Good zombie RPGs other than AFMBE?

[jdrakeh]

I like AFMBE, but Eden's recent inability to get things published and further support games that have already been published kills me. Indeed, I believe that the AFMBE core books are now OOP (at any rate, they aren't easy to find at local game stores anymore). I'd like to play a 'zombie' RPG (I've been watching a lot of zombie films lately) but it needs to be something that is:

a) Easy to find in print.

or

b) Free and available in an easy to print format that looks good*.

or

c) Available in HTML that I can easily read on a handheld PC with a 2.5" x 5" display.**

Any suggestions?

*No HTML. HTML is easy to print but looks like crap on paper.
**In this case, printability is not an issue, though size and format of the actual HTML most definitely is. No multiple page sites, please.

 

[Scurvy_Platypus]

Dead Meat by Sean Wipfli is free and seems interesting. Players are actually given several characters, since it's expected they're going to be eaten. Is that the sort of thing you're looking for?

I can email you the pdf copy that Sean sent me. In general it can be hard to find online these days.

 

[jdrakeh]

Dead Meat by Sean Wipfli is free and seems interesting. Players are actually given several characters, since it's expected they're going to be eaten. Is that the sort of thing you're looking for?

I can email you the pdf copy that Sean sent me. In general it can be hard to find online these days.

It was almost impossible to find, for years. Ironically, it's now the #1 Google result for "dead meat rpg" as I discovered soon after posting this thread

 

[Omro Gamer]

I recently purchased some AFMBE books from Amazon, and most of them including the core book seem to be in stock. The core book was dicounted 27% off of list price.

 

[jdrakeh]

Weird. I checked there a few months back and they hardly had any of the books. At any rate, online shopping isn't for me currently, due to financial issues.

 

[Khuxan]

It was almost impossible to find, for years. Ironically, it's now the #1 Google result for "dead meat rpg" as I discovered soon after posting this thread

Ironically, this thread is now the #1 Google result for "dead meat rpg".

 

[jdrakeh]

Ironically, this thread is now the #1 Google result for "dead meat rpg".

Crazy! I broke Google! Here's a link to the Dead Meat PDF: Link

 

[Crothian]

Are you wanting something that specifically does zombies or something that can do zombies? Fear Itself is a horror RPG and while it doesn't assume zombies it could easily do zombie horror.

 

[jdrakeh]

Are you wanting something that specifically does zombies or something that can do zombies? Fear Itself is a horror RPG and while it doesn't assume zombies it could easily do zombie horror.

I already own Fear Itself (a good suggestion, that I hadn't thought of, though). I guess I'm looking for something that can do survival horror (not just zombie whomping, as there is a difference) and is ideally very portable (which both Esoterrists and Fear Itself would be, if I still had PDF copies of the game*).

*!@!#!#$% HDD crashes. Finally got it under control, but not before losing some things. RPGNow stuff was easy to recoup due to my account history -- unfortunately, I ordered Fear Itself and Esoterrorists directly from Pelgrane press ;P

 

[Crothian]

There is also Year of the Zombie.