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Who doesn't love zombies? I mean, how can you not? They always come to you with open arms, and a wide, toothy grin! Better yet, they never give up on trying to give you that 'special' hug you so deserve. I'm posting this here because earlier this year I created a Zombie D&D game (The Dead and the Damned). Not just regular D&D with zombies, but set in the modern world, where zombies run rampart and the characters must struggle to survive. Based of D&D 3.5, as well as 'The zombie hunters' web comic, and pretty much any other inspiration I could think of, I think I had a lot of the rules etc. down packed. However, while the basis of the game was there, it didn't have much of the story fleshed out, and only a few locations etc. (think dungeons), and characters, enemies, etc. So basically I have the rules, but none of the stuff that actually lets you play the game. So I was wondering if anyone here plays, and if they would be keen at all with helping me finish off the game. I in turn would then allow anyone who helped to use the rules and the game that we all collaborated on. I should also state, for the record, I have had no permission given to me from either D&D, the webcomic, or any other inspirations to use their ideas, as I intended it for personal use only. Therefor, if anyone does want to help with this, you would have to make sure that you do not try to profit from it in any way. So yeah, let me know if you're keen, and when I'm home in December I'll see about passing on the files I have!

Just because I can, I thought I'd throw up a thread for a general yarn about TV. And in the spirit of getting to know people, let's aim at favourite shows. I confess to being crazy about sci-fi shows, bet you wouldn't have guessed that being into XCom and Xenonauts, but there ya go... So favourites: The obligatory Stargates (SG1, Atlantis and Universe - damn Sy-fy channel for dumping it in the 2nd season, ya for patched season ends that make comebacks at least possible. Star Trek (original series) and Next Gen, of course, Voyager wasn't bad never got into B5 of DS9 though Firefly, love Firefly The some curlies, Primeval, awesome little show, pity there isn't likely to be 6th season, and so far I am really liking Terra Nova. Other than Sci-fi, Big Bang Theory of course, Hawaii Five-0 (guilty - love me some Hawaii time), House - Hugh Laurie, nuff said ... Glee ... omg I blame my wife somewhat but I love music, so singing does it for me. Game of Thrones ... omg again. I hadn't read the books, watched the show, awesome... Have now read the first 2 books and have the rest, wow. Survivor and Amazing Race for my "reality" fix. Weird how completely artificial situations can be billed as reality TV but oh well. Anyway, that's all I can think of for now, what about the rest of you, either discuss or throw out your own favs

According to me great games are the ones you still revisit from now and then and that consumed you lots of time. (not in a particular order) mine are: X-Com EU / TFTD / Apoc Master of Orion 1 & 2 Heroes of the Might and Magic Starcontrol 2 Homeworld and Homeworld Cataclysm Supreme Commander Gary Grigsby's World at War EVE-Online Star Trek Bridge Commander Nexus: The Jupiter Incident X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter Baldur's Gate Diablo Warcraft 1 & 2 Starcraft C&C Dune BFA Minecraft Incubation (i will edit this list as i remember... back to work). Humm TOP 5 in order... hardest than i thought... ok, here goes. 1st: Master of Orion 2. Why? Countless hours that me and my best friend spent hot seating this one in the age of "internet multiplayer just for some" 2nd: X-Com EU Why? Countless hours i've spent playing this one, and is still revisit it after all these years 3rd: Total Annihilation. Why? Again countless hours me and my best friend spent dueling 4th: Stronghold. Why? I always liked to build defenses to withstand an overwhelming force 5th: Minecraft. Why? While recent it "looks" old and with that same playability value of games of old.

I expect many of you will already know each other from the pre-migration forums, but if you're a newbie who has made his way here then by all means please introduce yourself and let us know a bit about you. I'll get the ball rolling - I'm Chris, the project lead for Xenonauts, and I'm based in London. I used to be an accountant, but I'm now working full time on Xenonauts. I started working on this game just over two years ago now when it was a labour of love, but I think by now it just counts as a labour... Only joking, I'm actually quite enjoying this game development lark!