| Backwoods Dead Can you hear the Banjos? Something out in the woods ready to swallow your soul, and make you squeal like a pig? The Backwoods Dead setting takes place in the town nearby the where Ash takes his girlfriend in the Army of Darkness. It’s a little holler town somewhere in Appalachia probably Tennessee. The place was a bit of a hot spot once upon a time, back when the local coal mine was still in operation the folks would come from miles around for moonshine, gamblin’, and women. Course with the mine shutting down the town has fallen on some hard times, most folks have left town and the only visitors are the occasional groups of college kids who rent cabins in the woods to party. But now the Necronomicon has been read aloud and the Watcher in the Woods is waiting to for nightfall to send its undead hordes into town. The setting runs concurrently with the events of the Evil Dead Movies. After the professor read aloud from the Necronomicon he not only infected his wife with a kandarian demon but also called up the Watcher and put the entire town and possibly the world. Unluckily for the townsfolk their town is about to be overrun with deadites, all while our favorite big chinned, chainsaw wielding anti-hero deals with the events from the first two films and getting sucked through a big vortex into the past. The Backwoods Dead setting is all about inbreed rednecks, supped-up cars, moonshine and every other negative hillbilly stereotypes, plus killing zombies and demons. The players should take the role of townsfolk or perhaps another group of students who are in town for the weekend. Skeletons and Deadites soon attack and it’s up to the players to either fight back and help defeat the Watcher or they can run for it. Though if they do decide to make a run for it feel free to make it as difficult to escape as possible. If they fight it out they might be able to briefly distract the Watcher from Ash’s shenanigans or at least divide its attention for the few days that Ash is up at the cabin. Discount Dead Shop smart, shop S-Mart. Welcome to an S-Mart super store in southeastern Michigan, you can find all manner of consumer goods under its cavernous roof. Everything from groceries, and clothes, to automotive, electronics, and hardware all at low, low discount prices. And at this particular S-Mart, in the housewares section, you’ll find our favorite big chinned, gauntlet handed, promised one. Back from his 3 day and 700 year weekend, and ready to get back to living his life; and putting the Necronomicon, Medieval England, and an Army of Kandarian Demons well behind him. Unfortunately for Ash, (and all the other folks at the S-Mart) the Watcher, the Necronomicon and the Demons have finally caught up him. This setting takes place right after the events at the end of the Theatrical Release of Army of Darkness. Ash has killed the She-Bitch, done his “Hail to the King, baby.” pose, just before an army of demons and deadites crash through the S-Mart’s doors and start the wholesale slaughter. The Players are all either employed or shop at the S-Mart, they have managed to barricade themselves in the back storeroom. They’ve loaded up on what weapons they could find or loot, if you start the scenario right as the deadites attack then a brief arming up/A-team kit bashing weapons and vehicles in the barricaded storeroom would definitely be in order. And now the players must either help Ash destroy the Deadites or help themselves and run for the hills. Either way they have to break out of the storeroom, and face an S-Mart filled with Deadites. It is unclear exactly how much of the world the Deadites have managed to take over but at least the town is overrun with the possessed dead. Medieval Dead Sumerian Dead
Welcome to the Fertile Crescent, cradle of Civilization, the year as
near as can be figured is 3000BC. The setting is lovely downtown
Kandar; of course it’s lovely largely because there aren’t a lot of
other downtowns out there to compare it to. Yes it is Civilization, not
that ancient but still wicked, cults serving dark gods are all around,
corruption and poverty abound, and mighty stone temples stretch into
the heavens. The word on the street is that in Babylon they’re trying
to build them even higher.
TopKeep in mind that this version of Ancient Sumer has a lot more in common with Robert E Howard’s Hyborian Age rather then the real Sumeria. It’s the ancient world of sword and sorcery fantasy fiction with a heavy dose of anachronism thrown in for flavor. Sword swinging Barbarians with rippling thews rescuing scantily clad priestesses from the peril of all sorts of unspeakable creatures of darkness. The Sumerian Dead setting takes place just before the events in the Army of Darkness roleplaying game Gilga-Ash setting. The Necronomicon is just being written and with the first of those dark words that are put to paper, the demons rise up and destroy Kandar. The demonic plague and destruction will soon sweep through the city but for the moment the players are rotting in the Kandar jail. Whether locals, outsiders, or displaced time-travelers they have done something to get themselves locked up just as all hell breaks loose. The main concern should be getting out of the prison and out of the demon ravaged city with their lives, after that the players and GM are free to do what they like. |