[MijRai]

So, I've always wondered the kinds of characters folks would bring to various kinds of games; it's interesting to see what other people are up to in the same kinds of situations.  I've also been on a The Walking Dead bender.  So, to start off a possible series of discussion...

What kind of Shadowrun character would you bring to the zombie apocalypse?  Not shedim or other forms of spirit possession, not CFD.  Magical viral outbreak zombie apocalypse, no headshots means do not pass go or collect $200.

I immediately think I'd go parkour style adept; nothing beats survivability in the zombie apocalypse as being able to go most anywhere and evade the hordes.  Free Fall, Hang Time, Metabolic Control, Sustenance, Combat/Danger Sense, Light Body, Traceless Walk, Wall Running...  And of course Improved Reflexes.  Motion Sense if the power points are around.  Toss him a bit of Longarms, a good dash of Outdoors and Survival in skills, and he's a mountaineer/wilderness guide, trapped in the concrete jungle between jobs.  He travels light, knows his way around, always has a contingency for whatever he's got planned.  As far as Priorities go, probably A Attribute, B Magic, C Skills, D Money, E Human.  3 Edge is a decent starting point, and 6 Magic with 50,000 nuyen leaves plenty of room for getting qi foci on top of the plethora of power points.  A bow might be interesting too. 

That said, I also love the idea of the 'wared up troll, the true shadowrunner, a street-sam whose titanium legs provide a nifty protection against zombie bites (turns out metal doesn't give like skin does).  A guy who considers himself not to be trapped, but in a target rich environment.

[Achsin]

Magician or Mystic-Adept.

Levitate means never getting surrounded outside. Slaughter Zombie would work great for broken arrow situations. Ram [Wall] for getting out of a building in a pinch. Catalog for scavenging. Physical/Element wall/Lock, or one of the other options to block off entry ways. There are lots of spells that could be useful.

[Tecumseh]

It's hard for me to imagine doing anything but Mystic Adept here. Levitate to keep yourself out of reach, detect spells and adept powers to warn you of danger, health spells to keep you whole, spirits to keep watch over you at night and to help with zombie murdering. I think Drain would be a bigger danger than the zombies themselves.

[Mirikon]

I'd go with one of the characters I've actually played in game, an elf Magician of a tradition I made called the Swordmage (possession tradition). Because blades never run out of ammo.

[DigitalZombie]

Dolphin shapeshifter?

Or a m#¤%f¤%ng shedim, now I wont even have to work to get access to new corpses.

Or play hard mode and be a Fomorian streetsam or Xapiri thepe face:)

[Jack_Spade]

I'd play an AI with a nice Otomo drone as a home device
No more problems with those rotting meatbags...

[SmilinIrish]

Definitely the intuition mage I'm playing now.  As noted above, levitate and invisibility keep you safe.  Various detect spells  (detect enemies, spatial sense, detect life, clairvoyance).  Once change I may make would be to lose astral projection and add adept powers.  metabolic control would be big, also mentioned above. 

Kind of like what you see on TWD, the surviving humans are usually your biggest problem.  Zombies, even hordes can be managed.  Its those pesky metahumans who want your stuff and your walls. 

[falar]

Rigger with an Ares Roadmaster, a sniper drone and a wicked solar energy panel.

Zombies? Oh, oh, I just ran over one. Hordes of zombies? Boom headshot all day long.

[Halinn]

Rigger with an Ares Roadmaster, a sniper drone and a wicked solar energy panel.

Zombies? Oh, oh, I just ran over one. Hordes of zombies? Boom headshot all day long.

You'd need a lot of ammo. Maybe get a replica gun you can make your own bullets for?

[Mr. Grey]

A ghoul sounds fun here.

[MijRai]

Or a laser weapon, Halinn.  Those run on batteries!  And yes, the Infected would be fun at this time too...  I mean, who else would take the blame so easily? 

[Halinn]

Or a laser weapon, Halinn.  Those run on batteries!

I like that. Armored van and solar powered drones with laser weapons. Only issue is that you'll still eventually run out of food (unless zombies leave animals alone).

Mage has the longevity advantage, with the Nutrition spell (Stolen Souls p. 190). Chance of becoming addicted and eventually dying from that, but it's addiction rating 2 and threshold 1 so quite unlikely.

Alternately, you could do the solar powered rigger thing but with a boat instead. Fishing for food, electricity to distill salt water.

[CitizenJoe]

I'd play an overworked middle manager that was having an affair with his secretary.  If you're going to play a zombie apocalypse game, you need to follow the tropes.

[DigitalZombie]

Uh, I could play a cute secretary and girlfriend to an overworked middle manager- Being frustrated with him not leaving his boorish wife as promised. And later furious when the zombie crisis brings them closer together.
... But maybe if that B¤% got bitten???!!

[falar]

Alternately, you could do the solar powered rigger thing but with a boat instead. Fishing for food, electricity to distill salt water.

Owner of a small-to-medium sized solar-powered cruise liner. Convert decks to growing algae for food.

Heck, you'd just cruise around the world going from port city to port city and sending scavenging parties to get luxuries like rice, pasta and applesauce. Eventually, you'd have to enforce a cruel dystopian breeding schedule to keep the genetics as fresh as you can, but it would make a great alternate storyline for a Zombie-pacolypse.