Map of the Dead: Zombie Survival Map – excellent resource for post-apocalyptic world of Yellow Dawn RPG

Post-apocalyptic resources Click on the image of the map to go to Map of the Dead website. Developed by Jeff at Doejo (we fuel ideas that grow). Find places near you that are likely to have resources to help you survive the zombie apocalypse. Or places to avoid. What I personally like about this is [...]

Role-playing: GMs don’t always follow the rules

. Yellow Dawn – The Age of Hastur, first published in 2007, is an RPG written by sci-fi & dark fantasy author David J Rodger – it blends the Cthulhu Mythos and cyberpunk genres in a post-apocalyptic setting. Learn more… . Dead City Runs, Scavenging and the Infected I’ve got a small, secondary group I’m [...]

Post-apocalyptic #wallpaper – UTOC Public Safety Notice from early days of Yellow Dawn – Infection Warning

Wallpaper – Download – Poster This is a public safety notice from the early days of the catastrophic, apocalyptic event known as Yellow Dawn, when the Infection was even less understood than it is today.  It’s an example of UTOC attempting to exert control of survivors in the wake of the disaster. Artwork: Ben Chapman [...]

Horror humour: what made the horde of zombies run away?

A horde of necrophiliacs… *drum roll, snare* See more posts like this – click David J Rodger – DATA

Top 10 blog posts of 2011 from Sci-fi, Fantasy, Cyberpunk and Cthulhu Mythos Horror

I’ve been running this blog for about 18 months now and it’s already eclipsed the “old thing” I used to run since the late 1990s.  It’s a great counterpoint to the daily grind of crafting novels and RPG systems – where often there is very little to show for weeks at a time; a place [...]

2.8 Hours Later, pervasive street-based zombie chase game taking place in #Leeds UK this weekend

2.8 Hours Later, pervasive street-based zombie chase game taking place in #Leeds UK this weekend. Awesome video for the event: . . Oh, it’s so good it should be a crime to participate.  Brought to you by SlingShot who are pushing the boundaries of pervasive gaming to overlap the mainstream consciousness, 2.8 Hours Later is [...]

Social trends and game play: pervasive gaming – the next techno bubble or just an emerging snowball from the 1980s?

Social trends and game play: pervasive gaming – the next techno bubble or just an emerging snowball from the 1980s? Language evolves and with it the meaning of certain words and phrases.  Around the mid-noughties a number of techno boffins were alluding to the concept of pervasive gaming. Pervasive gaming is one where the participant [...]

Invitation to appear on German-French “zombie” documentary with iconic euro culture TV show, Tracks

I just had a phone interview with a lovely lady from a TV production company who’s dialled into my world of zombies and  Yellow Dawn, through my blogging of the incredible adrenaline fuelled, heart-bursting, sanity-shredding experience of 2.8 hours later (run by the Über  talented crew at Slingshot ). I am, perhaps insanely, turning down [...]

Zombie infection caught on camera – sci-fi & dark fantasy author David J Rodger filmed after zed pathogen takes hold

Sci-fi and dark fantasy author David J Rodger, and creator of post-apocalyptic Cthulhu Mythos role-playing game “Yellow Dawn – The Age of Hastur“, was involved in a live webcast talking about his recent journey into the Dead Zone surrounding New Tokyo, when disaster struck. The small cut he’d received whilst scrambling in wild panic into [...]

Driving for zombies, PZED and craving the adrenaline rush

PZED – Post Zombie Encounter Disorder ¦ dialling in from Workstation ¦ 13:30 GMT, Wednesday 1st June 2011. Last Thursday I spent 3 hours being chased around the after-dark streets of Bristol by zombies; lurching, blood & gore soaked things that burst into shrieking sprints when they saw you.  You can see pics & vids [...]

2.8 hours later, Bristol May 2011 – city wide zombie chase game – videos and pics

This is a collection of videos and pics from 2.8 hours later, a city wide zombie chase game that took place in Bristol 26th May 2011. There were 300 players split into groups of 5 to 7. We were sent out into an unsuspecting city filled with clusters of zombies.  This didn’t take place in [...]

I died three times tonight – zombies got me in 2.8 hours later.

Holy Cow Batman. Just got back – 01:32 in the morning. What an AMAZING night. Rocked up to the Watershed, got my ticket, went to St Nicks market – all before 9pm, so it was still daylight.  Just. By 9.30 I was jelled into a group of really lovely folk (5 of them plus me) [...]

I’ll be running from zombies tonight in a desperate struggle to survive: 2.8 hours later (Bristol 26th May 2011)

Dang! Very excited. I’m doing this tonight. Rock up to the Watershed @ 9pm, put together with 5 other strangers and get given secret location.  Then survive.  Actors in full zombie gore and amazing locations.  Apparently it is super scary. Blurb: Can you survive the zombie apocalypse? Following last year’s sell-out premiere, the city-wide zombie [...]

US Health Officials post advice about preparing for zombie apocalypse

There’s no need to blink furiously and rub your eyes. It’s true. An official US government website had told its citizens how to prepare for a zombie apocalypse. It’s a sign-of-the-times and another clear indication of how the swelling fascination with the Walking (or in my case sprinting and screaming) Dead have become so zeitgeist. [...]

Introducing: The Reaper. Steampunk weaponry for taking down zombies. Courtesy of the Guild Master talents of the Time Gypsies.

You know how Facebook works. You connect with a friend and through osmosis you pick up details about their friends and sometimes you connect with new and interesting people. I met Major Sebastian Perry through an Ascended Carbon called Sammi Rule. And abruptly I fell off a virtual cliff, into a sea of discovery. I [...]

WiP: YD 2.5 – draft zombie chapter now complete – review copy available – 13:04 GMT

Just made draft version 2.0 available to people on my Review List.  Let me know if you’d like to be added to this mail-out and become part of the review / feedback process.  The latest update includes the much expanded chapter on Infected humanoids – what Jo Public has been calling “zombies” for the past [...]

WiP: YD 2.5 – Defining the zombie infection 13:29 GMT

Working on YD overhaul. Zombie chapter taking a little longer than expected as I’m putting some effort into documenting some of the medical research that’s been conducted on the humanoid victims of the Infection – and stating many of the questions left unresolved. Potential scenario hooks for GMs looking to bring a group of new [...]

WiP: YD 2.5 – Back to the zombies 07:46 GMT

Nailed the changes in the “Age of Hastur” chapter and now back to the tail end of the chapter on the “Infected” – or what folks in Yellow Dawn (mistakenly) call zombies. *dark smile* I should be releasing an updated draft around the weekend. Message me if you want to be added to the distribution [...]

Dead Island Trailer (cert 18) – zombie survival video game – trailer has cool cinematic storyboard

A new trailer for zombie survival video game, Dead Island. Developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver. It is an open-ended game, centered on the challenge of survival on a zombie-infested island. The game uses a first-person perspective with RPG elements. However, the developers are claiming that the game will be far beyond a [...]

Zombies of Hastur in a Cthulhu Mythos post-apocalypse

Zombies of Hastur in a Cthulhu Mythos post-apocalypse: short trailer video for Dog Eat Dog, science fiction & dark fantasy by David J Rodger More David J Rodger? God Seed ¦ Dante’s Fool ¦ Iron Man Project ¦ Edge ¦ Yellow Dawn RPG