Hope is for the Dead: a Forbidden Psalm Zombie Game

Created by Kevin Rahman

A miniature skirmish game from the creator of Forbidden Psalm. Can you survive the zombie apocalypse and build your own haven?

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Books printing and surgery
7 months ago – Sun, Sep 07, 2025 at 05:16:33 AM

Hi all 

Just a quick update to say the books have gone to print. In other news I have had to have emergency surgery after falling ill. What this means is there might be a week or two delay just while I recover to me posting books once they arrive. This only impacts EU and UK books. Hopefully by time the print is even done I will be well enough to pack and send books but wanted to flag that i am currently healing. 

Thanks all for your patience

cheers

WIll  

Updated files
7 months ago – Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 07:48:21 AM

Hi all

quick email to say files have been updated on Drivethrurpg with feedback sent in. Thank you all. 

87 of you still need to do your surveys please. 

In other news its my birthday soon and a great gift would be if you can go check out my next project RUN FROM THE DARK  Folk horror and a Forbidden Psalm rule set to!

Digital Files
8 months ago – Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 01:44:16 AM

Hi all 

quick update. 

Digital files have just been sent to the 425 of you that have completed your surveys so far. I will be sending files in batches every few days. So get your survey [sent from backerkit] completed if you want your files on Friday this week if you have not done so already. 

If you not had your survey please do the following steps. 

  1. Check your Kickstarter Email - this is where the survey goes first, this includes APPLE IDs and GOOGLE accounts used to create your Kickstarter Account. Your Survey will have gone here in the first instance. 
  2. Check your spam folder 
  3. Check under your sofa 
  4. Still not go it? ok cool please contact me at [email protected] I get around 10 people a day contact me and most of these have their survey in their Kickstater email or spam [none under sofas to be fair]. But responding to these does take time and slows down getting files out to people so please do check before contacting. Sorry for the prescriptive approach here!

If you spot any issues with the files please fill out this form 

or email me 

Thank you everyone really appreciate you all 

WIRD 

Survey: Files: What is Next:
8 months ago – Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 02:47:06 AM

Hi all some updates 

  1. The survey smoke test went live today. 35 of you have been sent your surveys as a test. The rest will come tomorrow. Any issues please email [email protected] If you use any other means of contact I might not see it. 
  2. You will have 4 weeks to complete survey from tomorrow. If you fail to do so we can't guarantee you will get your books so please do. We will remind you over the next month. 
  3. Postage rates are outside of our control as is US Tariffs. So please keep in mind that postage costs and other costs we do not control. 
  4. Files will come via Backerkit for now [final files via drivethrurpg once we have closed the survey's in 4 weeks] files will come Thursday this week to those that have completed their surveys. If you notice any errors in the files please fill out this form  Again sending them anywhere else or in comments might mean they get missed. Thank you 
  5. We will be off to print in 2 weeks so any errors or issues please do fill out the form. We think we caught them all but there is always one. 
  6. Names in books are final and those that missed entering their names we are sorry. We have deadlines so we can ensure we meet our deadlines for printing etc. 

RUN FROM THE DARK 

My next project is Run from the Dark, a folk horror RPG and Forbidden Psalm module [separate books]. I would love it if you could give it a follow. The more follows it gets the more visibility it gets, so even if your just mildly curious please do check out the Kickstarter preview page [going live in October/November when we have shipped Hope is for the Dead]. 

FORBIDDEN TALES 

And before we hit Run from the Dark we are also doing a fiction only [but with a choose your own path game built in] book as part of Printopia with Backerkit, this is a fun little side project collecting short stories from me and others set in the worlds of Forbidden Psalm games including Hope is for the Dead. Came read about the first outbreak and more.

Survey and Files
8 months ago – Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 07:30:29 AM

Hi all 

Just a quick update to say Backerkit survey should be this week. You will then have three weeks to complete. 

Digital files then should be next week sometime, maybe week after depending on how editing goes. 

Then we send them off to print! 

cheers all 

WIRD