On 2/20/2013 12:50 PM, Onno Meyer wrote:
Kurt replied to me:
> >For that reason, I don't like zombies, unless they are the
> >minions of a necromancer in some dark wizard's tower. A
> >zombie virus is right out.
>
>And yet the best zombie stories and movies only use the zombies as a
>backdrop, sort of like playing Traveller against the backdrop of the
>Fifth Frontier War or Rebellion.
Hello Kurt,
would the zombies count as the "enemy" in that case? Say the
disaster has struck and the characters must defeat a gang of
survivalist thugs. The "enemy" are those thugs. Or they have
to organize a crowd of dazed survivors. The "enemy" are the
apathetic NPCs -- not all enemies must be defeated by
killing them. It doesn't really matter if the disaster is
a horde of zombies, a Zhodani fleet, or an avalanche
The answer to whether the zombies would be "the enemy" is "it depends".
In most cases they're the backdrop; the setting or window dressing if
you will. But, they can become an enemy as the plot or player decisions
dictate. Normally the enemy is of the living human nature, but I think
that specific genre requires you to mix it up a bit.
--
Kurt Feltenberger
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“Before today, I was scared to live, after today, I'm scared I'm not
living enough." - Me
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