The next season of The Walking Dead will take place in your neighborhood, if you want it to
The 11th and final season ofThe Walking Dead may be over, but the franchise will go on thanks in part to a new tabletop role-playing game. AMC Networks has partnered with Free League Publishing — a powerhouse with a stable of original and licensed tabletop games, settings, and systems — to create The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game. With it, fans will be able to play out their own personal zombie apocalypse with a small group of friends, building relationships and drama from a fortified outpost set anywhere in the world. A crowdfunding campaign launches on Kickstarter on March 14. Polygon sat down with the developers for an in-depth discussion on what fans should expect.
It’s hard to overstate just how spectacular the rise of Free League has been these past few years. Working from a handful of keystone franchises, including iconic games like Mutant: Year Zero and Twilight 2000, the Swedish company has piled on more than a dozen other successful TTRPGs. They include licensed pop culture hits like Alien: The Roleplaying Game, Blade Runner: The Roleplaying Game, and the reboot of the Tolkien-inspired TTRPG The One Ring. But, much like Devolver Digital in the world of video games, Free League has also shown excellent taste with its other projects, helping to bring hits like Mörk Borg and Vaesen to market. Now it’s going all in on zombies.
“The game is designed for you to be able to play at any place in the [The Walking Dead’s] timeline,” said Free League game director Mattias Johnsson, “and basically anywhere in the world.”
Using the rules included in the core rulebook, players will begin their adventure by fleshing out the corner of the world where they intend to play. A lengthy “session zero” will touch on safety
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