Angel? Demon? Demi-god? Immortal? Child of the Creator?

Well I've poured through the Armageddon book, and although I still have much more to read I've found this to be a great foundation and storyline. Rather generic about the overall info, it does play on the myths held here on Earth as presented on Earth.

All too often I've found that many RPGs tap dance around the idea of monothesism and the religions and myths tied to them. But this game did a great job in combining the belief systems of the world and rooting them into a cosmology that was deluded over centuries of censorship by corrupted or incompetant people.

It places heaven, hell, and purgatory into a mysterious perspective against reincarnation and immortality with a strong creative mix that makes sense. Although any overly religious types may possibly take offense to it, but it does use some historical links to place these different types of beliefs together as one over arching cosmology. "There are bits of truth in all the beliefs, but they are scewed by centuries of editing and rewriting of the good books."

Still I am highly anticipating my first long planned unisystem game.

The End of Times

Another game that I've found to be interesting is Armageddon, the End of Times. An interesting twist on Revelations and the end of the world, and not only does it conicide with other Unisystem games, like AFMBE, but it also presents a good workable storyline.

On the other hand the rules lend themselves to allow for a great deal of diversity in a game. Sort of a lower powered Rifts game. Where the players use Assault rifles, and shotguns opposed to multinuclear warheads, and high powered laser blasters.

We'll see how it works, as of right now I'm cooking up an interesting game drawing ideas from several recent shows and movies. I'll admit with no shame that I do get some of my better motivations from such shows. Well once Eden Studios gets more books printed I would recommend purchasing this book, as it thoroughly lays out the Unisystem in one book.

Garnering interest for Zombies

It seems that I've been able to bring about a serious interest about how cool Zombies are.

Many of my co-workers were sitting around on break, and we just happened to bring up the sunject of zombie movies. Resident Evil, Dawn of the Dead '04, and my rant about the utterly horrible and disappointing Zombie Nations (another blog later.)

But also I have been able to garner some interested parties into playing All Flesh Must Be Eaten (AFMBE). Awesome for this would be my second game completely in the setting. I know that now many people are into a Zombie apocalypse game, but those who really know me understand.

Anyways, I'm just biding my time and setting it up. I plan to start the campaign with the board game called Zombie!!! then when after some wins or everyone is eaten I'll actually start with the RPG game, and let people set out trying to survive.

But I hope that this will be more than just surviving a few days and making it to safety. I want this game to be open ended enough to give the players control over what their characters are going to do.

Find a place that's safe, deal with other survivors looking for safety or trying to take their supplies. Maybe the zombie evolve later on, maybe the whole cause is scientific or supernatural... who knows how where I'll take it. But the players will make the plans and I will facilitate off the cuff and see how long they survive.

I will also make an effort to keep random updates on the games progress.