History TabletopGame / DeadOfWinter

* TakeAThirdOption: Players can sometimes perform this trope in the face of a SadisticCoice, especially if a certain character is in play at the time.

** TakeAThirdOption: That said, there are ways to avoid them, usually if a certain character is in play at the time.

* ColbertBump: Plaid Hat had trouble filling orders once the game was featured on an episode of ''WebVideo/TableTop''.
* FaceHeelTurn: What the Traitors do at the very end of the game.

* HeroicSacrifice: If a Survivor at a location is bitten and dies, the infection could spread to the other Survivors at that location. A Survivor can roll and take the 50% chance of surviving, or they can kill themselves to stop the infection from spreading further.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinjas: Mike is a zombie fighting ''ninja'', complete with black outfit.

* ZombieApocalypse: The setting.

* AntiHero: Your Survivors might make some questionable decisions. As a group, the Colony might vote to deny shelter to people seeking help, exile their own, or any number of morally grey acts. However, you cannot kill [[TheLoad helpless survivors]] and being too callous brings down the morale counter.

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* HarmlessFreezing: Averted hard. Players with frostbite will suffer more frostbite wounds til healed.

* ButtMonkey: If Forrest, the Mall Santa, is kicked out, morale goes ''up''.

* ButtMonkey: If Forrest, the Mall Santa, dies, morale goes ''up''.

2-5 players select a Main Objective the group must achieve before the game is over, as well as OncePerRound Crisis Card to resolve before the round is finished. Players select 2 or more Survivors to control on the board, moving them from the relative safety of the Colony and venturing out to forage and fight in the dangerous locations of the town. However, players also have a Secret Objective for themselves to achieve by the end of the game, which could be as harmless as collecting lots of tools, or as malicious as seeking to destroy the colony from within. Food is running short, trash is piling up at the Colony, characters are getting frostbite, and worse, the zombies are massing at the doors and smashing through your barricades.

* ButtMonkey: If Forrest, the Mall Santa dies, morale goes ''up''.

* KilledOffForReal: If a Survivor dies, their figure is removed from their board, their card is removed from the game, and any items equipped to them are shuffled back into the deck.

Not to be confused with the chilling 1987 GothicHorror [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092842/combined film]].

* HotLibrarian:

!!Has examples of:

* AntiHero: Your Survivors might make some questionable decisions. As a group, the Colony might vote to deny shelter to people seeking help, exile their own, or any number of morally grey acts. However, you cannot kill [[TheLoad helpless survivors]] and there are negative effects of being too callous.

* HotLibrarian: Well, naturally.

* KilledOffForReal: If a Survivor dies, their card is removed from the game and their figure is removed from the board.

* AntiHeroes: Your Survivors might make some questionable decisions. As a group, the Colony might vote to deny shelter to people seeking help, exile their own, or any number of morally grey acts. However, you cannot kill [[TheLoad helpless survivors]] and there are negative effects of being too callous.

* PersonaNoGrata: If a Survivor is exiled, they cannot return to the Colony for the rest of the game.

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A survival/horror cooperative tabletop game set in the [[TitleDrop dead of winter]] during a ZombieApocalypse, where players must achieve personal goals and keep the community of survivors alive until spring. Designed by Isaac Vega and Jon Gilmour in 2014 for [[http://www.plaidhatgames.com/ Plaid Hat Games]], it is the first of a planned series of games that use the Crossroads system.

Can be ordered via [[http://www.plaidhatgames.com/games/dead-of-winter the official website]] or found in your local gaming store. Plaid Hat Games has also put a [[http://www.plaidhatgames.com/images/games/dead-of-winter/rules.pdf PDF of the rules]].

-->''All of our hard work has rewarded us more than I could have hoped. Yesterday this was a refugee camp, and today it’s an honest-to-God town. When people call it the Colony, there’s no bitter irony in their voices, and that speaks volumes. Only problem is, all of our hard work has brought down a swarm of the dead upon us. Each day brings new invaders to our walls, and they wander the streets in town waiting for a living morsel to present itself. If we can just figure out a way to kill this swarm, build up our defenses and hopefully stop attracting more of them. Sure, we’ll probably be dealing with stragglers for the rest of our days, but anything would be better than the horde we’re dealing with now.''
-->-- ''''Home Sweet Home' Main Objective Storyline''', ''TabletopGame/DeadOfWinter''

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->''All of our hard work has rewarded us more than I could
have hoped. Yesterday this was a refugee camp, and today
it’s an honest-to-God town. When people call it the
Colony, there’s no bitter irony in their voices, and that
speaks volumes. Only problem is, all of our hard work
has brought down a swarm of the dead upon us. Each day
brings new invaders to our walls, and they wander the
streets in town waiting for a living morsel to present itself.
If we can just figure out a way to kill this swarm, build up
our defenses and hopefully stop attracting more of them.
Sure, we’ll probably be dealing with stragglers for the rest
of our days, but anything would be better than the horde
we’re dealing with now.''