For the Return of the Living Dead’s 40th anniversary, official and using the Everyday Heroes RPG system, there’s a Living Dead roleplaying game.
Evil Genius Games
Evil Genius Games are the tabletop RPG publisher of Everyday Heroes. Everyday Heroes RPG is a mashup of d20 Modern and 5e, written by some of the original d20 Modern team.
The indie studio uses the ORC license for the system and has the RPG rights to some notable movie titles such as Pacific Rim, Kong: Skull Island, Escape from New York, The Crow, Highlander, Total Recall and others.
Evil Genius is successful in May 2023, launched a campaign for a legendary bundle of
Kong and Pacific Rim.
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