A new but well-connected publisher called Evil Genius Games has the license to produce the tabletop RPGs for several big geeky movies. So far, the following have been announced;
- Escape From New York
- Highlander
- Kong: Skull Island
- Pacific Rim
- Rambo
- The Crow
- Total Recall
- Universal Soldier
At the heart of these games is a mashup of 5e and the 20-year-old d20 Modern called Everyday Heroes. Everyday Heroes is on Kickstarter right now and has made its funding goal. The project will happen, and if you back before May 24th, you’ll get some custom dice too.
Another nudge to help persuade (or not!) you to back the project is a 96-page quickstart for the game. It’s currently free from DriveThruRPG, but we don’t know how long that will last.
The blurb says;
This special quickstart edition has been designed to let you jump into the Everyday Heroes™ RPG and start playing immediately. Fundamentally, it’s the same game as you will find in the full Everyday Heroes rule book, just trimmed down. The full version greatly expands the options for play and includes lots of extra materials for building characters and creating campaigns to play in.
The credits reveal Stan! in the role of Producer and Stan! certainly has loads of RPG experience, there’s sensitivity and diversity consultancy from Leona Neelam Maple, and the game designers are Chris “Goober” Ramsley, Sigfried Trent and Evil Genius boss D. Todd Scott.
Ramsley has DMsGuild credits on The Faithful of Eberron and Trent has them on Pathfinder supplements such as The Cavalier’s Creed and The Complete Advanced Feats, but those date back to 2011.
Everyday Heroes is first and foremost a game inspired by action cinema and other thrilling tales of adventure from comics, books, and our own imaginations. The setting for Everyday Heroes is the world we all live in, though with plenty of space for you to imagine whatever differences make exciting opportunities for adventure. Whether you want to experience a gritty story of heroism torn from today’s headlines, recreate a favorite movie franchise, or throw modern day heroes into adventures in far-away times and places, Everyday Heroes can get you there!
The rules of our game are here to give you a framework to build on. Everyday Heroes has enough rules to make combat a tactical challenge, but enough flexibility to allow for strong storytelling in firefights, car chases, and any other action scene you can imagine. Everyday Heroes is here to inspire you and to make the act of bringing stories to life simple and fun for everyone.
Quick Links
- Free quickstart guide: DriveThruRPG
- Everyday Heroes crowdfunding: Kickstarter.
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