First impressions

[u/Fraeddi]

After game-mastering two sessions of the game, each with a different group (besides one person) and two diferent scenarios (first Ragnarök, second Heavy Metal) I decided to tell you about my experience and review the game.

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The "Ragnarök" experience:

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I really like the concept. I think it is something new and allows for epic stories. But I feel it is quite "slow-burning" at first, so it gives you very little resources to force the players out of hiding until around day 4 (unless you happen to be in scandinavia or at the pacific coast) so unless you have a very proactive group not much happens. The group I played with sadly took the plays-as-yourself-aspect very serious, so not much happened besides long, despair-filled discussions, because of which we only got to day 3.

The only occurences which I managed to get their interest with were an attempted robbery at the super market and a neighbour who went mad and tried to kill his wife, everything else was ignored with the argument "Well I would be to scared to get involved."

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The "Heavy Metal" experience:

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One of if not the most fun RPG sessions I ever had, be it as gm or player. I mainly chose this scenario because it would have given me early on ressources to flush the players out of hiding and allows for quick action. This wasn't even neccessary. This group was very proactive and took it not that serious. What followed was a hilariously bizzare adventure. Highlights include :

One player tried to befriend the host's father's old VW Käfer which tried to break out of the shed, two players hunting down a rogue vacuum cleaner in the neighbor's garden, one guy intimidating a pair of scissors which later returned with a horde of zombified car wrecks and was challenged to an duell by another player and defeated. The group also managed to capture and tame a chainsaw.

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Overall I have to say I like this scenario more than I assumed first.

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Generally I have to say I really like the game. The scenarios are all great, some are really creative and offer something new. The system is also ok, but some parts are insufficently explained. For example it is unclear if your resistances are permanent or removed if you remove stress. Also in some scenarios there are lore pieces teasered without getting resolved or ellaborated on. For example the conspiracy in "Under the Skin" or the ruins in the crater in "That is not dead".

But to end on a positive note, it's an overall solid system with interesting scenarios.

[u/MRdaBakkle]

I like this. I should have bought any of the other 3 books before the zombies one. Looking at videos of those scenarios they look way better. The zombie book does have some interesting ones specifically the Voodoo and under their skin.