I love RPG’s and I especially love playing zombie games. And… I have played quite a few of them. One of the problems that I have come across with zombies is that there is often nothing cool to do with a PC’s critical hit. I mean, if hitting the zombie in the head means it dies, then a critical hit just does it better, right? Where’s the reward? I wanted my reward for critting on that zombie and I figured others might too. So I made this cute little table. It’s not much, but hopefully someone out there can get some fun out of it. My group really seems to like it.
Zombie Critical Hit Table for Guns
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A bullet hammers into the left side of the target’s head. Blood, gore and ichor spray out the other side of the head as the rotter is thrown violently to the side and then drops like a sack of potatoes. Death is instantaneous.
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A ricochet finds the right temple of the target. The deadhead freezes in place for a moment and then falls like a tree to the left. Death is instantaneous.
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The bullet splits open the left trapezium muscle near the base of the neck. The head lolls unnaturally to the right, but the zed is still functional.
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The bullet slams into the right side of the target’s forehead. The zombie continues forward for another moment and then suddenly drops to the ground, like a marionette with cut strings. Death is nearly instantaneous.
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A bullet pierces the forehead in a perfect drill hole wound and ricochets off the back of the skull playing lethal pinball inside the cranial cavity. Death is instantaneous.
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The shot tears through the zombie’s nose and straight into its brain. There is a momentary look of surprise on its dead face as the zombie is carried over backwards from the force of the shot. Death is instantaneous.
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The bullet smashes into the jaw leaving it a mess of splintered bone and mangled flesh that hangs useless and disturbing from the target’s face.
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The bullet embeds itself deeply into the head of the target, dropping it suddenly like a stone.
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A pinpoint shot to the head bursts it like a balloon. Blood, brains and ichor shower all within five feet. The zombie drops to the ground like a wet towel. Death is immediate.
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The bullet (having hit the head) expends all its energy piercing the skull and comes to a stop deformed but intact on the surface of the brain. It’s really ugly, but zombies don’t care about beauty.
I also wrote a zombie apocalypse campaign setting book, Welcome to Mortiston, USA. It was published by means of a successful Kickstarter campaign and was released at Origins 2012. Everyone involved with the project has been very excited by its success thus far. If you like zombies, or need a post-apocalypse American city for some other reason, you might like Mortiston. Come check it out at www.mortiston.com.