Twilight Creations Inc - Zombies!!! Variant Rules


Zombies!!! Variant Rules

Complex variants (typically those with mutliple rules) are listed on the Scenarios and Variants page. There are also some variant decks for group play on the Constructed Decks page. This page provides basically one-line rule changes. The vast majority were developed on the ZombiesBG group on Yahoo!

If you'd like to submit your own variant rules, you can use the form at the bottom and they'll typically be approved in a few days

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Advancing Hordes!

Note: The following optional rules are presented for use with "Zombies!!! Second Edition." These variants may have to be modified to compensate for use with any of the Zombies!!! expansion sets.

"They're Everywhere!": Zombies are placed as normal. During zombie movement, however, roll *two* die to determine the number of zombies moved normally for that turn.

"Crowding": To further enhance the ambiance of the swarming dead, allow multiple zombies to occupy the same square. Zombies are placed as normal (one zombie per square), but zombies can swarm together in a crowd and shamble forward. Up to *three* zombies can occupy the same square, with combat resolution rolled *individually* for *each* zombie encountered in that square.

"Pressing Crowd": As an addition to the "Crowding" optional rule, subtract one from the combat die roll for *each additional* zombie currently present in that square. Of course, this roll is modified for each zombie currently present in the square. Combat is otherwise resolved and modified with bullet tokens, life tokens, and event cards as normal.

Pressing Crowd Example: Bob is suddenly confronted with three zombies in his square. At the beginning of Bob's turn (after the map tile phase), he rolls for combat against the first zombie. Since there are three present, this modifies his roll by -2. If Bob can best the first zombie by rolling a 6 (6-2=4), he collects a zombie from that square and rolls *again* for combat against the second zombie at a -1, requiring a 5 or 6 to best it. If Bob managed to survive the first two attacks, one zombie remains, requiring the normal roll of 4,5, or 6 to defeat it. If Bob survives this grueling combat, he has collected all three zombies, and continues his turn normally.

Finally, the "multiple zombies per square" optional rule makes combat more dangerous with the undead hordes, but it is potentially more profitable as well. The players may wish to increase the number of zombies required to win by five or more, simply to compensate for the expedient accumulation of zombie body count.

With all of these rules combined, players may find it less appealing to attempt combat "bottlenecking" the undead, especially at close range... unless the horde of zombies are close to one of the opponents. ::smirk::
Submitted by -C. on November 21, 2007

This is basically a normal game of zombies but with a twist:

1) with the exception of named tiles (like the police station or the gas station, ect). you dont fight any zombies on the streets. once a player uncovers the hospital tile and then all players leave that tile, then for each turn after that the players add 1 zombie to the tile untill the tile is full of zombies. once that happens, then the players continue to place 1 zombie in the streets connecting to the hospital before making their zombie movement.

2) once the total number of zombies reach 25, then players roll both dice for zombie movement.

3) the scoring system of getting points from killing zombies is absent, and zombie placement cards that generally surround other players (like the "zombie master" card) are not aloud in the game.

4) If a player dies, and every square on the town square tile is full of zombies, then that player is considered "dead" and can no longer play. however, they can still roll for zombie movement when its their turn and send zombies after the other players.

5) winning conditions: the first player to reach the helipad wins, or the last player alive (when nobody else can respawn) wins.

The purpose of this variant is to simulate a situation in which the hospital is the epicenter of the zombie attack (think about it, when someone gets bit, and infected, by a zombie they always go to the hospital for help...) and that players must flee the giant horde or be consumed.

This adds a great challenge to the game and makes it seem more like a life or death situation.
Submitted by Andrew on January 10, 2010

Alternate Card Play

A car is a lethal weapon! After playing "The Keys Are Still In It", zombies are fought as normal during movement, but during any combat, the card's remaining movement points (if any) may be used instead of ammunition (on a 1-for-1 basis) at the moving player's discretion. If the card is used in this fashion, the player's movement ceases immediately in the space in which the combat occurred and the card is discarded.
Submitted by Robert Winchester on December 27, 2006

Alternate Food Source: This has no effect on Zombies on the Helipad tile... whatever food is being spread around hasn't made it to the tarmac. (Optional: All attacks on Helipad zombies are at -1 during 'Food Source').
Submitted by Davie Joria on June 19, 2007

Instead of drawing a hand of cards each turn,each player draws a card face up.Ones with adverse effects are played immediatly on the player to the left of the player who drew the card.Ones with bennifecial effects may be kept & played at the appropriate time.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Keys left in: Instead of simply having to fight through zombies as usual or simply destroying zombies by the fender full there's a happy medium. Again using the car as a weapon the player within is immune to zombie damage. But what of the car certainly getting a head in the fan belt or a corpse in the wheel-well has to have some detrimental effect. Here's my variation, again a combat roll must be made with each impact. If the roll is succesfull the car carries on with its count up to it's ten spaces. If the roll is unsuccessful the cars travel distance is reduced by the number of bullit tokens that would be required to make the roll successful.

eg. the car travels 3 spaces and hits a zombie (on the third space). Combat roll of 5, the car's progress is unhindered as the body is crushed under the tires or bounces off of the fender. The car then travels two more spaes and contacts another (on the fifth space). This time the combat roll is only 2, therefore two points are taken from the car's travel distance to make up the difference in damage to the vehicle reducing the total possible travel to 8 spaces. the next space it contacts a third zombie and only rolls a 3 reducing travel by one more space. Then travels on unimpeded. At the end of the movement turn the vehicle has run down three zombies but due to damage inflicted on the car the total distance is only 7 spaces.
Submitted by Gary D. Macabre on February 20, 2007

Make it mandatory that when “Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Any Worse” or “We’re Screwed” Etc. are drawn they MUST be played IMMEDIATELY, placing Zombies in closest legal spaces to ALL PLAYERS (dividing number to be placed between each)
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Players may play as many cards as they want at ANY time in any number but, of course, can only draw new cards at the beginning of their turn as per the normal rules (makes for a much more "free for all" type of game). With prior agreement of all players, players may begin with 5 cards, unless using the Guts tokens.
Submitted by Kevin Dwyer on October 7, 2006

The 'Skate Board' card can also be used as a +2 bonus for combat. After it is used in this way it breaks, all remaining movement stops and the card must be discarded.
Submitted by Darby Bryan-Dye on February 8, 2009

want to make the car really powerful then why not run zombies over instead of havting to fight while in the car works like a charm with me because you get 10 spaces of road kill!!!
Submitted by zombie guy on October 9, 2006

Zombie master card: Add Zombie Master to any space unoccupied by any Zombies. Zombie Master has five lives (use card to keep track), and is hit on a five or higher. When hit he loses one life until all are gone, and the player shooting may move out of his space. At the end of each player's turn, change one normal zombie adjacent to Zombie Master into a superzombie.
Submitted by Joseph Urevich on May 11, 2006

Alternate Combat

If you fail to kill a zombie, instead of losing a heart roll a dice for the zombie. On a 4+ the zombie hits and you lose a heart. This will keep your pawn alive longer.
Submitted by HQCosTheta on March 19, 2007

If you have any of those handy blank cards included in some of the sets you can add a new weapon that reads: Bullet Proof Vest - Zombies hit you on a 5+ instead of a 4+. This rule works hand in hand with "If you fail to kill a zombie, instead of losing a heart roll a dice for the zombie. On a 4+ the zombie hits and you lose a heart" if you choose to use it.
Submitted by HQCosTheta on March 19, 2007

If you have any of those handy blank cards included in some of the sets you can add a new weapon that reads: Bullet Proof Vest - Zombies hit you on a 5+ instead of a 4+. This rule works hand in hand with "If you fail to kill a zombie, instead of losing a heart roll a dice for the zombie. On a 4+ the zombie hits and you lose a heart" if you choose to use it.
Submitted by HQCosTheta on March 19, 2007

On zombie combat, player roles both red and blue dice. Red represents the zombie, and blue represents human. If blue is higher, human wins. If red is higher, human loses a life token. Tie goes to the human, and bullets increase human attack by one.
Submitted by Big Bad Tobe on July 20, 2007

This new combat varient offers new "shooting" and "melle" rules.

Whenever you encounter a zombie, you use a bullet token to instantly kill it. If you dont want to use up a bullet and want to save your ammo, then you roll the dice to kill it. If you miss (like roll under a 4), then you have to take the hit. cards such as "hey look a shotgun" can act for both shooting and melle rules (use a bullet to instantly kill the zombie, or use the stat boost advantage the card gives to kill it in melle combat).

This varient offers (I feel) more of a survival horror element to the game (like using bullets wisely), while greatly simplifying the combat (more than it already is). It can also provide a greater challenge to the game.
Submitted by Andrew on January 10, 2010

Alternate Deck

The game was designed to have only one each of certain "power cards" but 2 of each were printed. Reduce to 1 card each the following cards: Where Did Everybody Go, Bad Sense of Direction, Hysterical Paralysis, The Keys are Still In It, We're Screwed, Fear, Brain Cramp.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Alternate Guts effects

GUTS VARIANT.

I LIKE the GUTS tokens provided in ZOMBIES!!! 5, but they don’t provide enough variety.

When a player begins, or is killed and respawns back at the town square, they start with 3 hearts, 3 bullets, and 3 GUTS tokens. (Remember, a player’s card hand is NOT lost when they die.)

With this variant, a player still gets guts tokens for each 6 rolled in combat, but he/she only loses them when buying certain effects. Some effects cost more than others:

GUTS COST
1
- Move one extra (legal) zombie during zombie movement. (Zombies still only move once.)

2
- Discard an extra card at the end of the turn. (Cycle cards faster.)
- Spawn zombie on street map edge.

3
- Move one extra space during movement. (Must still battle zombies if encountered.)

4
- Spawn 2 dogs in a building.

5
- Gain one health.
- Find a weapon card in a “logical” place. (For instance, find a Fire Axe in the Police Station or Lawn and Garden Center, or a Rocket Launcher in the Army Surplus store.)
- Spawn 2 super-zombies or a Monster (Spider) in a building.
- Spawn a single zombie ANYWHERE. (Yes, on a player’s space is legal, and at anytime.)
Submitted by OrangeCat (Dan Panamaroff) on June 19, 2006

Yet another variant concerning guts tokens:
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1.- Gaining guts tokens: You gain a guts token only when you kill three or more zombies in one turn (if you think it's too dificult you can drop the number to two zombies in one turn).

2.- Losing guts counters: You can "risk" a gut token to move a little more. You announce you are trying to move faster, and roll a die. If you get 4-6, you can move an extra square, and try again. As soon as you get 1-3, you lose one guts token and your movement ends (for that turn).

Hope you like it.
Submitted by Kenemtef on February 8, 2008

Alternate Map Setup

Instead of normal setup, take the helipad and three other random tiles out and turn them face down. Randomize them. Construct the board, going round the table and let each player place a tile, but place no zombies. Make sure there are enough road connections to attach all four facedown tiles, and connect them to the map (without looking at them). Players start at the town square and must explore the city, looking for the helipad. As players move they reveal zombies in squares ajacent to them, and must arrive on a square connected via road to the face down tile to reveal it.
Submitted by Michael Leza on January 18, 2006

Set up the entire map, including all zombies and tokens (face down). Make sure the helipad has at least two ways to enter. All road tiles should connect if possible (use tiles from other sets to "fill in" if necessary). Starting point (Town Square or other) can either be in the center of town or, preferably, on the exact opposite side of town from the helipad.
Submitted by Kevin Dwyer on October 7, 2006

Alternate Use of Glow Zombies

After the Military research lab is revealed zombies that move to another tile infect all zombies on that tile with the Uber-Zombie trait. This creates a wave effect.
Submitted by Big Jon on October 30, 2006

Not using the Zombies 2 expansion tonight but still want to get those glow-zombies in play??
This simple rule change makes things a little more challenging for normal play:

When a player rolls a "6" for zombie movement, instead, replace one zombie already on the board with--you guessed it!--one "Governement Enhanced" rules !GLOW ZOMBIE!, and he must be moved one space if at all possible.

You might be surprised how many sixes get rolled. ;)
Submitted by M. Sanges & Jay "Birdman" on October 3, 2006

Want more Glow Zombie?When you place a "map card" roll a dice,if you got 1 or 2,one of the zombie on this map Card are Glow Zombie...If you got 6,you can CHOOSE to place one...

Another good variant with the precedent variant : When you move zombie,ALWAYS move glow zombie (doesn't count it in the Number of zombie you must move) of 2 frame in the direction of the nearest player...
Submitted by Geofffoy on September 13, 2009

Attack of the glowing zombies...

If the owner of the game has bought a bag o' glowing zombies. Every turn after the "Top Secret Lab" is placed, when a player rolls for zombie movement that player divides the number in half, rounded up and replaces the closest zombies to the lab with glowing zombies (which follow normal glowing zombie rules). So, for example if the player rolled a 5, he would move 5 normal zombies one space each(or 5 glowing zombies 2 spaces each, or any combination), and then replace 3 zombies (the 3 closest to the lab) with glowing zombies. Giving the board now 9 glowing zombies, and so on and so on untill one player wins.
Submitted by Tim Williamson on February 24, 2006

Blank Cards

-Umbrella plan B-

Play only after one helipad is placed (switch one).

At the beginning of the player turn roll a dice, if 6, kill all zombies (they are scored) and players in the selected helipad, and discard this card. That helipad is not usable as an exit.
Submitted by cavefish on July 17, 2009

I added a card: To the Rooftops! Using this card will allow a player whose pawn is in a named building to play it and he is now on the rooftop. He can move to adjacent tiles to their rooftops as well, but only if the squares are adjacent. He may descend to the ground-floor of any other named building. While on a rooftop, he will not be attacked and can move freely, even if it appears that he is in the same square as a zombie (he's really above it). To represent the fact that he's on the roof, keep the "To the Rooftops!" card in front of the player.
Submitted by Bill Logan on March 15, 2009

I noticed Zombies 2 came with two blank event cards so I made my own. I made them into "I'm rubber you're glue, bounce off me, stick to you!" cards, these can be played to reverse the effects of a nasty card played on you back onto the person who played it. Gives them a dose of their own medicine!
Submitted by Steve Destiny on April 11, 2006

Characters!

This variant allows you to play a team of survivors banding together to reach the helipad. Your "shotgun guy" token represents this team, which will usually start with 3 people (called "characters") in it.

Create a new deck of 18 "Character" cards, each with four traits: Name, Life, Bullets, and Special Abilities.

During game setup, the dealer shuffles the Character deck and deals out 3 characters to each player. Each player then takes a number of Life and Bullet tokens equal to the amount indicated on all their cards. Play begins as normal, using any other house rules you like to play with.

When you lose a combat and have no health remaining, you do not automatically return to town square. Instead, discard one character card, one event card, and one item/weapon in play, and all movement and combat for your turn ends. Place one additional zombie on your tile, if possible, and then roll for your zombie movement as normal.

You may have one card in your hand per character in your party, and may have one item/weapon in play per character in your party. You may have multiple copies of the same weapon, however.

If your last character dies, you must discard everything, lose half your zombies, and return to Town Square - at which point you may shuffle the character and event decks, draw three new characters, and set up as normal.

The 18 character cards are:

Doctor - Before rolling for movement, you may choose to not move. If you do, roll one die: if the result is greater than your current number of life tokens, gain two life tokens. L-2 B-0

Nurse - Before rolling for movement, you may choose to not move. If you do, roll one die: if the result is greater than your current number of life tokens, gain two life tokens. L-1 B-1

EMT - Before rolling for movement, you may choose to not move. If you do, roll one die: if the result is greater than your current number of life tokens, gain two life tokens. L-0 B-2

Nice Girl - For each character in your party without a special ability, you may add +1 to a single roll during your turn. If you would discard a character due to losing combat, you must discard this character first. L-3 B-0

Mom - For each character in your party without a special ability, you may add +1 to a single roll during your turn. If you would discard a character due to losing combat, you must discard this character first. L-2 B-1

Soccer Coach - For each character in your party without a special ability, you may add +1 to a single roll during your turn. If you would discard a character due to losing combat, you must discard this character first. L-1 B-2

Cop - Each bullet spent adds +2 to combat rolls instead of +1. L-2 B-1

Marine - Each bullet spent adds +2 to combat rolls instead of +1. L-1 B-2

Gun Nut - Each bullet spent adds +2 to combat rolls instead of +1. L-0 B-3

Sharpshooter - Instead of moving, you may spend bullets to target any zombie within 6 spaces. Roll a die: on a 4+, kill that zombie. L-0 B-1

Bum - Your maximum hand size for event cards is increased by 2. L-1 B-0

Little Girl - no special ability. L-1 B-1

Businessman - no special ability. L-1 B-1

College Kid - no special ability. L-1 B-1

Jock - no special ability. L-1 B-1

Cheerleader - no special ability. L-1 B-1

Nerd - no special ability. L-1 B-1

Goth - no special ability. L-1 B-1
Submitted by Brent Dill on June 24, 2009

Cooperative Play

This is a survival option to play the game as a team. The goal is for ALL players to reach the center square of the helipad and escape. Gameplay follows the normal rules as printed, with the following modifications to parts of the turn sequence:

- Draw a map tile and place is it as normal.
- Combat any zombies on your current space as normal.
- Rather than forming a hand of cards, have all cards remain within a single stack. At this point in the turn sequence, draw a card from it. The effect occurs immediately. If it is a negative effect and targets a player, the player that drew it is the target. If it is a positive effect, place it face-up in front of you to use when applicable. If it is an item that needs to be found at a named building, hold it in your hand until you can place it in front of you.
- Make a movement roll as normal and combat any zombies on a space you move into. You may move another player with you, though you divide your movement roll in half (round down) and that player cannot move on their turn. If you are on the same space as another player, you gain a +1 to your combat roll. You only gain a maximum of +1 regardless of how many players share the same space.
- Make a zombie roll as normal, however, you must choose the zombies nearest to you to be moved and they must move closer to you, even if they bypass another player to do so.

If you lose your last Life Token, you have died and become a zombie. You now continue play as a zombie and attempt to feast on your former friends. You lose all cards and tokens and move only 1 space on your turn of movement. When you share a space with another player, both of you roll a dice and the higher result wins the fight. Tokens may still be used to modify rolls. Zombie players still make a zombie roll on your turn, even if your zombie character has been defeated, though you may move any zombie in any direction when you do.
Submitted by Lord Wolfe on October 5, 2008

This is a survival option to play the game as a team. The goal is for ALL players to reach the center square of the helipad and escape. Gameplay follows the normal rules as printed, with the following modifications to parts of the turn sequence:

- Draw a map tile and place is it as normal.
- Combat any zombies on your current space as normal.
- Rather than forming a hand of cards, have all cards remain within a single stack. At this point in the turn sequence, draw a card from it. The effect occurs immediately. If it is a negative effect and targets a player, the player that drew it is the target. If it is a positive effect, place it face-up in front of you to use when applicable. If it is an item that needs to be found at a named building, hold it in your hand until you can place it in front of you.
- Make a movement roll as normal and combat any zombies on a space you move into. You may move another player with you, though you divide your movement roll in half (round down) and that player cannot move on their turn. If you are on the same space as another player, you gain a +1 to your combat roll. You only gain a maximum of +1 regardless of how many players share the same space.
- Make a zombie roll as normal, however, you must choose the zombies nearest to you to be moved and they must move closer to you, even if they bypass another player to do so.

If you lose your last Life Token, you have died and become a zombie. You now continue play as a zombie and attempt to feast on your former friends. You lose all cards and tokens and move only 1 space on your turn of movement. When you share a space with another player, both of you roll a dice and the higher result wins the fight. Tokens may still be used to modify rolls. Zombie players still make a zombie roll on your turn, even if your zombie character has been defeated, though you may move any zombie in any direction when you do.
Submitted by Lord Wolfe on October 5, 2008

This is a survival option to play the game as a team. The goal is for ALL players to reach the center square of the helipad and escape. Gameplay follows the normal rules as printed, with the following modifications to parts of the turn sequence:

- Draw a map tile and place is it as normal.
- Combat any zombies on your current space as normal.
- Rather than forming a hand of cards, have all cards remain within a single stack. At this point in the turn sequence, draw a card from it. The effect occurs immediately. If it is a negative effect and targets a player, the player that drew it is the target. If it is a positive effect, place it face-up in front of you to use when applicable. If it is an item that needs to be found at a named building, hold it in your hand until you can place it in front of you.
- Make a movement roll as normal and combat any zombies on a space you move into. You may move another player with you, though you divide your movement roll in half (round down) and that player cannot move on their turn. If you are on the same space as another player, you gain a +1 to your combat roll. You only gain a maximum of +1 regardless of how many players share the same space.
- Make a zombie roll as normal, however, you must choose the zombies nearest to you to be moved and they must move closer to you, even if they bypass another player to do so.

If you lose your last Life Token, you have died and become a zombie. You now continue play as a zombie and attempt to feast on your former friends. You lose all cards and tokens and move only 1 space on your turn of movement. When you share a space with another player, both of you roll a dice and the higher result wins the fight. Tokens may still be used to modify rolls. Zombie players still make a zombie roll on your turn, even if your zombie character has been defeated, though you may move any zombie in any direction when you do.
Submitted by Lord Wolfe on October 6, 2008

Experience

This is pretty fun rule option that me and my buddies tested out. For every zombie you kill you get one experience point. When a player has 15 kills they go up a level.
Level 1- Plus one max health tokens(Players can have six total now.
Level 2- Plus one random event card.
Level 3- Plus one to movement rolls.
Level 4- Plus one to attack rolls.
Players can keep track of their experience themselves or nominate a player to record it on a piece of paper. When a player dies they lose their experience and must start from zero again unless they have a card like "Adjusting Nicely". No one has yet to make it to level 4(60 zombies)in my group.

Submitted by Ryan Christensen on April 2, 2008

Exploration Game

Do not draw a map tile at the beginning of your turn. Instead, play as normal until you reach the edge of a map tile. If you are able to move on to the next tile, immediately flip a map tile and place it at your destination in any legal orientation. Place all zombies and tokens, then continue your movement.
If you reveal a map tile on your turn, you must move at least 1 space on to that tile.
When the helipad is revealed, the player with the least number of zombies still gets to place it.
When you reach the helipad, you must "start it" before you can win. Once you reach the center of the helipad roll 1 die. A 6 wins the game. If you fail that roll, you must wait until next turn to try again. This roll does not count as a movement roll.

Submitted by Evan Kawa on August 15, 2006

Fighting opponents

After the first 2 turns, roll a 5-6 when on same square as opponent to have them discard a health. If last health is used, that player must go back to town square and the active player gets any weapons that player had.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

After the first 2 turns, when 2 players occupy the same square, either player may begin combat if desired. Each player rolls 1D6 and adds it to his health. Bullets can also be used up to add to this sum. Whoever has the highest total wins. The loser discards one life. The winner may then make a movement roll and move away, or continue combat (even the defender).
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Figures Per Space

Allow up to 4 figures per space (2 players max.)
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

If a player wishes, he may help a wounded comrade move. Add their Life Points together & divide by 2 (round up) & THEN roll 1D6 (max. move still 6) This counts as movement for BOTH Players
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Use Life Point based movement. Allow Players who occupy the same space to use the combined attack rule and share ammo between each other.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Guts

A player may play an extra card during a round by discarding a Guts token but his maximum hand-size is reduced by one permanently. This can only be used once per round.
Submitted by Steve on January 19, 2006

Change the "If you roll a 1 during combat you loose a guts token." to "If you roll a 1 during movement you loose a guts token.". Loosing one life or three bullets on a 1 in combat is bad enough, and "freezing" during movement shows that you do not have the guts to face the zombies.
Submitted by Tobias Pressel on May 26, 2006

Don't like leaving things to chance? A player may trade two life tokens to flip one of his guts tokens.
Submitted by Steve Donohue on January 19, 2006

Instead of rolling a combat die, offer one of you Gut tokens to escape from a zombie that on yor square. You can move to any legal adjacent square. With this rule you can also give certain (super) zombies more than 1 hit point (use the black heart tokens for zombie hit points if you want).
Submitted by Olaf Pieters on May 1, 2008

Instead of rolling a combat die, offer one of you Gut tokens to escape from a zombie that's on your square. You can move to any legal adjacent square. With this rule you can also give certain (super) zombies more than 1 hit point (use the black Heart tokens for zombie hit points if you want).
Submitted by Olaf Pieters on May 1, 2008

Player may trade 5 Zombies from their Dead Pool for 1 Guts at the start of their turn.
Submitted by Joseph Urevich on May 11, 2006

Players may have 6 Guts, but maximum hand size is 5 cards. Special rules for Max/Min Guts: The following cards are changed, Hysterical Paralysis and Fear. A player that has 6 Guts may lose one to stop these cards when targeted. A player with 0 Guts has these cards last 1 extra turn, but gains 1 Guts (put a guts token on the card and give it to the target when the first turn of effect happens).
Submitted by Joseph Urevich on May 11, 2006

Health

If players lose a life roll 1D6: on a roll of 1 they’re infected & lose 1 life per turn until dead unless a First Aid Kit is used
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

In a cooperative game or otherwise, allow a player to pick up more health than 5. The additional health tokens are flipped over (white-side up) to show that they aren't in effect. These represent a MedPack. In place of any movement, a player whose pawn is not sharing a space with any zombies may use his MedPack and flip over any number of those health tokens. If playing in a cooperative/survival game, a MedPack can be administered to another player if that player's pawn is within one square of the player's pawn.
Submitted by Bill Logan on March 15, 2009

Increased Zombie Movement

Increase the number of spaces that zombies move from 1 to some larger number. If you are using a variant which increases player movement, you should especially consider also using this variant. For example, if you double player movement, you should double zombie movement as well. Otherwise it is too easy for players to outrun the zombies.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Instead of rolling for Zombie Movement and moving that many zombies one space, you can now move zombies up to 2 spaces as long as a "2" or greater is rolled making the die roll a more "total score for movement".
[eg. a player rolls a "4", this can be used to do any of the following: move two zombies two spaces each, OR four zombies one space each, OR a combination, one zombie two spaces followed by two other zombies one space a piece.]
Submitted by M. Sanges on October 3, 2006

Ok, I don't know if I was the only one to do this, but when me and my friend first started playing, we would add zombies to the playing field instead of just moving the ones currently there. So when a building requires zombies, then we would place those. Basically, its an easy way to fill the board with zombies and a great way to rack up zombies if you want to win by killing 25 of them.
Submitted by Daniel Perez on January 30, 2009

Left 4 Dead special infected

Boomer
Delivers a vomit that causes the receiver to stumble around blind. Roll one D6 to judge distance, and a D6 for every direction the survivor can go. The highest roll is the exit taken. If in contact with any zombies during the survivors move then they must be fought but with a 5+ to kill. It only has one life and dies after one attack, it also takes one life after its attack. It costs three normal zombies.

Hunter
Jumps upon a survivor, if within two spaces of him. Once jumped upon the survivor must roll a 5+ to kill it. For every failed roll the survivor loses a life.
It only has one life. It costs three normal zombies.

Smoker
It drags the nearest survivor over three spaces to it. Once dragged the survivor must roll a 5+ to kill it. For every failed roll the survivor loses a life all zombies dragged through are ignored. It only has one life. It costs three normal zombies.

Charger
It charges the nearest survivor within two spaces. Once hit the survivor is pushed back three spaces before the charger dies. All zombies pushed through are ignored. The survivor loses one life. It costs two normal zombies.

Jockey
It jumps from within one space and directs the players’ movement for the next turn. The survivor attacks back with a 5+, for every failed attack the survivor loses a life. It has one life. It costs three normal infected

Spitter
This spits acid at the nearest survivor, within two spaces. The survivor misses its next turn and loses one life. It has one life and only one attack. It costs two normal zombies.

Tank
The tank may only attack survivors in its space. A 5+ is required to wound, for every fail a life is lost. It has three lives. It costs five normal zombies.

Witch
A witch may only attack in its square. On entering a square with a witch a D6 must be rolled, on a six the survivor passes, not disturbing the witch. If any other number then the survivor is attacked. The survivor roles on a 5+. The witch has five lives. It costs seven normal zombies.

Only four special infected are aloud on the board at one time.

Submitted by Anonymous on July 28, 2010

Miscellaneous

Helicopter cleared for takeoff: the helipad must be cleared of all zombies before takeoff can be permitted from the center of the tile.
Submitted by MetalBee on June 11, 2009

If a player dies the dead player place the zombies he/she have collected on any legal spaces of the player's choice.
Submitted by Painocus on July 23, 2006

Player may sacrifice movement and 1 Life Token to search for ammo in the following buildings: Sporting Goods, Army Surplus, and Police Station. ROLL 1D6, 4-6 = AMMO FOUND!! ROLL 1d6 for Quantity of Bullets!
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

You can change (at the start of your turn) a zombie killed for a bullet. Only one for turn.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Movement

A player may opt to jump in or out of a window by spending a life.
Submitted by Michael Leza on January 18, 2006

Add movement roll to health and move that many
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Downed- Excuse me if this has already been put up, but when I play, I commonly use a house rule, that at 0 heart tokens, you place your shotgun guy face down, and are still alive, but have to crawl away. During this time, they have 4 turns to crawl to another survivor, who can sacrifice one heart token at his expense to raise the survivor back to his feet, with two heart tokens. When downed, a survivor can only move at half the speed, and is instantly killed if a zombie touches him.
Submitted by Kyle Hussett on January 1, 2009

Entrenchment - When a player is on the door tile of a building, and as long as there are no zombies there, he may attempt to block the entrance. To do so, he spends a round and throws 1D6; 4-6 is a success.

No zombies or players may enter the building as long as it is blocked; the entrenched player can exit, but that breaks the blocking. Another player can attempt to enter by spending a round and scoring a 5-6. If any player rolls a 6 when moving zombies, he can choose to break a blocking instead of moving as long as a zombie token is in front of a building.

If the entrenched player wishes so, he can allow another player to enter; this consumes a round, during which the blocking is considered broken.
Submitted by Singularity on March 11, 2007

Fast zombies in Humans!!!

Makes the game move along quicker and makes it more action packed. The idea is to get the city swarming with zombies by the end of the game!

Rather than dividing the movement on your character card between your player pawns, each player zombie will move up to that many squares (halted by humans as normal).

However, for each wound card in your possession, you must deduct 1 from EACH zombie's movement.

It is also recommended to spawn a second zombie at the beginning of your second turn, regardless of the number of players.
Submitted by notsirk on December 10, 2009

Hunters can always move up to (Health + 2) spaces. This number counts as your movement roll instead of using dice. Also, players always move 3 zombies per turn instead of rolling for zombie movement.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Minimum movement is player's health when roll is made. Thus if roll is less than health, movement is equal to health.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Players may run: Roll 2 dice for movement and pick the best. However, a running player loses all remaining move if he encounters a zombie.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Roll one die for movement and move up to that many spaces that turn but evey time your token moves so must a zombie so they shamble as you run. You cannot move the same zombie twice in one turn though
Submitted by Jason Ling on July 25, 2006

Survivor: This a variation of Kyle Hussett's "Downed" rule.
At 0 heart tokens, you place your shotgun guy face down and are still alive, but have to crawl away. When downed, a survivor may spend 1 guts token per turn to roll for movement and crawls half the number rolled (rounded up). A survivor may not enter combat, but can spend an additional guts token to crawl past a zombie. A crawling survivor may not draw or use event cards, place map tiles or move zombies.
If the crawling survivor collects a life token, he is healed and may stand his shotgun guy and continue play as normal.
If the crawling survivor's guts tokens reach 0, the player has died.
Submitted by Daniel Lawrance on April 21, 2010

Outbreak mode

1) take time before the game starts and have everyplayer design the game map.

2) when the game map is set up as per the rules of tile placement, take a handfull of bullet and heart tokens and "sprinkle" them all across the map(tokens must be positioned inside of the squares they land in. if a token lands in 2 squares that token should be moved to the square it occupies the most. same applies for human pieces).

3) take a handfull of coins (or human pieces from Humans!!! (one for each tile)) and "sprinkle" them all across the map. these represent human survivors.

4)human pieces that are inside buildings are considered "armed" ( I'll explain in a little bit) while human pieces that are outside are considered "unarmed"

5) instead of starting at town square, each player starts at a named tile according to their piece color (ex: blue starts at the police station, red starts at firestation, ect.). no players may be placed in the hospital (ill explain in a bit)

6) one player has to be the "zombie master." zombie master starts with one zombie pice in the center of the hospital tile, surrounded by human pieces. the zombie master rolls his zombies by rolling one dice for the # of zombies.

7) if a zombie lands on an unarmed human piece, that piece is assumed killed and must be replaced by a zombie piece. if a zombie lands on an armed piece, the zombie master must roll for combat (3 or better to kill an armed human, instant death for unarmed humans if zombie occupies same square. no bullets). if he fails to kill the human in a single roll, then the zombie must move back a square. if a zombie piece ends up in the same square as a player, combat goes normally as if it is an unmodified zombies!! game (4 or better to kill, ect.)

8) if a player piece dies, rather than respawn somewere, the player must become a zombie master. that player than takes up the same responsibilities as a zombie master (IE, sending zombies after players).

9) the zombie kill score rule doesnt apply to this game (no 25 kill count). dead zombies are returned to the zombie master (ill explain why).

10) the object of the game for the human players, is to rescue as many human pieces as they can. The player with the most human pieces who makes it to the helipad wins. If a player has human "survivors" and gets hurt by a zombie in combat, they can choose to either take the hit, or sacrifice a survivor. if a survivor is sacrificed, the player must leave his survivor piece in that square (face down if using human pieces from humans). after one round, replace that piece with a zombie piece.

11) if there are more than 25 zombies on the board, the zombie master(s) must roll 2 die for zombie movement.

12)the helipda tile opens up after 10 full rounds (if all players go, then that is one round).

13) just a reminder: if a zombie ends up in the same square as an unarmed human piece (someone that is not inside a building) that human piece is instantly turned into a zombie and must be replaced by a zombie piece. Armed humans (human pieces inside of buildings) must be killed in the same manner that a zombie is killed by a player (zombie master must roll a 3 or better to kill an armed human with a zombie piece)

note: This variant is meant to simulate an actual zombie outbreak. realiticly, zombie outbreaks would technically start at hospitals. ergo, 1st zombie ends up in the center of a hospital tile, surrounded by human pieces.
Submitted by Maverick on February 8, 2009

own

Got to Remove the Head
After you defeat a Zombie in combat, you do not add it to your collection, because it’s not dead just yet. You have to take the time to remove its head. You lose one movement every time you remove a zombies head. If you do not remove its head you may leave it on the ground, it will stand back up at the beginning of your next round. If another player comes to a zombie that has been downed, but not decapitated, they may remove its head and add it to their collection as if they killed it. If you use the Hey, a Shot Gun card or the Fire Ax card, you are considered to have decapitated the Zombie when you drop it.

Sprinting:
You may lose 1 life token to move 1 additional d6 this round, but if you do, it counts as your event card this round, and may not do it if you have played a card this round. You must fight each Zombie you encounter while moving. Also when fighting Zombies you encounter, you are at -1 to your rolls.

Ransack
You may forgo your movement, and pay 1 guts token to search any named building that contains no zombies. Role a die. 1-2: nothing, 3: one bullet, 4: one life, 5: a zombie you thought was dead. Fight him. If you win gain 1 Guts and 1 Bullet tokens. 6: Zombie you thought was dead. Fight him. If you win, you find a weapon on his body. Play any weapon card from your hand, regardless of the building requirement. If you do not have a weapon card in your hand, you get two tokens of your choice. You may not spend tokens to modify your search roll. You may not spend tokens to modify your first combat roll from fighting the surprise Zombies.
Submitted by Thomas J. Dudley on April 17, 2009

Placing more bullets

A player who starts his turn in a named building with no zombies in it may ransack instead of moving. Roll 1 die. If you roll less than your number of bullets, you may take 2 bullets.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Every unnamed tile have a bullet in the central square
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

One of every two zombies appeared by event card have a bullet.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

When you kill a zombie, you roll a dice. With a 6, you take a bullet.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

When you place a new tile, roll a dice. If it's less (not equal) than the number of road access points, you put a bullet token in the tile.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

When you put a new tile, roll a dice. If it's less than the number of road access points, you put the number of the roll in bullet tokens in the tile.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Placing the Helipad

After shuffling the map tiles (excluding the town square and helipad), take x-1 map tiles (where x = the number of players) from the top and shuffle them with the helipad. Then place those tiles at the bottom of the stack. This way, the helipad still doesn't come up until the end of the game, but every player has an equal chance of placing it.
Submitted by Pete, Patrick, and Danny on November 13, 2007

When the helipad appears, players bid with the zombies they have killed, and the highest bidder gets to place the Helipad.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Placing tokens

Place the heart/bullet tokens face down instead of face up in the buildings
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

This is a simple one. When you place a tile with Life or Bullet Tokens, once you have the number of Tokens of each you need, flip them face-down and mix them up. Then set them in the buildings or at the location. In longer games, it is easy to forget what is where, and it prevents players from targeting all the ammo while dodging life that's guarded by zombies or is out of the way.
Submitted by Chad Roman on May 28, 2007

Playing with zombies and zombie babes

If you have both the old zombies, and the zombie babes, try this option. The zombie babes are undead people that you know. This makes it hard to fight them. No weapons or bullets can be used in the first round of combat. If a player loses this combat AND has movement left, then the player loses all remaining movement in place of a lost life (yes this means you can crash the car!). The second combat against the same zombie is normal (the shock has worn off!). Zombie babe creation: one replaces a normal zombie in any building that has 4 or more zombies. Replace a killed shotgun guy with a zombie babe, and move the winning zombie to the nearest open space.
Submitted by Joseph Urevich on May 24, 2008

This variation only works if all players in the group have the same sex or if 50% are female and 50% male.

Choose one or more of the following ideas:
If a player fighting against a zombie of the opposite/same* sex, he/she...
- must role a 5 or 6 to kill him/her.
- may not use bullet tokens.
- may not use weapons.

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* depending on the humor of the game group
Submitted by Moritz Schubert on November 16, 2009

Quick and the Dead

Zombies!!! Scenario
“The Quick and the Dead”
By Rob Davis

This scenario was designed for use with the main Zombies!!! game but works with the expansions as well. I designed it with the intention of making a “scary as he__!” scenario. In this version the undead are more numerous and more deadly!

Setup:
Tiles are drawn and setup as normal… However when a tile is placed, put the normal number of bullets and hearts on it but every legal square gets a zombie. This will cause the mobs of the undead to grow at an alarmingly fast rate! (You will want to have a lot of extra zombies; I suggest mixing the regular zombies with the zombie babes or even the clowns and dogs. Just use the rules here instead of any special rules from expansions for all the zombies.)
To even things out a bit all players start with 5 bullets and 5 hearts! In this scenario there is no limit on the amount of hearts that a player can have. This is because in this scenario, on his/her turn, a player can trade in a heart to play extra cards. On any turn that a heart is traded in, that player, can play as many cards from their hand as they wish.
Movement:
Zombies will move as normal. Humans on the other hand will be in a mad dash to get the heck out of the city, so all players will roll 2D6 for movement each turn. (Any game effects that add to movement such as the clown car from Zombies!!! 7 will add to this dice roll. The clown car will only add 2 to movement inside the carnival but if the players still have it when they reach the city streets it will add +1D6 just as a jeep from the motor pool does.)
Winning the Game:
This scenario is only won by being the first to the helipad. So grab your gun and get ready to face hordes of undead like you’ve never faced before!

Submitted by Rob Davis on December 20, 2009

Quick Draw Tiles!

Before a Player draws a Map Tile, they will ROLL 1D6: 1-2 = 1 Tile, 3-4 = 2 Tiles, 5-6 = 3 Tiles. Player may increase roll of dice by spending Lives on a 1 for 1 basis. (Max 2 Life can be spent)
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Random Respawn II

Player May NOT respawn on Helipad. Do not count helipad when determing distance.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Random Respawn!!

When player dies they Roll 1D6 @ spot of Death. 1=UP,2-3=LEFT,4-5=RIGHT,6=UP. Then Roll 1D6 to determine how many tiles away the player will respawn. The player will respawn on the center square of the Tile. If player moves off map, the player wraps to opposite side and counts Tiles inwards.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Ranged Attacks

Allow a player to spend a bullet token to perform a ranged attack. Only cards whose combat bonuses derive from ranged-type attacks add their bonuses (for instance, the fire axe won't help, but the shotgun will). Additional bullets can be spent as per normal (for instance, if you roll 2 on your ranged attack, spending two more bullets will turn the failed roll into a success). There should be no limit to the number of times a player can do this; the number of bullets will limit them sufficiently. This allows them to try to clear a path before moving.
Submitted by Bill Logan on March 15, 2009

Allow attacks into adjacent arias as long as Players have Ammo (no diagonals). If an attack fails lose one Ammo token & roll again. When Ammo is gone Players are limited to same space combat only (HTH) (at a -1?)
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Ranged Attacks II

Attack adjacent square Cost 1 bullet, Attack 2 squares away Cost 2 bullets, Attack 3 squares away Cost 3 bullets. MAX 3 SQUARES RANGE. May still spend bullets to adjust Dice Roll to a 4-6.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Resident Evil Nemesis

On a movement roll of a 1 the player who rolled must now fight nemesis. roll 2 d6 bothe of them have to be a 4 or higher or you re-roll BOTH die. for each unmodified 6 rolled in combat with nemesis, the player fighting nemesis picks up one item card.
Submitted by El Dave-O on November 4, 2007

Respawn is BAD

Players begin game with 5 life. (MAX 5) Everytime a player dies, they begin with 1 LESS Life. i.e. After four deaths, they begin with 1 Life. They still may get 5 Life.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Respawn is BAD II

The Life the player begins with after respawning is that players NEW MAXIMUM Life. i.e. Afte the players fourth respawn, they begin with 1 life and can only have 1 Life (1 Max Life)
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Retrieve the research!

Vanilla Zombies!!! with a twist: retrieve the research files from the Top Secret Lab, and make it back to the helicopter in the town!

To start: Get the Zombie Corpse expansion, remove the helicopter tile from that. Play starts from the town square like a vanilla game of Zombies, except you DO NOT win when you kill 25 zombies.

Play like normal, until someone draws the front gate tile. The player who has killed the most zombies decides where it's placed. Play continues as normal, until the Top Secret Lab tile is placed somewhere within the army base (shuffle it into the lower half of the army deck if you want a larger base). Place the Lab tile, place 6 glow-in-the-dark uberzombies on it, and place a token on a place you can't reach from the street. This token represents a briefcase filled with research data on the zombie crisis.

Make your way over to the briefcase, and pick it up like you would a heart or bullet token.

The person who has the least amount of killed zombies (unless that is the person holding the briefcase) places the helicopter tile when it's drawn. You have to place the helicopter tile in the town, you can not place it in the army base.

Die while carrying the briefcase and it is dropped where you died, and place a zombie on the same spot.

You can only win by making it to the helicopter with the briefcase. You won't win if you make it to the helicopter with the briefcase.

You can NOT kill any other players.
Submitted by Bas on February 26, 2010

Search and Rescue

for use with the Z3 expansion
1. Pass out all of the tile cards beside the entrence to the players evenly.
2. Starting from the entrence place the cards.
3. Once the cards are all layed out put a "survivor" in all of the stores.
4. The player who can get the most surviors out of the mall through either the entrance or heli-pad wins.
5. If a player dies ALL survivors are left where they died and may be picked up by anyone else.
6. 30 zombies are placed by player through out the mall.
7. Each player adds one zombie anywhere ech turn instead of placing a tile.
8. Player can not attack each other.
Submitted by Alex Reeves on April 18, 2009

Separate Decks

This works best with lots of cards, but a limit of maybe 5 or 6 players.
Shuffle all the cards to be used together (take out any that specifically rely on an expansion you’re not going to use), and get all players to sit in a circle. Player one picks up a number of cards from the top equal to the number of players, plus one (for 4 players, they pick up 5 cards). Player one looks at the cards, picks one to go in their deck, and passes the remainder to the player to their left (player two), who picks one from the remaining cards, passes the remainder to their left, and so on. The last player should only have two cards left to choose from, and the card they DON’T choose goes in the middle, as part of the universal deck.
Player two then picks up the same number of cards as before, picks one, passes to their left, and so on. Then player three picks up the cards. This is so that each player has the chance to pick from the maximum number of cards.
If there are any cards remaining (but not enough to start another round of this), then they automatically go to the universal deck.

Decks are shuffled, and play begins as normal. The universal deck always has the top card face-up, and when drawing a card, players choose to draw from either their own deck, or the universal deck. Likewise, when discarding a card, players can choose to discard the top card from the universal deck.
Submitted by Ham the Zombie on May 7, 2007

Sewer Tokens

All 4-way intersection tiles come into play with a sewer token on the center square.
Submitted by Bilbo on July 20, 2007

Specific Card Change

After playing "The Keys Are Still In It", Zombies are fought as normal, but the card's movement point can be used instead of ammo. So if you roll a 1, you could lose 3 movement to kill the zombie, or 3 ammo, or any combination.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Replace the text on the First Aid cards with this: "Play this card in front of you when you are in the Hospital or the Drug Store. You may discard this card to instantly recharge your life points to 3. If you have 3 or more life already, this card has no effect."
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

When you move as a result of The Keys are Still In It, zombies you encounter are always killed (they are run over, no combat required). Whether or not zombies killed in this way count toward the 25 victory zombies should be decided before the game begins.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Starting conditions - for quicker play

Start with 5 life and 5 bullets.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Suprise Zombies (v2)

Place “surprise” Zombies beside players who roll a 1 for their movement
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Survival Game

Played as normal, except any killed player doesn’t respawn, and a new zombie is placed adjacent to the square they died in (if all spaces already have zombies, the player is assumed to have been eaten, and a new zombie is not placed). If you like, the new zombie can be specially marked, and count as two (or more) zombie kills.
This game is best played when any killed players have something else to do, so as to avoid them getting bored.
Submitted by Ham the Zombie on May 7, 2007

Survive!!!

This is almost an entire rule change, but the finished product is a very hard survival game.
(Best played with a lot of people or people playing as multiple characters)

No health or event card limit! Event cards are drawn after each turn.
Card placing change:First keep 9 zombies off to the side for when you run out of zombies to put on the map. (Trust me you will.)
Also only place card pieces when someone reaches the end of one card. (Like the Exploration change.)
Movement change:Rather then rolling a dice to see how far you go you only move by one square unless if your a civilian. (Read below.) Special movement cards only give you +1 movement.
When moving zombies you must start with the closest zombies towards you and move the rest accordingly. (Moving them by only one square of course)
Combat change:You roll two dice one representing the zombies attack the other representing your attack and if you kill the zombie you must spend one bullet. If your out of ammo then your attack roll is cut in half unless if you pick up a weapon then your combat roles are back to normal when you pick up ammo then it MUST be used and weapon goes back to its normal use until ammo is used up.
Before you start you pick one out of three classes:Soldier, Doctor or Civilian.
Soldier:9bullets, 2life points, 1movement and gets +3bullets found.
Doctor:6bullets, 4health,(Optional) 2medpacks (Read below) and double the amount of life points found.
Civilian:5bullets, 3health and 2movement can also move after attacking.
(You can also make limits on how many characters there can be e.g. only 2Solders and 1Doctor the rest are civilians.)
Med packs:Doctor must be on the same tile as player in order to use Med packs when player receives life points they may chose to use it a Med pack for the Doctor to use or just as Life points.
Building changes:Minimum amount of 6bullets per building.
To receive items you must clear the building of ALL zombies. (Including Helipad.)
Items are placed in a stack at the back of the building. (They do not interfere with the players or zombies.)
Even card changes:As said before Movement cards only give +1movement.
All target player event cards activate on the card drawer instantly (Brain cramp excluded.)
Zombie master card allows player to move any zombies one space to any legal space.
First aid kit gives you a life point and two for doctors no matter where you are.
Lots of bullets gives you ammo anywhere and soldiers get +2bullets.
Zombie building spawn cards activate instantly on the closest building to card drawer.
Adrenaline Rush gives you 1 extra movement or 2 points to your combat role.

That should be all of the changes this is a very challenging game i recommend sticking together and to get a weapon ASAP other wise you will run out of ammo quickly and you wont last long.
Also ammo can be traded when needed and bodies can be looted of ammo, but you must win a combat roll in order to receive the ammo and there cant be any zombies around when you make the roll.
Submitted by Survival master on May 11, 2009

Teamwork

If you spend any portion of your move in a square with another player you get a +1 to your movement for each different player. If you fight a zombie in a square with another player you get a +1 to your combat roll per other player.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

The Keys Are Still In It

If you pass the Gas Station while using “Keys” you may elect to stop in front of it & end your turn there, THEN move 10 spaces next turn
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Only allow “Keys” to be played on a tile that has a car pictured in it
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

When using “Keys” if a combat is lost & ammo isn’t used to boost the result, instead of losing a life, movement & turn ends & “Keys” is discarded (you’ve wrecked/stalled the car etc.)
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

You can give other players a lift! If at any time while using "The Keys Are Still In It" you occupy the same space as another player you may "Pick Them up" and they move with you. They can get out at any time on any legal space, or you can just kick them out!
Submitted by GoatMan on May 11, 2007

Tile Deck

Central Park Rules: Shuffle 10-15 'Zombie 4' tiles into your urban Zombie deck (removing Bridge & Cabin). With the exception the first outdoor tile placed, every outdoor tile placed must be touching an outdoor tile on at least one side. Likewise, urban tiles may be placed next to outtdoor tiles, but must to connected to at least one other urban tile. The Result: A pleasant park in any urban area, overflowing with pampered zombie dogs!
Submitted by Dave Joria on June 19, 2007

Tile Placement

For shuffling expansion entrances, after you split the tile deck into half, and shuffle the helipad into the bottom half of the deck, take any/all expansion entrances and shuffle them into the top half of the deck before joining the two halves together.
Submitted by Ben Moss/Michael Fineberg on January 9, 2007

Shuffle heliport in the bottom half of deck, place heliport randomly in the middle or shuffle heliport in tile deck once town square is surrounded by tiles.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

The game is now divided into 2 phases: the Map Phase and the Killing Phase. The Map Phase is played first. Place the town square and setup the map tile deck as usual. Then each player in turn draws and places a map tile, along with its usual zombies and counters. The Map Phase continues until all map tiles have been placed, including the Helipad. Then the Killing Phase begins. The Killing Phase is played just like the normal game except that the map has already been completed in the Map Phase.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

There is no drawing tile phase. When a player land on a road square that doesn't connect to any tile (an 'end of the world' square), he draws a tile and places it there. If the helipad is draw in this way, follow normal helipad placement rules.
Submitted by Alberto Casarrubios on March 27, 2006

Uberzombie

All zombies that are placed on the map via an event card are uber glow in the dark zombies!
Submitted by Steve Destiny on April 11, 2006

Killed players become uber zombies. Whenever a player is killed by a zombie add a glow in the dark zombie at the spot where they died. These glow zombies are treated the same as the glow/uber zombies per the zombies 2 rules.
Submitted by Steve Destiny on April 11, 2006

New place to replace zombies with Uberzombies. SCIENCE LAB at the school.
Submitted by Joseph Urevich on May 24, 2008

Whenever a zombie kills a player, mark that piece (put a rubber band on it, or a penny under it). That Zombie is now Uber, and any combat against it is at -1. Also during Zombie movement, if that Zombie moves it can move 2 squares instead of 1 (as long as it doesn't move through a square with a zombie). Each move counts as 1 zombie movement point. Alternate rule 1: Each building gets 1 Uberzombie when it's placed down. Alternate rule 2: If a Uberzombie kills a player, it becomes a ZombieKing. Combat against it is at -2, and it can move 3 squares instead of 2.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Weapon Changes

Allow the Shotgun, Chainsaw, etc. to be used as long as the player has Ammo, or allow them to keep using them for 1 use per Ammo token after their time’s up
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Players may play ANY weapon card when inside ANY named location.
Submitted by Kevin Dwyer on October 7, 2006

Upon playing any one-time use weapons (chainsaw, molotov, etc), that player rolls a die until they get a 1,2, or 3; and the former one-time use weapon now gets that many counters on it and the effect is used each possible combat [ie. therefore turning that card into a different flavor of "Oh Look...a Shotgun"].
Submitted by M. Sanges on September 18, 2006

When a player dies, his weapons are "dropped" - the cards are set aside and a token marks the square on which s/he died. Whoever picks the token up first may claim the weapons. The weapons must have been in play (not in hand) when the player died. They become immediately in play for the player who claims them.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Weapon Decks

Instead of getting a free card from the weapon decks when you enter that location, you must draw it during your draw phase instead of a normal card. This means that you have to start your turn there, it still counts as playing a card, and you may have to discard on your previous turn to be able to draw a card at all.
Submitted by Ben Sarsgard on February 2, 2006

Remove all Weapon/Item cards from the draw deck. Separate them by type and place them face up on the table - these are the Weapon Decks. To claim a weapon, a player just goes to the appropriate building and takes the corresponding weapon card from its Weapon Deck. When a particular deck is empty, that type of weapon is no longer available.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Separate the weapons (including 'Hey Look, a Shotgun', 'First Aid Kit', 'Lots of Ammo') into a Weapons Deck. When placing life and bullet tokens in a building, also place a Weapons token. When a player picks it up, they immediately gain a random Weapon from the weapons deck. This does not count as playing a card this turn. If a building is already completely filled with tokens, have the Weapon token replace a Bullet token.
Submitted by Davie Joria on June 19, 2007

Weapons

Any location-based item should be played out of its location. Instead of drawing a card from the main deck, it is possible to pick up a location-based item from the discharge pile, if been in the location.
Submitted by cavefish on July 17, 2009

weapons

instead of using bullet tokens to raise your die rolls, use them as ammo.(like the "hey look a shotgun card) each bullet token collected counts as a shot. if you run out of ammo(bullet tokens) it takes a five or a six to kill a zombie (or a six to kill a zombie dog or government enhanced zombie).
Submitted by Joseph pelletier on February 5, 2007

Weapons

Separate weapons and each player chooses one weapon randomly to start the game with - shuffle the rest into the deck.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Winning condition

Last man standing wins - start with 5 health and 5 bullets
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Players must have a minimum of 25 zombies in their zombie pool before they can attempt to escape via the helipad. They are NOT required to STAY at 25 (ie. if they lose some, they can still try to reach the helipad) but they MUST have 25 when they get there.
Submitted by Kevin Dwyer on October 7, 2006

Zombie Alternate Movement

"Rising from the Grave": if you roll a six on a zombie movement roll, you _may_ forgo moving the six zombies as normal, and instead _add_ one zombie to any unoccupied space on the board.
Submitted by Wordman on October 6, 2008

Instead of rolling for Zombie movement, automatically move ALL zombies + an additional 1D6
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Instead of rolling for Zombie movement, automatically move ALL zombies within LOS of ALL Players
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Instead of rolling for Zombie movement, automatically move ALL zombies!
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Make it mandatory that when 1D6 is rolled for Zombie movement, Zombies with in LOS of Players are the ones who MUST be moved, even if this means moving Zombies toward the player who rolled for movement. If no players are within LOS then Zombies are moved toward CLOSEST player (s)
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Make it mandatory that Zombies must ALWAYS move TOWARD players
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Rage Infected zombie movement: roll 2d6 for zombie movement and move any number of zombies any number of spaces, as long as the total of zombies plus spaces equals the number rolled.
Submitted by Michael Leza on January 18, 2006

When a player uses a bullet all zombies within 5 squares of that player are moved one square toward them. This only occurs onces per turn
Submitted by GoatMan on May 10, 2007

Zombie Alternate Placement

(Good for scenarios where the players have to go retrive something) Place the zombies on the spaces/tiles AFTER the player has moved through them.(Thus you don't have to fight them on the way in but on the way back out. Or if you run into a dead end you're now surrounded by zombies hehe)
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

At the end of one full round of turns place an additional 1D6-1 Zombies who enter from the edge of the board on any road spaces that lead off the edge of the board
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

If you have regular, glow and dog zombies, instead of placing just the regular zombies on the tile or named building roll 1d6 to determine what type of zombies are placed; 1-2=regular zombie, 3-4=zombie dog, 5-6=glow (uber) zombie. It may take longer but the city map will soon be populated with an assortment of differant zombies. I suppose you could also just mix the three types all in one non-transparent bag/sack and when a player is going to place zombies they just reach in and grab however many and whatever zombies they happen to pick are the ones placed per tile specifications. This method might be faster.
Submitted by Steve Destiny on April 11, 2006

On “unnamed” tiles, instead of placing a number of Zombies equal to the number of entry points, place 1D6-1
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Zombie Critical Hits

If you roll a natural '6' to kill a zombie, the next attack you make within the same turn is rolled at +1. If you do not make another attack the adrenaline is lost.

This is to represent a burst of energy from a stylish and slick kill.
Submitted by Stuart Platt on June 1, 2008

Zombie Critical Hits drop

When combating a zombie, if you roll a "critical hit" of a 6, add the zombie to your total and roll 1D6. On a 1,2, or 3 nothing happens but on a 4,5, or 6, the zombie drops a bullet token! To even the game out, push the zombie kill total to 30.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Zombie Dogs

New places to replace zombies with zombie dogs, #1 PET STORE at the mall, #2 PARKING LOTS at the school, #3 FRONT GATE of the army base, #4 POLICE STATION (only replace 1), #5 FIRE STATION (also only replace 1).
Submitted by Joseph Urevich on May 24, 2008

ZOMBIE L.O.S. (Line of Sight)

When a player stops moving, all zombies in line of sight (Straight up or down and side to side; NOT diagonally) are moved toward him/her. If this causes a zombie to land on the character, then combat is resolved NOW. If multiple zombies are activated, and are close, then this may cause multiple movements and/or combats. (Especially if someone is dumb enough to run into a crowded building or an intersection.) Resolve them one at a time.

Also, assume that the zombies can’t see past each other, unless you want a LOT of movement.

Zombie movement occurs normally after combat is resolved. (This rule variant tends to cause players to run around corners, or duck into buildings to avoid being "seen".)
Submitted by OrangeCat (Dan Panamaroff) on June 19, 2006

Zombie Master

Before you begin choose one person to be the ZM.
The game is played as normal with the following changes.
>Map tiles are drawn and placed by the ZM at the beginning of everyone's turns.
>The human rolls on how many zombies are moved at the end of their turn, but the ZM decides on how the zombies are moved.
>In combat, players must roll against the ZM. Tie goes to Humans.
>On the ZM's turn, he turns an event card face up and the event affects everyone. (If a weapon card is drawn, play continues as normal.)
>Also on the ZM's turn, he must roll 1D6:
- 1 = spawn zombies on all road ends.
- 2 = make 2 players switch locations.
- 3 = replace a heart/bullet token that isn't covered by a zombie with a zombie.
- 4 = spawn 4 zombies to surround a player.
- 5 = take either one equipped weapon, two bullets, or one guts token from all humans. (Humans choice)
- 6 = Replace a zombie in a building with a Super Zombie (glowing). This zombie requires a combat roll of 6 to kill, and can move 2 squares.
>Game is won with escape by helicopter.

This rule I believe adds to the unpredictable factor of this game.
(Since the Zombie Master is not represented by a single pawn, his general goal is to wreak havoc on the human players.)
Submitted by Chris Milinkovic (a.k.a. The Zackman) on July 19, 2010

Zombie surprise

Randomly mark heart and bullet tokens, and when they are picked up look on the back. If it is marked, another zombie appears on the space which has to be fought right away before you get the token.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Zombiefied player (über-zombie)

(In scenarios where players do not reincarnate, once they dead they are) Let that player be a über-zombie(or what ever you call them). The mission for the zombiefied player now is to kill the other players. über-zombies moves 1d6 as normal, but they can't use any cards or bullets. They can take 2 hits before they die. And in a combat they hits its oponent only if the attacked player lose a d6 roll(only 5 and 6 is consider a succes.)
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

When the first gunman dies, they replace their gunman with an marked zombie and become the zombie lord. Their original gunman is set aside until/if needed later. The zombie lord can only be killed with a 6 and can move 3 spaces, the zombie lord also takes over as the person who will move the zombies at the end of every other human gunmans turn. The zombie lord remains in power until killed at which point they respawn as their original gunman at town square OR until another players gunman dies and takes over as the zombie lord, the previous zombie lord than respawns as their original gunman at town square.
The Zombie Lords job is to try and kill the other players either by their own hands or by sending the other zombies against them and by trying to keep the gunman from escaping at the helipad.
Submitted by Steve Destiny on April 15, 2006

Zombies

Dawn of the Dead (2004) speed zombies. They move at a basic 3 moves per turn. They move lighting quick and can be on someone in a second.
Submitted by Zombies on April 28, 2007

Each non-building square gets one less zombie when placed down. Crossroads get 3 zombies. T-sections get 2 zombies. Corners and alleys get 1 zombie.
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

Zombies!!! Gambling

Tired of playing for fun and the respect of your peers? Why not try to win a few bucks.
First, everybody playing throws in a set amount of money. 20 bucks each doesn't break the bank.
Then the game is played. Standard rules apply. This game works best if using at least 2 other expansion sets. This way once the first helipad is used it is removed and the remaining players can then race to the next helipad. Unless you want to play winner takes all, but I find that having a first, second, and third gives everybody a shot at some dough. And who doesn't like that?
First place receives the biggest payout.
Second place doubles up.
Third place makes thier money back.
Enjoy.

Submitted by Douglas Fost on September 28, 2007

Zombifying players

--- another Player Zombie aternative---
-A deceased player becomes a zombie from where he died (uses own shotgun-guy pawn), but discards any tokens weapons and event cards.
-Player zombies move two spaces each turn instead of the standard zombie one. (if playing with dogs, a ZP may collect two dogs and have them accompany him/her at all times until destroyed in player combat)
-He may also share spaces occupied by other zombies. (dogs with PZ are also allowed to co-occupy spaces with their master)
-Player zombies control all zombie movement (except event cards). Live players may still roll for zombie movement at the end of the turn, but the PZ directs them. (More than one player zombie? figure it out amongst yourselves)
-combat with living players is done in that the living player must first destroy any stock zombie if the space is occupied by both stock and player zombies. Combat is then concluded with the destruction of one of the two players. This is determined buy simply rolling opposing dice (no ammunition modifiers allowed). If the living loses he surrenders a health token and rolling continues until he wins or becomes a PZ himself. If the PZ loses he is then removed and replaced at either town square or the helipad.
-Player zombies are still players and thus are still subject to event cards played upon them.
-On a PZ's turn:
1. he still places map pieces
2. He draws and immediately plays an event card excluding weapons and personal movement which are simply discarded. A target player on the recieving end of the card must hold onto the card and act upon it immediately upon the commencement of the action portion of their turn.
3. he then may move up to two spaces
4. he rolls for stock zombie movement
Turn is then complete
Submitted by Gary D. Macabre on February 20, 2007

Killed hunter becomes a zombie - everytime a player is killed a zombie token is added to the closest legal square to where the player was killed (decided by the player who died).
Submitted by Zombies BG Group on July 1, 2004

When a gunman dies, immediately replace it with a uber-zombie, {marked with a rubberband (or whatever else will work)} the player of that recently deceased gunman will now play a zombie until their zombie is killed, after that their original gunman starts back at townsquare and the player resumes play again as a human.
Submitted by Steve Destiny on April 15, 2006

WHEN PLAYERS DIE, A GLOW ZOMBIE IS PLACED AT THAT LOCATION. IF NO GLOW ZOMBIES ARE AVAILABLE - PLACE A PENNY UNDER AS A MARKER (THIS ZOMBIE WILL REQUIRES A 5 OR 6 TO KILL) YOU CONTROL THIS ZOMBIE AS WELL AS STARTING OVER. AT THE END OF YOUR REGULAR TURN, MOVE YOUR ZOMBIE SELF IN ADDITION TO THE REGULAR ZOMBIE MOVEMENT. (THIS IS STRICTLY YOURS TO CONTROL) YES - YOU CAN "RISE UP" MORE THAN ONCE IF YOU DIE OFTEN. YOU MAY FIND YOUR SELF "FACE TO FACE". NOT THE GOAL, BUT IT CAN HAPPEN. STANDARD ROLL APPLIES.
Submitted by RICK SPAULDING on March 18, 2008

Zombism as a plague

Here's a use for those Black Heart tokens that got phased out. When you roll a natural one in combat, you are bitten. In addition to losing a Red Heart token, you gain a black one. Place this in a row above the reds. Do this every time you roll a natural one and don't have the bonus to kill the zombie that round. If you end up with more of these than health, lose one red heart every turn until you pick up enough hearts to go above the number of black hearts you have, or you die. If, when bitten, you are holding a first aid kit, you can nulify the infection by discarding the card. You do not gain any extra health from it and you still lose one heart as normal.
If you die with an infection token in play, your charactor is replaced with a glowing zombie (if you have them, otherwise disregard.) This zombie can only be killed on a five or six, and you have to have a bonus of at least +4 to avoid it's bite on a natural 1.
Infection tokens can be removed for a sacrifice of 4 zombies apiece.
Whew. That was a mouthful. This is a great addition to any zombies game, lets you use tiles you already have, and works especially well with "Alone".
Submitted by Rick Void on July 3, 2006

Tip: Run a green highlighter over the black heart tokens, making them look very different from bullets, and enforcing their diseasedness.

The rules we play with these, is that if during combat, you roll a natural one, and take damage, you replace a red heart token with a black one. If you wind up with only black hearts left, you're a zombie.
To remove a black heart, keep collecting health tokens. You can still only have 5 hearts, but once you have collected 5, you can start replacing the black ones with red ones.
If you die from natural 1 zombie bites, then you must play the zombified character, attacking other players until you have taken at least 3 heart tokens, or been killed, before you respawn.
Submitted by Joseph Brant (to be credited as Macula) on November 7, 2008

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