Jurassic Park RPG?

[cbwjm]

I'm looking forward to the movie.

If I was gonna run it as an rpg, I'd just use savage worlds, seems a good fit.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I believe there's an addon for Deathmatch Island that covers a form of Jurassic Park scenario. My memory says it was called "Deathmatch Island: Project Resurrection".

Ahhhh this is when I find out Deathmatch Island actually came out and is available! I should pay more attention! I need to get that!

 

[Umbran]

Ahhhh this is when I find out Deathmatch Island actually came out and is available! I should pay more attention! I need to get that!

Yeah. I ran a one-shot of it at a house-con, and it went really well. It took a bit for my players to really understand the "roll then narrate" structure, but once they figured it out, things got dynamic.

 

[Jaeger]

Do you mean the players taking the roles of the film protagonists?

Yes! It's basically doing what the Film Reroll crew does (they're great).

The basic idea is that the GM creates the character sheets and hands them out. Then, because players are players, the 'movie' completely changes (often in unhinged ways).

I've rerolled a couple of films with various groups: IT, Fast & the Furious, and the Fellowship of the Ring. All were great fun.

"Reroll" that's actually a clever little term...

You don't even need to have the PCs be the characters from the films - you can just run them as regular adventures in a current campaign if the genre's are compatible.

In my current Vaesen campaign I turned the 1999 Sleepy Hollow film into a sandbox adventure; I just re-watched the film - then went to wikipedia and mapped out all the NPC's, their secrets and motives. Then the PC's got sent to the area for the same investigative reasons as Depp's character in the film. Thus the investigation of 'Somnig Dal' began...

And Yes, absolutely Yes; The PC's change everything; The "Lady Van Tassel" antagonist wound up getting beheaded by the PC's...

Before that I ran a Star Wars campaign set during the Original Trilogy timeline. They ganged up on Vader and killed him on Cloud city after Luke fell down the shaft... Got Cloud city blown up. Took turns Masquerading as Boba Fett for half the campaign after one of them jumped on his ship, and killed him by surprise.

All your players need to do is get one good roll when it counts, and the "movie timeline" becomes a different thing altogether.

These experiences are why I dismiss all claims of certain IP not making for good RPG settings because: "The PC's are always in the shadow of the established main characters!"

The real issue is that they just don't have the right players...

 

[Thondor]

One of the new starter sets for SHIVER is basically a Jurassic Park adventure "Welcome to Hollow World." It has the extra layer of the players are playing the actors playing their characters. It's a nice set, and I do enjoy SHIVER's mechanics.
The starter rulebook covers a lot of what you need to play any SHIVER game.

SHIVER Blockbuster Starter Box

110 page starter rulebook, SHIVER Dice, 50 page dinosaur adventure "Welcome to Hollow World", pre-gens. Box set; colour

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