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I lack the skills or savvy for this stuff but I would like an RPG based on early Duran Duran upto and including Arcadia, something New Romantic/Gothy/(Post-)Apocalyptic and appropriately tastefully pretentious. Help me, Dumarest, you're my only hope.

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I lack the skills or savvy for this stuff but I would like an RPG based on early Duran Duran upto and including Arcadia, something New Romantic/Gothy/(Post-)Apocalyptic and appropriately tastefully pretentious. Help me, Dumarest, you're my only hope.

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Challenge status: ACCEPTED!

Give me a few minutes to find appropriate artwork...:hehe:
 
Challenge status: ACCEPTED!

Give me a few minutes to find appropriate artwork...:hehe:
I couldn't quickly find more gifs from Duran videos, but they had some weird pseudo-occult and adventurous faux-postapocalyptic and dystopian stuff going on in a number of them. Ideally, the result should appear sort of viable, not merely ridiculous.

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I couldn't quickly find more gifs from Duran videos, but they had some weird pseudo-occult and adventurous faux-postapocalyptic and dystopian stuff going on in a number of them. Ideally, the result should appear sort of viable, not merely ridiculous.
You know you want to play this RIGHT NOW!
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Edit: I actually want to give the idea a second pass when I have access to Paint. This is the best I could do on my phone. I would have liked to have found some un-blurry stills from the "Union of the Snake" video as well. Everything I found was out of focus and blurry.
 
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There was also Hungry Like The Wolf, which had a kind of 1980s Indiana Jones vibe going, and New Moon On Monday, where some underground resistance movement against an oppressive regime seems to be taking place. Night Boat has zombies. Including Girls on Film is optional.

Arcadia had a couple of videos featuring a kind of haunted or mystery house, Goodbye Is Forever and The Flame.
 
Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror series could make an interesting IP, I think. It's certainly a useful resource for strange tales with a cyberpunk twist.
 
I made a new one that is less text-heavy but the file size is apparently too large to upload and I can't resize it until I'm back in the office on Tuesday. I think it's a lot better. I imagine those descriptors of the setting being printed on the back of the box. The premise is that you play New Romantic astronauts who got caught in a time warp and crashland on Earth 500 years later and find your homeworld almost unrecognizable. Planet of the Apes crossed with Gamma World, with lizardmen, mutants, subterranean Nü-Men (descendants of humanity with psionic powers), plus survivors of the apocalypse who live in preservation domes out of Logan's Run. Maybe I'll create the back of the box as well. I wish I could post what I've done as I think it's pretty neat!
 
I made a new one that is less text-heavy but the file size is apparently too large to upload and I can't resize it until I'm back in the office on Tuesday.

If you have Facebook, you can upload it there and then open the image from the post and insert it here.
 
Don't have a Facebook account, but maybe my wife can do it. In the meantime here's one based on the Raiders of the Lost Ark-meets-Apocalypse Now music video:
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I am experiencing a wave of warm and fuzzy nostalgia! I need those two Duran Duran RPGs. Maybe there can be a pre-apocalypse sourcebook, so we can include the New Romantic music videos as well.
 
Willow would make for a great RPG. The world, especially if you include the three novels that came out in the mid 90's, and the film set up a fantastic world. If I ever had the dough to get the license I would release a book, powers by the BRP, in a heartbeat.




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Willow would make for a great RPG. The world, especially if you include the three novels that came out in the mid 90's, and the film set up a fantastic world. If I ever had the dough to get the license I would release a book, powers by the BRP, in a heartbeat.

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Willow would make for a great RPG. The world, especially if you include the three novels that came out in the mid 90's, and the film set up a fantastic world. If I ever had the dough to get the license I would release a book, powers by the BRP, in a heartbeat.




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Antipaladin Games' Minisix corebook comes with a Willow-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off one-page setting: Red Moon of Castia. (Also steampunk Ghostbusters, which is the one I'm most tempted to play.) There's a free PDF.
 
Just to be clear, that Willow RPG box I posted above is real. There was a Willow RPG. A friend of mine owned it, but though I remember flipping through it, I can't recall anything about the system.
 
Just to be clear, that Willow RPG box I posted above is real. There was a Willow RPG. A friend of mine owned it, but though I remember flipping through it, I can't recall anything about the system.

It was by Greg Costikyan, so it was likely an excellent game. I liked Willow and loved the books by Chris Claremont, so I could easily see where a good game could be made of that world.

It looks like there was a sourcebook for it by our own Allen Varney Allen Varney!

 
I prefer the reboot, the original Captain Scarlet was a torture doll, he often did nothing but just DIE, while Captain Green was the one who solved most of the problems.

Lieutenant Green.

What I like about it is the level of world-building that went into it. There's a whole alt history and all the main characters have at least some backstory. Did you know, for example, that Conrad Turner (aka Captain Black) was orphaned at the age of seven months after his parents were killed in the European War of 2028-2034.
 
I am experiencing a wave of warm and fuzzy nostalgia! I need those two Duran Duran RPGs. Maybe there can be a pre-apocalypse sourcebook, so we can include the New Romantic music videos as well.
You play undercover vice cops posing as a pop group. The back cover would have shots of them on yachts and cavorting with models and other exciting scenes from their music videos. The back cover blurb would read something like, "Enter the world of high-priced call girls, designer drugs, tailored suits...and SUDDEN DEATH! Enter the world of Duran Duran: International Vice!"
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Lieutenant Green.
Right, sorry. I really thought that the show was about Captain BLUE, given how he solved most of the cases and was Scarlet's partner. I keep forgetting the colours. :tongue:

What I like about it is the level of world-building that went into it. There's a whole alt history and all the main characters have at least some backstory. Did you know, for example, that Conrad Turner (aka Captain Black) was orphaned at the age of seven months after his parents were killed in the European War of 2028-2034.
Yeap. Or that Captain Scarlet loves his name, because it's his favourite colour. And that his nickname was Big Red, in reference to being the top recruit in his class, which they called a Redcoat.
 
Right, sorry. I really thought that the show was about Captain BLUE, given how he solved most of the cases and was Scarlet's partner. I keep forgetting the colours. :tongue:


Yeap. Or that Captain Scarlet loves his name, because it's his favourite colour. And that his nickname was Big Red, in reference to being the top recruit in his class, which they called a Redcoat.

Why is it Captain Scarlet, but everybody else is just yellow, blue etc. They should have had names like Indigo, Goldenrod, Magenta, Sepia, Mahogany, and Periwinkle (Crayola could have covered 64 agents for them).
 
Why is it Captain Scarlet, but everybody else is just yellow, blue etc. They should have had names like Indigo, Goldenrod, Magenta, Sepia, Mahogany, and Periwinkle (Crayola could have covered 64 agents for them).
Because Captain Red sounds silly. :smile: That's pretty much it.
 
I can't believe that nobody posted this yet...

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Incidentally and for what it's worth, it's getting pretty hard to tell what's already been posted to this thread.
We did that in the early '90s with Call of Cthulhu and its modern-times investigator book. I mainly remember it because one guy's PC was essentially Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks.
 
Honestly, I'd buy it just for a book full of pictures of Gillian Anderson. That was a teenage crush that never went away.
 
Not specifically X-Files / Hannibal / Silence of the Lambs, but Holistic Design did a pretty good d20 FBI supplement as part of their "real life role playing" series. This series also included Columbia, Somalia and Afghanistan books, but these were more military / covert ops oriented.

For a fairly little known company they did a nice job on these 4 books. I think they often get overlooked among the many, many throwaway d20 splat books of the period.

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GURPS also did some law enforcement / espionage books. GURPS Cops, SWAT, Covert Ops, Espionage and Mysteries (the last part of the 4th ed line).
 
Not that I haven't already done something along these lines with existing games...but I'd buy these if they were any good.
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I went without actress photos for this one, but we could make an optional photo cover and sell the same book twice to collectors.
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