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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paraxis" data-source="post: 6520632" data-attributes="member: 13009">A few things to think about.Why have the lady explain whats going?  I think it is better to just show them that the dead are rising through actions.What would you do as a player? First things that come to mind are immediate survival, so get everyone to a more defensible location than the local tavern, a temple/church or town garrison sound like ideal locations.  After initial survival it would either be investigation into cause if there was a reason to care or evacuation and get the survivors out of there.Where are all these fresh bodies coming from?  Most of the dead filling the crypts and graves would be skeletal not zombie like unless there was a reason to have so many recently dead.  So is there a plague ravishing the land, a war, did a natural disaster just devastate the area?What do the player characters know of undead?  What conclusions can the characters make based on their training and skills, do they know the abilities of zombies and weaknesses?  Do they know about what kind of spells are used to make them?  What conclusions can they draw from this information to unravel who/what is behind this zombie outbreak.Are you telling a zombie attack story or a post apocalyptic survival story different feel depending.  Look at Walking Dead for example the story is not focused on the zombies but on the situation and the characters, the zombies are like the sprinkles on top of a great survival story, while Night of the Living Dead is a zombie attack story.If zombie attack it is more of an adventure hook and the character should be able to solve the situation or at least survive it, if it is a post apocalyptic survival thing that sounds like a campaign and they probably should never figure out exactly what caused it, but give them plenty of possibilities to investigate.Zombie Attack story, Have the big bad guy actually be a young girl who has lost her family and friends to a recent sickness that has swept the land.  She found an old tome and used it to raise all the people who died from the sickness in the area.  When they get to her she is protected by her undead family and half dozen little kid zombies.   So how did the girl get the book?  Is there a puppet master wanting to spread chaos and death across the land?Survival horror, don't ever tell them what raised the dead.  Have it start with someone  getting up in the middle of a wake at the local tavern and attacking but quickly people realize anyone who dies rises as a zombie within seconds.This is an ongoing campaign, have churches and kingdoms seal doors, have the zombie curse effect all living things so zombie dragons and puppies.  Maybe at epic levels, there is some plot envolving the imprisonment/death/disappearance of the god of death and players have a chance to fix it at the conclusion of a long campaign.</blockquote>

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