My friends have bullied me into running a Resident Evil Campaign. I have a system in mind but i have no real idea on what i want the plot to be. Any Ideas?

>>95970049 (OP)
A bunch of locked doors with keys hidden in very obscure places, very little amount of enemies, no resting, very little resources, and very little progress beyond finding keys to more doors to find more keys to more doors.

Honestly, it's a shit video game and a shit game to translate to table top. People remember "OMG ZOMBIES!" and scrounging ammo but gloss over just how bullshit the game was. Make sure you include a section that requires a player to physically play Moonlight Sonata on a piano to get yet another key.

Make it about Ada Wong lusting after BWC.

Don't be friends with bullies.

>>95970114
Bully here.
Dont listen to this nerd!

>>95970049 (OP)
Umbrella did experiment in rural Japan creating a new biostrain. The locals have dubbed it Oni as it lurks and drags it's victims back to the secret Umbrella Lab. Heroes are dispatched to investigate and uncover how the local populace twisted beliefs to this new bioweapon and uncover whatever other bullshit Umbrella was up to.

>>95970049 (OP)
I have considered running the same multiple times, I have many ideas.

1: July 23 1998, PCs are Stars Bravo Team. Sent to investigate strange murders in the mountains. Basically follow the canon with the PCs as new characters. Guaranteed to go off the rails by the Racoon City incident, if not not sooner.
2: July 24, 1998: PCs are Stars Alpha Team. Same as above, but skipping 0.
3: July 24, 1998: PCs are Stars Bravo Team. Same as 2, but Alpha is wiped out, and the PCs are the only survivors. Nice if you don't want the canon protagonists also running around.
4: September 23, 1998. PCs are random citizens of Racoon City. This is the start of the full scale outbreak if you want to run its full duration.
5: September 29, 1998. Last days of Racoon City. PCs could be survivors, UBCS, Army Rangers, or USS Operatives. A mixed party would be very interesting with them all working towards different goals, but necessity of survival keeping them together.
6: November 22, 1998. Sheena Island outbreak. Much like Racoon City, but on a smaller scale. Most of the population were Umbrella employees, and their families. A good starting point if you want to build up to a Blue Umbrella campaign.
7: July, 20004. Terragrigia Panic. First major incident involving the BSAA. Large scale deployment of weaponized BOWs, no zombies. Good start to a BSAA game.
8: March, 2009. Kijuju Autonomous Zone incident. Corporate backed terroists deploy BOWs to fight a bush war in west africa. BSAA intervenes.
9: August, 2010: East Slavic Civil War. Large scale deployment of weaponized BOWs by organized military forces on both sides. PCs could be on one side or the other, or as BSAA intervention forces.
10: December 12, 2012. Edonian Civil War. Previous conflict sparks further wars in neighboring states.
11: June 2013. Twin bioterror attacks in Tall Oaks New Hampshire, and Langshiang China. Whole cities turned to zombie, and BOW infested wastelands overnight. Mix of Racoon City, and BOW conflicts.

>>95970049 (OP)
>>95970135
I ran out of space. I will explain all these, and more in detail upon request. Fuck it here's more.

Random Umbrella researchers pre 1998. PCs get to be on the otherside. For good or ill.
Literally any terrorist action between 1998, and now, but with BOWs.
Do some like small scale outbreaks post 2004. When there's a known vaccine for most Progenitor derived viruses. Like the New York Incident.
I'd say Ukraine, but with BOWs, but that's basically the East Slavic, and Edonia civil wars. Capcom called that shit 10 years in advance.
Do a more political focussed game about the connections, red/blue umbrella, and the big international conspiracy that underpins the franchise.
Or go in a more cosmic horror direction with the mold, and other "sleeping gods" buried beneath the earth. See also the Progenitor flowers only growing in that one cave in africa, or the herbs of the arklay mountains, or las plagas being sealed away. Personal pet theory of mine.

Plot twist: Umbrella is secretly run by demonic cultists and the zombie virus is supernatural, gifted to them by Lord Astaroth from Ghosts and Goblins.

>>95970160
Awesome list and thanks for the input. For nostalgia's sake and with the hype of the next game being in or around raccoon city, i was thinking of making it set before and during RE1/2 with the PCs investigating shady shit that Umbrella are doing and maybe visiting some of the small towns outside RC.

>>95970285
Sounds good. Consider Umbrella employed PCs then, but from other parts of the company discovering the bioweapon development branch, and the eugenics cult inside the upper management.

>>95970049 (OP)
COC or BRP.
>t have done an RE game with COC 7E

>>95970407
I know one of the players wants to be an employee of Umbrella so that works perfectly. I had a sort of an idea that they were going to get promoted but petty office politics causes her to lose out and we can go on from there. (The person promoted was on the train in RE:0)
>>95970649
Genesys with an RE expansion. I just love that system's dice mechanics.

All Flesh Must Be Eaten, by Eden Studios.
It's made for games like this and RE was part of it's inspiration (along with all the other zombie related movies).

>>95971077
Even has a homebrew or something called Regenesis somewhere that is just Resident Evil

>>95970049 (OP)
I was working on a RE-like system based loosely on savage worlds and 13th Age's positioning system, but gave up beyond the core mechanic. There was one rule though.

>Players should respect the survival horror genre. If they choose to smash down a door or crowbar open a container instead of finding the proper means to open it, then an encounter will take place as a penalty.

>>95972563
>doesn't know that crowbars ARE for opening crates
ngmi

>>95972656
Container being something like a locker or a drawer, genius. Roll initiative vs an ivy.

>>95970049 (OP)
>Players begin the game in a small city prison for reasons pertaining to their backstories, either being jailed, in the middle of giving testimony, or as staff themselves
>Outbreak begins, the jail is breached, survivors have to escape into the streets
>Navigate the city as Umbrella agents start arriving to clear out plagued and living witnesses alike, some side objectives pertaining to character stories can be addressed
>Start encountering hooded cult-types trying to abduct survivors, trace them back to a massive gated mansion that serves as the final dungeon
>Take out the cultists, take out the megazombie they were hosting, take out the Umbrella commander and his entourage when he arrives, use the mansion's private helipad to escape
Simple enough, the hardest part will be hide 50 different keys to progress each area across the maps

>>95972714

>>95972775
The hardest part will be trying to come up with a reason as to why they can't just knock the door down with that rocket launcher that they have.
But seriously, don't lean too hard on video game logic. Finding a pass code to a vault door or having to turn two keys at once across a room is good enough. Just keep ammo at a minimum and make things that you want keys for to be realistically strong where breaking them down would take way too long and very noisy. But don't be a sapz that says that you can't jimmy open a desk drawer with a pry bar "cause you just can't! find the rooster key!" No one wants to play that.

>>95970049 (OP)
Y'know that stroke picture? That gun makes me think of that, I haven't got a fucking clue what's going on with it.

>>95970092
Absolutely triggered.

>>95970092
I will have nods to some of the silly video gameyness of the setting but i will be playing it a bit more straighter than that.
>Honestly, it's a shit video game and a shit game to translate to table top.
If it was a shit videogame then it wouldn't be one of Capcom's biggest IPs.

>>95970049 (OP)
I actually have something to contribute:
>https://web.archive.org/web/20020302104147/http://www.dimfuture.net/elsewhere/roleplaying/le/intro.html
This is 'The Last Escape', a full zombie adventure that's inspired by Resident Evil. It's quite a substantial amount of content that's easily adaptable.

>>95970131
>GAIJIN!
>ANATA NO USHIRI NI IMASU, BAKKA!

>>95976639
>If it was a shit videogame then it wouldn't be one of Capcom's biggest IPs.
"What Is Marketing and Why Idiots Keep Ignoring It's Existence For Centuries" should be a mandatory read in every single fucking school on this planet.

>>95977419
Resident Evil 1 was expected to be a minor title with Capcom not expecting it to be such a success. What are you even talking about anon? If you dont like RE just say so and fuck off.

>>95977269
Damn anon, this is like uncovering some lost internet gaming lore. Thank you for the input!

>>95970049 (OP)
Look up OD&D underworld exploration rules. Plot is gay and ypu should stop trying to make one NOW. Make a map and put thing in it and let the players roam free.

>>95970049 (OP)

You definitely need an NPC like Barry to say idiotic things like “this is a powerful weapon - especially against living things!”
And “master of unlocking” and “Jill Sandwich”

The systems I recommend would be BRP/Mythras. I also recommend the Warhammer 40k RPG books as well if you want something more action heavy with talents. You can easily convert some things and get rid of psychic abilties 40 the 40k line. That Alien rpg might also work with conversion as well.

>>95970049 (OP)
Now that they retconned the nukes to be "experimental thermobarics" have a scavenger hunt in the former Raccoon City just like RE9.

My dream one shot is to run GURPS or Fate or something with the prompt "your character is at a police station but they arent a police officer" and that's all they know.

Then see how deep we can go before revealing they are at the Racoon city police department on the day of the outbreak.

>>95985782
Shouldn't be hard.
Pc1=Delivery Driver. Filling out some stolen property forms.
Pc2=EMT, sibling of and posting bail for Pc3.
Pc3=Local thug. In jail for something minor like a brawl or shoplifting.
Pc4=Electrician. There, again, filling out noise complaints against their neighbors.
Pc5=Junior reporter hoping something interesting is happening.

>>95978113
It's not enough for people like that to not like something. Their taste has to be "objectively correct," therefore things they don't like must be "bad."

>>95970049 (OP)
https://sersavictory.itch.io/cyclic-dungeon-generation
Suddenly remembered this thing. It might help.

>>95970049 (OP)
>>95970122
Ur-bully here.

Bully the bullies into sissyfication, and make your former bullies you femboy sluts/play a better setting.