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<blockquote data-quote="awayfarer" data-source="post: 3019675" data-attributes="member: 42702">Concensus here seems to be that having PC's choose from NPC classes would be the best bet. Sounds good to me but I don't think I'd allow adepts. I feel like magic use is a significant enough thing to affect the mood of the adventure. If you look closely at your average zombie movie, characters tend to succeed as often by dumb luck as their own skill. The trick would be providing them with opportunities to get lucky. Someone who can spray fire from their fingertips is going to be a bit more confident than I'd like. I feel like there should always be a &quot;You're not guaranteed to live through this&quot; tone. Making PC's too capable could cut into that. Yeah, looking at it now, commoners would be too far in the other direction.If someone dies I'm sure we can find another poor bugger holed up somehwere in the city to join up. Maybe theres a few dozen survivors hanging around in a boarded up tavern.Lord Pendragon, I don't picture it going more than 5 sessions at most. Just long enough for PC's to find implements of destruction and get the hell out of dodge. It could probably be done in one session but I think I'd aim for two or three. I guess I should have said &quot;adventure&quot; rather than campaign.For the record, I haven't played either Call of Cthulhu or All Flesh Must be Eaten but I'd like to give them both a try. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="awayfarer, post: 3019675, member: 42702"] Concensus here seems to be that having PC's choose from NPC classes would be the best bet. Sounds good to me but I don't think I'd allow adepts. I feel like magic use is a significant enough thing to affect the mood of the adventure. If you look closely at your average zombie movie, characters tend to succeed as often by dumb luck as their own skill. The trick would be providing them with opportunities to get lucky. Someone who can spray fire from their fingertips is going to be a bit more confident than I'd like. I feel like there should always be a "You're not guaranteed to live through this" tone. Making PC's too capable could cut into that. Yeah, looking at it now, commoners would be too far in the other direction. If someone dies I'm sure we can find another poor bugger holed up somehwere in the city to join up. Maybe theres a few dozen survivors hanging around in a boarded up tavern. Lord Pendragon, I don't picture it going more than 5 sessions at most. Just long enough for PC's to find implements of destruction and get the hell out of dodge. It could probably be done in one session but I think I'd aim for two or three. I guess I should have said "adventure" rather than campaign. For the record, I haven't played either [U]Call of Cthulhu[/U] or [U]All Flesh Must be Eaten [/U] but I'd like to give them both a try. :) [/QUOTE]

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