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8/5/2025, 4:14:20 AM
7/25/2025, 6:59:16 PM
>>96150780
>Take the Alien RPG
>Sand off all the AlienTM serial numbers
>Replace the Alien with a bunch of genetic monstrosities
>Drop the players into a bad situation and tell them to make the most of it
Jurassic Park works if you drop some intelligent but underequipped people into a bad situation. Lost World is kind of awful but it has the best setup of the entire series. The characters aren't entirely retarded (at first), they show up to the island with armored trailers and multiple E-cars and other observational gear, led by a wildlife expert. Even if you focused entirely on that doomed expedition of InGen hunters, they show up pretty well prepared and have a solid plan, they just get fucked over by eco-terrorists and general incompetence. The thing that most JP movies get wrong is that you can't have lots of guns and instant communication and still have tension. The biggest problem in the first movie is that you can't call for an escape helicopter. The biggest problem in Lost World is that the satellite phone doesn't work and the radio equipment is destroyed by the Rexes.
The biggest threat isn't necessarily the dinosaurs. It's nature itself being hostile to the unprepared and foolhardy. The players aren't JUST dealing with some pissed off raptors. They're dealing with them in a fucking hurricane and there's no power so all the doors in the facilities open with a nudge.
Surviving a crash or similar disaster on the islands would work for a nice one shot. Having to show up on the islands for something else would sustain a smaller campaign. I got one group together for a treasure hunting expedition for lost spanish gold (one of the players was an InGen rat who was there to steal data from the computers, another was a documentarian who was there to document what the CR government and InGen was covering up), and never told any of them (except the InGen dude) what exactly they were in for. They were all pretty surprised when the first dinosaurs appeared.
>Take the Alien RPG
>Sand off all the AlienTM serial numbers
>Replace the Alien with a bunch of genetic monstrosities
>Drop the players into a bad situation and tell them to make the most of it
Jurassic Park works if you drop some intelligent but underequipped people into a bad situation. Lost World is kind of awful but it has the best setup of the entire series. The characters aren't entirely retarded (at first), they show up to the island with armored trailers and multiple E-cars and other observational gear, led by a wildlife expert. Even if you focused entirely on that doomed expedition of InGen hunters, they show up pretty well prepared and have a solid plan, they just get fucked over by eco-terrorists and general incompetence. The thing that most JP movies get wrong is that you can't have lots of guns and instant communication and still have tension. The biggest problem in the first movie is that you can't call for an escape helicopter. The biggest problem in Lost World is that the satellite phone doesn't work and the radio equipment is destroyed by the Rexes.
The biggest threat isn't necessarily the dinosaurs. It's nature itself being hostile to the unprepared and foolhardy. The players aren't JUST dealing with some pissed off raptors. They're dealing with them in a fucking hurricane and there's no power so all the doors in the facilities open with a nudge.
Surviving a crash or similar disaster on the islands would work for a nice one shot. Having to show up on the islands for something else would sustain a smaller campaign. I got one group together for a treasure hunting expedition for lost spanish gold (one of the players was an InGen rat who was there to steal data from the computers, another was a documentarian who was there to document what the CR government and InGen was covering up), and never told any of them (except the InGen dude) what exactly they were in for. They were all pretty surprised when the first dinosaurs appeared.
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