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[Doc Jon]

I think it's interesting to see how people have reacted to decisions made in the Walking Dead.

In reading the comic, various solutions have also been put forth and many of them don't work for one reason or another.

Something too fortified draws the attention of people who might want to take it from you.
There's the difficulty of forming too big a group and controlling them.
Anything not too secured obviously has the difficulty of being overrun.
Being constantly on the move presents its own problems.

So, somewhat realistically, the zombie plague breaks out tomorrow. How do you plan to go about it?

[PDH]

Honest answer: I wouldn't and neither would you. You would be one of the people who got eaten and then became a zombie, count on it.

Less honest answer: I really do hope that the authorities wouldn't be as inept as they usually are in these films. It's not necessarily apocalyptic. They should have procedures in place for dealing with epidemics, including the possibility of biological warfare due to terrorism etc. I think for most people that would be their best bet (i.e. they're probably fucked).

Even less honest answer: OK, let's assume I somehow survived the chaos. We're a few months into this thing and I'm with a small band of people, like TWD. The first problem is going to be food and water. You really can't live off the kind of crap that you can steal from convenience stores for any appreciable length of time. Hunting for food is going to be less of an option in Britain (seriously, WTF would I eat? Squirrels and pigeons in all likelihood). Farming would be ideal but I doubt I'd be able to pull something like that off. Then there are the other survivors who will kill you and take what little you have as soon as look at you, the zombies themselves etc. You'd be fucked.

I mean, I could go on but realistically you'd be fucked. Don't kid yourself.

[Doc Jon]

Oh, I never said I would survive a zombie apocalypse. I'm quite sure I would die. That's unless I found a group that realized my skills would be usefull.

[PDH]

Oh, I never said I would survive a zombie apocalypse. I'm quite sure I would die. That's unless I found a group that realized my skills would be usefull.

By 'you' I mean, people generally, not you in particular.

Even if we assume that it plays out like a movie, in the movies usually the entire human race is dead apart from a few survivors. Statistically, most people are going to be in the first category.

[Doc Jon]

By 'you' I mean, people generally, not you in particular.

Even if we assume that it plays out like a movie, in the movies usually the entire human race is dead apart from a few survivors. Statistically, most people are going to be in the first category.

Oh, no doubt, but what's the fun in that?

Let's say you survive the initial chaos. So you're alive, and most people would try to keep living. What would you try to do?

[Benderbrau]

This reminds me of the time a friend of mine thought it would be clever to make a roleplaying adventure in which we speced out our characters as ourselves. Yeah, that ended well.

GM: "Ok so you're four teenage nerds with drawing and computer skills walking down the street. You have on you 2 notebooks, a packet of 20 sided dice, some textbooks, a BB gun, 4 beers, a sandwich, two fake swords and a Nerf blaster. Suddenly a rift opens and you're attacked by an ogre. What do you do?"
Players: "Um...shit our pants and run like hell??"

[muddyglass]

i would retreat to my private uncharted island with nice arable land and temperate weather yearlong. waiting for me there will be a beautiful younger woman who's been endlessly fantasizing about having my babies, and she will fortuitously repopulate the human race with me. these are the pleasant thoughts i'll be thinking as the first zombie i encounter tears me asunder.

[Herald]

This reminds me of the time a friend of mine thought it would be clever to make a roleplaying adventure in which we speced out our characters as ourselves. Yeah, that ended well.

GM: "Ok so you're four teenage nerds with drawing and computer skills walking down the street. You have on you 2 notebooks, a packet of 20 sided dice, some textbooks, a BB gun, 4 beers, a sandwich, two fake swords and a Nerf blaster. Suddenly a rift opens and you're attacked by an ogre. What do you do?"
Players: "Um...shit our pants and run like hell??"

"Saving throw!!"
*tosses dice at ogre*

[Benderbrau]

"Saving throw!!"
*tosses dice at ogre*

IIRC we tried to distract him by throwing the sandwich at him but we failed the dice roll to get the sandwich out of the backpack while simultanously trying to run away.

[PDH]

I think I would probably try and get to one of the miserable rocks that make up the British islands. There are some with populations that are large enough to look after themselves but small enough not to create too many problems. Should be relatively safe, though it might involve having to decode some incomprehensible accent or other.

[Doc Jon]

I think I would probably try and get to one of the miserable rocks that make up the British islands. There are some with populations that are large enough to look after themselves but small enough not to create too many problems. Should be relatively safe, though it might involve having to decode some incomprehensible accent or other.

I would have thought this was a good idea, until I read World War Z.

[Doc Jon]

If I was still in the US, I think I would try to take over a Wal-Mart or something. I think with the materials available (assuming it wasn't completely ransacked), it could be fortified pretty well.

[Rockman]

Assuming I survived the initial outbreak, I'd make my way up north to a colder climate, where the virus is unlikely to survive.

[b.lumpkin]

By eating other people. My goal would be to starve the zombies out

[Timbales]

I'm 15 minutes away from farm country, so I'd hole up somewhere remote and slowly reinforce/zombie proof as best I could by putting in natural, passive deterrents.