ON KICKSTARTER NOW!
The official tabletop roleplaying game for AMC’s The Walking Dead Universe is now live on Kickstarter.
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OVERVIEW
The Walking Dead has always been about characters facing impossible life and death choices. In The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game, you can face these choices head on, putting yourself in the world of The Walking Dead – at any time in the timeline, encountering familiar faces and places and brand-new ones and, making the biggest choice: Who are you going to be? We have seen many stories in The Walking Dead Universe, now it’s time to see yours.
THE GAME
The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game challenges you to enter the unforgiving, post-apocalyptic sandbox and learn how to survive and thrive in this new world order. Pushing the boundaries of the survival genre, each group can tailor their RPG experience to suit their own interests and play style. The core game is written by Nils Hintze (Tales From the Loop RPG, Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying) and uses the core D6 version of the acclaimed Year Zero Engine (as seen in ALIEN RPG, Mutant: Year Zero, Forbidden Lands), uniquely adapted for The Walking Dead.
THE LIVEPLAY
To immerse you in this new extension of The Walking Dead Universe, AMC Networks, Free League, and Genuine Entertainment will also produce a limited Liveplay series, where real players will roll the dice at the game table and play an actual The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game campaign filmed in real-time. Featuring original events pulled from the series’ writers’ room, the Liveplay series will follow new characters who intersect with core story elements and cross paths with a familiar face or two.
SIGNUP
THE TEAM
ABOUT AMC NETWORKS
AMC Networks (Nasdaq: AMCX) is a global entertainment company known for its popular and critically acclaimed content. Its brands include targeted streaming services AMC+, Acorn TV, Shudder, Sundance Now, ALLBLK and the anime-focused HIDIVE streaming service, in addition to AMC, BBC AMERICA (operated through a joint venture with BBC Studios), IFC, SundanceTV, WE tv, IFC Films and RLJE Films. AMC Studios, the Company’s in-house studio, production and distribution operation, is behind some of the biggest titles and brands known to a global audience, including The Walking Dead, the Anne Rice catalog and the Agatha Christie library. The Company also operates AMC Networks International, its international programming business, and 25/7 Media, its production services business.
ABOUT FREE LEAGUE PUBLISHING
Free League Publishing is an award-winning game studio and publisher dedicated to speculative fiction, based in Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 2011, the studio has published a wide range of tabletop games and acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds. Free League’s game portfolio includes the new edition of The One Ring™ RPG, the official ALIEN RPG (2020 Gold ENNIE for Best Game), the Gothic horror game Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying (winner of three 2021 ENNIE Awards), the pitch-black fantasy RPG MÖRK BORG (winner of four 2020 ENNIE Awards), the alternate ‘80s Tales From the Loop RPG (winner of five 2017 ENNIE Awards, including Best Game), the retro-fantasy game Forbidden Lands (winner of four 2019 ENNIE Awards), the postapocalyptic Mutant: Year Zero (2015 Silver ENNIE for Best Rules), the science fiction game Coriolis – The Third Horizon (2017 Judge’s Spotlight Award), the new edition of RPG classic Twilight: 2000, and the upcoming neon noir Blade Runner RPG. Free League has also published the art books Tales from the Loop, Things from the Flood, The Electric State, and The Labyrinth by internationally acclaimed visual artist Simon Stålenhag, as well as the illustrated edition of the Lovecraft classics At the Mountains of Madness and The Call of Cthulhu by the praised artist François Baranger.
ABOUT GENUINE ENTERTAINMENT
Genuine is a leading producer, brand manager, and pop cultural consigliere for beloved entertainment brands. A media expert in franchise development and global rights management across all corners of pop culture, we specialize in growing companies and intellectual properties in key markets through authentic adaptations, strategic corporate development, and premium retail programs alongside best-in-class partners. With a portfolio of best-selling, award-winning stories, games, and goodies for top licensors & licensees alike, our collabs include the Alien RPG; the Altered Carbon RPG; the Batman: Detective tabletop gaming program; the Blade Runner RPG; The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049 art book; the Cortex acquisition; the Dune master tabletop gaming program; the Hello Neighbor party game; the Munchkin video game; The Dragon Prince master tabletop gaming program; The Walking Dead RPG; WEBTOON‘s licensing & merchandising program; and the World of Darkness comics program. Come play at genuineent.com.