The Walking Deck
Not another Zombies RPG By Lele Zivillica
about Badass people kicking zombies' asses!
It's the Apocalypse, baby!
Zombies everywhere and your
shelter is compromised: pick all the
food and ammo you can and begin
the journey to find a new Safe
Place. Will you achieve this?
Or will you die, out there?
What you need
1 6-sided die
a 42-card poker deck
(remove figures, keep jokers)
sheets of paper and material
for writing
yourself.
Set-Up
1. Take the first 3 cards of
Spades or Diamonds from the
deck-they are your Initial
Resources; you will hold them
until you have to use them. At
any point in the game you can
have a maximum of 5
Resources in your hand: if you
want to take a new one, you
will have to discard something.
2. Shuffle all the remaining cards
into a single face-down deck
on the table: this is the
Encounter Deck.
3. Decide if you want to do a
short session (6 places),
medium session (10 places),
long session (15+ places) and
mark it on a sheet to keep
track.
Character
Creation
Give a Badass Name to your
character (Ex: Jax Colt, Thora
Winslay, etc...) and if you
wish give him a minimum of
"background": just a few lines
to define the character, who
is, where from, how's
changed in the Apocalypse,
this help you interpret the
various scenes.
A Badass Solo Player RPG
Choose a Class:
Cracker (+3 to rolls against
zombies), Redeemer (+2 to rolls
against survivors), Scout (the
Squares cards you play have
value +1), Sniper (the Spades
cards you play have value +1)
Choose a Special Item for
your equipment: it can be
vehicles, bazookas or other
heavy weapons, gps or radio
instruments, materials for
making molotov cocktails,
compound bow or other
precision weapons, or
whatever you can think of.
Note what it is and what
ability it has. You can have a
maximum of 3 Special Items
during your adventure.
How to Play
The play sequence is as follows:
Discover the place
Fill in the place
Resolve the cards
Between cards and places, you
can interact with the world as
you see fit (see "The Oracle").
Discover the place
Roll twice on the Places Table:
once for the location and again
for the size.
Fill in the place
Depending on the size reveals
the right number of cards from
the Encounter Deck. When Filling
Places places place and resolve
the cards in the exact order of
suit: Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs,
Spades.
Cards of the same suit count as
one encounter, and the sum of
their values is the difficulty of the
encounter.
Spades (Ammo) and Diamonds
(Food) are the Resources that
will be spent during the course of
the game to resolve Hearts' and
Clubs' cards, respectively. The
value of each card is the amount
of resources it confers.
Resolve the cards
To Resolve Encounters of
Diamonds and Spades you can
simply pick them up and add
them to your hand (if you do not
already have 5 Resource cards,
otherwise you will have to
discard until you have 5).
For Clubs and Hearts, you must
roll a die; if you roll a 6 you can
roll it again and add the value to
the result. Add the bonus given
by your class and check the
score: it must be equal to or
greater than the difficulty of the
encounter, given by the sum of
the values of cards of the same
suit in the same place. If the die
is not enough you must play
Resources cards to reach that
score and solve that encounter.
Excess Resources are lost.
Hearts (Zombie Horde)
If the roll result does not meet or
exceed the difficulty of the
encounter, you must Empty the
Loaders: spend Spades cards to
rain down hell on the walking
corpses!
Clubs (More Survivors)
If the score of the roll neither
reaches nor exceeds the difficulty
of the encounter, you must Pay
the Toll: spend Diamonds cards
to trade your safety for some
food, or you can Make a
Slaughter: instead of Paying the
Toll, Empty the Chargers on
these pesky vermin who dare to
bar your way!

about Badass people kicking zombies' asses!
If you feel very good you can try
to Assimilate the group and
convince them to join your cause,
to do this add +1 to the die result
for each Special Item you possess
and, in case the die is not enough
Pay the Toll.
If successful, the group joins you:
put that card (or cards) of Clubs
in front of you and you can spend
each of this any time, as if it was
Spades or Diamonds card, for all
actions (feed them to the
zombies, have them join another
group to go ahead unhindered),
but beware: losing part of your
group is always immensely
painful, sad and tragic.
Remember. You cannot have
more than 3 cards this way.
The Walking Deck
Not another Zombies RPG By Lele Zivillica
A Badass Solo Player RPG
all cards of the right seed in your
possession and lose a Special
Object explaining how you use it
to get rid of the problem: e.g.
Launch a vehicle at full speed
against a Zombie Horde, or you
are forced to part with your
bazooka to Pay Toll to a group of
survivors...
With a little imagination any
object can allow you to overcome
any obstacle.
You cannot Assimilate the group
in this way.
In case you have no more Special
Objects, the Apocalypse has
claimed you!
Home at last!
Whenever the deck runs out and
you have not yet reached the last
place, shuffle the discards into a
new Encounter Deck.
Upon reaching the last place and
resolving the last encounters to
clean it up, you will have
concluded the adventure and are
finally safe...for now!
If some survivors earned from
Assimilate the group are still
with you, you can note them
down and start the next
adventure again with those
survivors in your group (mark the
value of the cards to remember).

Special Rules Places Table

Jokers
If a joker is hidden in the places,
you will encounter it as the last
Location Size
card. If you can solve all the
others, you will get a new
Special Object: describe what it
is and what effect it has, then
discard the joker.

You are such an Ace!

To beat the Ace of Hearts or Ace
of Clubs you must either get 6
with the die (not counting
bonuses, just the 6 on the die), or
discard the corresponding Ace, or
lose a Special Object. This rule
applies only when the Aces are
alone (there are no other cards of
the same suit as the Ace in the
encounters there).
Go for broke!
Sometimes you will find yourself
in the desperate case where you
can't solve the zombie hordes or
other survivors, in which case, to
Empty the Loaders, Make a
Slaughter or Pay the Toll, discard
Oracle
Sometimes you will find yourself
wanting to perform other actions
and go with the role-play toward
a more narrative direction.
In such cases you can use any
table or Oracle software, or the
following very simple table.
Feel free to adjust the result and
adapt it to the context of your
story.