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Orpheus
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| TheDoctor wrote: | | Soniv wrote: | | I've given some thought to putting some of Dumas' works in the Tapani Sector. With slight alterations, they could very well work. Granted, that's literature, not movies, but they did make films of some of his more famous works. |
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Those would be great! Of course, Doc I just noticed this thread and read your opening post. Kelly's Heroes would be a great adventure. I love that movie. There's a good WWII film with Frank Sinatra called Von Ryan's Express where these Allied G.I.'s/Spies sneak behind enemy lines to hijack a train.
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TheDoctor
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I always meant to see Von Ryan's but never got around to it.
Note to self: add it to netflix list.
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Herglic_w/o_a_head
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| I always thought it would be cool to play a campaign that was like the movie I-Robot. In a SW you could play it on a galactic level, giving the robots a destinctive humanoid droid appearance (like in the movie/book) and add a little replicator factor into the mix in which the robots would try to reproduce and man/create space vessels. To get the android stats you could just modify the stats for a human replica droid and give them a kind of hive mentality. |
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Esjs
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Speaking of WWII, I recently saw the movie Casablanca for the first time and thought that it would translate into a great Star Wars setting/adventure.
I pictured a large space station (which I named "Whitehome"   ) somewhere in the mid-rim where refugees escaping the Empire would end up, waiting for transport to somewhere free of Imperial rule. There would be a bar/cantina similar to Rick's, owned and operated by a similar character.
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Herglic_w/o_a_head
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Another interesting movie that you could do, but it would be pretty hard, is The Cube.
It would be interesting because the players would have to rely on their gaming ability and ingenuity rather than items. But in the end if you really wanted to recreate the movie it would really be a character slaughterer. |
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garhkal
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One that i wuld like to try is Tears of the Sun, but with the way some of the groups i have been with are, i am wondering how i can get them 'to want to' take the refugees...
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Kirkler
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I'm in the process of running the great escape. Rebel pilots got captured in interdiction. They are being a little shy about escape attempts but the Bothan wants to cutt threw the fence. I've aloud him to scrounge a wire cutter so far. Should be intresting to see what the others try. If no one else makes a move I'll have an NPC bring up some ideas.
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garhkal
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Perhaps they are not doing anything just for that reason, cause they know you will have an NPC pop up with the info...
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Bobmalooga
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| TheDoctor wrote: |
Okay, so if you turned the Italian Job into a SW Adventure, what would you use in place of the Minis? HAHA! |
Land speeders of course...LOL
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TheDoctor
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| TheDoctor wrote: | I always meant to see Von Ryan's but never got around to it.
Note to self: add it to netflix list. |
Huh...I never did add it to my list...and I only have the streaming service now. My how time flies!
Anyway, I've been working on an adventure and have found that it has some parallels to Enter the Dragon.
The PCs stumble on a far-flung lightly populated world ruled by a cruel master named Lord Barzon. He seems gracious, kind, hospitable when the PCs first meet him. But it's a mask concealing maniacal cruelty and megalomania. So basically he's Mr. Han.
Barzon's right hand lieutenant is a fearsome, but silent Wookiee. Dishonored for using claws in combat, he is ruthless and utterly loyal to Barzon. Barzon uses him often to make examples of those that fail him. I realized after dreaming up this NPC that he's basically Bolo.
The adventure premise revolves around freeing the enslaved people on the planet, much like the conclusion of Enter the Dragon.
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Zarn
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I think that the movie The Last Dragon would make a pretty good solo or duo Force Sensitive to Jedi story arc. Sho'nuff's hairdo practically identifies him as a Sith anyways.
In the same genre, I think that The Last Starfighter could be a good solo or duo Country Hick from backwater planet to Legendary Starfighter Ace story arc. The bad guys in here already practically scream Imperial or perhaps Iskalloni, with their transplant / cyberware technology.
However, our games tend to devolve either into the Three Stooges on adventures, or Heat. So there's that. |
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Bobmalooga
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as adventures...The Movies
Star Wars (The movies, all of them)- This one should be at the top of the list.
Tombstone
The Last Samurai
Princess Mononoke
Night of the living dead
Alien and Aliens
Predator
John Carpenter's: The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China and Starman
Ice Pirates
Battlestar Galactica (Classic and the new series)
A.V.P.
Magnum P.I.
Simon and Simon
Remington Steele
Anything with Steven Seagal in it.
Star Trek (the series and the movies)
Buck Rogers
The Magnificent Seven
Azumi
The Tomorrow People
The Powers of Matthew Star
Dark Angel
Terminator (1 and 2)
Farscape
Babylon-5
Serenity (and for that matter 'Firefly')
Titan A. E.
The Chronicles of Riddick and Pitch Black
Transformers the movie
5th Element
Soldier
Nightwatch
V...The series
Doctor Who
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Last of the Dogmen
Jurassic Park and Lost World
Literature References
Star Wars the novels-Some of them are great...anything before Visions of the Future came out.
Great Expectations
Hamlet (most anything by William Shakespeare)
The Bible
Both 'Jumper' and 'Helm' by Steven Gould
H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu mythos
The works of Stephen King
The Wild Cards series, edited by George R. Martin
The works of the many talented writers at both D.C. and Marvel Comics.
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| You've read 'Helm?' I love that book! |
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Bobmalooga
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| Kytross wrote: | | You've read 'Helm?' I love that book! |
Yes, I'm certain I've read everything by stephen Gould, he's excellent
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garhkal
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Just got done watching Reindeer games with Gary Sinese and Ben Afleck. That imo could easily be imported into SW.. Well, the casino robbery part.
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