Zombie-eating cannibals lurked in the treehouse above, and they preferentially ate yellow musk zombies for their intoxicating effect thus the cannibals lived in a sort of 'truce' with the yellow musk creeper which they treated kinda like Seymour from Little Shop of Horrors. These zombies were different, however, with roots growing over them and yellow flowers blossoming from their heads. Already familiar with zombies, PCs encountered a ruined elven treehouse village with zombies milling around below. Yellow Musk Zombies & Cannibals with Pit Traps. In other words, I started thinking of zombies as hazards/puzzles to be overcome, more than just monsters to defeat. What I realized very quickly is that the real excitement in facing zombies is not in the mechanics of the combat, but in the overall scenario in which they're encountered. I've been running Tomb of Annihilation, and there have been plenty of zombie encounters. What level would you set such a game at? What would you use as a premise? Would you nerf clerics by making the zombies 'infected' or let clerics shine however briefly before they run out of juice? Would you make it an escape, a dungeon crawl, a quest or something else? I will probably end up having four players at the 'table' with most of them being from familiar to expert with 5E. I want it to feel more like say Left for Dead than say The Walking Dead - higher octane and desperate running battles rather than jump scares and existential crises. We are playing for 4 or 5 hours max, and that will include explaining FG and dealing with inevitable technical issues, so the adventure should not be terribly long.

I picked up the absolutely wonderful Big Book of Zombies from the DMs Guild, so I have plent of opposition to use, but now I am trying to figure out the structure it will take. I toyed with using Savage Worlds but decided for various reasons that I want to use 5E (one of those reasons is that the 5E automation on FG is top notch).

I am introducing a friend to Fantasy Grounds and have decided a zombie outbreak game would be a good way to do so.

Zombie team puzzles and dragons