'I can't imagine anything more disgusting then throwing up in a gas mask.' –Riley Setson, commenting on the fate of an unlucky pilot.

'Really? How about crapping yer drawers in a hazmat suit?' –Jessy Hannaford, proving yet again things can always be worse.

Nuclear war, zombie outbreaks, meteor strikes, economic collapse, alien invasion, no matter how it happens an apocalypse makes for a unique and engaging setting to run a campaign in, even for a jaded GM.

Here's a few quick tips that can make a good zombie or other post apocalypse game a great one, and keep the group coming back (from the dead?) for more.

A few quick and techniques any GM can use to make a zombie apocalypse campaign a success without becoming to stressful or repetitive for to run over the long term:

Sometimes playing a major NPC that’s part of the party can be tough. After all, it’s hard not to have the NPC come up with a winning strategy, spot a piece of evidence or find a trap the PCs overlooked. However, if one does this too much, the NPC becomes the crutch the group leans on as soon a problem presents itself.

When done too little, the NPC is usually treated as a useless addition outside of menial labor and an extra weapon in combat. Here are a few techniques to keep them fun and useful , and become a party member the GM and players will like having around.

This humorous short fiction piece was inspired by a late night chat with a couple gamer friends about how alien cultures would possibly interpret some of the more "colorful" aspects of our society.

There are places, you have to understand, where the dimensions-I'm not talking about that parallel dimension metaphysical stuff, I mean dimensions like length and breadth and time-where they curl into themselves, and begin to fester. Where foul things evolve and spread...

How to make combat interesting and more than: "Well, I’m going to hit him with my sword."

a dossier of peoples of the wasteland according to several sources

The original series of Scooby-Doo, airing in 1969, is remembered for rubber masked monsters, stage magic effects, and wacky hijinks, behind the scenes, the world that the gang of Mystery Inc inhabits is in economy shambles.

Inspired by The Wheel of Time

23 'dere character archetypes from anime broken down into the Male Main Character for genre romance

30 things taking place within a large graveyard.

A game mechanic borrowed from Blades in the Dark, a weird dark fantasy game about building gangs in a weird let's go whaling for demons in a sea made of lightning setting. The mechanic is solid though.

Broken Mirror concept is reverse the roles in a show or media and have fun with it.

I present the Mighty Morphing Power Reavers

A short story teasing potential characters, setting and plot elements for a world-building project I've visiting on and off for several years. 

Regions:
Sister Cities
Westlands
Felldart Territory
Needle Mountains
Halëfas Forest

Mentioned towns/cities:
Westermeet
Whitespyre
Ross

Establishments:
The Horn and Sheaf Inn

Characters:
Ulimë the elf
Hainault the half-elf

The Petroleum Era was a time of enormous social stress, and a variety of social psychotic diseases emerged, a side effect of unregulated and increasingly sophisticated social communication and hive mind technology. GPSSD is also known as Wrong Way Distortion, or Hyperaggresssive Progressive Antagonistic syndrome.

A tedious and violent movie that I had the misfortune of watching

Sex/Life is a single season series available on Netflix and is catered towards the romance genre audience. 

Best epitomized by the Avengers/MCU Quinjet