Character Creation: CHOMP!

I find myself with a little time, but only a little, so.

The Game: CHOMP!
The Publisher: Zombie Dog Games
Degree of Familiarity: I've seen a shitload of zombie movies, does that count?
Books Required: Just the one

I mean, I dunno. The stated goal of this game was that the designers wanted to make a fun, fast-paced unique game. It's by no means unique (it's just a bare-bones version of All Flesh Must Be Eaten, except not really even that, because there is nothing specifically zombie-related about the game), but except for that, it's a simple, beer-n-pretzels little zombie game, and that's fine.

Basically this is just a tactical combat engine with some zombies pasted on. You could make them aliens or Smurfs or penguins or whatever, it'd work more or less the same. So let's make a survivor! 

First thing we do is roll for Skill Focus, that is, which overarching combat approach or ability is my survivor's most important one. A roll of 4 gives me Athletics, so I get a +1 to Athletics and I move on to the Athletics page.

So, characters have professions but it's just set dressing, what you did before the Rise happened. I'll say my guy was a Tai Chi instructor, and his name is Scout. He probably smells of patchouli and talks about "energy" a lot. I hate him already.

Well, actually, the next thing we do is roll for a trait (once at level 1 and again at level 3, though I'm puzzled as to why a game that explicitly makes characters disposable has a leveling system - oh, wait, you level at the end of a scene, that's OK then). I roll and get Graceful, so I get +1 to Attack and Defense.

Now I get one Tactic, but I can pretty much take any one that I have the prereqs for. I think I just want Cat-Like Reflexes, though (I get a +2 to any Athletics roll).

And that's pretty much it! Scout has a beard, long hair (man bun!), tends to wear loose shirts and shorts, and he usually wore flip-flops but that's a bad idea since the zombies started coming around, so he's switched to moccasins. I'm sure he has some theory about why the dead are rising and I'm sure it's inane.