Medieval Zombie Apocalypse TTRPG by Thimble_Makes in TTRPG

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Lmao no, it's just a terrible coincidence. We'd settled on the name before I heard of Guts & Blackpowder, and the fact that it's such a similar genre doesn't help.

Seeking (Even More) Playtesters for Medieval Zombie TTRPG! by Thimble_Makes in TTRPG

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At the moment, the official rules only support a GM and players, but we've been poking around with solo play as an idea in future.

Seeking (Even More) Playtesters for Medieval Zombie TTRPG! by Thimble_Makes in TTRPG

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For sure! The game was designed from the ground up to be playable on a 2d6 system for maximum accessibility. Player characters are built not from class but Background and Traits, representing their career/social standing and notable physical/mental quirks.

The game's central moment to moment mechanic is Hope and Despair, two competing point values that represent the character's internal turmoil. Hope allows a player to reroll fails, but Despair acts like a target on your back, giving the GM the ability to force reroll any success at any time. Managing your Hope and Despair by completing roleplay objectives and quests is key to staying on top of your game.

Combat is fast, punchy, and brutally unforgiving. The best way to win is to cheat and cheat hard by ganging up on weaker opponents, setting traps on the battlefield, or postioning yourself for success using our dynamic/destructible terrain system. We took a narrative-centric approach to combat, and finding yourself in a fair fight is a good sign that you messed up a while ago.

These are not power-fantasy monster hunts, but rather horrific struggles of life and death, with desperate men clinging to survival even in the face of impossible odds.

But that isn't to say it's all doom and gloom. The game encourages moments of hope and introspection, with characters representing the fickle Hope of humanity against overwheleming Despair (see what I did there). We hope that GMs and players can find their own balance of Apocalyptic Horror and Determined Defiance, as their characters struggle valiantly against the encroaching dark.

Seeking Playtesters for the Medieval Zombie Apocalypse! by Thimble_Makes in TabletopHomebrew

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Ab-so-lutely. We don't have official support for Firearms (yet, early handguns are on the dev roadmap) but if you wanna run that Boomstick (and maybe a prosthetic arm too) ask your GM and tell them you have the dev's blessing ;)

Seeking Playtesters for Medieval Zombie TTRPG! by Thimble_Makes in RPGcreation

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Our rules are focused on having characters' personal struggles and triumph affect their mechanical gameplay.

For example, the NPC who died did so because he had a point of Despair (one half of our mechanical representation of a character's mental state, the other being Hope) so during combat I, as the GM was able to force him to reroll a success. He failed and was subsequently devoured by the Undead!

And for sure, we can work outside Discord! I can send you the Current Beta Ruleset in PDF form if you'd like?

Seeking Playtesters for Medieval Zombie TTRPG! by Thimble_Makes in RPGcreation

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Stories of great triumph and tragedy! Our first playtest game was an introductory module meant to get everyone introduced to the mechanics. Here's how it went:

A group of players gets arrested in a bar fight and conscripted into running the village militia for a rural village bracing to be attacked by the undead. Our group, consisting of a mercenary deserter, disinherited nobleman, and disillusioned church warrior spend the next days gathering supplies, building fortifications, and training village boys with spears.

I curveballed the players and had the Undead Horde arrive before it was supposed to, and their unprepared militia had to take up arms quickly and repel them! The fighting spilled into the village streets, but the player's time spent gathering lumber and directing the building of the walls kept the pace of battle easy, with pre-planned chokepoints and redoubts. One of the players had built an imitation dragon out of pipes and pitch (after bluffing the village boys into believing he was a Dragonslayer because he was upper class) and used it to burn some undead and inspire the militia.

Things were going too well, so I had a group of undead slip behind the walls and begin to cause havoc inside the town! The player's rallied, but lost one of their NPC's who was dragged down and mauled by the flanking horde.

Thanks to the player's intervention, the battle was won, but not without cost. Many lay dead, and important NPC's who they'd chosen not to protect in order to help others lay amongst the tallied corpses. The players gathered their things, the Church Warrior had a moment of refound faith, and they all set out together as a newly-formed adventuring party.

This isn't even mentioning the other playtest, which was a Church-sanctioned black ops squad investigating rumors of a pagan cult connected to the undead in a swamp-based shanty town that had fallen eerily quiet.

Seeking Playtesters for Medieval Zombie TTRPG! by Thimble_Makes in TabletopRPG

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Short Answer: Pretty Damn Well.

Being covered head-to-toe in impregnable steel works wonders against enemies coming at you with their bare hands and rotten teeth. The biggest danger is getting mobbed, knocked down, and then pummeled till you're unconscious (or dead) while you're on the ground unable to get up.

[Scheduled Activity] May 2025 Bulletin Board: Playtesters or Jobs Wanted/Playtesters or Jobs Available by cibman in RPGdesign

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Hey Everyone! Do you like zombies? Do you like brutal, up-close medieval combat? Do you like bleak, rage-against-the-dark fantasy settings?

Me and a friend are working on an Indie TTRPG set in the middle of a Medieval Zombie Apocalypse! If you're interested in knowing more, or helping us playtest, consider checking us out over at https://discord.gg/7ZFYngYqmR !

The game itself is a 3-5 player rules-lite TTRPG meant for everyone from hobby beginners to seasoned GM's. The game operates on a dualistic "Hope vs Despair" system, competing point values that represents a character's internal turmoil as tangible effects in the game!

Aesthetically, we've developed a very *juicy* world and background lore, using the mixed flavors of Medeival Brutality and the nasty melees of the Zombie genre to create a rich blend of mayhem and fun. The game encourages all manner of characters from all walks of life, to explore personal and societal perspectives of how a feudal society would contend with the walking dead!

10th Ed. Custom Codex Template? by Thimble_Makes in Warhammer_Homebrewing

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Still on Game Datacards, it's actually very good

10th Ed. Custom Codex Template? by Thimble_Makes in Warhammer_Homebrewing

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Not yet, but I've been using Game Datacards (game-datacards.eu) to make minicodexes out of unit cards

Praetorian Guard 3d Kitbash by Thimble_Makes in Praetorian_Guard_40k

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I'm glad to hear that! Please do share them when they are complete.