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Movies to watch before Traveller session

Baltech Budapest said:
That's an interesting choice Blue Ghost. For me personally, it reminds me more of D&D basic as that's what we were playing around the time we saw that movie.
It one for the list though.
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My basic template for writing adventures is Raiders or some Japanese anime. If you project Raiders 1000 years in the future, and replace trucks, motocycles and WW2 era weapons with LASERs, you got yourself one rocking adventure.

In fact I used to play Raiders for my first two gaming groups when we did Traveller. It got to the point where I didn't think about Lucas and Spielberg's film franchise anymore, but all the times my guys went rescuing hostages or exploring some dangerous Ancient site.

Cool stuff.
 
Blue Ghost said:
My basic template for writing adventures is Raiders or some Japanese anime. If you project Raiders 1000 years in the future, and replace trucks, motocycles and WW2 era weapons with LASERs, you got yourself one rocking adventure.

In fact I used to play Raiders for my first two gaming groups when we did Traveller. It got to the point where I didn't think about Lucas and Spielberg's film franchise anymore, but all the times my guys went rescuing hostages or exploring some dangerous Ancient site.

Cool stuff.
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That's a really clever approach. I never thought of using such a film as Raiders for a template for a sci fi game. That's actually inspired me. Thanks :)
 
MOVIES TO INSPIRE YOUR TRAVELLER CAMPAIGN

*Caution: Some of the following movies may not be suitable for a younger audience. Please check the rating of the movie in your country before allowing younger viewers to watch them*

Outland
Silent Running
Alien series
Total Recall
The Right Stuff
Space Cowboys
Event Horizon
Apollo 13
Space Truckers
Battle Beyond the Stars
Space Hunter: Adventures in the Forbidden zone.
Star Crash
Ice Pirates
Flash Gordon
Buck Rodgers (70's TV series)
Battlestar Galatica
Total Recall
Starship Troopers
The Black Hole
Contact
GalaxyQuest
The Fifth Element
Soldier
Solaris
Serenity/FireFly
Space 1999
Avatar
Forbidden Planet
Aliens
Starship Troopers
Event Horizon
Titan A.E.
Stealth
Appleseed Ex Machina
Independence Day
Judge Dredd
Red Planet
Babylon 5 movies
Space Janitors
Intimate Enemies
Red Dwarf
Pitch Black
Riddick
Cowboy Bebop
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
 
Baltech Budapest said:
... An interesting link up about Red Dwarf is that my dad, during the late '70s and early '80s was a freelance comedy writer for the BBC (TV and Radio). The batch of writers in the circle he was associated with included Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, who went full time and started writing for the TV show 'Spitting Image' before going on to write Red Dwarf (under the joint name of Grant Naylor).
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I loved the 'Spitting Image' TV show. My roommate and I practically rolled on the floor often watching that. There's only two shows that had me in stitches more often: Red Dwarf, and Doctor Doctor.

"Yum".
 
Just because I feel that these shows have "the referee's" point of view of the players & the Characters: :p

Space Balls
Blazing Saddles


PS: I like Mel Brooks movies
 
MCEvans said:
Just because I feel that these shows have "the referee's" point of view of the players & the Characters: :p

Space Balls
Blazing Saddles


PS: I like Mel Brooks movies
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I love Mel Brooks movies too. High Anxiety is my favourite.

A couple of years ago we played a couple of games of Kenzer & Co's Aces & Eights. That 400 page core book is a beauty and the level of detail available to the GM is incredible (not as detailed as T5, might I add). Anyway, for such a realistic game, we ended up playing in the style of Blazing Saddles.

One day we will return to A&8s but I think that game will always remind me of Blazing Saddles :rofl:
 
If you like to play near future, hard science Traveller, definitely catch the new film Europa Report. It's available in the US on on-demand and many online services (Amazon, iTunes, Vudu), and opens in theaters on August 1. It's a small, inexpensive film but it really makes an effort to keep the "science" in science fiction. Best of its kind since Moon. Makes me want to pull out Mongoose Traveller and the brilliant Zozer Games release, Orbital, right now.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/cbw9hlBnG74
 
mechascorpio said:
If you like to play near future, hard science Traveller, definitely catch the new film Europa Report. It's available in the US on on-demand and many online services (Amazon, iTunes, Vudu), and opens in theaters on August 1. It's a small, inexpensive film but it really makes an effort to keep the "science" in science fiction. Best of its kind since Moon. Makes me want to pull out Mongoose Traveller and the brilliant Zozer Games release, Orbital, right now.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/cbw9hlBnG74
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Thanks mechascorpio, this looks good.
Just did a search and here is the website for it:
http://www.magnetreleasing.com/europareport/
 
Yes, keep an eye on the site, because that's where news about the international dates will probably show up first. I'm frustrated talking about something like this when friends in Europe, Asia and even Canada can't see it. Things aren't as bad as they used to be in this respect, but it boggles me that in this day and age (heck, I was watching it through the internet!) it's a problem at all.

Shonner said:
Cargo (2009) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381940/
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Still waiting for this on Netflix.
 
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MOVIES TO INSPIRE YOUR TRAVELLER CAMPAIGN

*Caution: Some of the following movies may not be suitable for a younger audience. Please check the rating of the movie in your country before allowing younger viewers to watch them*

Outland
Silent Running
Alien series
Total Recall
The Right Stuff
Space Cowboys
Event Horizon
Apollo 13
Space Truckers
Battle Beyond the Stars
Space Hunter: Adventures in the Forbidden zone.
Star Crash
Ice Pirates
Flash Gordon
Buck Rodgers (70's TV series)
Battlestar Galatica
Total Recall
Starship Troopers
The Black Hole
Contact
GalaxyQuest
The Fifth Element
Soldier
Solaris
Serenity/FireFly
Space 1999
Avatar
Forbidden Planet
Aliens
Starship Troopers
Event Horizon
Titan A.E.
Stealth
Appleseed Ex Machina
Independence Day
Judge Dredd
Red Planet
Babylon 5 movies
Space Janitors
Intimate Enemies
Red Dwarf
Pitch Black
Riddick
Cowboy Bebop
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Europa Report
Cargo
 
MOVIES TO INSPIRE YOUR TRAVELLER CAMPAIGN

*Caution: Some of the following movies may not be suitable for a younger audience. Please check the rating of the movie in your country before allowing younger viewers to watch them*

Outland
Silent Running
Alien series
Total Recall
The Right Stuff
Space Cowboys
Event Horizon
Apollo 13
Space Truckers
Battle Beyond the Stars
Space Hunter: Adventures in the Forbidden zone.
Star Crash
Ice Pirates
Flash Gordon
Buck Rodgers (70's TV series)
Battlestar Galatica
Total Recall
Starship Troopers
The Black Hole
Contact
GalaxyQuest
The Fifth Element
Soldier
Solaris
Serenity/FireFly
Space 1999
Avatar
Forbidden Planet
Aliens
Starship Troopers
Event Horizon
Titan A.E.
Stealth
Appleseed Ex Machina
Independence Day
Judge Dredd
Red Planet
Babylon 5 movies
Space Janitors
Intimate Enemies
Red Dwarf
Pitch Black
Riddick
Cowboy Bebop
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Europa Report
Cargo
Blade Runner
 
You list is missing the obvious three: Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi. Not so much the prequels. The animated series Star Wars: Clone Wars is good, as is the animated Starship Troopers series.
 
MOVIES TO INSPIRE YOUR TRAVELLER CAMPAIGN

*Caution: Some of the following movies may not be suitable for a younger audience. Please check the rating of the movie in your country before allowing younger viewers to watch them*

Outland
Silent Running
Alien series
Total Recall
The Right Stuff
Space Cowboys
Event Horizon
Apollo 13
Space Truckers
Battle Beyond the Stars
Space Hunter: Adventures in the Forbidden zone.
Star Crash
Ice Pirates
Flash Gordon
Buck Rodgers (70's TV series)
Battlestar Galatica
Total Recall
Starship Troopers
The Black Hole
Contact
GalaxyQuest
The Fifth Element
Soldier
Solaris
Serenity/FireFly
Space 1999
Avatar
Forbidden Planet
Aliens
Starship Troopers
Event Horizon
Titan A.E.
Stealth
Appleseed Ex Machina
Independence Day
Judge Dredd
Red Planet
Babylon 5 movies
Space Janitors
Intimate Enemies
Red Dwarf
Pitch Black
Riddick
Cowboy Bebop
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Europa Report
Cargo
Blade Runner
Star Wars
Starship Troopers
 
The Star Lost
Enemy Mine
Moon
2001: a space odyssey
Akira
Gravity
Armageddon
Deep Impact
 
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After Earth (2013)

Watched this one last night. Survival on an hostile planet and single alien one on one combat. Different, but interesting.
 
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