Well i want to explain Sine Requie if someone is interested in playing a RPG from another country. I'm going to run a one shot campaign from the first edition manual. It's set in the 1957(the last edition) where the undead are the most threat in this world, it's a story where state, not a group of survivors fight against the zombies. I suppose it's better start with the backgroung, the manual describe this scene: It was the 1944 4 june D-Day at the right side of the beach there was the Nazis, in the middle american soldiers and the left side the undead, that day changed everything, the italians and then the world called that day "Judment Day". No one knows why the undead rised we only know when someone die, someone rise and go hunt for livings, some people says the Grim Reaper is tired of working and he gave the job to bring the people to the underworld to the livings. Now there are only 5 nations who survivied from this apocalypse. The IV Reich, in the 1944 6 June, 4 general of the Reich killed Hitler because after he saw these creature he went nuts and now they took control and created the IV Reich with new rules and with 4 Furher, now the germany control the denmark, poland and switzerland, the new SS are more brutal than before and the gestapo take every person they think it's suspicious and the new research medical team of the germany is creating something to prevent these zombies but they didn't find anything on this cause, but they created new biological soldier. Sanctum Imperium, after the pope saw these unholy creature he took advantage on italy and said&lt;&lt; God Judged us and now Satan sent his emmisary on earth, embrace the real god and slay these deamons of hell&gt;&gt;, he reformed italy, we got back in the medieval times, guns and contemporary medicine is illegal, if you posses these stuff you get marked by the inquisition as an eretic and burn you for the accuse for be a witch and a companion of satan. While some of the city are still full of undeads the Templar Knight and the Crusader with their Chainsword and Flametrhower approved from the pope they free the city from these creatures and even free the Wastelands sending crusaders and missionary to save the poor people who lives there. The germany now see us as a threat and someday they'll attack, we hope later when the Students of the ASEP(Accademia Santissima dell'Esercito Pontificio(Blessed Accademy of the Pappal Army)) are ready to fight with our new tanks and airplanes created by the Benedettini Friars, the engineers of the pope. Soviet or New URSS, after the Judment Day Stalin went crazy and said to himself &lt;&lt;the Comunism can't survive with these "Creatures" i need a plan to keep it alive forever&gt;&gt; so he called all the engineers and scientists of Russia and asked them to create 2 project one is called Mind of the Workers and the other City of the Workers, the first one is a A.I. created to schedule every mansion of a Citazien, how much they need to work, when they need to eat and when you need to sleep and loaded with the rules of the comunism, so, you don't belive in god, you don't have a family and an education you have only work. The other Project is a Hive city where you can put every people of russia, where you can't enter nor exit till the mind of the workers say it's time to go. They created 10 HIve city and a mind of the Workers called ZAR, they completed all 10 cities in the 1946, in the 1947 a scientists who created ZAR said he discovered a way to combine machine with man and create Cyborgs, so Stalin exported his brain and combined with zar after one month zar boiled his brain but before, he did a copy and paste, now the AI is crazy as Stalin, maybe more and declared which every human need to be machine because the flesh is weak, now there are rebel in these city the new propaganda of ZAR is insane and he want to conquer all the world and transform every human in a machine. Reign of Osiride, Pharaon Ramses III come back to life as a conscious zombie and now rule the new egypt where zombie and human live together, but there is a civil war, 3 other mummies want to control the egypt and slay all the humans because they are weak and mortals not like the undead. USA or United we Stay Alive, the america is realy messed up, the center america is a wasteland full of radiation from the nukes lanched in the 1944, the south is ruled by the kuklux klan, if you are white you are fine if you are black..... RUN. Then Washington and New York are the only city who "Survived" the new black president who returned to life as a conscious zombie with mind powers now rules a land full of undead, these undead live the "American Dream" where all is perfect and there is no threat, these zombies are living a dream where they think they are alive, it's like matrix and if you discover that your dream is a nightmare you get killed. Wastelands, all the other state are wastelands where all is dead and the survival fight for live, they are all the same except of UK and Greece, UK they don't know why but when someone die the dead rise as a ferrox zombie(the runner) while in greece an ex inquisitor wanted to combine magic and science and he created an army of zombie mutant as minotaur or centaur and other mythological creature. In the wastelands depends on the state you can encounter the Heros of these place like Carlitos the Saivior who killed 600 zombies in 13 years all alone, the Pourtoguese a conscious zombie who returned back to the undearworld to save the livings and the 3 angel of Haven, Gabriel, Raf and Micheal they don't know if they are realy angel or not and no one know his story they only know they are the best zombie hunters in the world. The zombie in this game can't die even with a bullet on their head or if cut their head, they still move the only way to kill them is to mince them or burn them to ashes or cut all the limbs, there are a lot of zombie, all of them have a name but i don't wanna name it all, there are the slow zombie and they are stupid, the fastes zombie they are well hey know what are they doing not so smart and not so stupid and the conscious zombie the one are returned from the deads, they look like normal human except they need to eat living flesh to live or they'll die and some of them can return with mind powers. Game System The game is set in the 1957, 13 years after the "Judment Day", the day when the deads start to rise from the graves. So the game system is this, you don't use dice, tokens and maps what so ever, so is not so visual but it's not confusing in the battle or when you need to move place to place. The other interesting thing about this game is the use of the Tarots and not the Dice, there are Major Tarots(Death, Fool, Stars etc. etc.) and the minor tarots(Ace,2, King, Knight/Queen, Jack, etc. etc.). So i explain how they works, the minor tarots you use it for the battle and for some skill test, while the major tarots for special situation(surviving, do some mad thing that only god can do or in some battle but only if the GM allow you to use it or for teh drection of a hit), now some examples, here the Character sheet <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_ZNVcq6CPTvYlBJd" rel="nofollow">https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_ZNVcq6CPTvYlBJd</a>... for help you. Let's start with the Dominant tarot, it's all your life, past present and future, is your personality and life insurance, you chose one of the 22 Major Tarots(this time i chose in base of your character description). There are 4 category of Charateristic that you can divide them in 4 sub charateristic, almost all of them go 0 to 10. Cups/Hearts: Intelligence- don't need to explain, but if you have 2 or 1 in intelligence you are retarded Memory: Remember something like do a diagnosis or speak a language or remember a person. Perception: don't need to explain Will: you inner will, the will to keep going or for use mind power, when you have a great pain you need to do a test on will for stay concious. Diamonds/Coin: Look- 1 you are a beast or sometimes confused with a zombie, 4 not bad, 8 handsome Comand: no explanation i suppose Creativity:used for draw a paint, write, torture or create rings and swords Speech: no explanation i suppose....again Flower/Baton:Coordination- for suing weapons, run or swim Dexterity: used for manual job as repairing cars, steal something or for the medicine Strenght: used for movethings or do some skill test which you need to use this and strenght is used for add damage for the close combat Aim:no explanation i suppose Spades/swords:Mind power 1 to 30 points you can put in: at 1 till 7 you don't have anykind of power after the 8 you can have one power then pint after point you can add another mindpower, in sine requie the mind power is really feared, yeah your life is simple but if they catch you you are screwd especialy in italy where they belive in witches. Save test: 10 to 22, as i said your dominant tarot is your life insurance, if you are going to die i say draw your save test, if you draw your dominant tarot you survive and you draw major tarots one for each point in the charateristic Sanity: sometimes in a world full of zombie there are crazy people, so in each faction of the game is treated in a lot of way, in germany with the electroshock or with medical drugs or lobotomy. Russia there are 2 way, first get re-educated for love the new russia(if you was hating it before) or go to a citazien class 00 then they bring you to the "Stomach of the Worker" a great mincer which mince everykind of meat and then they serve it to the workers,mmmmh tasty. Italy they treat it with exorcism or a Stake, Wastelands............. is a wasteland what do you suppose to do? Well i don't explain how to cure your mental illness, i only say that if you have 3 or less you are crazy and you need to add always a degree to your metnal disorder. Karma: 1to 5 you draw 1 major tarots in the major tarot test, 6-7 two tarots, 8-9 three. 10 four. The skill, every job have his skill and your major tarot too, so depends on your choice and you have this kind of skill, you can add your bonus test on the charateristic like, use-Weapon- this time use-pistol- 4(+2) you can use aim let's say 6 +2 for shooting with your gun(you only take the bonus never the first digit). Equip, you can have everykind of equipment but the GM have to accept your equipment, well and it depends on your job, like a templar knight of the italy can have a MP40 because is forbiden in italy have guns, while a german soldier can't take a templar knight Chainsaw. The weapons/Guns, each weapon is different from damage and effect, like the Carcano an italian Rifle is a piece of shit and a good gun for 2 reason, is effect is the barrel jam sometimes but it's really precise so you have +1 on aim, even the guns have different kind of damage, blunt, penetration, cut etc. etc. Pro and Con well you are not perfect, you can have Pro say good lies but you have the Con stutterer and other things like that, my favorite is Mortal Secret. The story of your character means everything for the RPG and here the last interesting thing in sine requie, you can be who you want, like sometimes in my story i like create a sheet in private with one player, like all of you are policeman? well one of you is a spy, i remember i created a story called, Great Heist to the Zurigo Bank, one of the robbers wanted all the money so he had a secret mission a mortal secret(take all the money), so after the robbery this guy served wine and he told me in private"i poisoned the wine", then you know how the things can end, one person go living in italy on the lake of Como, full of gold. So let's take a speech example with Persuade GM: in front of you there is a Gestapo Policeman, you are a french spy with important documents, you have a fake ID and even a child can notice it and it's the 10.05 PM it's time of the curfew. Policeman go near you and ask you. Policeman: What are you doing here in the streets all alone when the curfew is on? You: i want to tell him"my wife is pregnat and is giving the birth to my son and i'm going to see her in the hospital, please policeman let me go" GM: do a persuade test, your speech is 4 and your persuade skill is 4(+2) you count only the number in the parenthesis, so you have 6 on speech and i say draw a minor tarot, you draw out a 8 of spades. You didn't passed the test, so the police man says... Policeman:I don't care, show me your ID and maybe you can go to the hospital. GM: Before you take the ID draw me a Major Tarot You:i draw out the Temperance, Devil and Fool because i have 8 in Karma so i can draw 3 major tarots and i chose the one i like GM: temperance it means the thing happens but the character can't be touched. The policeman take your ID, he look the ID and then he say"i'll keep it" and he goes away. Devil, everything go bad, really bad, the policeman watch your ID after he call his mate and they bring you in a alley and they beat you up with the police baton and then they bring you to prison and a big guy in there rape you. Fool, everything can happen, even jesus fall from the sky with a flamethrower and burn the zombie, well the policeman is going to see your ID but you hear a Gurgling and he fall on the floor in pain and you bring him to the hospital, then the next day you meet him again and he offer you a beer. Example for the Battle You are in a room with a zombie in front of you, you have a Luger pisto with only 2 bullets in it and in the left hand you have a one handed axe, your initiative is 18 the zombie is 6, you start first. You: i want to shoot him in the head and then attack him with my axe Gm: draw a minor tarot for the pistol YOU: i draw out ace it means i always succed, and in aim i have 5 but with a malus on -5 because for shotting to a certain zone without aiming so i can succed only with King or Ace. Gm: so you shooted the zombie in the head you did 5 Penetration damage, you blew off a part of his teeth so he can't bite you now but he can scratch you. You: i want to hit him with the axe random so i don't aim to a zone, i drew 3 on coordination 6 but with a malus on -3 for the second action(every character have 5 action but every action after the first have a price of a malus,-3 for the second,-5 for the third,-7 for the forth and -9 of the fifth.) Gm:you hit him, draw a major tarots for the direction of the hit You: The devil, Neck, you did I Suppose it's all, these are the basic rules, the character sheets i'll create it. If you are interested, PM me or Write here, we play at tuesday GMT+1. 8/9 P.M.(i prefer europeen players or someone who can play at my timezome).