Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game Released
Early this year Free League announced they were working on The Walking Dead Universe, a tabletop RPG based on the AMC TV show and its spinoffs. A crowdfunding campaign came with that announcement and reached almost $600,000, well over its initial goal. If you missed that campaign, today happens to be the day the game becomes available commercially. In Walking Dead Universe, you and your friends form survivor characters struggling to make it in a post-apocalyptic world. If you’re familiar with the show, you know what kind of challenges you’ll face in the game: finding supplies, fending off Walkers and, as always, fighting the corruption inherent in humanity itself. There are two different ways to play: Campaign Mode, a long-running session where your choices create the next scenario, and Survival Mode, a shorter, tighter game where you fight to resolve one particular situation. To make this project authentic, Free League worked with Chief Content Officer Scott M. Gimple and Head of AMC Networks Publishing Mike Zagari to pull in material