HAY GUYZ, I MADED MY OWN CHART!

Specifically, a randomly generated zombie chart, for those who want to generate their own zombie PC like they do their mutants, inspired by Scythe's Mutant chart and my general love for random monster generation charts. Scythe liked it, so I decided to show it off to all of you. I hope you like it!

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Roll once on the Body type chart for your zombie's general appearance

Body Type
1. Skeletal and near fleshless
2. Like a melting candle
3. Held together with varous metal implements.
4. Bloated with gases and bile
5. Your skin hangs loose in rotten folds over your body.
6. Covered in scabs, constantly flaking off your body
7. Grossly obese
8. Skinless
9. Covered in tumors
10. Completely undecayed-looking.

Then roll a d8. This gives you the amount of times you can roll on the "Deformities" table. For each category you roll on the Deformities table, roll on the associated sub-table to determinehow your zombie is hideously deformed. If you roll a duplicate or a contradictory result on one of the subtables, just re-roll it.

Deformities
1. Head
2. Arms
3. Legs
4. Torso
5. Internal Organs
6. Infested with...
7. Fused with...
8. Extras
9. Odd Smells
10. Really Weird Stuff

Head
1. Missing a lower jaw, with an extra long tongue
2. Enormous mouth with tiny eyes
3. Mouth, eyes and nose sealed shut
4. Exposed, enormous brain bulging out of the skull
5. One eye far larger than the other
6. Bony, tumorous "horns" poke through the skin.
7. Able to extend out over 20 meters via warped tendons in the neck
8. Your head is ludicously tiny.
9. Ludicrously large, need a borg walker just to get around
10. What head?

Arms
1. Your forearms are bulging and Popeye-like due to massive tumors.
2. One far longer than the other.
3. Your arms are freakishly muscular
4. You have 1d4 hands attached to each wrist.
5. Your fingers are fused together into fleshy pincers
6. One of your arms has a mind of its own, usually benign or helpful but sometimes downright evil.
7. Way too many joints in there.
8. Your fingerbones protrude far out of your fingertips like claws.
9. Your feet are switched with your hands.
10. Missing, another part of you has become prehensile to make up for the loss

Legs
1. You have two left feet. Literally.
2. Your legs are stilt-like in length and can barely support your weight.
3. You have 1d4 extra feet on each leg
4. You have way too many knee joints.
5. Your legs are freakishly muscular.
6. Your toenails never stopped growing, and are now about the length of an average human's arm.
7. Your legs have fused into one appendage, like a seal's tail
8. Legs are bloated and tumorous.
9.Your legs are unusually sticky, which can be helpful when trying to climb walls but not so much when you're on the run and your leg glues itself to the ground.
10. No legs! You drag yourself about with some other part of your body.

Torso
1. Transparent. You can see all your guts and muscles moving within it.
2. You can retract your limbs inside there to form a slimy, rancid ball.
3. Your ribs are far more easily detachable than usual and grow back far faster too. You can use them as makeshift weapons when you're all out of options.
4. You keep spontaneously generating umbilical cords from your navel, and can pull them off for use as a tasty snack.
5. You have a secondary sphincteral mouth on your gut connected directly to your stomach.
6. Your ribcage is enormous, and can be used as a makeshift cage for a subdued opponent.
7. Scar tissue in the shape of words spontaneously forms and reforms on your chest. Most of it's gibberish, but some of it is unusually prescient.
8. Your fragile, paper-like torso is filled with delicious candylike tumors like a pinata.
9.You have multiple spines, which stream out of your back and undulate like snakes.
10. Your ribcage and respiratory system are structured so that you can play your chest like the bagpipes.

Internal Organs
1. An external heart
2. Extra-large lungs that bulge out of your chest.
3. Blood vessels that pop out of your skin.
4. Your kidneys spew out toxic waste from your sides
5. Your digestive tract has gained sapience and will not shut up.
6. Your pinneal gland is protruding from your forehead on a stalk and weeping luminescent fluid.
7. Your liver keeps falling out of your chest every so often, only for a new one to immediately grow in its place.
8. Your many stomach ulcers spew out so much acid that it gushes out of your eyes, ears, nose and mouth as you speak.
9. Your nerves stream freely from your body like a twitching spider web
10. All your internal organs are missing, yet you somehow still function.

Infested With...
1. Pigeons
2. Cats
3. Rats
4. Various arthropods
5. Worms/Maggots
6. Fish
7. Pygmy Marmosets
8. Fungus
9. Human babies
10. Garbage Monsters (Without psychic mutations)

Fused with... (IE, sort of like how Wormroot and Escarghoul were created)
1. A rat
2. A frog
3. A vulture
4. Some sort of Annelid
5. A car
6. A carnivorous plant
7. Coral
8. A shark
9. A cloned dinosaur
10. An Unknown creature from beyond space and time

Extras (Roll a d10 to see how many extras of the rolled part you get, Reroll any contradictory results)
1. Arms
2. Legs
3. Eyes
4. Mouths
5. Noses
6. Teeth (Anywhere but the mouth)
7. Bones
8. Torsoes
9. Hearts
10. Heads

Odd Smells
1. Like burning tires
2. Like a gas station bathroom
3. Like wet Fangatan
4. Like a shut-down meat factory
5. Like a dead rat smothered in rotten mayo.
6. Like the aftermath of a Baked Beans and Cabbage eating contest.
7. Like a stinkbug infested pile of used diapers.
8. Like a sewer made of meat.
9. Like a delicious steak
10. Like freshly cut roses

Really Weird Stuff
1. Your back skin has filled up with lighter-than-air gasses due to decomposition, allowing you to float around like an undead zeppelin.
2. You randomly spontaneously combust every few hours due to the mix of various gasses and fluids in your rotten flesh.
3. You are quadrupedal like a horse or a frog, but you still have enough manual dexterity to manipulate objects just as well as anyone else
4. You have stigmata, creating a psychic static that mildly unnerves psyonicists in the area for some reason.
5. Teratomas! Teratomas everywhere!
6. Your parts wander about your puttylike flesh, sometimes in such odd ways as your head becoming loged in your torso and your legs going right next to your arms.
7. You are stuck in a chicken suit.
8. Random small objects, such as keys, batteries and bonesaws, fall out of your flesh at the weirdest times. You never remember putting them there, so it's almost as if you're spontaneously generating them.
9. You are actually two zombies, conjoined together through the screwed-up process of regeneration. Roll up two zombies on the chart and fuse 'em together Siamese twin style
10. You are actually an unusually intelligent festerling! Roll on the Festerling chart to see what kind you are.

Festerling Chart
1. Festerling
2. Festerling B
3. Festerling C
4. Festerling D
5. Festerling E
6. Legion (Not technically a Festerling, but born from a Zombie's womb nontheless)

You suck.

I thought this was going to be a reference to autofellatio, I'm disappointed.

Aw :( . Why does it suck?

Also, inspired by your comments on autofelation, I made a special alternate subtable just for you Chup!

You can replace 7 on the Really Weird Stuff table with "Oh my! Roll on the Physical Perversities table 1d4 times".

And here's the Physical Perversities table:

1 Your genitalia have the consistency and texture of a melting Snickers bar.
2 Your body is covered in vaginal wounds, wandering around your skin moist and inviting.
3 You appear to be constantly pregnant (even if you are male), but in reality it is either jut gaseous bloating, a manifestation of your infestation, or good old fashioned tumors.
4 You have 1d6 extra genitalia.
5 You are covered in ropelike skinflaps that double as bindings for bondage play
6 Your genitalia are detachable and, more importantly, re-attachable anywhere else.
7 You can unhinge your jaw like a snake and swallow one willing participant whole, disgorging them hours later with no harm done.
8 Your toungue is longer than your body, detachable, and extremely sensitive to boot. You do the math.
9 Your entire body is fluidic and psychoreactive enough to partially meld with your partner during coitus
10 You are stuck in a chicken suit. Three guesses as to why that is, and the first two don’t count.

I didn't say the chart sucked, I said you suck.

Dreamer, YOU were the one who wrote F.A.T.A.L, aren't you.

Dreamer, why are you being nice to Chup?

Okay, this was mine, originally written the same time I wrote the mutants. Unlike the mutants, in this one you just roll once for every single section, except the Extreme oddities:

This was intentionally more "down to earth" than the mutant table. I didn't want to load it up with really wacky things because then the weird ones wouldn't seem as special. This table rolls up sort of a traditional zombie horde, with a few freaks here and there.

Heck, for that reason I might even suggest a d3 over a d8 for your table; you'd want people to feel really cool if their zombie had one crazy deformity.

Slave mentality.

I registered just to add this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDiILrNbM4

I flew around while being undead BEFORE it was cool

I knew what this was before I clicked it.

I figured I might as well add my own idea for an extension to the chart. If your zombie ends up in a chicken suit, he has to roll what kind of suit it is. If the roll is even, it's a normal chicken suit. If the roll is odd, well we'll just have to see what we have here.

1: The chicken suit is nearly indestructible. That's great if you are relatively intact, but if you have mutations, they are stuck in an awkward position with no room to move. Loose body parts and bile kind of stir around at the bottom, and anything acidic will eat at your legs.

3: The chicken suit is actually a mass of microscopic organisms that conform to any mutation you have. If the suit is cut or damaged in any way it will regenerate in a matter of weeks. The suit is also in pristine condition, which may make people mistake you for a fast food mascot.

5: The suit is actually a parasitic organism which has taken control of your zombie. You are now unusually intelligent, but your senses are impaired.

7: Your suit is hardly there. All that is left is the chicken head, which has been stapled to your head.

9: Your chicken suit is actually a symbiotic suit of power armor that has augmented your strength, speed, and agility. It may even have organic laser emitters in its eyes. It's kind of a waste if you think about it.

Am I the only one who remembers the zombie chart Scythe posted on deviantArt four years ago? It didn't have numbers for random determination, but it had lots of different zombie variations.

Oddly, like Dreamer's chart, it included a zombie in a chicken suit. In fact, the zombie in the chicken suit was explicitly said to be the rarest single creature in the game. (The "game", in this case, referring to the putative video game, as this was long before the PnP game was conceived.)

Unlike Dreamer's chart, it didn't include wandering vaginas or melty genitalia. But that probably goes without saying.

well yes, only dreamer makes genitalia do those things

I wonder if there is someone putting chicken suits on the zombies around here. Sounds like some sick practical joke if you ask me. Or some publicity stunt by some fast food chain. Or the maker's mark of some deprived Biomancer. Any one of those things could be part of a campaign in the RPG. Anyway, you're just going to have to accept that there will be many zombies in chicken suits in my game if I get my hands on it.

Its a conspiracy. They discussed this beforehand and are trying to brainwash us with their subliminal messaging. YOU CAN'T FOOL ME, YOU POULTRY-LOVING DICTATORS!

Resistance is useless. Don your chicken outfit or you will suffer greatly. Zombies of the world of Mortasheen shall don chicken suits or die(?) trying. You cannot stop the Great Chicken Suit Exodus.

The rule of Dreamer is: If it matches another thing, Dreamer probably read it and put it in directly as a "reference".

Actually, I put that on there as a reference to that. And, if I were DMing a game and there wasn't a contradictory explanation for the zombie plague in the main book, I'd say the zombie plague came from tainted food at a widespread chain of chicken restaurants, and the chicken-suiters were some of the first infectees. Only one example of the restaurant would survive in Mortasheen proper, the rest buried by the Great Corpse Sea, a treasure trove of various heavily mutated and varied strains of the original virus for those mad scientists with a submarine on their hands.

And the "Worst Subchart Ever Outside Of FATAL" was written more as (And failed at being) an optional add-on for those with tastes like Chup. In 99.9 percent of Mortasheen games it'd probably never get used/added-on, and you really wouldn't want to play in the .1% that did.

:EDIT: ^ Goddamnit Outhouse. You sure know how to make me feel like the forum schmuck that I am.

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