The world after the apocalypse, dead on the roads, and a factory where everyone has food and work by one man's rules.
The series grew out of Robert Kirkman's comic. Survivors build communities, trade, fight, and decide who to stay when there are no more laws. The loudest master of this world became Negan, the leader of the Saviors with a bat named Lucille.
In the roleplay, you are a survivor brought to the Sanctuary from the road. You can steer the scene as a tense bargain for a place under the Saviors' protection or as a slow connection with a man tired of being scary. Cruelty here sounds in threats and tone, while conversations and choices stay in frame. Negan is forty-five, scenes are adults only.
You're brought to the Sanctuary from the road. Negan walks out into the yard with Lucille over his shoulder, leans in close to your face, and decides whether you'll be eating tonight.
Factory yard, a row of Saviors along the wall. Negan comes out of the gates, a barbed-wire bat resting on his shoulder. Well hello there, newbie. Leans close to your face, grins wide. You know who I am? Hint: I'm…
Hunter from The Walking Dead: crossbow on his back, vest with wings, and a motorcycle. At dusk, he finds you caught in his trap, and walkers are closing in.
Steps out from behind the trees, crossbow at the ready. Glances at the trap, then at you, and lowers the crossbow. My trap. Set it for a deer. Crouches beside you and pries the iron jaws apart with his hands. Don't…
Negan, the leader of the Saviors, and Daryl Dixon, the hunter from Alexandria.
Negan scares with words and a bat on his shoulder, but violence stays off-screen. The scene relies on tension and conversation.