How would you make a Jurassic Park/World RPG?

>>96150780 (OP)
I would get over a franchise on life support and go lift weights. You should too.

>>96150780 (OP)
Well for one thing I'd ignore the boring-ass idea that the most recent movie put forth, that the dinosaurs throughout the world just kinda' died off. Like, the idea of Diplodocuses wandering around Canada or New York City gaining a procompsagnathus infestation was actually kind of interesting.

>>96150780 (OP)
There was a 3E supplement

>>96150780 (OP)
pivot it towards Dino Crisis

Isn't there already an Aliens board game/RPG?

>>96150924
I was just thinking of this when I saw the thread. You could easily just do a JP version of the Alien RPG, and even have different kinds of survivors.
>park guests/staff
>dinosaur hunters
>castaways
>normal civilians living a dinosaur-filled world

>>96150827
>the boring-ass idea that the most recent movie put forth, that the dinosaurs throughout the world just kinda' died off.
...wasn't the ENTIRE POINT of the Jurassic World trilogy establishing a setting where you can have a modern-era Dinotopia?

>>96150990
You would need some sort of normal day simulation.
Like if you striped Zoo Tycoon down to the basics so you could run the flip side of action. Where you and some underpaid staff have to tranquillise and medicate a multi-ton dinosaur that no modern veterinary science knows how to treat.

>>96150797
Why the fuck would I lift weights when I can play traditional games???

>>96150827
>New York City gaining a procompsagnathus infestation
RIP New York's homeless population, eaten by swarms of venomous land piranhas.

>>96152137
I dunno, I'm imagining the compies might actually be kept in check by the rats.

I've ran a few of these and it really depends on the style of game you want.

I used Genesys mostly for the narrative/theatrical focus and this was good for some more action adventure feel. This was used for a "survivor" game where the players ended up ship wrecked on Nublar shortly after the 93 incident and another story following an expedition to Sorna.

I just recently started another game in an AU where Hammond let Nedry renegotiate his contract and so the 93 incident didn't occur and the park opened. The players are employees focused on the day to day running of the park similar to Jurassic World. Kind of a slice of life with magical realism. I opted to sue the Basic Roleplay system after enjoying the mechanics in Delta Green. The *extreme* lethality seemed perfect for the combat and I found the d100 skill system very nice for a more narrative focus.

>>96152078
So you can lift heavy metal miniatures onto the table.

>>96150780 (OP)
That’s any game with rules for dinosaurs and guns. Just limit the guns a lot and make encounters about stealth and running.

>>96150780 (OP)
I forget what it was called but I watched a video a month or so ago where they were using a D10 to control the Dinosaur. The number was how many feet it traveled and the direction the tip of the dice was pointing was which way it went. Was actually an interesting way to control a random element such as a creature wandering around the area.
They then had objectives like opening the back of a truck, fixing a car, etc. I didn't look into the system but I would expect Cipher, Gurps, etc to be pretty easy to use for a setting.

>>96153365

Sounds like We Played God, a new skirmish game by Black Site Studios.

Stop personifying the dinosaurs.

>>96152078
>He thinks he has to pick just one
Is that your whole excuse?

>>96150780 (OP)
I'd just use OpenD6 and steal encounter ideas from existing secondary media (Chaos Continues, Lost World Arcade, Survivor).

>>96150780 (OP)
With rabid chickens with teeth in their beaks attacking a group of isolated farmers.

>>96150999
Yep, but then the writer for the 4th one decided he didnt have any ideas for that so he killed them all off screen except for one valley.

even more of a retarded rug pull than the star wars sequels.

>>96151544
>Zoo Tycoon
Still seething that the original is effectively no longer playable. Yes I know there are allegedly hoops to jump through but they've never worked for me.

>>96159766
>Still seething that the original is effectively no longer playable
Are you by chance a zoomer? Or just brain-damaged?
Exactly what's even your "waaaa, I can't play it anymore" issue? Is it widescreen display, which is a non-issue? Is it system compatibility, which is a non-issue, either? What made-up bullshit claim do you have that supposedly prevents you from playing Zoo Tycoon.

t. just in the middle of the yearly July marathon of the original and all expansions

>>96150780 (OP)
By making the dinosaurs playable

>>96150780 (OP)
There's an unofficial TinyD6 supplement written for this.

>>96150827
>>96150999

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_oGz6XBQdElRaHhmEJ3G_YXfMR4JYXwyGVWOnCm7PPM/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.1q6myzffymt5

>>96150780 (OP)
wouldn't

>>96152876
Winter is rat season thanks to their warm blood, summer becomes compi season, cats are the most common household animal on the city and the breeders are making them bigger each generation to keep up, a plot point comes when a local company starts talking about splicing smilodon and bobcat genes
>Finally, everyone gets why a commoner can be killed by a cat
>>96162211
Haven't played it, is it good

Truthfully I'd want a solid template or create-a-monster system in my JP game. Even if every existing dinosaur is specced out having new dinosaurs to gawk at is kind of core to the franchise going all the way back to the second book.

>>96164689
I mean, I like it.

>>96161892
Only good post in this thread.

>>96153221
That sounds like a fun premise and a decent way of going about it.

>>96159662
>With rabid chickens with teeth in their beaks attacking a group of isolated farmers.
Except the chickens are rabid...

>>96166785

It's been great so far, though like I said, it largely has to do with the type of game you want and what your thematic priorities are.

Some people want to play a world overrun by dinosaurs, some people want to play *as* the dinosaurs, me personally, I want my games to feel like the first movie where the dinosaurs represent man's reckless over step and the characters have to grapple with the philosophical questions therein like in pic related.

>>96150780 (OP)
I hate the way the dinos behave like movie monsters (in many movies, not all). Always making sure to be threatening and never harm the wrong character even if it makes no damn sense. It would feel like being railroaded.

So I would make sure that there is a system in place that players can use to predict and control the dinos’ behaviour to work around the incredible danger they pose. Something that isn’t random, but predetermined, like a list of stimuli mapping directly onto responses ("smell mammal => hide and hunt"; "hear T-Rex => run home"). Then, the players could have a list of known behaviours for easy-to-handle dinos that you want to be peaceful and pretty (e. g. Brachiosaurus) and they will have to probe and take risks around the surprise dinos they don’t have enough data of (e. g. Velociraptor in 1, Spinosaurus in 3).

Also, I think making your own park different from any "canon" is important for the tension and surprise factors.

>>96150780 (OP)

You're going to have to clarify what you're looking for, cause so arf in this thread we have...

>Dinosaurs widespread in the modern world
>Videogame survival horror
>Straight monster horror
>Generic action with stipulations
>Narrative heavy drama
>Dinosaur Players

So clearly there is no consensus as to what constitutes a "Jurassic Park" game. While the real answer is probably somewhere in the middle of that vin diagram, you need to figure out what that means to you, because there is a big difference between a modern setting with dinosaurs and a game that harkens to the ideas and themes put forward by Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg.

>>96167763
That is a great idea. I'm stealing this.

>>96167763
>Something that isn’t random, but predetermined, like a list of stimuli mapping directly onto responses ("smell mammal => hide and hunt"; "hear T-Rex => run home").
So they're going to be collecting T. rex piss?

>>96170107
You don't wanna know!

>>96167880
the cinematography for jp was so damn good, realism be damned

>>96171056
It looks gorgeous and I suspect it always will. The dilophosaurus puppet is a work of genius.

>>96153221
So you ran it... InGen-esys.