Idea for a 1989 Top Secret S.I. throwback campaign

[JPL]

For a couple years in the late 1980s, Top Secret S.I. was my jam. Just got to looking at the three-part "Web Wars" campaign, where a team of agents gets involved in espionage shenanigans on a fictional Caribbean island.

Now that would be a hell of a campaign to try in the year 2020 if you kept it set in 1989, and did it like Cannon Films producing a Larry Hama screenplay with a John Carpenter soundtrack.

 

[JPL]

Just keep it feeling like a B-movie on a videotape, y'know? With some ninjas, and Uzis, and maybe some of the co-stars from "Predator."

And Cory Everson from ESPN's "Bodyshaping."

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I have fond memories of Top Secret/S.I. For a proper Predator/80s action movie feel, I'd think the Commando supplement would be required.

I picked up Top Secret: New World Order and have been thinking about running my group through a one-shot with that. it's so easy to pick up the new rules set. That being said, I couldn't see setting it at any other time than the 80s, when I was originally playing the game. I want to run a Roger Moore-era Bond game mixed with yes, cheap Cannon films action, not a bunch of people committing cyberwarfare.

 

[JPL]

Oh, "Commando" was the greatest.

In fact, the other great campaign idea is to just play the "Brushfire Wars" supplement front to back, keeping it all in the late 1980s.

I would allow era-appropriate cyberwarfare if someone wanted to play Mainframe from "G.I. Joe" --- Vietnam vet lugging around a 20-pound briefcase computer who has to explain the word "hack."

 

[JPL]

I'm increasingly liking the "Brushfire Wars" idea, and that the cast has to be cheap.

So I'm thinking Carl Weathers, Martin Kove, Tia Carrere, Michael Dudikoff, Christopher Lambert . . . that tier of action hero.

 

[Eltab]

The movie version has to include the clip from whichever Bond movie where Q (the original actor) tells Bond "and try not to break these, 007..." and the PC's boss turns around from the TV to say, "What he said."