What's a fun type of zombie? Or ability to give them apart from the usual "can keep reanimating"

You know that one zombie standing around with the horde that's wearing a silly costume as a gag? They were really good at what they're dressed as and still kinda are, give them max ranks in two related skills.

Mutations
>Can run
>Can spit blood
>Muscle Growth
>Gas sacs
>Venom
>Parts act independtly
>Human like intelligence
>Understanding of stealth and predatory instincts

List goes on

These are pretty nice. What about something that could potentially be used to their advantage by a lateral-thinking party? Like if you captured a zombie and put it on a leash, what would be some situationally useful ability?

Like mind controlling their bodies to detonate a bomb and use it to dig holes? So that humans won't die ?
Their are many uses of this , it's so cool.

Zombies with guns, ala doom. Zombies with shovels count too.

Motorcicle-riding zombies. Some of them aflame.

Gourmet zombies. They have knives, and eat like civilized cannibals.

Zombie master. Dresses like baron samedi.

Zombi. Doesn't eat flesh, unless the zombie master orders it. Overall quite dumb, and for some reason dressed like blue-collar worker. Follows the order of the zombie master.

Small zombie. For some inexplicable reason, it's a knee-hight zombie with the proportions of a regular adult zombie. It doesn't run very fast, but it is quite resilient.

Screamer zombie. Very fast, big eyes, screams like the cat Tom on a bad day. It also smells like human, so most zombies go after him. Still a flesh-eating zombie.

Zombrian. A zombie always munching on a bag of brains. Very smart, behaves like a maniac, and can design weapons and devices. Craves brains.

frankenzombies. they don't (just) hunt to consume flesh, but actively replace/rebuild their degenerating body with parts from their victims. whatever mechanism (virus, magic, whatever) that causes their undeath also allows these parts to fuse/scab/graft on and still function

Make them smart or make them psychic.

Seriously who the fuck would expect the zombie to blow an NPC's head open with his mind from 100 yards.

A great way to spice up *any* critter is to give them a spell-like ability and then just try to figure out how exactly does it do that without actual magic involved.

anti-magic rune that explodes when spell is cast.

I'm assuming DnD here, have the "Zombies" actually be the result of a plague from the Far Realm, turning those that succumb into Aberrations rather than undead.

It'll be a nasty surprise for the Cleric when he tries to turn/destroy undead with his Channel Divinity.

Metal Slug's zombies could VOMIT their own internal acids and entrails..or massive screen-covering death rays

Zombies are significantly harder to kill because their wounds will heal over with some kind of substance produced from their bodies.

So if they lose an arm or a leg the stump covers over in this mucus and prevents blood loss as the zombie still needs the use of it's internal organs to function as if they were alive.

Another fact is they have no restraints on their stregnth which is both good and bad. Good because they have the chance of overextering themselves and destroying their own bodies. Bad because they can more easily rip through barrers and people

Philosophical zombies.

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What's the best system for running a zombie focused game?

Imagine the prosperity of the Saudi Oil barons being recreated in middle America with a series of oil field finds, shortly after world war 2, California/New York/Vancouver-sized cities popping up all over our "rust belt", with recently returned veteran populations moving into these new super-cities.

Yeah, thinking of something like this. Any resources to refer to? How could aberration plague bearers act differently from zombies?

America quickly becomes a very red place, as once narrow losses in certain interior/coastal states quickly were swayed by the introduction of various forms of bribery/blackmail/general interference in neighbouring states elections.

Silicon Valley still happens, someone explosively exasterbated by wild speculative investment in these technology companies by the "Red heart" of America

Medical science becomes a major focus due to major publicity of a president dying of a preventable disease.

They move with magic instead of muscle, and nothing can render them inanimate.

Any severed part will become its own entity. Constrictor-style intestines wrapping around throats, crawling hands gouging the eyes of sleeping survivors in the dark of the night, even stray clumps of hair wrapping tightly around fingers, blocking off circulation until the digit drops off.

The ash is the worst. Incineration used to be the go-to method of destroying them, but too late the survivors discovered the woes of fighting sentient ash. It moves at a crawl, yes, but there is enough of it that you can't stay barricaded in one building for too long. It seeps in through every crack in the building, under doors, down chimneys, etc. It's not violent, but it coats the floor, benches, gets in the food and water, and is largely unavoidable. Spend too long around it and breathing gets harder, bits of it start clogging up your lungs. The only defense it to keep running from shelter, out into the zombie infested world.

What follows is a technological/scientific/medical renaissance, with twenty years of "jolly good capitalism" and a sort of Spy vs. Spy style sabotaging between competing industries.

Several watergate style scandals are uncovered as the competition/war between these companies, their political interests/ties and their access to relatively advanced ( think 3-d printers hitting in 1999) technologies made a perfect storm for the events of the 90's

'Trumped' up politics leads to a McCarthy-eqsue red scare and the establishment of a plan to build a wall protecting the (once red, now-) Iron Heart of America's republic. The wall will see itself 80% complete come Bloody November.

Fuck off with rightist shit

Experiments are widely varied in look and composition, think Guillermo del Toro style JoJo's bizarre adventure random encounters

>>be me

>> use arbitrary politics to justify setpieces/suspension of disbelief regarding mentioned setpieces for recently brainstormed modern day FTL (the game)/ Oregon Trail /S.T.A.LK.E.R hybrid.

>>you

>> fuck off with rightist shit

you're helping, consider "yes-anding" you negative Nancy and write about how the Silicone valley computer companies pull some real Y2K shit out on some super-city millitary/ medical testing facilities and let some nasty shit out leading to the Quarantine of the 'iron heart'

Or you just wanna gripe about the first fluff someone's written in the thread? I'm up for either, queue up the go back to /pol/ memes or partake in the hobby and passion we both share ya nerd :p

Specialize zombie based on recieved injuries. Zombies that lose their legs become ambushing crawlers who grab people's ankles so the other zombies can get them and are harder to hit due to small profile. Armless zombies become enraged and run at people trying to headbutt/bite them. Losing their forearms and ankles turns them into a thumper, becoming quadrepedal like a dog or whatever.

Quarantine:

With most Iron Heart political power blocs broken up by pandemic level plagues being release all through the central states, polls were not favorable, as rural democrats outvoted the gridlocked mausoleums we'd call cities

the 2000's saw the FIRST democrat president in decades and using the excessive executive powers the office had accrued, set about stopping the outward surge that was coming from the center of the wall (quarantine, now walls are manned are instructed to fire on anyone who tries to get out)

Going to sleep, I'll post later, hopefully people realize I'm a Canadian and am just using your countries politics to couch an Idea I had.

Isn't that paragraph negative about republicans?

Or is he using trumped up politics and macarthyism as good things?

JUST STEAL

This is really good, looking forward to the rest.

A zombie that when killed gives off a burst of negative energy hurting those fighting it and heals zombies around it