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Back in May, I did a set of Dumb Tables you could use to come up with a game by ripping off existing stuff. That was fun, and after the holiday break I can’t come up with any ideas, so I’m going to do it again, but with slightly different blanks to fill in.
It’s like…
- National Lampoon’s Vacation
- Die Hard
- Star Wars
- Indiana Jones
- Harry Potter
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer
- The Dark Knight Returns
- Night of the Living Dead
- Casablanca
- Manos, The Hands of Fate
- Thelma & Louise
- The Dragonlance Chronicles
- Deathstalker II
- The Magnificent Seven
- The Jack The Ripper Case
- The American Civil War
- Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas
- Alien
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Bladerunner
Set in/on…
- New Jersey
- a cartoon universe
- a high fantasy world
- a sword & sorcery world
- outer space
- the wild west
- Asgard
- a super-hero universe
- a cyberpunk city
- the land that time forgot
- the post-apocalyptic future
- Victorian England
- the high seas
- Hell
- a submarine traveling through the President’s bloodstream
- The Globe Theater
- Mars
- the London criminal underground
- Hollow Earth
- Atlantis
And the PCs are…
- talking vegetables
- ogres
- Martians
- dragons
- fairies
- demigods
- crime fighters
- kid wizards
- Wookies
- Elvis impersonators
- drug addicts
- robots
- cybernetic gorillas
- mutants
- occult adventurers
- psychics
- spies
- criminals
- celebrities
- historical figures drawn from different eras
