I stayed home sick yesterday trying to beat a summer cold. I haven't watched TV lately, so in between naps, I got hooked on this Cinemax series out of Britian called Strike Back!
It's a pretty good little show. High production values. It's about a special unit of the British Secret Service called Section 20. It's like a Jason Bourne TV series where the two stars are special ops, one an ex-SAS type, and the other an American ex-Delta Force.
The show deals with real-world issues--season one is about terrorists and WMDs.
This summer, we'll see the third season. The first two are on demand right now. Each season consists of 10 shows.
Lots of action. High production values. I'm diggin' it.
WARNING: Extremely graphic violence (they show meat exploding from a head when hit with a bullet), and Extremely graphic sex (showing everying but the actual penetration), not to mention graphic language, very adult situations (I've seen kids get killed on this show).
Here's a Wiki about the show: Clicky, clicky.
Here's the Cinemax page. Clicky, clicky.
And, here's a YouTube trailer for the show. Clicky, clicky.
YouTube also has a few full episodes. Here's episode one. Clicky, clicky.
The main reason I bring it up, though, is that I think the show would serve as a GM's gold mine for running these types of games. I bought the Mercenary, Spies and Private Eyes years ago, and I like it. I've just never run it. This show would make for a perfect campaign using that game.
Top Secret/S.I., with the Commando supplement, would also work well. I've always wanted to run a TS/SI from the point of view of a Titan Team.
The James Bond RPG, or d20 Modern would also be good choices.
Even from a Traveller point of view, the show can be useful to the creative GM. Picture an Adventure class ships, zipping around the Spinward Marches, but the crew is really undercover Imperial Naval Intelligence operatives.
Or, even your standard group of Traveller misfits on a ship, getting a job from nefarious people--it's a special cargo, ya know? Wanted on a particular low TL world, with no questions asked...
You can use the same plot, but replace the Blackhawk with a grav vehicle. The guns that are being smuggled are changed to gauss weapons. Set it on some troubled world like Aramanx, TL 6, Balkanized, in the throws of a civil war. Let the players find out that, really, the strings are being pulled by Tukera's Vemene instead of some real world terrorist organization, and BOOM, BOOM, you've got youself an action-oriented Traveller adventure.
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It's a pretty good little show. High production values. It's about a special unit of the British Secret Service called Section 20. It's like a Jason Bourne TV series where the two stars are special ops, one an ex-SAS type, and the other an American ex-Delta Force.
The show deals with real-world issues--season one is about terrorists and WMDs.
This summer, we'll see the third season. The first two are on demand right now. Each season consists of 10 shows.
Lots of action. High production values. I'm diggin' it.
WARNING: Extremely graphic violence (they show meat exploding from a head when hit with a bullet), and Extremely graphic sex (showing everying but the actual penetration), not to mention graphic language, very adult situations (I've seen kids get killed on this show).
Here's a Wiki about the show: Clicky, clicky.
Here's the Cinemax page. Clicky, clicky.
And, here's a YouTube trailer for the show. Clicky, clicky.
YouTube also has a few full episodes. Here's episode one. Clicky, clicky.
The main reason I bring it up, though, is that I think the show would serve as a GM's gold mine for running these types of games. I bought the Mercenary, Spies and Private Eyes years ago, and I like it. I've just never run it. This show would make for a perfect campaign using that game.
Top Secret/S.I., with the Commando supplement, would also work well. I've always wanted to run a TS/SI from the point of view of a Titan Team.
The James Bond RPG, or d20 Modern would also be good choices.
Even from a Traveller point of view, the show can be useful to the creative GM. Picture an Adventure class ships, zipping around the Spinward Marches, but the crew is really undercover Imperial Naval Intelligence operatives.
Or, even your standard group of Traveller misfits on a ship, getting a job from nefarious people--it's a special cargo, ya know? Wanted on a particular low TL world, with no questions asked...
You can use the same plot, but replace the Blackhawk with a grav vehicle. The guns that are being smuggled are changed to gauss weapons. Set it on some troubled world like Aramanx, TL 6, Balkanized, in the throws of a civil war. Let the players find out that, really, the strings are being pulled by Tukera's Vemene instead of some real world terrorist organization, and BOOM, BOOM, you've got youself an action-oriented Traveller adventure.
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