant what is happening when characters escape the mountain. It is more important what happened pre-zombies and what happens after it when characters (hopefully) are long away (or with a headstart getting away anyways). In DFD there is a bigger picture that doesn't involve characters any more when the adventure ends. Adventure basically ends when characters die or get away but that is the real beginning. So DFD is basically a prelude.<br />In that sense the zombies as monsters are not as important as the zombies area as a gaming world and campaign changing machine.<br /><br />Maybe you could do that with AFMBE for example, but still most AFMBE campaigns are about player character survival. It focuses around how characters experience the zombie world when in DFD it's all about the zombie-world characters can't do anything about with.<br /><br />That's the big difference with DFD zombies as monsters compared to other games or adventures with zombies as monsters.<br /><br />In my opinion.<br /><br />And thanks for the link! I have to check it out!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04674233268949925440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6423678674802842720.post-38397164317882333792012-08-21T15:14:19.966+03:002012-08-21T15:14:19.966+03:00DLD has new way of handling normal walking dead st...DLD has new way of handling normal walking dead style zombies, those could be used in DFD too I think. <br /><br />BTW If we would compare DFD to video nasty like Zombie Flesh-Eaters what would be the Night of the Living Dead?<br /><br />I have old crumbly issue of White Dwarf (that was published before when I was even born) with adventure titled Lichway that I got after, well realizing it was spelled out in the DFD.<br /><br />Instead of hunting a copy the adventure can also be found online:<br />http://fightingfantasist.blogspot.fi/2011/08/lichway.html<br /><br />It is interesting to compare evolution of the same idea on completely different takes.<br />Jonashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11838302056850766272noreply@blogger.com