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How To Play The Walking Dead

Hi everyone, this is a special how to play episode of Firebreathing Kittens podcast. I’m the game master for an upcoming session using the rules for The Walking Dead. This episode is a summary of what I learned after reading the rule book. Hopefully this will be a handy guide for how to play for my players, will help me organize myself, and will be useful for you listeners, too, who are looking to play your own The Walking Dead game at home.

I’ll organize this how to play guide into sections.

1. Game category

2. Skills

3. Pushing and stress

4. How to attack

5. Armor

6. Cover

7. Moving

8. Dueling

9. Sneak attacks

10. Brawling

11. Leadership

12. Swarms

13. Threat levels

14. Single walker attack

15. Fighting a swarm

16. Sacrifice someone

17. Relieving stress

18. Dying

19. Healing

20. Helping allies

21. Jargon

22. Building a character

Game category. This is the official tabletop roleplaying game of the famous TV show, The Walking Dead. You are role playing as a character in a world where society has collapsed. An unidentified malady has spread to all living people, infecting everyone. Anyone who dies, regardless of the cause of the death, is reanimated into what is called a Walker, an undead shambling corpse driven by a compulsion to consume living flesh. If one of the living gets scratched or bitten by a walker, they will succumb, quickly beco