Dead Reign

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Dead Reign is a Zombie Apocalypse themed setting for the Palladium roleplaying system, and can be best summed up as Palladium Books' answer to All Flesh Must Be Eaten.

Dead Reign takes place 5 months after the events of "The Wave"; a mysterious and probably magical plague that ravished the world, before vanishing as those who perished of the sickness rose as murderous zombies. Roughly 20% of humanity survived, and is now fighting to survive in the face of the legions of the undead.

Zombies in the world of Dead Reign are at once familiar and different. The zombies spawned by the Wave are spiritual parasites, feeding on Potential Psychic Energy, rather than flesh and blood - though there are mutants (called "Flesh Eating Zombies") who like to snack on warm flesh, zombies actually feed by killing living creatures and absorbing their P.P.E as they expire. They also perceive the world by sensing P.P.E, which makes them a lot harder to hide from, even though the vast majority are stupid shambling corpses. To take them out, destroy the brain or set them on fire. In fact, they actually need to feed on P.P.E regularly or they'll slowly starve to "death" and rot away, so if humanity can somehow survive for about 40 years, all the zombies will die out from hunger. Of course, that doesn't help you in the here and now.

Splatbooks

A total of 8 books exist in the Dead Reign line; a corebook and seven splats. Each splat usually includes at least a couple of new zombie varieties in addition to whatever's listed here. Listed in numerical order.

Civilization Gone: Covers the major dangers of the post-Wave world that aren't zombies. Namely, diseases, the weather and, of course, your fellow man.

Dark Places: Covers traveling in the post-Wave world.

Endless Dead: New OCCs, vehicles, and a guide to what the military looks like in the post-Wave world.

Fear The Reaper: History on the Road Reapers, the heroic motorbiking zombie killers.

Graveyard Earth: An overview of what the whole world looks like since the dead rose.

Hell Followed: Major conspiracy theories, what happened to the government folks who didn't get killed, relief centers and natural disasters.

In the Face of Death: An in-depth guide to what the overrun cities of the post-Wave world look like and how to survive in them.