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Reply To: Mantic discontinues The Walking Dead

January 2, 2022 at 10:52 am #1706286

limburger

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Their license is for the comic version and that one does have an end (of sorts, there is potential for a sequel if you read between the lines of the wiki …).

Based on what they’ve released with the creepy as fck faction (the ones that dress like zombies) I suspect they are near the end of what they can do for the setting without inventing new stuff. They also cover the bigger fights between factions that are near the end of the comic series as well.

So yeah … game over man, game over.

The “Days gone by” expansion set has rules for creating your own characters, which means it already has endless extensibility built into the system. I’m not sure if the anthology covers that bit as well.

the discount code (from the article) is : TWD2022

If you don’t own anything :

get the core set
the anthology book
“Days gone by” expansion (rules for new characters)
“Here’s Negan” gives you a bunch more characters + zombies as well as a new game; the anthology adds rules for Rick instead of Negan
all of the 0 cost digital bits (although the anthology covers all the errata and rules)
(optional) all the extra dice you can get

There’s probably more that is ‘nice to have’ (like the equipment cards and extra dice).

After that pick whatever expansions and characters you like.
The one annoying bit is that expansions can include scenarios for characters that are in boosters without specifying which ones they require.