Isola Illyon Edizioni announce that the pre-order of The End of The World – Apocalisse Zombie, a survival horror role-playing game created by the Edge Studio team (Asmodee Group) in which players will find themselves facing the end of the world, at the hands of infesting zombies hungry for human flesh. The End of the World is a series of four role-playing game books, all self-contained, and Zombie Apocalypse is the first of it. Each title is a standalone gaming experience, but shares the same rules and explores a different way the human world might come to an end.
This game focuses on zombies, while the other titles deal with other lethal threats to mankind. In this RPG, players must try to survive the end of the world and avoid being devoured by zombies. Unlike other games, players don't play heroes with extraordinary powers, but themselves! Likewise, the places and characters they encounter throughout the game will be mostly based on places and people they know in real life.
In a Zombie Apocalypse session, each player will therefore play as themselves as they try to survive, escape and fight through familiar neighborhoods and streets, with their own abilities and limitations, as zombies invade their city during an apocalyptic event.
The manual contains five different scenarios, which act as both a setting and a campaign, each of which tells of a different zombie apocalypse. In one the zombies multiply thanks to a virus that they spread through blood and bites, in another it is instead global radiation that has infected everyone, in yet another the zombies are not even undead, but living people who have transformed into feral and totally mad creatures or manipulated by malevolent dark entities with the aim of destroying the world to rebuild it in a new way.
Each of the five scenarios presented is divided into two parts: During the apocalypse and After the apocalypse. The first part shows what happens when the zombies arrive, what they are, how they behave and how the whole world reacts to their arrival. The second part shows what happens to humanity after the apocalypse has hit the world, how states, military forces, centers of power and society as a whole change. Players can play long campaigns that address both parts of each scenario or shorter campaigns placed at a specific point in this narrative line that can be years in length.
Whether playing During the apocalypse or After the apocalypse, each of the two parts of each scenario offers descriptions of key locations and characters, ideas for sessions and adventures in each of the contexts described and presented and a series of NPCs to fight or interact with complete with statistics. In whatever scenario they play, the characters' main aim will be to survive the dangers that lurk everywhere, from metropolises to rural areas, passing through any other place populated by human beings, many of whom have now become zombies. In addition to survival, each scenario offers consequences given by the arrival of zombies that will allow the PCs to find themselves carrying out rescue missions, attacking enemy settlements, exploring dangerous places rich in resources or even going back to the origins of the plague to even try to stop it. Will they succeed?
One of the most characteristic elements of the game is the fact that players play a realistic version of themselves immersed in the game's mechanics. By not managing an alter ego other than themselves, players are invited to characterize their PC in the most realistic way possible, giving the character positive and negative traits that reflect their personality, their limitations, their knowledge or even shortcomings. The same thing can be done for traumas. All this allows you to create characters very similar to real players and to express in game the actual ability to perform or not perform certain actions according to the skills and limitations of the real player.
The End of the World – Zombie Apocalypse is a 152-page manual in letter format, fully in color and with hard cover. It contains:
- All the rules for creating the “playable” version of oneself, for carrying out tests, obtaining traumas, managing stress
- Tips and tools for the GM on how to manage the pace of the session, transform the results of test rolls into narrative, manage NPCs and carry out short one-shots or long campaigns
- Five very different scenarios, rich in playable material, divided into two parts: During the apocalypse or After the apocalypse. Each of the two parts of each scenario offers descriptions of places and key characters, ideas for sessions and adventures in each of the contexts described and presented and a series of NPCs to fight or interact with complete with statistics
Until 11.59pm on 11/05/24 it is possible to pre-order 'The End of the World – Zombie Apocalypse' in an exclusive pre-order offer:
THE END OF THE WORLD – APOCALISSE ZOMBIE
Contains: Manual 'The End of The World – Zombie Apocalypse'. Free for all pre-order customers is an A3 poster of the cover of The End of The World – Zombie Apocalypse and three exclusive collector's cards made with official illustrations from the manual which host random tables for NPCs, Events and Objects on the back. The poster and postcards are in paper format only and not digital. The poster and postcards will not be for sale or reprinted later, remaining a total exclusive to this pre-order.
Link: https://www.isolaillyonedizioni.it/prodotto/the-end-of-the-world-apocalisse-zombie
All those who purchase 'The End of the World – Zombie Apocalypse' with this pre-order will immediately receive the PDF copy of the manual, while the physical copy and the remaining paper material can be collected at PLAY in Modena 2024 at the Isola Illyon stand Editions or you can receive it at home immediately after the event.
For more information on The End of The World – Zombie Apocalypse:
https://www.isolaillyonedizioni.it/the-end-of-the-world-apocalisse-zombie-gdr
