Ninjas and Superspies would be great.

Or if you're doing it tongue-in-cheek, there is Extreme Vengeance, which was designed specifically for the sorts of movies Chuck Norris, Sly Stallone, Steven Segal, et al, used to make regularly.

Dogs of War, but I could see doing it with Feng Shui (just using a limited set of archetypes like ex Special Forces and Killer). Maybe even Extreme Vengeance

Hong Kong Action Theatre. In this game you played an actor playing a character in a movie. Your actor would have certain abilities - strength, agility, looks, etc - and your character would have other skills. This is how Denise Richards can be a nuclear scientist.

The difficulty to hit the foe was based not on his distance from you, agility, lighting or anything silly like that, but on his importance to the plot.

So the faceless goon you could hit firing a machinegun one-handed at him while running along and he was 50 feet above you and 150 feet beyond you at night aboard a poorly-lit ship while not even looking, but the main villain could be handcuffed on his knees in front of you with your gun muzzle against his head... and you'd miss.

Thus in Expendables 3, rumour has it that around 300 Somalis and 500 Assmanistan soldiers are gunned down, stabbed or blown up casually (including one Somali crane driver and a couple of hundred Russian prisoners who weren't armed or bothering anyone) but when one Expendable ends up in hospital it's an occasion for many glum looks and existential crises over drinks.

Gotta love HKAT, too bad most narrative players don't like it because the narrative control isn't pretending to not be what it is.
Oh yeah and Skarka wrote it, so of course, verboten. :rolleyes:

Quote from: CRKrueger;778144Gotta love HKAT, too bad most narrative players don't like it because the narrative control isn't pretending to not be what it is.
Oh yeah and Skarka wrote it, so of course, verboten. :rolleyes:

Just curious: Who is Skarka and what does that mean/imply?

He's the guy who wrote HKAT!

He hurt some people's feelings on the internet.

It's the right game for Expendables.

We had crazy fun with Marvel Heroic, so I vote for Cortex or a variation of it. The doom pool seems to be a good thing to throw around the game table.

Quote from: CRKrueger;778144Oh yeah and Skarka wrote it, so of course, verboten. :rolleyes:

Not here it isn't.

Quote from: The Butcher;778057I'd go with Ninjas & Superspies without a shadow of a doubt. Ideally supplemented by the Palladium Weapon Compendium series.

I'd trim down or ignore entirely the cybernetic implants, the more over-the-top gadgets and vehicles, and possibly the mystic martial arts stuff too. Just guns, kung fu and tradecraft.

But God in heaven, does this game need and/or deserve an update. Not necessarily in terms of rules, but the tech level in the huge equipment lists. At least if you're setting your game any time after 1990.

I will second this motion ! A RPG past its prime is a perfect fit for a movie full of actors past their primes ! A pity that the Palladium system is so difficult to grasp !

I'd use 3:16, probably. Violence / non-violence, supporting of stunts, lots of mowing down of nameless mooks. Make the final flashback "Hatred for retirement", and you're good to go.

I ran an "Expendables" game using Dogs of W*A*R a year or so ago. The original campaign (set in the late 70's) had ended a year previously and then I dragged the characters out of retirement, told the players it was 30+ years later (and they had to fill in what they'd been doing in the meantime...I gave them each an "old age" flaw but also some extra advancements), had them each have a lucky escape from: a car bomb, attempted sniping, attacked by a motorcycle gang in a bar etc...some of their old friends (NPCs) weren't so lucky.

Obviously the task was to find out who was killing their old buddies and kick their asses (they thought it was an old adversary they thought they'd killed...it was actually the vengeful son of the old adversary). It turned out to be a great revival of an old campaign. Loved every minute of it.

(For the Butcher who is underwhelmed by BoL - I actually prefer Dogs of W*A*R, but don't tell anyone I said that).

Quote from: RPGPundit;782452Not here it isn't.

Yeah I meant the people who once considered him a darling.

HKAT is the obvious (and good) choice.

If I was running The Expendables removing the movie-conceit, and making it a lot edgier I'd go Cyberpunk 2020 minus all the cyberware. I loves me some Interlock.

Quote from: tenbones;782535HKAT is the obvious (and good) choice.

If I was running The Expendables removing the movie-conceit, and making it a lot edgier I'd go Cyberpunk 2020 minus all the cyberware. I loves me some Interlock.

Oh man, CP2020 is a good one. I've been greedily eyeing a POD copy on DTRPG for some time now.

Quote from: The Butcher;782537Oh man, CP2020 is a good one. I've been greedily eyeing a POD copy on DTRPG for some time now.

There's a guy Wisdom2020... who has probably single-handedly kept 2020 alive in my consciousness since the game went up in smoke...

http://datafortress2020.com/

I *highly* recommend you look here. It's a bit over-wrought but you can use what you like. Simply brilliant.