Dark Places: Sourcebook 2

Dead Reign RPG

by Kevin Siembieda

A new chapter in the Zombie Apocalypse with additional resources, hiding places, modes of travel away from zombies, adventure ideas, zombies, other dangers and random tables. When there is no place to hide and the dead are everywhere, where do you go? Who can you turn to? What happens next? What lurks in dark places?

Genres: Role Playing Games

Paperback

First published February 1, 2010

About the author

Kevin Siembieda (born April 2, 1956) is an American artist, writer, designer, and publisher of role-playing games, as well as being the founder and president of Palladium Books.

Palladium Books, founded in southeast Michigan, claims to be the first to implement a role-playing system intended to work for all genres and to introduce the perfect-bound trade paperback format to the RPG industry.

Some of the role-playing games Siembieda helped produce include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness (1985), Robotech RPG (1986), After The Bomb (1986), and Rifts (1990).

Siembieda is also an artist, best known for occasionally illustrating Palladium Books' products. In 1978, he started the now-defunct Megaton Publications in Detroit, publishing a digest style title called A+ Plus and several other titles. He also contributed art and cartography to several early Judges Guild products (for both their Traveller and Dungeons & Dragons lines).

Reviews

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

What do ya do during a Zombie outbreak? How do you fight back and where do you go? This great PRG resource book lets you find all that out as you role play thought the outbreak. Recommended

[Taddow · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a sourcebook for Palladium's Dead Reign zombie apocalypse role-playing game (RPG). It's basically made up of three parts: 1) some zombie variants (in which I found some inspiration for zombie Aberrations in my Red Markets RPG campaign), 2) a section on using railroad tracks and sewer tunnels for travel, and 3) a section on "Live Bait" boxes/traps that unscrupulous people might use to lure zombies to a location. Like most Palladium books there are about 16-pages (of a 64-page book) of randomly rolled tables for the subject matter. There are actually some pretty good ideas in here for a zombie-themed RPG.