[pbp] Dead of Winter - Farewell, Zombie Hero! Welcome, Zombie Surge!

Daemonis

Crossroads is a new series from Plaid Hat Games that tests a group of survivors' ability to work together and stay alive while facing crises and challenges from both outside and inside.

Dead of Winter is the first game in this series. It puts 2-5 players together in a small, weakened colony of survivors in a world where most of humanity are either dead or diseased, flesh-craving monsters. Each player leads a faction of survivors with dozens of different characters in the game.

Dead of Winter is a meta-cooperative psychological survival game. This means the players are working together toward one common victory condition--but for each individual player to achieve victory, they must also complete their personal secret objective. This secret objective could relate to a psychological tick that's fairly harmless to most others in the colony, a dangerous obsession that could put the main objective at risk, a desire for sabotage of the main mission, or worst of all: vengeance against the colony! Certain games could end with all players winning, some winning and some losing, or all players losing. Work toward the group's goal but don't get walked all over by a loudmouth who's only looking out for their own interests!

Rules of the game
Reference
FAQ

Player aid:

Rolling dice:

Action die is a simple d6.
Exposure die is d12, 1-6 mean Nothing, 7-9 mean Wound, 10-11 mean Frostbite, 12 means Bitten.

Current game state:

Game board

Main objective

Kill them
Exile: When a player is exiled, they and all survivors they control are removed from the game instead of normal exile rules
Victory: There are 3 or fewer zombies in all non-colony locations combined
Progress: 19 zombies

Current crisis

Shaking things up
Needed: 5 Tool cards
Fail: Every player gives a survivor they control to the player on their right. Lose 1 morale.
Optional: Add 2 additional Tool cards to gain 1 morale
Cards contributed: 2

Locations

Colony

Morale: 7
Round track: 6
Food: 2
Waste: 5
Survivors: 9, helpless: 2;Rod Miller, Ashley Ross, Thomas Heart, James Meyers, Jenny Clark, Brandon Kane, Tallia Jones

Entrances:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Police Station

Cards: 17
Survivors: 0/3;
Noise: 4/4

Grocery Store

Cards: 19
Survivors: 1/3; David Garcia
Noise: 0/4

School

Cards: 17
Survivors: 1/4; Arthur Thurson
Noise: 0/4

Library

Cards: 20
Survivors: 0/3
Noise: 0/4

Hospital

Cards: 13
Survivors: 4/4; John Price, Janet Taylor, Gabriel Diaz
Noise: 0/4

Gas Station

Cards: 20
Survivors: 0/2;
Noise: 0/4

Players

Zombie Hero

Cards: 2
Survivors:
Leader: Ashley Ross, Construction Worker, Influence 52, Attack 2+, Search 5+, Ability: ANYWHERE, Once per round you may perform a barricade action without using an action die. WOUND
* Hammer - TOOL - EQUIP: Once per round, when performing a barricade action, you may build 2 barricades instead of one at this survivor's location.
1: Rod Miller, Truck Driver, Influence 40, Attack 3+, Search 3+, Ability: ANYWHERE, When moving Rod, do no roll for exposure
* Tikka T3 Tactical Rifle - Gun - EQUIP: Once per round you may kill 1 zombie at any location. Do not roll for exposure. It's not an attack, does not use an action die.
* Night vision goggles - TOOL - EQUIP: At the begining of each round roll 1 additional action die.
2: David Garcia, Accountant, Influence 50, Attack 4+, Search 3+, Ability: ANYWHERE, Once per round, when performing search with David you may look at 1 additional card.

Kirindal

Cards: 6
Survivors:
Leader: Thomas Heart, Soldier, Influence 64, Attack 1+, Search 3+, Ability: COLONY, 5+: Once per round you may kill 2 zombies at the colony. Do not roll for exposure.
1: John Price, Student, Influence 18, Attack 3+, Search 3+, Ability: NON-COLONY, When John is not at the colony, he is considered to have the ability of every other survivor he shares a location with.
* Once per round, when John attacks do not roll for exposure
* Flashlight - TOOL - EQUIP: Once per round when making noise you may look at 3 additional cards instead of 1

jdaksun

Cards: 1
Survivors:
Leader: Janet Taylor, Nurse, Influence 42, Attack 3+, Search 4+, Ability: HOSPITAL, Once per round, when performing search at the hospital you may look at and keep 1 additional card.
1: Jenny Clark, Waitress, Influence 24, Attack 4+, Search 3+, Ability: ANYWHERE, Once per round, when performing search with Jenny you may look at 3 additional cards.
2: James Meyers, Psychiatrist, Influence 54, Attack 6+, Search 3+, Ability: ANYWHERE, Once per round you may reroll 1 or more of your unused action dice . You must keep the second result.

Preda

Cards: 3
Survivors:
Leader: Gabriel Diaz, Fireman, Influence 60, Attack 2+, Search 3+, Ability: ANYWHER, Once per round when Gabriel is at a location with an item deck, you may reveal the top 4 card of that item deck. If you revealed any outsider cards you may place 1 into your hand. Shuffle the remaining cards into the item deck. WOUND
1: Brandon Kane, Janitor, Influence 26, Attack 2+, Search 4+, Ability: COLONY, 5+: Once per round you may remove 5 cards instead of 3 from the waste pile when taking the clean waste action.

stever777

Cards: 4
Survivors:
Leader: Arthur Thurson, Principal, Influence 62, Attack 4+, Search 2+, Ability: SCHOOL, Once per round, when performing search at the school you may look at and keep 1 additional card.
1: Tallia Jones, Fortune teller, Influence 28, Attack 3+, Search 1+, Ability: ANYWHERE, Once per round you may look at the top 2 cards of the crisis deck and place them back in any order. Then you may say exactly 2 words to all players about the crisis cards, nothing more.

Daemonis

It will be a Normal Mode game with a betrayer.

@Grunt's Ghosts, @Zombie Hero and @Kirindal please confirm that you are still interested.
@Void Slayer, @El Skid and @JPants are in the reserve list.

El Skid

!Confirmed for the reserve list

Kirindal

Yep, still definitely interested!

@Daemonis

JPants

El Skid wrote: »

!Confirmed for the reserve list

Ditto

Zombie Hero

Sign Up

Zombie Hero

Btw this game has a few modules on the steam tabletop. (I was supposed to follow up on that awhile back. )

Preda

Sign Up.

Jam Warrior

Yes please!

jdarksun

How do I get on the list?

stever777

Sign Up

Daemonis

Kirindal is in as signed up for the 1st game. JPants and El Skid are out as reserves are not needed.

Rolling 1d100 for everyone to determine who else is in and turn order.

Geth roll 1d100 for Kirindal
Geth roll 1d100 for Zombie Hero
Geth roll 1d100 for Preda
Geth roll 1d100 for Jam Warrior
Geth roll 1d100 for jdarksun
Geth roll 1d100 for stever777

Kirindal:

1d100 49 [1d100=49]

Zombie Hero:

1d100 52 [1d100=52]

Preda:

1d100 44 [1d100=44]

Jam Warrior:

1d100 21 [1d100=21]

jdarksun:

1d100 45 [1d100=45]

stever777:

1d100 39 [1d100=39]

Daemonis

So, turn order:

@Zombie Hero
@Kirindal
@jdarksun
@Preda
@stever777

@Jam Warrior, sorry, you are eaten by zombies.

Daemonis

Ok, selecting the main objective:

Eight weeks of darkness
Kill them
Find a cure
Stokpile
Home sweet home
Raiding party
Leave it all behind
We need more samples
Winter has come
Too many mouths

Geth roll 1d10 for main objective

main objective:

1d10 2 [1d10=2]

Daemonis

Jam Warrior

Daemonis wrote: »

@Jam Warrior, sorry, you are eaten by zombies.

Daemonis

Personal secret objectives are sent.
You must keep them secret!

Daemonis

Starting items sent

Daemonis

Survivors sent. Every player gets 4 survivors and must choose 2 of them. Then choose one of those 2 as your leader. Note that the player whose leader has the highest influence will take the first turn.

Daemonis

I'm going to roll dice for everyone at the begining of every round, as I did in the 1st game, to speed up the process. If you wish to roll your dice yourself, let me know.

stever777

I am (NOT) totes (NOT) the (NOT) Betrayer... (MAYBE NOT OR NOT NOT)
8-)

Daemonis

So... the survivor team:

Zombie Hero:


Kirindal:


jdarksun:


Preda:


stever777:


And the first player is Kirindal thanks as his soldier is the most important person

Daemonis

The board:

Daemonis

And we are starting...
Turn order:

Kirindal
jdarksun
Preda
stever777
Zombie Hero

Daemonis

Crisis for today is:

Daemonis

Rolls:

Geth roll 3#1d6 for Kirinal
Geth roll 3#1d6 for jdarksun
Geth roll 3#1d6 for Preda
Geth roll 3#1d6 for stever777
Geth roll 3#1d6 for Zombie Hero

Kirinal:

3#1d6 3 # 5 [1d6=5] 3 [1d6=3] 1 [1d6=1]

jdarksun:

3#1d6 3 # 1 [1d6=1] 2 [1d6=2] 2 [1d6=2]

Preda:

3#1d6 3 # 4 [1d6=4] 1 [1d6=1] 2 [1d6=2]

stever777:

3#1d6 3 # 2 [1d6=2] 5 [1d6=5] 2 [1d6=2]

Zombie Hero:

3#1d6 3 # 1 [1d6=1] 6 [1d6=6] 6 [1d6=6]

Daemonis

And you may start discussing your strategy, guys.
@Kirindal to make the first turn

Kirindal

I don't have enough medicine to make a significant contribution to the crisis so I'll send John Price to the Hospital to start searching for more medicine. Spending my 3 to start searching for medicine.

Edit: And of course he gets frostbite...

Geth roll 1#1d12 for Exposure on the way to the Hospital.

Exposure:

1#1d12 1 # 11 [1d12=11]

Daemonis

Yes, it's a bit cold, but it's worth it as John finally finds his home

@Kirindal to decide

Preda

I can contribute only 1 medicine right now. How do we plan to attack our objective? If we pile on a location we attract more zombies, but if we don't we're forced to use at least a dice to fight to get free slots for the zombies to get in...

jdarksun

Janet and Jenny are well suited to searching for meds.

Zombie Hero

I can't contribute any medicine. I can react if not enough cards are placed in the pile, but I'd rather search for weapons because we will need guns for all the combat we are going to do.

That first crossroads card really sets the mood. Good times, gents.

Zombie Hero

Also I'm a little surprised at the player elimination on the card. It's perfectly fine for a forum game, but if i have a bunch of folks over I'm not sure I'd want to kick someone out of a ~2 hour game.

stever777

I can help with the crisis.

Kirindal

Diving for the gun.

Geth roll 1#1d12 for More Exposure

More Exposure:

1#1d12 1 # 6 [1d12=6]

Daemonis

Card sent. Please bold your orders when you make them.

Kirindal

Equip Flashlight and spend 5 to make some noise to search the Hospital again.

Zombie Hero

Is that how noise works? I thought you only had to spend it if you want to look at an additional card on a single dice.

Zombie Hero

Plus, like, making noise for our objective is super bad

Kirindal

Is that how it works? I thought I had to burn another die on the search.

Daemonis

Kirindal wrote: »

Is that how it works? I thought I had to burn another die on the search.

Yes, Zombie Hero is correct. You do not make noise if you search again with a new die. Noise happens when you wish to see more cards with a particular search.

So, as you equiped Flashlight, I assume you like what you find and the 1st search is over. Then you search again with 5, I'm sending you the next card, now you may make noise if you wish to see extra 3 cards. @Kirindal