Recommendizer: Zombie Apocalypses Sans Zombies
Added 2023-04-17 11:00:03 +0000 UTCRoss and Thad discuss media recommendations for running a zombie apocalypse game, but these recommendations go beyond zombie media! A good zombie RPG campaign emphasizes the importance of social relations and explore utopian and dystopian themes Consider the type of story and themes you want to explore in a zombie apocalypse game.
List of media referenced
- RPG references:
- Red Markets (playtesting second edition rules) - 00:00:20
- Ultraviolet Grasslands (OSR game) - mentioned at 01:02:41
- The Walking Dead (roleplaying game) - mentioned at 01:04:34
- Books:
- Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh - 00:08:05
- Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein book - 00:09:32
- Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin book - 00:11:21
- Defending Your Castle: Build Catapults, Crossbows, Moats, Bulletproof Shields, and More Defensive Devices to Fend Off the Invading Hordes - 00:17:19
-Ministry for the Future [00:27:35] by Kim Stanley Robinson
- "Instant City" by Steve Inskeep - mentioned at 00:38:09
- "Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World" by Robert Neuwirth - mentioned at 00:42:09
- "City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City" by Ian Lambot and Greg Girard - mentioned at 00:42:48
- Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff - 00:44:26
- The Devil's Candy by Julie Salamon - 00:47:02
- A Burglar's Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh - 00:49:01
- Beneath the Metropolis by Alex Marshall - 00:50:11
- Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook by CrimethInc - 00:34:52
- Cities Under Siege, a collection of essays - 00:53:26
-Ravenous Dusk and Radiant Dawn by Cody Goodfellow 00:59:35
- Andrea Malm's How to Blow Up a Pipeline (book) - mentioned at 01:05:12
- Storytelling Games:
- Microscope - 00:32:03
- Dialect - 00:32:52
- Other media
- TV show: "Day Five" (01:00:17)
- The Last Spell video game (00:24:14)
- Podcasts by Cool Zone Media: Behind the Bastards, It Could Happen Here, and Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff - 00:50:35
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline (movie) - mentioned at 01:06:01
- Impossible Landscapes (Delta Green campaign) - mentioned at 01:06:51
