Supernatural and Smallville Fans Should Hurry Over to DriveThruRPG
February 18, 2013 by dracs
Margaret Weiss Productions, publishers of the role playing games of the popular TV series Smallville and Supernatural (as well as Serenity and Marvel Heroic Roleplaying) will soon be losing the licence to these two properties.
This means that these rule sets, along with their supplements, are going cheap at DriveThruRPG!
Both of these shows have a rich back ground and mythology to draw upon which would certainly make for an interesting game. I think this is particularly true of Supernatural, which for the most part focuses on two normal guys facing the myriad of monsters drawn from various world cultures.
I am less certain of how the Smallville game would work, given that Superman was very much the centre of that show, but then both of these have their quickstart rules and adventures free to download so you can try before you buy.
Are any of you fans of either of these shows? Have you played these games before?
I know I know you shouldnt judge a book by its cover ( quite literally in this case) but : OH GOD WHY? Who needs this crap.
I think it is in attempt to get move lady gamers perhaps. 😛
But each to their own, I am sure there are Superman nuts about. Personally, I am a Scooby Dooby Dooooooooo…… kinda guy. 😀
For the record I rather like Supernatural, particularly the earlier episodes. I find their spin on various world mythologies interesting. As it goes on and they move away from the monster of the week style I lose interest though. Not good when your less interested in the main plot and more interested in filler episodes lol.
Yeah, as I say horses for courses. 🙂 I personally don’t watch TV at all. 37yrs old and I still have never bought a TV licence, hehe. Not that you need them these days: http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/what-if-a-tv-licence-is-not-needed-top12/ “The law states that you need to be covered by a TV Licence if you watch or record television programmes, on any device, as they’re being shown on TV. This includes TVs, computers, mobile phones, games consoles, digital boxes and Blu-ray/DVD/VHS recorders. You don’t need a licence if you don’t use any of these devices to watch or record television programmes as they’re being shown… Read more »
I think I know a few people, yes mainly women that would go for this type of RPG. Good for them taking a rather non traditional game topics for the source material.
Personally I’ve always been rather fond of the Supernatural TV series and I like this particular version of the Cortex rules.. although I found the combat system seemed to sit better when you were blasting Cylons rather than Demons. For ~£10 it’s a pretty good deal but the main book is a bit light on beasties. I never did pick up Supernatural Adventures or Guide to the Hunted though so perhaps you’d need both if you didn’t fancy statting up a more complete bestiary.