Zombie Apocalypse RPG (New Orleans Edition)

The survivors of New Orleans are hardened by hunger and fear. Some cling to scraps of community, barricading shotgun houses and scavenging what little the city still offers. They move quietly, rationing water caught from storms, trading in relics and charms, and fighting exhaustion with sheer will.

But not all who endure do so with honor. Raider gangs prowl the streets, armed with rusted blades and stolen guns, their faces painted with ash and blood. They strip the city bare, taking food, weapons, and lives with equal brutality. In the ruins of the French Quarter and the drowned cemeteries, they rule through terror, preying on the weak and turning survival into conquest.

The living are divided—some desperate, some ruthless, all haunted. Every encounter carries risk: a wary ally, a starving family, or a gang that sees you as nothing more than another body to burn. In New Orleans, survival is no longer about hope—it is about enduring the cruelty of both the dead and the living.

They rise from the sodden earth and broken tombs, remnants of lives once woven into the city’s rhythm. Their bodies are swollen with the damp of the bayou, skin sloughing away like old plaster from a wall, yet their movements are steady, unyielding. Eyes clouded with the film of death stare without recognition, but with a hunger that cannot be sated.

Each carries the weight of New Orleans’ history upon them—soldiers in rotted uniforms, revelers still draped in faded beads, fishermen with nets tangled around their limbs. They are not monsters born of invention, but the restless dead, called back by curses whispered in the dark and by the city’s refusal to let go of its own ghosts.

Their presence is a reminder that death here is porous, a thin veil easily torn. The dead do not run, they do not reason; they advance with the inevitability of floodwaters, pressing forward until the living are swallowed. To face them is to confront the grave itself, animated and relentless, a tide of decay that surges through the streets of New Orleans.

Two years ago, a great plague carved a brutal path through the world's heart. The dead began to reanimate and attack the living, turning poor souls into puppets with cut strings.

In the year 2029, life goes on with the remnants of this destroyed planet adopting a new normal. Survival is the ultimate goal of all living creatures, no matter their biology.

This story takes place in the ruins of a formerly grand American city. New Orleans has been reduced to a graveyard of walking corpses, and if there's one thing the Big Easy has in droves, it's corpses.