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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2015 8:46:34 GMT -6
All cows in the kingdom of Blackmoor have turned into zombies!
What do?!
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Post by mindcontrolsquid on Nov 18, 2015 8:57:22 GMT -6
I think I've spotted a typo; you wrote "worst" instead of "best." Zombie hamburgers for everyone!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2015 9:15:58 GMT -6
blame the Egg of Moooo-t
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Post by delverinthedark on Nov 18, 2015 11:19:04 GMT -6
I think I've spotted a typo; you wrote "worst" instead of "best." Zombie hamburgers for everyone! There's such a thin line between "worst" and "best"...Black Moo is insane enough to walk that line like a tightrope! |
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Post by mindcontrolsquid on Nov 18, 2015 11:37:30 GMT -6
Zombie cows on a tightrope, hmm...
Although I could honestly see this idea sprouting in a more serious context. Perhaps a cabal of evil necromancers hoped to spread a curse of undeath through livestock, but something went wrong and slaughtered cattle rose again to devour the living in a sick parody of nature. There is something to be said about taking something innocuous or mundane and giving it otherworldly or supernatural menace (I think that accounts for about half of all horror films, actually). And even if the zombie cows are all destroyed, the livelihoods of farmers across the kingdom would be irrevocably damaged, causing food shortages, economic difficulties, violence, disease, and all manner of society-destroying shenanigans. A setting ripe for brave and ruthless adventurers to take advantage of, I would think...
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Post by scottenkainen on Nov 18, 2015 13:56:24 GMT -6
1) One based on Myst -- all puzzles, and you never encounter anyone else for the entire campaign.
2) All the PCs wake up in a tavern with bad hangovers and mummy rot. Where is the mummy and what did they do with it last night?
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Post by mindcontrolsquid on Nov 18, 2015 14:05:53 GMT -6
3) The PCs find that their latest dungeon expedition to the Hall of the Goblin King has gone awry due to goblin lawyers issuing a restraining order against them. Can they launch a successful appeal, or will they settle out of court?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2016 13:52:28 GMT -6
"All the cows in Blackmoor turn into zombies" is exactly the sort of thing Dave would do.
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Post by DungeonDevil on Jan 3, 2016 22:50:08 GMT -6
Udderly awful.
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Post by thorswulf on Jan 4, 2016 19:44:49 GMT -6
Undead bovines are nothing to laugh about. There is a story about a bull eating the burnt ashes of a Draugir. It menaced a region for many years according to legend. Now Norse undead are nasty enough as it is. Make it a bull and it becomes pretty d**n awful! So the cows are undead in the kingdom? Time to find the source of the curse! Now as to being funny, well yeah....
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2016 1:40:49 GMT -6
thorswulf boils down my main conflict I find with the concept: Yes, from our modern perspective, this would be story, as goofy as hell. - But there are certainly ways to tell the story in a straight fashion that is not entirely laughable.  I picture an engagign scenario for kids, or one of those *drunk D&D nights*.
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Post by Porphyre on Jan 10, 2016 16:43:13 GMT -6
Zombie cattle are a Würst-case scenario
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Post by derv on Jan 10, 2016 17:59:45 GMT -6
Actually, I think an attack of Killer Ro-brats from Mars would be wurst   Now, Killer Zombie Ro-brats.......that's just silly |
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Post by randyb on Jan 11, 2016 7:55:43 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2018 1:07:56 GMT -6
I am sharing this, because the world would be a worse place if I didn't. Also, this idea, with the cows; we still need to do something about it, folks.  |
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Post by rossik on Dec 7, 2018 15:19:19 GMT -6
are there any zombietaurs?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2018 11:22:37 GMT -6
- Like, centaurs that have been zombified, or minotaurs that have been zombified? Myself, I have centaurs in my home campaign, and they are the scourges of any lower-level party already. Them being undead and even harder to fight effectively would probably be... Something that I need to try some time, actually! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2020 3:53:45 GMT -6
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dun_CowThis idea still amooses me. There are also two scenarios - written by Keith Baker, of "Eberron" fame, no less - in the old d20 "En Route" books by Atlas Games, called "The Hell Cow", and "Hell Cows". So, bringing this together as sort of a bigger scenario wouldn't be... Wait for it... Udderly impossible.
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Post by Zenopus on Feb 21, 2020 7:21:10 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2020 9:36:37 GMT -6
mad cow; mad cow disease - zombie cow; holy cow!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2020 10:24:58 GMT -6
By the Holy Light, it got two sequels! If we get any moore more of sources like this to play with, maybe this will turn out to be a story one can milk for more content that can really be structured to form a proper adventure.  |
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Post by Finarvyn on Feb 22, 2020 4:40:58 GMT -6
As I ponder zombie cattle in a "Black Moo" scenario I have to wonder … where can I get a bunch of cow minis?
I'm running my homebrew crew through Blackmoor at the moment and think that a "Black Moo" side adventure could be hilarious.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2020 10:06:56 GMT -6
where can I get a bunch of cow minis? M-maybe they have some at... Barns & Noble? [I'll see myself out.] |
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Post by owlorbs on Feb 29, 2020 8:54:50 GMT -6
Pegasus makes an inexpensive box of nice 1/48 scale Farm animals including about 6 cows. As an added bonus, you can zombify the other farm animals included. They may be a bit large for your 28mm figures, but then they are fantasy cattle after all. Who knows what the magic-users have been up to in the barn?
ERTL makes 1:64 scale cattle, cheap to buy on Amazon as well. Probably a better way to get a visual on the infected herd.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2020 11:13:31 GMT -6
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I picture an engagign scenario for kids, or one of those *drunk D&D nights*. 
