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What 80s TV Show Would you Run an RPG Campaign About?

Started by RPGPundit, September 06, 2017, 04:09:05 AM

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jeff37923

#45
September 07, 2017, 07:33:15 AM
Robotech, I've done using Mekton II (because Palladium Robotech sucks for genre emulation).

I really want to do Max Headroom and tried with Cyberpunk and Cyberpunk 2020, but both times just had players who didn't get Max Headroom.
"Meh."

Willie the Duck

#46
September 07, 2017, 07:52:29 AM
Quote from: colwebbsfmc;989750Eternia could be an AMAZING setting, it's got ancient tech, ancient magic, tons of things to weave into a great game.  I've even thought about doing a game 2,000 years or so after He-Man, where a 21st Century-tech Eternian archaeological team comes across artifacts of the MotU time period, inadvertently unleashing Skeletor and his minions into the modern world along with magic.  The team must use other artifacts to grant them the Power of Grayskull.

 Skeletor and his minions were already unleashed into the modern world in the live-action movie, and we don't talk about it. ;)

Tod13

#47
September 07, 2017, 08:57:56 AM
Quote from: Dumarest;989631Q: What 80s TV Show Would you Run an RPG Campaign About?

A: Logan's Run is a 1977 American television series, a spin-off from the 1976 film of the same name.

Hmm...never knew this show existed...or that 1977 was considered the 1980s! :confused:

Based on a 1967 book. :p

I usually associate Logan's Run more with the books, which I read in the 80s. :D

Quote from: Dumarest;989631In that case, I'm starting up my Saturday Night Fever campaign! I figure a 1977 movie is as much an '80s TV show as anything else...! :p

LOL I'm good with that.

Well, we do live in the building where part of Urban Cowboy was filmed. So that at least puts us into 1980. (Of course, the building was built the year after Logan's Run was published.) :)

HappyDaze

#48
September 07, 2017, 09:25:55 AM
Riptide and Magnum P.I. were fun (and I'd definitely want to have "Mustache" as a prestige class). Tales of the Gold Monkey has already been named. Otherworld and V were ones I enjoyed too. I could actually see Night Court being a popular RPG with my players.

Batman

#49
September 07, 2017, 09:50:26 AM
Aside from the ones already mentioned....

Knight Rider
Alf
Gummi Bears
Voltron

and while not 80's, probably gotta throw Captain Planet on this too.
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K Peterson

#50
September 07, 2017, 10:23:16 AM
V is the only show that comes to mind, that I think would make for an entertaining Rpg campaign.

Thanos

#51
September 07, 2017, 12:35:17 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;989631In that case, I'm starting up my Saturday Night Fever campaign! I figure a 1977 movie is as much an '80s TV show as anything else...! :p

You know what would be the hardest thing about this campaign? Stayin' alive! Stay'in alive! Aye, aye, aye. Stayin' Alive!

Skarg

#52
September 07, 2017, 12:48:37 PM
Quote from: TrippyHippy;989921There was a GURPS supplement released for The Prisoner, sometime I recall.

Yep! I've got it - pretty well done. Of course, The Prisoner is not an 80's show, nor is The Avengers, except as re-runs.

If shows from previous decades re-run during the 80's are on-topic, then there are some I would potentially consider running:
The Prisoner
The Avengers
Mission Impossible
Space: 1999
Star Trek
Battlestar Galactica (minus the stupid parts)
Combat!
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Twilight Zone

Maybe some others.

Apparition

#53
September 07, 2017, 12:54:14 PM Last Edit: September 07, 2017, 01:25:51 PM by Apparition
Quote from: jeff37923;989936Robotech, I've done using Mekton II (because Palladium Robotech sucks for genre emulation).

Yes, Palladium Robotech does indeed suck at... well... playing Robotech.  Alas, I've yet to find any really better RPG for it.  I was hoping to use Mekton Zero, but... yeah.  That whole Kickstarter campaign fiasco has soured me on R. Talsorian Games in general.

AsenRG

#54
September 07, 2017, 01:04:19 PM
Most likely:
Le Retour d'Arsene Lupin
Noires sont les galaxies
Navarro

Less likely:
Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret
Messieurs les Jurés
La Princesse insensible (mostly inspired by, though, not straight using the setting).

Why the question?
What Do You Do In Tekumel? See examples!
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HMWHC

#55
September 07, 2017, 01:46:15 PM
Everything I'd pick has already been mentioned so I'll just add my voice to the choir.

A-Team
V (would make a great espionage/sabotage/resistance cell game)
The Equalizer (would work for a single player, single GM campaign)
Bring Em' Back Alive/Tales of the Golden Monkey
M.A.S.K.
Blackstar
Flash Gordon
Galaxy Rangers (Players making their own Ranger team would work really well I think)
Thundercats
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (A bit more gritty/real twist to it would make it great I think as a campaign)
Bionic Six
Mighty Orbots

And especially these two
Pirates of Darkwater (early 90's)
Thunder the Barbarian

Some of them already have fan supplements available, and the "Cartoon Action Hour" RPG claims to support any sort of 80's Cartoon setting (I've not played it)
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HMWHC

#56
September 07, 2017, 01:49:42 PM Last Edit: September 08, 2017, 01:18:18 PM by Gwarh
Quote from: sniderman;989557Thundarr the Barbarian, natch. I've run several games in this setting at cons and such and even put together a loose Mutant Future supplement with all of my notes and creatures and setting materials and adventures and what-not.

WOW you're the one who put that PDF together? It's one of my all time favourite Netbooks/Fan Supplements!
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Willie the Duck

#57
September 07, 2017, 02:08:38 PM
Quote from: Skarg;990007If shows from previous decades re-run during the 80's are on-topic, then there are some I would potentially consider running:


Maybe some others.

What about the Muppets?

Christopher Brady

#58
September 07, 2017, 03:27:23 PM
Quote from: Gwarh;990021Everything I'd pick has already been mentioned so I'll just add my voice to the choir.

A-Team
V (would make a great espionage/sabotage/resistance cell game)
The Equalizer (would work for a single player, single GM campaign)
Bring Em' Back Alive/Tales of the Golden Monkey
M.A.S.K.
Blackstar
Flash Gordon
Galaxy Rangers (Players making their own Ranger team would work really well I think)
Thundercats
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (A bit more gritty/real twist to it would make it great I think as a campaign)
Bionic Six
Mighty Orbots

And especially these two
Pirates of Darkwater (early 90's)
Thunder the Barbarian

Some of them already have fan supplements available, and the "Cartoon Action Hour" RPG claims to support any sort of 80's Cartoon setting (I've not played it)

Orbots was 80's?  I thought they were 90's, but my memory sucks in general, so I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying it's my memory that is more likely is.

I wonder if a loose adaptation of a 60's show counts?  I almost forgot Thunderbirds 2086.

And D&D.  The cartoon's setting at the very least.
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jeff37923

#59
September 07, 2017, 03:31:26 PM
Quote from: Celestial;990010Yes, Palladium Robotech does indeed suck at... well... playing Robotech.  Alas, I've yet to find any really better RPG for it.  I was hoping to use Mekton Zero, but... yeah.  That whole Kickstarter campaign fiasco has soured me on R. Talsorian Games in general.

PM me your address, I've got an extra Mekton II/Mekton Zeta rulebook lying around I can send you.
"Meh."
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