ZOMBIES!!! – House Rules v0.
3
by Oriol V.
Game objective
- Get to the helicopter, and kill the zombie inside
to escape from the city.
Game setup
- Each player starts with 3 bullet counters and 3
life counters, and positions his/her character in the
central tile with the starting crossroads tile
- The max. number of life counters per player is 6,
the number of bullet counters is unlimited
- Select the desired number of terrain tiles for this
game, preferably half of the tiles should contain
named buildings
- Mix the helicopter with the last N terrain tiles,
where N determines the moment after which the
helicopter might start to appear
- Create a deck of event cards, and separate the
object cards, which can be found inside buildings.
(Preferably, create a deck with half 'good' and
'bad' events)
- The objects are reserved apart, these can be
obtained by entering the corresponding buildings
Example: you choose 20 terrain tiles, where there
are 10 named buildings and you mix the helicopter
with the last 5 tiles. You create a deck of 30 event
cards, 15 good and 15 bad. You reserve the
corresponding object cards that can be found
inside the 10 named buildings
Turn structure
1. Reveal next event card
2. Zombat in case that a player starts his/her
turn in a location with a zombie
3. Player movement. Alternatively you may
rest and heal (see 3b,c,d)
4. Zombie movement
1. Reveal event card
- The next event card from the draw pile is shown.
In case that this card targets anybody, the active
player chooses the objective immediately and
applies its effects. Alternatively, the active player
may keep this event card for later use. A player
may use an event card from his/her pool by
passing his/her next turn. It's allowed to have a
maximum of 1 event card in the pool.
- Once used, an event card is discarded
2. Zombat (combat with a zombie)
- Roll 1d6 and a result of:
• 6 / 5: Lethal sucess: the zombie dies. The
player adds the zombie figure to his/her
pool
• 4 / 3: Normal success: the zombie
survives, but the player displaces it one
position backwards (or sideways, when not
possible)
• 1 / 2: Miss: the zombie dodges the attack
and the player loses one life counter
- All the rolls can be rectified using bullet
counters. Each counter allows for a die result
modification up to +2
- Variant: a player must keep rolling until all the
zombies in the current location die, or are
displaced to adjacent positions
2b. Escape
- Before entering zombat, the player may choose
to move his/her character to an adjacent location
by losing one life counter
3. Player movement
- During the movement phase, a player may move
up to V+2 locations where V is his/her current
number of life counters. This number is
determined at the beginning of the phase and
cannot be modified during movement
- In case of coming across any zombie during
movement, a zombat is started, making one dice
roll for each zombie
- A player may only enter named buildings, these
can be accessed by any location depicting a door
or a window
- If a player finds any life or bullet counters,
he/she may pick them up directly, as long as
there is no zombie in that location
3b. Placing a terrain tile
- Whenever a player, during his/her movement,
reaches the edge of the current tile, new tiles are
revealed and placed following the line of sight of
his/her character (repeat until a corner tile is
placed). This player chooses the location of every
zombie and item to be placed in the current tile.
Each location is allowed to have a maximum of 1
life counter and 1 bullet counter
- Blocking streets is not allowed when placing
tiles. Whenever a tile cannot be placed in any legal
space, discard it and draw an additional one
- In case that all the entries of the map become
closed, and the helicopter tile has not yet been
placed, take the helicopter tile and replace it by
the starting crossroads tile
- Tiles with named buildings, show the total
number of zombies and items to be placed inside
the building. All the other tiles have a number of
zobmies to be placed equal to the number of
entries of the tile. The player who places the tile,
chooses the location of the zombies and items
- Whenever the helicopter tile is revealed, the
player with the highest number of zombies in
his/her pool, chooses and places the tile
- The helicopter tile is completely occupied by
zombies, with one zombie per location. The
central zombie is located inside the helicopter, he
is not allowed to exit the helicopter and it is
compulsory to kill it in order to escape
3c. Finding an object
- By entering any named building, a player can
automatically obtain an object card corresponding
to that building and play it under his/her control
(only in case that any objects of that building
remain available). Each player is allowed to carry
a maximum of 2 objects
3d. Rest and heal
- Any player may choose to skip his/her
movement phase during a turn, to rest and
recover 2 life counters
Object cards
- Once an object is put into play, it can be played
in any moment by executing its text
- Objects with limited uses, are discarded once
they exhaust to the discard pile
- Each player can have a maximum of 2 different
objects. A new object can be obtained by
discarding a previous one
Dying
- Whenever a player loses all his/her life counters,
he dies and reappears with 3 life counters, 3
bullet counters and no objects. To determine the
location where to reappear, the player rolls 2d6
and the results is the sum of both dice.
If the helicopter has not yet been placed, the player
displaces his/her character a number of positions
equal to the roll result in the direction of the
starting crossroads tile. Otherwise, the player
displaces his/her character in opposite direction to
the helicopter tile
- Whenever a player dies, all his/her bullet
counters are distributed on the tile where he/she
died. When dying inside a building, the counters
must be placed only inside the building. When
dying in the street, the counters must be placed
only on the street. This player chooses the
location of the bullets (only in this case, it is
allowed to place more than one item per location,
if there's no other option)

4. Zombie movement
- To determine how many zombies are moving
this turn, roll 2d6 and choose the result of the
highest roll
- Zombies only move 1 space each time and
always in the direction of the closest characters.
The active player chooses which zombies to move
- Each space of every terrain tile can be occupied
by a maximum of 2 zombies in any moment.
However, there might be any number of player
characters in a single position
- Zombies may only enter or leave named
buildings in the same way as players
- It is not allowed to move the zombie inside the
helicopter