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TV shows that should have rpgs

Started by Kyle Aaron, December 13, 2006, 09:22:34 PM

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Kyle Aaron

I present you with a show I never heard of before, but which should have an rpg, Force 3.
QuoteFast Tracks Across The Country

   Imagine watching a new live-action adventure television series that invites viewers to escape into an exciting world of intrigue, suspense and conflict, each and every episode. This new television series, FORCE III, is about three men whose courage has, more than once, brought them to the edge. They
survived Viet Nam together. They believed their services were no longer needed. They were wrong.

  Today, ELLIOT HAVERSFORD, JOE WILLIS and DUC LON TAN are part of a special government team. Their mission...to work on highly-classified and dangerous assignments. They've never met their boss. They never will. They receive their assignments through their liaison officer, BARBARA WALES.
In order to survive each assignment, FORCE III utilizes the most highly advanced vehicles ever to hit the street. Each agent works in partnership with his own specially engineered high-performance automobile. And once they drop the clutch...it's time to hang on as FORCE III mobilizes into action!

  ELLIOT HAVERSFORD -- code name "Wizard" -- leads the life of a successful stock broker, but when called into action, his awesome charcoal-blue Trans Am appears upon command. Aerodynamic in design, sleek wing-panel doors fly open to expose an interior complete with a hi-tech console, computer-
driven from a powerful electronic panel housed in the trunk. At the touch of a button, lazers and machine guns project from each headlight. Objects are lifted and moved by a swinging rotary arm that comes out of the roof, while rockets fire from beneath the panel doors. A silent radio-controlled drone
launches from the hood, scanning the atmosphere at low altitudes and transmitting pictures of what lies ahead back to a TV monitor inside the car. This unique machine can even levitate off the ground by a mere touch of the "cushion" control, or blind approaching vehicles with multiple high-glow lights.

  A cowboy who has inherited the code name "Ragtime," JOE WILLIS lives on a beautiful sprawling ranch. His faithful steed of steel is a fully-equipped, devil-red, off-road AMC Jeep with hydraulic bumpers for ramming and a hood scoop that rotates to fire rockets. This XJ-7 Jeep is fully combat-
mobile, especially when Ragtime commands use of machine guns mounted underneath the ram bumper. The Jeep can surprise its prey with a right side anti-aircraft gun, which rotates on a Gilmore belt for multiple rocket launching. Simply put, Ragtime's powerful mount gives him all the gear he
needs to complete his tasks, right down to a hidden lariat for lassoing suspects...a true cowboy.

  DUC LON TAN, alias "Chatter," is quiet and calculating, contrary to his code name. A Black Belt Karate instructor, Chatter drives the deadly Ninja car. Black pearl in color, this ultra-sleek Corvette is equipped to face any danger. A twist of the key turns loose the throaty raw power of a street machine unrivaled by any other. Headlight beams spit tri-blades, while a large "Chinese star" launcher lurks on top of the hood. Two razor-sharp Ninja swords lie ready for action in their mounted position on the front grill. The swords are removable, and Chatter knows how to use them --just as he knows how to use the Ninja stick mounted just under the driver's door. The rear window slides back to reveal a cross bow that tracks up to the top of the car, cocked and ready to shoot on the driver's command. Lethal slicing blades automatically flip out of each wheel's hub cap.

  Together, the FORCE III team is as innovative as the vehicles they drive. FORCE III is going to make fast tracks across the country, taking television viewers along on an exhilarating adventure.
If that ain't a team of PCs, I don't know what is.

Are there any other ridiculous tv shows that should have rpgs?
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Quote from: The Above LinkSpecial Unit 2 (SU2) is a secret division of the Chicago Police Department. They are such a mystery that no one outside of their unit is aware of what they really do, they just know to stay out of their way. The SU2 headquarters is an abandoned subway station that you can only enter through the hidden door at the back of the Golden Eagle dry cleaners. The mission of SU2 is to track down and rid the city of what they call "Links". A Link is a creature that evolved from the missing link between man and beast. The captain of the unit is Richard Page (Richard Gant, "The Bonnie Hunt Show") who is a veteran police officer who will use any method to rid the city of links. Detective Nick O'Malley (Michael Landes, "Lois and Clark: The New Adventure of Superman") is a renegade who acts first and thinks later and surprisingly this gets the job done. Detective Kate Benson (Alexondra Lee, "Party of Five") is a "big thinker" who has an unique ability of being able to track down links. Teamed with Nick, they make the perfect partners, but never seem to get romantically connected althrough they connect in that way. Carl (Danny Woodburn, "Conan") is a petty gnome thief who has turned informant for the unit in exchange for overlooking his crimes. He is always in fight with Nick. Sean Radmon (Sean Whalen, "Amazin Live Sea-Monkeys") is a college professor who informs the detectives about the technical aspects of the links, hopefully in words they can understand. (season 1) Jonathan (Jonathan Togo, "CSI: Miami") is the science guy brought in to replace Sean in season 1. Jonathan has his own unique way of delivering the facts. His methods are totally different from Sean's but he gets the job done just the same.
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Heat Vision & Jack: The RPG

Actually, the writers (Dan & Rob) are the guys from the Dead Alewives D&D Sketch.  Dan's the DM and Rob's the "Where's the Mountain Dew?!" guy. :)

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Torchwood. It already plays like a dodgy roleplaying session so why shouldn't it be my dodgy roleplaying session.

Aegypto

Andromeda. A terrible show by my estimation, but the core premise (group of misfits find ancient starship, set to rebuild a galactic civilization which has fallen into chaos) is prime material for an RPG.
 

Caesar Slaad

See, I guess this is why I'm the sort of person that's not into lots of new systems.

FORCE III sounds like a cinch in Spycraft 2.0. Campaign qualities big budget, the circuit. Possibly require players to take levels in wheelman, and you are there.

Andromeda has a bit of a Traveller vibe to it, but when I contemplated running it in the past, HERO topped my list (replace with supers system of your choice.) The actual characters and action of the show reeks of supers. Super strength heavy worlders, androids, teleporting assassins, reality-shifting aliens from the future, etc.
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As a cop show junkie, I'd love to see a game based on something like The Shield.  Just enough realism to feel right.

Something more realistic like the Wire or Homicide would be great, but you'd need players who really know the genre and the procedures.

A game like this would give some scope for Ars Magica-styled troupe play: you could have everyone create a detective PC, then have the group draw from a common pool of uniforms, undercovers, bosses, lawyers, crime scene people, etc.
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James McMurray

The Shield would be sweet as a campaign.

Avatar should have an RPG.

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I would like to see how someone would structure a Day Break campaign/mini-campaign.
 


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James McMurray

Sweet! I'd completely forgotten about that show. :)

Greatest American Hero could make for a cool RPG too, although it migth not work too well as anything but a one-on-one game.

Jericho could make for a cool campaign, but it almost certainly wouldn't take the route the TV show has taken. Gamers are much more pragmatic about things, and would have killed Jonas off in the second or third episode.

James McMurray

The Manimal wiki article also mentioned Automan. That could have been a cool RPG too. :)

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Battlestar Galactica.

But one is supposedly coming soon.
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