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I originally posted this house rule on Toxic City Mall extension page. But i wanted to share it with the whole zombicide community.

If you can’t stand the priority rule with ranged weapon, causing your character to hit your allies before zombies on the same case, here is a house rule re-balancing the game if you want to ignore it.

Limited ammo : The priority rule when shouting with a ranged weapon doesn’t affect your allies anymore. In return, characters have each an ammunition stock. You can use the ability marker tokens to represent your munitions in stock. Each time you shot with a ranged weapon, discard 1 ammunition token. Using a dual weapon only cost 1 ammunition token per shot. The player starting with pistol get 10 ammunition token at start. every time a player find a ranged weapon with searching action, he gets 10 (or 5, as you prefer) ammunitions tokens with. Characters can trade their ammunition token with the trading action.

I really enjoy this rule, it become easier to shoot zombies, but the survival immersion is way better when you have to save ammo! 🙂 Try it and have fun!

If you can’t stand the priority rule with ranged weapon, causing your character to hit your allies before zombies on the same case, here is a house rule re-balancing the game if you want to ignore it.

Limited ammo : The priority rule when shouting with a ranged weapon doesn’t affect your allies anymore. In return, characters have each an ammunition stock. You can use the ability marker tokens to represent your munitions in stock. Each time you shot with a ranged weapon, discard 1 ammunition token. Using a dual weapon only cost 1 ammunition token per shot. The player starting with pistol get 10 ammunition token at start. every time a player find a ranged weapon with searching action, he gets 10 (or 5, as you prefer) ammunitions tokens with. Characters can trade their ammunition token with the trading action.

I really enjoy this rule, it become easier to shoot zombies, but the survival immersion is way better when you have to save ammo! 🙂 Try it and have fun!

This is a list of character ideas you can add to your games. I didn’t try them all yet, and i will sometimes update this list, adding new roles and deleting the one not working or ruining some fun.

– The illusionist : When power activated, you take back, shuffle and deal again all other roles. It is quite an interesting character when you feel that roles are too easy to identify.

– The little red ridding hod, and the wolf : When the little red ridding hod activates his power, the player gains 5 golds. But, the wolf can activate its power too. If the wolf power is activated, the wolf gains 5 golds instead of the red ridding hod.

– The chaplain : when its power is activated, put a glass at the center of the table. every player owning at least 1 coin have to shoot a coin in the glass. If a player succeed, he can take back his coin. All coin failed go to the chaplain.

– The banker : when its power is activated, the banker can save up to 5 coins for the rest of the game. powers can’t steal these coins until game ending. Not really cool to play with many coin stealers (thief etc…).

–The police officer : you can only activate its power when a player is being stolen pieces by another player. You get the stolen coins + 1 more from the thief. Then switch (or not) your role and the thief one.

– The Professor (new) : when its power is activated, the professor choose a theme (it can be be anything, an african country, or a beer name). Then, starting with the one at the left of the professor, all other players have to give a correct answer to the theme. The first one failing have to give 4 gold coins to the professor.

– The Unlucky (new) : If a player reveals this card, he lose all his gold coins.

– I sometimes add a rule where a player can use all his actions in a turn to find a hideout on his current Tile. The character doesn’t make noise anymore, and zombies ignore him as long as he stays hidden.

– An other funny rule, is to start the game as if all survivors were prison escapers. And they are handcuffed 2 per 2. All handcuffed players have to both use a move action to move on adjacent zone together. They always have to be on the same zone. Moreover they have 1 less hand usable while handcuffed. If handcuffed survivor find an axe / chainsaw / machet, he can spend 3 actions to cut the handcuff and play normally. Of course this rule is more funny if no one survivor starts with Axe.