Z.E.E - Draft Rules

the same player from game to game, or rotated on and off, based on the other players gaming experience.

ZOMBIE EXPERIMENTAL EXERCISE - Z.E.E.

In addition to heroes and zombies, there are also survivors and mercenaries. In multi chapter games, the roll of the survivors is to grant experience to the heroes for saving them. The mercenaries, however, are meant to thwart, if not downright attack the heroes and attempt to take their supplies and sometimes kidnap female players.

By Zachary Parkes The zombie apocalypse is a particular scenario of apocalyptic fiction that customarily has a science fiction/horror rationale. In a zombie apocalypse, a widespread (usually global) rise of zombies hostile to human life engages in a general assault on civilization. Victims of zombies may become zombies themselves. This causes the outbreak to become an exponentially growing crisis: the spreading "zombie plague/virus" swamps normal military and law enforcement organizations, leading to the panicked collapse of civilian society until only isolated pockets of survivors remain, scavenging for food and supplies in a world reduced to a pre-industrial hostile wilderness. ~wikipedia

GAMEPLAY BREAKDOWN Each game round is split into two turns, the directors turn (zombies, mercenaries, survivors) and the Heroes turns (the other players). During the director’s turn, the director get’s to move any zombies, mercenaries or survivors on the board, and possibly introduce new ones.

During the heroes turn, each hero may take a defensive action (move, defend or scavenge) and take an offensive action (attack, assist another player, medicate, or persuade an NPC). During play, it is encouraged that all players get into the theme of the game and be descriptive about their actions to add a flowing story to the game. Example: instead of just saying I attack the zombie, a player could instead state that they eye the fierce beast down, level there shotgun at it’s frail and shambling body to eradicate one less scourge from the wasteland.

GAME OVERVIEW The Zombie Experimental Exercise, or ZEE for short, is a tactical/role playing board game about survival in the horrific aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. The game focuses on the players (heroes) attempting to survive against the onslaught of the walking dead/infected.

The game itself is broken into chapters, which can later be altered for vast replay ability.

Depending on the mode of play, games can be quick one night affairs, or long drawn out epics of survival and overcoming adversity spanning many evenings. The game itself is modeled after the board game hero’s quest, and the popular video game Left 4 Dead. While unique in it’s own rules, it borrows heavily from these two games for mechanics and flavor.

GAME CONTENTS  1 Rule book  1 framed sheet metal playing board (16x20), holds 4 chapter boards at a time.  Chapter maps(8x10)  4 Urban Road boards  4 Country Road boards  4 Open Highway boards  4 Under city boards (no roads)*  4 wilderness boards (no roads)*  4 wasteland boards (no roads)* *optional chapters  12 Unique hero figure cutouts

During play, one player will take the roll of the director. The director controls the actions of all non player combatants, and is responsible for setting up the board and resolving any in game conflicts. The roll of the director can be played by

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 6 male  6 female 36 Zombie figure cutouts  30 standard Zombies  6 special zombies 12 unique NPC figure cutouts  6 mercenaries  6 survivors 54 Standard playing cards(including jokers) used in search/scavenging.

Standard set of poker chips  Red(wound markers)  Green(food markers)  White(first aid markers)  Black(fuel markers)  Yellow(Ammunition Markers) Magnetic Room tiles (2x2)  6 Residential tiles (red)  6 Commercial tiles (blue)  6 Industrial tiles (yellow) Magnetic Building tiles (various sizes)  1 Bar  2 stores  4 warehouse  2 residential homes  1 gas station  1 bomb shelter Magnetic Encounter tiles (4x4)  1 Car Wreck  1 Megaton  1 Supply Drop  1 Military checkpoint Magnetic Object tiles (various sizes)  6 Vehicles  6 Trees  6 Rocks  6 Rubble Piles Item cards (3x4)  12 Weapon cards  12 Special Item Cards  12 dice

ZEE can be played with 3-6 players. There is always at least 2 Heroes and 1 Zombie player.

There is always just 1 zombie player to start off, who resolves actions and sets up the board. Usually the person with the most experience playing the game takes on the role of the director. Later on in the game, other players can be forced into the role of assisting the director, if their hero dies during play.

WOUND CHIPS Several Red Poker chips are included to keep track of damage inflicted to heroes. Each time a heroes is damaged they receive that many wound chips. If their wound chips = their current hit points, then the hero is subdued and cannot move, but may still use a handgun to defend themselves.

Another hero must help the subdued hero up. This takes 1 round of play.

If a hero has more wound chips then they have hit points, the character is dead. In 1d6 rounds that player will rise as a Zombie. The Hero player has the option of waiting for his hero to rise, or at the end of the 1d6 rounds, may opt to start a new hero character at the initial starting point of the map.

SCAVENGING CHIPS During play, heroes will be searching for supplies to aid them on their journey. They include Ammunition, Fuel, First Aid, Scavenged parts and Sustenance chips. These are described in further details in chapter 4: equipment.

DICE ZEE uses a set of standard twelve 6 sided dice. Ones with dots are preferred, but numerical will also suffice. To keep with a fun, competitive game, ZEE utilizes a system where players will pair of against one another in numerous roll offs. The dice are used to resolve ability, attack, defense and skill checks.

All checks in game come in three difficulty or skill levels. easy/poor(1d6), medium/normal (2d6) and hard/gifted(3d6). While each differs slightly in their uses, there are a few rules that are universal when making checks. Checks utilize the explosion rules of dice rolling. When rolling multiple dice, always disregard rolls of 1 when adding totals, and reroll and add any roles of 6 to your total. In combat situations, rolls of all 1s indicate something bad happens, and rolls of all 6 indicate a critical.

3 weapons and deal +1 additional die when wielding melee weapons.

CHAPTER 1 - HERO ABILITIES

Reflexes (REF): Determines how fast you are, your ability to get out of the way of things, and your ability to hit with firearms. Add your ref modifier to a base of 6 to determine how many squares you can move in a round. When being attacked, add your ref modifier to your pool of defensive dice. When attacking with ranged weapons add your ref modifier to your offensive dice pool.

Every combatant has three basic Ability Scores, which define how well they interact in this board game world. The abilities are used to modify attack and skills rolls, as well as establish certain physical and mental quantitative information about each combatant. Those abilities are: Ability Strength Reflexes Intellect

Abv. STR REF INT

Table 1-0 Melee modifier, hp, # of chips, # weapons Range modifier, defense, movement # of skills, # of companions,

The Score of these Abilities ranges from 0 to 3. It is possible for a creature to have a score of "none". A score of "none" is not the same as a score of "0". A score of "none" means that the creature does not possess the ability at all. The modifier for a score of "none" is +0.

example: a person with a 1 in ref adds their modifier of -1 to 6 for a 5 in movement, rolls one less defensive die when being attacked(you can never roll less than 1 die when being attacked) and rolls one less die when using a ranged weapon. While a person with a 3 in ref adds +1 to the base of 6 for a total of 7 movement points and adds an additional die to both defensive and ranged attack rolls.

When making ability checks, the following are the rules for each of the 3 types of non zero skills.

Intellect (INT): Determines how many skill points you have, how many NPC's you can control at any given time and

Level 1 2 3

Table 1-1 Indicates poor ability, has a modifier of -1 for skills, and only rolls a single d6 for checks.

Indicate normal ability, has a 0 modifier for skills, and rolls 2d6 for checks.

Indicates superior ability, has a modifier of +1 for skills, and rolls 3d6 for checks.

Strength (STR): Determines how strong you are, how much damage you do with melee weapons, how many hit points you . Multiply your STR skill by 6 to determine how many scavenging chips you can have on your person while traveling.

Multiply your STR skill by 2 to determine how many hit points you have. Also your STR skill is the number of weapons you can have on your person at any given time. example: a person with a 1 in STR has 2 hit points, can carry 6 scavenger chips, hold 1 weapon and rolls one less die when making melee attacks(you can never roll less than one die when making an attack), While a person with a 3 in STR has 6 hit points, can carry 18 scavenger chips, carry

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CHAPTER 2 - HERO TEMPLATES Hero templates are premade characters for use in the ZEE game world. They represent the various walks of life one would encounter right up to the disaster. Each has various pros and cons, and some are much more equipped to handle the monstrosities of the post apocalyptic landscape.

CITY FOLK Celebrity: A celebrity is anyone who, for whatever reason, has been thrust into the spotlight of the public eye. Actors, entertainers of all types, newscasters, radio and television personalities, and more fall under this starting occupation.

Starting Gear: pistol 9mm, leather Jacket Creative: The creative starting occupation covers artists of all types who fan their creative spark into a career. Illustrators, copywriters, cartoonists, graphic artists, novelists, magazine columnists, actors, sculptors, game designers, musicians, screenwriters, photographers, and web designers all fall under this occupation.

Starting Gear: pistol 9mm, leather Jacket Entrepreneur: Entrepreneurs have an obsession about being their own boss. They believe in themselves, have an abundance of confidence, and the ability to acquire the funds necessary to bankroll their newest moneymaking venture.

These small to large business owners have a knack for putting together business plans, gathering resources, and getting a new venture off the ground. They rarely want to stick around after the launch, however, as they prefer to put their energies into the next big thing.

Starting Gear: pistol 9mm, leather Jacket Doctor: A doctor can be a physician (general practitioner or specialist), a surgeon, or a psychiatrist.

Starting Gear: machete, leather Jacket Dilettante: Dilettantes usually get their wealth from family holdings and trust funds. The typical dilettante has no job, few responsibilities, and at least one driving passion that occupies his or her day. That passion might be a charity or philanthropic foundation, an ideal or cause worth

fighting for, or a lust for living a fun and carefree existence.

Starting Gear: Crossbow(bolts), Leather Jacket Investigative: There are a number of jobs that fit within this occupation, including investigative reporters, photojournalists, private investigators, police detectives, criminologists, criminal profilers, espionage agents, and others who use their skills to gather evidence and analyze clues.

Starting Gear: pistol 9mm, civilian clothes

SUBURBANITES Academic: Academics include librarians, archaeologists, scholars, professors, teachers, and other education professionals.

Starting Gear: pistol 9mm, Leather Jacket Athlete: Athletes include amateur athletes of Olympic quality and professional athletes of all types, including gymnasts, weight trainers, wrestlers, boxers, martial artists, swimmers, skaters, and those who engage in any type of competitive sport.

Starting Gear: Bare Fists, Civilian clothing Emergency Services: Rescue workers, firefighters, paramedics, hazardous material handlers, and emergency medical technicians fall under this category.

Starting Gear: tire Iron, mag lite, civilian clothes Student: A student can be in high school, college, or graduate school. He or she could be in a seminary, a military school, or a private institution.

A college-age student should also pick a major field of study.

Starting Gear: pistol 9mm, mag lite, civilian clothes Technician: Scientists and engineers of all types fit within the scope of this starting occupation.

Starting Gear: pistol 9mm, mag lite, civilian clothes

Hero Templates Rand

template

STR

REF

INT

Survival

First Aid

Repair

Table 2-0

Empathy

Sneak

Lockpick

HP

Mov.

Special

x2skill, -1 ability

City Folk(1) 1

Celebrity

1(-1)

1(-1)

3(+1)

0

0

0

3

3

0

2

5

2

Creative

1(-1)

2(+0)

3(+1)

0

1

1

1

0

0

4

6

3

Entrepreneur

1(-1)

1(-1)

3(+1)

2

0

2

2

0

0

2

5

4

Doctor

1(-1)

2(+0)

3(+1)

0

3

0

0

0

0

2

6

5

Dilettante

1(-1)

2(+0)

3(+1)

0

0

0

3

0

0

4

6

6

Investigative

1(+0)

3(+1)

2(+0)

0

0

0

0

1

1

2

7

1

Academic

1(-1)

1(-1)

3(+1)

1

1

1

1

2

5

x2skill, -1 ability

Suburbanites(2) 1

1

x2skill, -1 ability

2

Athlete

3(+1)

3(+1)

1(-1)

0

0

0

0

0

0

6

7

No Useable Skill

3

Emergency Services

2(+0)

2(+0)

2(+0)

0

2

0

2

0

0

4

6

x2skill, no ability

4

Student

2(+0)

2(+0)

2(+0)

1

0

0

1

1

1

4

6

x2skill, no ability

5

Technician

1(-1)

2(+0)

3(+1)

0

1

3

0

0

0

2

6

6

White Collar

2(+0)

2(+0)

3(+1)

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

6

No Useable Skill

1

Apothecary

1(-1)

1(-1)

3(+1)

2

2

0

2

0

0

2

5

x2skill, -1 ability

2

Blue Collar

2(+0)

2(+0)

2(+0)

0

0

2

0

0

2

4

6

x2skill, no ability

3

Law Enforcement

2(+0)

3(+1)

1(-1)

0

0

0

1

0

0

4

7

4

Military

2(+0)

3(+1)

1(-1)

1

0

0

0

0

0

4

7

Country Folk(3-4)

5

Religious

1(-1)

1(-1)

3(+1)

1

1

0

3

1

0

2

5

6

Rural

3(+0)

1(-1)

2(+0)

1

0

1

0

0

0

6

5

x2skill, -1 ability

Fringes of Society(5-6) 1

Adventurer

2(+0)

1(-1)

3(+1)

1

0

1

0

0

1

4

5

2

Criminal

1(-1)

3(+1)

1(-1)

0

0

0

0

1

1

2

7

3

Drifter

2(+0)

3(+0)

1(-1)

0

0

0

0

1

0

4

6

4

Outcast

2(+0)

2(+0)

2(+0)

1

1

0

0

1

1

4

6

x2skill, no ability

5

Psychic

1(-1)

1(-1)

3(+1)

3

1

0

3

1

1

2

5

x3skill, -2 ability

6

Scavenger

1(-1)

3(+1)

2(+0)

0

2

2

0

0

1

4

7

x2skill, -1 ability

*Special abilities are just for flavor, in nearly all instances, they denote double skills due to bad abilities.

White Collar: Office workers and desk jockeys, lawyers, accountants, insurance agents,

bank personnel, financial advisors, tax preparers, clerks, sales personnel, real estate agents, and a 5

variety of mid-level managers fall within the scope of this occupation Starting Gear: pistol 9mm, mag lite, Leather Jacket COUNTRY FOLK Apothecary: Apothecaries are people who study the science of mixing chemicals, elements, and naturally occurring materials together for

predictable results. They often go on to be research scientists, inventors, pharmacists, or alchemists.

Starting Gear: Molotov cocktail x4, Civilian clothes Blue Collar: Blue collar occupations include factory work, food service jobs, construction, service industry jobs, taxi drivers, postal workers, and other jobs that are usually not considered to be desk jobs.

Starting Gear: Pistol 9mm, Tire Iron, Civilian clothes Law Enforcement: Law enforcement personnel include uniformed police, state troopers, federal police, federal agents, SWAT team members, and military police.

Starting Gear: Handgun(.45 cal), Mag lite, Kevlar Vest Military: Military covers any of the branches of the armed forces, including army, navy, air force, and marines, as well as the various elite training units such as Seals, Rangers, and Special Forces.

Starting Gear: M16, Combat Armor Religious: Ordained clergy of all persuasions, as well as theological scholars and experts on religious studies fall within the scope of this starting occupation. religious studies fall within the scope of this starting occupation.

Starting Gear: Shovel, Civilian clothes Rural: Farm workers, hunters, and others who make a living in rural communities fall under this category.

Starting Gear: Handgun(.45 cal), Wrench, Civilian clothes

THE FRINGE OF SOCIETY Adventurer: Adventurers include professional daredevils, big-game hunters, relic

hunters, explorers, extreme sports enthusiasts, field scientists, thrill-seekers, and others called to face danger for a variety of reasons.

Starting Gear: Hunting Bow, machete, Leather Jacket Criminal: This illicit starting occupation reveals a background from the wrong side of the law. This occupation includes con artists, burglars, thieves, crime family soldiers, gang members, bank robbers, and other types of career criminals.

Starting Gear: Pistol 9mm, Civilian clothes Drifter: Drifters are aimless wanderers and world wise jacks-of-all-trades who move between cities or star systems, working odd jobs until boredom or fate leads them elsewhere. Along the way, they learn strange customs and pick up interesting and diverse skills.

Starting Gear: Pistol 9mm, Mag lite, Civilian clothes Outcast: “Outcast” is not so much an occupation as a forced way of life. Persecuted and exiled for being different, outcasts are lone pariahs or shunned members of a culture whose customs or characteristics society finds deviant or abhorrent. Outcasts lurk on the fringes of civilization. Some strive for acceptance, while others are trapped by their own feelings of resentment, self-loathing, or hopelessness.

Starting Gear: Pistol 9mm, Mag lite, Civilian clothes Psychic: Psychics are con-artists looking to make a buck off those gullible enough to believe their ruses.

Starting Gear: Fire Mans Axe, Civilian clothes Scavenger: Scavengers turn society’s wreckage and discarded trash into useful tools or items for trade, and if they’re lucky, their endeavors might even yield one or two objects of special value. They effortlessly navigate and strip clean the most treacherous places, and their playgrounds are abandoned space stations, gutted buildings, and smoking battlefields.

Starting Gear: ChainSaw, Leather Jacket

*untrained - Allows use of first aid chip on successful check of 6 or higher (failed check wastes the medical chip).

1. Gain twice as many hp from first aid chip 2. Can heal 1 hp after combat w/o using a chip 3. Can perform surgery (allowing amputation of a limb if infected by a bite.)

Failure: Lose First aid chip.

Material: First aid chips.

CHAPTER 3 - HERO SKILLS Skills are used to negotiate non combat situations, and allow the heroes to perform various skills to help them in their quest to survive. When making a skill check, the director will either roll against the hero, or he may direct another player to roll for him. He will state the difficulty of the task being attempted as easy, medium or hard. Each being a die the hero must defeat with his or her skill dice. During a tie, the defender wins, and the attacker loses against that die.

Lock Pick (LP/REF): In the wasteland of the world, many treasures remain locked away that could be put to better use by those with the nimble fingers to procure them. Using the lock pick skill allows you open locked boxes and doors found in the game. You gain the following abilities at each level of this skill. *trained only 1. You may attempt to pick a lock with a scavenged part as a lock pick (if successful, you do not lose the scavenged part).

2. You get one retry when attempting to pick a lock w/o losing your scavenged part chip. If you fail the second time, the part is lost.

3. You can make locks from scavenged parts. Two parts for a simple lock, 3 parts for a normal lock and 4 parts for a difficult lock.

Failure: Lose scavenged part chip.

Material: Scavenged part chips.

Each skill is broken into three levels of aptitude, with some have an untrained ability as well. If a skill is untrained, then both it and level one skill ability both roll a single die when making checks. However the level one skill ability will have a less nerfed ability that makes it more useful than being untrained. Trained only skills, cannot be used w/o at least 1 level in the skill.

Each skill has an ability associated with it.

Add your abilities modifier to the your dice pool when making skill checks. If you have a negative modifier, and only a single level of training, or are untrained, you may still attempt to use the skill, but do so at a -1 to actual die roll. Thus you would be rolling Random Skill difficulty chart

Repair (RP/INT): Without a hard ware store available to constantly purchase new equipment and tools, the repair skill is vital to surviving in the post apocalyptic world. While traveling through the wastelands, heroes may encounter disabled, yet still functional pieces of equipment or vehicles. When they do, the director will determine the difficulty to repair the item. The more difficult the challenge, the more scavenged part chips are needed to fix it. If a hero fails a repair check they lose a scavenged part chip. If they have more, they can try again. *trained only 1. You can spend 1 chip to repair a damaged weapon. Weapons become damaged on a set of

Table 3-0

Roll

Challenge Cost

1-3

Easy *1 chip

Check 1d6

4-5

Medium *2 chips

2d6

6

Hard *3 chips

3d6

First Aid (FA/INT) First aid is the ability to heal damage from physical damage. First aid cannot heal sustenance damage, as that requires sustenance to end the starvation effects from lack of food and water. You gain the following abilities at each level of this skill.

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snake eyes, and require repairing before they can be used again.

2. You can use 2 chips to repair a suit of armor which has been damaged. Armor is reduced a point of defense every time it is successfully critted upon.

3. You can use 3 chips to repair a damaged vehicle. The vehicle will still require fuel to function.

Failure: Lose 1 scavenged part chip.

Material: Scavenged part chips.

Sneak (SK/REF): Sneak allows you to move silently in the shadows without being seen or heard by an adversary. When you are sneaking you move at half the number of your movement squares, rounded down. To determine if you are detected, roll against the observers sneak skill. If you win, then you are undetected. You must make your sneak skill each time you do any action other then move at the limited movement rate your skill provides. Making an attack always requires a new sneak check. If there are many opponents within observing distance, then just use whomever’s sneak skill is highest to determine if you are spotted or not.

When sneaking at night or unlit areas you get a +1 to each die roll, and vice versa the opponent gets a -1 to their observation roll (sneaking at night is easy). If you fail a sneak check against an opponent, then you are spotted. While sneaking, if you wish to make a sneak attack against an opponent, then you get a stackable +1 to each of your attack dice. If using a firearm, this bonus is only applicable to the first attack. If using a melee weapon, then you must make another sneak check to remain hidden.

Lastly, sneak can be used to construct disguises. By spending scavenged parts, one creates absurdly bad, or rather convincing disguises to fool an adversary. Note: If attempting to disguise oneself as a zombie, then replace scavenged parts with that of a dead zombie. The more guts used, the more convincing the disguise.

Note: That movement rate is the same as sneaking, to keep the disguise together.

You receive the following benefits from sneaking at each skill level: *untrained: Roll 1d6-1 against your opponents sneak modifier, move at half your movement rate if successful to remain hidden.

1. Move at 2/3rds your normal movement rate while sneaking. Spend 1 scavenged part to assume a poor disguise.

2. Move at 3/4th your normal movement rate while sneaking. Spend 2 scavenged parts to assume a normal disguise.

3. Move at full movement rate while sneaking.

Spend 3 scavenged parts to assume a convincing disguise.

Failure: You are spotted, and hostile opponents will immediately converge on you.

Material: If attempting to create a disguise, scavenged parts are used to dupe a human, while dead zombies are used to dupe another zombie. *note: to use zombie parts, a bladed weapon must be handy for use in dismemberment.

Speech (SP/REF): The speech skill is used to convert neutral and hostile humans to your side of an argument. It is also used to convince Non player characters to do, or not do an action desired by the director. Think of your speech skill as the charisma your hero has in convincing other people what they should do.

The speech skill usually requires 2 or more rounds to be effective, thus it is usually not useful during combat. To be effective the target needs to be within earshot of the hero using their speech skill. Like the other skills, speech is opposed by speech. Thus when using it, your target would defend against your speech using their own speech skill in defense.

If it is desired to use speech against multiple targets, then each target must make an opposed speech check.

The main use of Speech is in controlling NPC characters. During a heroes travels they will encounter both neutral and hostile NPC’s. By using your speech skill to attract the NPC, you can effectively charm a survivor into helping, and even joining your team.

Demeanors Hostile Angered Neutral Helpful Friendly

Behavior Attack on site Willing to attack, but may flee.

Will flee if pressed.

Willing to trade chips Willing to join group if desired.

Table 3-1 Rand 1 2 3-4 5 6

*Untrained: On successful check, can sway NPC one rank in demeanor.

1. You get 1 retry to improve an NPC’s demeanor w/o them dropping a rank.

2. You improve an NPC’s demeanor by 2 ranks instead of 1 if successful.

3. You can use speech during combat to enter negotiations and end the combat.

Failure: Instead of improving an NPC’s demeanor, it instead worsened by 1 rank.

Material: Spending a sustenance or first aid chip grants a +1 to each die rolled.

1 for her survival skill+1d6 for her +1 intellect bonus. against the directors 2d6 for the room being a medium challenge. The director rolls a 2 and a 3.

Carla gets a 4-1=3 and a 5-1=4. Three and Four defeat the Three and Two. Carla has defeated the director twice. Because she has no survival skill, the director must draw for her. He draws a 3 of hearts and a jack of spades. She has found a first aid chip and a zombie child in the room. Because the director pulled the cards, Carla doesn't know that the child is a zombie.

The director states that there is a first aid kit on the dresser, and a child facing the corner in the room. This creates an aura of unpredictability.

Since the heroes are unaware if the child is infected or not, they must expose themselves to the threat instead of acting immediately. Since this could be a survivor it Carla would likely attempt to use her speech skill to improve the demeanor of the child.

Once she attempts this, the child will attack her. In situations like this, let the players make the first move, as just having the child attack right away, would lessen the ambiguity if they should shoot or not.

Had Carla had 1 skill point in survival instead of none, she would have been the one who drew the cards, and would have been alerted to what the cards meant, and thus could attack immediately, because she knows the child is a zombie.

Had she had a 3 in survival, she would have drawn both the heart, and the spade, and could have discarded the zombie child for just the first aid chip. *See Table 5-0 for the survival card chart of possible discoveries.

Failure: You find nothing if attempting a search, and you lose both of your components if attempting to create a new chip.

Material: See the below chart for which chips can be crafted into other chips.

Survival (SU/INT): Survival is probably the most important skill in this game. It determines each hero’s ability to find food/water while traveling between chapters. The survival skill is used for searching and scavenging new rooms and objects. Whenever a hero enters a new area or room, the director determines how difficult it is to find scavenge something. Rolling randomly, the following determines the difficulty in scavenging: 1-3 easy (1d6), 4-5 normal(2d6) and 6 hard(3d6).

Now if a hero is successful in overcoming the survival challenge, they get that many survival cards. Survival can also be used to combine various scavenged chips into other items, depending on skill level. *Untrained: Anyone may attempt to survive. Those who are unskilled roll a single d6 with a -1 modifier on all survival checks. If successful, the director draws the survival card, and may act on it accordingly.

1. You can go 1 extra day w/o suffering sustenance dmg when out of food. You get to draw your survival card instead of the director.

This grants you the bonus of knowing what you've encountered.

2. You can go 2 extra days w/o suffering sustenance dmg when out of food. You may drop an undesirable survival card and take the next one. instead. You have to play this second card.

3. You can go 3 extra day w/o suffering sustenance dmg when out of food, Take two cards instead of one. Play the more desirable one., and discard the other one. . example: Carla the white collar enters a new room.

The director rolls a 1d6 and gets a 4. This is a medium challenge survival room. Carla has a 3 in intellect(+1) and no survival skill(0). She rolls 1d6-

Chips First Aid (FA) Ammunition (AM) Scavenged Parts (SP) Fuel (FL)

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Recipe 1SU+1SP 1FA+1SP 1AM+1FL 1FA+1SU

Table 3-2 Lv1 Lv2 Lv2 Lv3

CHAPTER 4 - EQUIPMENT Excluding the scavenged chips that heroes will find throughout their journeys, specific items can also be found. These items are split into four categories. Those categories are: Armor, Weapons, Tools and general.

ARMOR

Armor Name Naked* Civilian Clothes** Leather Jacket Sports Equipment Kevlar Vest Swat Armor Military Combat Armor Helmet* Riot Shield**

Defense 1d6 0 1d6 2d6 3d6 4d6 5d6 +1 +1d6

Table 4-0 Mov. +1 +0 +0 -1 -1 -2 -2 +0 -1

*Adds a +1 to the defenders defense dice at the expense of a -1 to search checks using your survival skill. ** The Riot shield Defense bonus is stackable with the defenders base defense die.

Naked: As the day you were born. While not the most stylish or protective against the elements, Being naked does have a few advantages.

Nothing to really grab onto, and you can move around with allot more ease.

Civilian Clothes: These are your run of the mill day to day clothing that everyone wore before the collapse.

Armor is described by a number of statistics, as shown on Table: 4-0. Armor is how our heroes defend themselves. However, armor's defensive bonus's sometimes come at a price of a reduced movement rate.

Defense: This is the number of dice used when you are attacked. Add your reflex modifier to whatever armor you are wearing.

Movement: This is the modifier to your base number of tiles you can move. If you're naked you can move faster than if you are wearing Combat armor.

Leather Jacket: The trusty leather jacket.

Their is a reason bikers always wore a set of these, because they allowed for a limited form of protection, yet didn't impede ones movement.

Sports Equipment: Football pads, cups, knee pads, dirt bike vests, when combined these provide a decent form of protection against attacks.

Kevlar Vest: This is your standard bullet proof vest.

Swat Armor: This is your standard swat gear outfit.

Riot Shield: This is your standard Plexiglas riot shield. It adds an extra defense die to any outfit worn. It cannot be used with two handed weapons.

Military Combat Armor: This is the most protective outfit anyone can wear.

SCAVENGER CHIPS

Helmet: A protective helmet can be worn with any outfit. It doesn't add any dice to ones defensive rolls, but instead provides a +1 to all defensive rolls. However that extra protection comes at a price. All survival checks come at a -1 to all rolls.

Ammunition chips(yellow): Ammunition chips are used to keep track of reloads for firearms.

They don't' represent a specific amount or type of ammo, but instead represent how many times a hero must burn a turn to reload their firearm.

Every time a hero roles a 1 when using a firearm, it consumes an ammunition chip to reload the

weapon. Even though some weapons are expected to be single shot, or multi round magazines, it is expected that a hero is reloading their weapon during movement, and when a 1 has occurred, must waste a turn to find the extra ammunition they have on them.

Damage(Dmg): This number is the number of dice rolled when making an attack. All combatants need to add the appropriate ability modifier to their DMG rolls. Melee weapons, listed with a range of 1, add their strength modifier to their DMG. Ranged weapons, those having a range greater than one, add their Reflex modifier. If the weapon DMG is 1, and the combatant has a negative modifier, they still get to roll. They just roll 1d6-1.

Fuel chips (brown): Each fuel chip represent 1 container of fuel. Fuel is used to start vehicles, and as components for explosives and powering the chain saw.

Range(Rng): This number is the weapons threat range. Weapons listed with a range of 1 are melee weapons, and can only attack the squares next to them. Those with a range greater than 1 can attack that number of tiles away, within the heroes line of sight.

First Aid chips (white): Each of these chips represents a first aid item. Any hero may use a medicine chip to remove a wound chip. Those with first aid skill multiply the effectiveness of medicine chips by two.

Two Handed Weapon(Thw): This indicates if the weapon is single handed or not. If it says no, then the combatant may wield another item in their off hand. This could be a shield, tool or another one handed weapon. A note about dual wielding single handed weapons. If a combatant wishes to wield a weapon in each hand, they

Scavenged parts chips (black): These chips are used for crafting items in between chapters while in a safe zone. The repair and first aid skills allow heroes to create and repair beneficial items within the game, and may sometimes be required as completion objectives for certain scenarios.

# Attacks(Atk): This indicates how many times per turn the weapon may be used. If a weapon allows more than one attack, you can attack the same target, or a different target within range.

Sustenance chips (blue or green): Each of these chips represents a day of Food and water.

In between each chapter 1d6 days pass until a new chapter is started. If a hero wishes to start the next chapter with full health, they must consume 1 chip per day to stay at full. For each day a hero lacks a sustenance chip, deduct 1 hit point from their total health due to starvation (sustenance damage). If the hero reaches only 1 health, reduce their movement by half, apply a -1 to all attacks, and melee damaging attacks. The hero can remain in this state for a number of days equal to their prowess score.

WEAPONS Weapons are how you defend yourself from adversaries in the game of Zee. You can find better weapons by defeating foes, or through just randomly finding them. Weapons are described by a number of statistics, as shown on Table: Weapons.

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** May attack any 2 targets within line of site. ^ Denotes a firearm. Firearms consume ammunition. On a roll of snake eyes, you consume an ammunition chip. If you are out of Ammunition, and have no other weapon, you may wield your two handed firearm as a club, and deal the same damage as the tire iron, single handed firearms are no better then your fists.

MELEE WEAPONS Unarmed: When you are unarmed, the only weapons you have are your own two hands.

While they may not do much damage, you do have two of them, so use them wisely.

Tire iron: Your good old standard tire iron.

Good for changing a tire, and also cracking someone’s skull open. The Tire Iron is the standard go to weapon, and other items in the game, when found, can be wielded like the tire iron. The tire iron can be wielded in one hand and gets a single attack.

Weapons Rnd

Name

Table 4-0 Thw #Atk

Dmg Rng Melee(1-3) 1 Unarmed~ $ 1d6 1 no 2 2 Tire iron$ 2d6 1 no 1 3 Machete$ 3d6 1 no 1 4 Fireman’s Axe$ 4d6 2 yes 1 5 Samurai Sword$ 5d6 2 yes 1 6 Hunting Bow(Arrow) 3d6 6 yes 1 Tools(4) 1 Mag Light $T 1d6 1 No 1 2 Monkey Wrench $T 1d6 1 No 1 3 Hammer $T 1d6 1 No 1 4 Shovel $T 2d6 2 yes 1 5 Sledge Hammer 3d6 2 yes 1 6 Chain Saw* 2d6 2 yes 2 Firearms(5) 1 Crossbow(bolts)$ 3d6 6 yes 1 2 Pistol (9mm) 2d6 6 no 1 3 Handgun (.45 cal) 3d6 9 no 1 4 Shotgun (10 gauge) 5d6 5 yes 1 5 Hunting rifle (.308) 4d6 16 yes 1 6 M16 (.762mm)** 3d6 9 yes 2 Explosives(6) 1 Smoke Bomb F 0 6 yes 6 2 Molotov Cocktail F 3d6 6 yes 3 3 Fuel Bomb F 4d6 2 yes 4 4 Pipe Bomb F 5d6 4 yes 5 Grenade 5d6 6 yes 6 T.N.T. F 6d6 4 yes ~ Your own two hands. You may attack the same, or any 2 targets directly up to 1 tile around you. * On a role of snake eyes consumes one unit of fuel. You may attack same target twice, or two adjacent targets. $ Stealth weapon, Characters may make a stealth check with this weapon to kill silently. A successful sneak check against th target grants double dmg dice.

Fireman’s Axe: A bladed weapon, the fireman’s axe is not only useful for chopping down burning doors, but also for lopping off zombie heads. The Fireman's Axe is a two handed weapon.

The Fireman's axe can be used in place of an open lock check for purposes of opening locked doors.

Samurai Sword: A bladed weapon, the Samurai sword is the most powerful melee weapon in the game. It is a two handed weapon.

Chain Saw: The chain saw requires 1 unit of fuel to use. If you roll double snake eyes then it has run out of fuel and you need to refuel it. If you have no fuel, you can still wield the chain saw, but you only get one attack instead of two.

FIREARMS Crossbow(bolts): The crossbow is a deadly silent weapon. Unlike normal firearms, the crossbow can use an ammunition chip or a scavenged parts chip when a double snake eyes is rolled.

Pistol(9mm): This is your standard cop side arm. It is one handed. Without ammunition this weapon is no better than your fists.

Handgun (.45 cal): The same caliber used by your old west cowboys. The .45 cal handgun is

the strongest single handed weapon a hero can wield. Without ammunition this weapon is no better than your fists.

Fuel Bomb

Shotgun (10 Gauge): The shotgun is the strongest firearm in the game. Its only drawback is it's extremely limited range.

Frag Grenade

Pipe Bomb

T.N.T.

Hunting Rifle(.308 cal): This your standard hunting rifle. It has a scope and a stock, and occasionally comes with a thing that tells time.

It has the longest range in the game. Targets must be within the line of site of the target.

M16(.762mm): This is your standard military issue M16 assault rifle. You can attack any two targets in your line of site with this weapon.

TOOLS Mag Light: The maglight is a flashlight that doubles as a police button. It is often wielded in combination with either the pistol or a machete.

The Maglight provides no penalty to it's wielder when attacking at night to within 6 tiles.

Monkey Wrench: The monkey Wrench provides a +1 to your repair skill when working with vehicles. It can also be swung at someone's head.

Hammer: The Hammer allows the construction of defensive structures such as boarding up gaps in defenses. Once per round a hero can spend 1 scavenged parts chip to add 1 hp to a window, wall or door.

Shovel: The shovel allows you to dig, which can be used in the creation of pits and sand bag walls. Its also useful for burying loved ones.

Sledge Hammer Chain Saw: EXPLOSIVES Smoke Bomb Molotov Cocktail

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CHAPTER 5 - COMBAT

that grants him a +1 to melee attacks. The crowbar has an attack value of 2. So with the +1 from STR and the value of 2, Ronnie has an attack value of 3.

Thus he gets to roll 3d6 when attacking the zombie.

Now the zombie is an uninjured runner. It has a defense of 2, thus it rolls 2d6 to defend. Ronnie rolls his 3 die and gets a 6, 4 and a 1. The Zombie rolls two 4s. When we resolve the dice, the 1 doesn't count, and attackers 4 is blocked by one of the zombies 4s, but the 6 is undefended, thus the zombie takes a total of hit point of damage, and is given a wound chip.

Critical hits: Criticals, happen when all attacking dice thrown result in double 6’s or more.

Resolving combat is a vital aspect of ZEE. Each combatant will have a defense score, and an attack score(based on their ability and weapon). Once these are calculated and the attacker is within range to hit their opponent, they declare that they are making an attack. The opponent declares what their defense is, and picks up as many dice. The attacker declares their attack value, and picks up as many dice. The attacker rolls first. Whatever the attacker rolls, the defender must match or beat each die, to no take any damage. If the defender has less die then the attacker, then there is a chance they will be unable to defend those die. Remember that ones are negated, and if the attacker rolls all ones, then depending on their weapon, something bad will happen. Likewise, if the defender rolls all ones they have failed in their defense, and in addition to taking whatever damage that is inflicted, they also are knocked down, and must spend a round getting back up.

Example: Ronnie the quarterback attacks a zombie with his crowbar. Ronnie has a 3 in STR, so

CHAPTER 6 SEARCHING & SCAVENGING

Search/Scavenging Card Table

Table 5-0

Denomination

Hearts(Suvivors)

Diamonds(supplies)

Clubs(raiders/thugs)

Spades(

2

1 Sustenance Chip

1 Scavenged part chip

1 Ammo Chip

1 Zombie(M)

3

1 First Aid Chip

1 Fuel chip

Trap: (1d6)

1 Zombie(F)

4

1 Sustenance chips

1 Scavenged part chip

1 Ammo Chips

1 Zombie(M)

5

1 First aid chips

2 Fuel chip

Trap: (1d6)

1 Zombie(F)

6

2 Sustenance chips

2 Scavenged part chip

2 Ammo Chips

2 Zombie(M)

7

2 First aid chips

2 Fuel chip

Trap: (2d6)

2 Zombie(F)

8

2 Sustenance chips

2 Scavenged part chip

2 Ammo Chips

2 Zombie(M)

9

2 First aid chips

2 Fuel chip

Trap: (2d6)

2 Zombie(F)

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Random Weapon

Random Armor

Random

Sneak Attack(Crawler)

Jack

Neutral Male Child

Neutral Female Child

Hostile Child

Zombie Child

Queen

Neutral Female Blue Collar

Neutral Female White Collar

Angered female Outcast?

Hostile-Female-Criminal

King

Neutral Male Blue Collar

Neutral Male White Collar

Angered Male Outcast

Hostile-Male-Criminal

Ace

Neutral Male Random*

Neutral Female Random*

Angered Male Random*

Hostile-Maile-Random

*The high Jokers Summon the Hoard, this card cannot be discarded or skipped. *The low Joker means this room is a safe room see description.

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REFERENCES/ INSPIRATION FOR THIS GAME: •

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Movies & T.V. 1. James A. Romero's Night of the living Dead series of movies 2. 28 Days later 3. The Colony TV series by the Discovery Channel 4. The Walking Dead AMC original TV series 5. Mad Max movie series 6. The Postman 7.

Books and comics 1. The Walking Dead comic series 2. World War Z by Max Brooks 3. The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks 4. The Dark Tower by Steven King 5. I am Legend Board and Video Games 1. Zombies!! The board game.

2. Wizards of the Coasts Modern System Reference document.

3. Hasbro's Hero's Quest Board Game 4. Fallout video game franchise 5. Left 4 Dead video game franchise 6. Savage Worlds Indie RPG 7. Risk