Come With Me If You Want To Live! The Terminator Kickstarter Has Launched!

Nightfall Games' TERMINATOR roleplaying game Kickstarter has just launched! Based on the first movie plus the comic books, you can play in any time zone as a member of the human resistance.

The Terminator RPG

The official tabletop roleplaying game based on the 1984 movie, 'The Terminator' & all associated Dark Horse Comic graphic novels.

www.kickstarter.com

The game used SLA Industries 2E's S5S system, which is a d10 dice pool system.

You can pledge for a 192 page hardcover for £40 on the Kickstarter (£12 for the PDF) or download the free Quickstart PDF. There's also a GM screen and short GM Guide on offer.

 

[MGibster]

With only the first movie for inspiration, The Terminators do not roam the streets and the T-1000 not introduced, so how much play is there really in this RPG?

They've essentially got a blank slate for any adventures that take place in the near future or after Cyberdyne goes all bitchcakes on the world. The writers can fill in the gaps like West End Games filled in the games in Star Wars.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That does seem like an odd choice - first movie + comics only? Ignoring the other 5 movies - of admittedly varying quality - does feel limiting.

I looked it up. Carolco only controls the rights to the first movie and the comics they licensed.

Still, I don't know how hard it would be to make up the stuff from the other movies.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

With only the first movie for inspiration, The Terminators do not roam the streets and the T-1000 not introduced, so how much play is there really in this RPG?

You could do the Sarah Connor Chronicles, which is probably the best model for a Terminator campaign anyway.

 

[Morrus]

With only the first movie for inspiration, The Terminators do not roam the streets and the T-1000 not introduced, so how much play is there really in this RPG?

Whatever you want. You can have as many Terminators roaming the streets as you want.

 

[Weiley31]

You know, if they give you rules for playing as a Terminator, you can just Homebrew Robocop and have him fight alongside ya.

But, doing the first movie and its related graphic novels avoids the "headache" of trying to balance a party of Playable Terminators.

 

[Weiley31]

The Terminators do not roam the streets

Depends on which era you go for: If your in the Future War, your day's gonna suck if you encounter a kill squad of Endoskeletons who are roaming the area to eliminate the survivors of a Resistance Unit they just ambushed and hit hard. Especially if a Flying Hunter Killer is providing air support.

If we're talking pre-Future War, then your gonna be dealing with a "Boss Level" Terminator that could've been easily dispatched with a Laser Rifle (Purple Laser Variant for maximized damage) in the Future War, but can tank multiple shotgun rounds because most ballistic fire arms do jack to an Endoskeleton and you don't have a Laser Rifle (Red or Purple Laser Variant) since such a thing hasn't been invented yet.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

But, doing the first movie and its related graphic novels avoids the "headache" of trying to balance a party of Playable Terminators.

That's a good point.

 

[Weiley31]

The first Terminator movie is technically the most grounded. The later movies are kinda crazy in their own right, but they open up their respective graphic novels/forms of media. Some that introduced the most insane concepts of Terminators: Like the T-Infinity and the T-1000000 from the T2 3-D: Battle Across Time special effects stunt show back in the day.

And as stupid/awesome(YMMV in how you view em) as they would be or even for the Legion/Rev-9, the notion of balance for them would be......well Terminated.

 

[smcc360]

"Eyepatch, please don't shoot the boss in the nuts. Thanks."

 

[DammitVictor]

I'm not that concerned about all of the T-800 variants and the T-1000 and the Rev-9. To me, that isn't the interesting thing about Terminators.

To me, the interesting thing about the entire Terminator franchise is the temporal chess match between two grandmasters, that neither is capable of winning without the other, and that keeps adding more pieces and players as it drags on.

I was most certainly not bitterly disappointed in Dark Fate. I was disappointed in its box office returns, because the end of Dark Fate was the first and only time I was genuinely excited at the possibility of another Terminator movie-- one in which Dani or LEGION sent someone back to retrieve John to gain an advantage in their war.