Description

Contamination is the first volume of Zombiology, the zombie horror and survival role-playing game. In this book, you’ll find the complete rules for Zombiology, along with everything you need to immerse your players in the first moments of the zombie outbreak!

In Zombiology, players take on the roles of ordinary human beings—with no magical powers—who must face the zombie threat.

Cook, literature teacher, security guard, midwife… any kind of player character is possible thanks to the combination of three backgrounds: social class, profession, and hobbies. Character creation can be either random or balanced, and takes less than 30 minutes for your first game. Once you know the system, it takes just 10 minutes.

Experience the First Moments of the Zombie Outbreak!

The first volume of Zombiology, Contamination, focuses on “classic” zombies: slow, mindless undead that are nevertheless tireless and insatiable.

Each zombie profile combines the stats of the infected human body (weak, average, strong, or customized) with one of the behaviors caused by the zombie virus (prostrate, roamer, sedentary, stalker, or enraged). Add an optional boost—is your zombie a boss?—or a rigor mortis mechanic that changes its power over time, and you can create a wide variety of challenges and keep surprising your players even after several sessions.

Contamination focuses on the initial stages of a zombie outbreak. But don’t worry: its 80 pages of rules will let you run most situations you’re likely to encounter in a zombie game—or, more broadly, in contemporary horror.

Of course, you’ll be limited to a relatively compact (but varied) equipment list, “classic” zombies, and things such as equipment and stock management being left to the GM’s discretion. Even so, all the essentials are here, and the core principles of the game system make it easy to design your own house rules if you want to add more crunch to your ideas!