B-Movie Inspirations is a series of articles I write where I watch really bad movies and draw RPG inspiration from them. “Floating dead in space, transport ship Genesis has become an unsolvable mystery. The crew are all dead. But how, and why? What began as a simple transport mission ends with bloodshed and the disastrous…
Author: Ron McClung
B-Movie Inspirations: Doors
B-Movie Inspirations is a series of articles I write where I watch really bad movies and draw RPG inspiration from them. I stumbled across a more recent movie in one of my streaming options called Doors. It had a recognizable face on the poster – Josh Peck – and it looked interesting. The trailer pretty…
B-Movie Inspirations: Star Quest 2 (1996)
B-Movie Inspirations is a series of articles I write where I watch really bad movies and draw RPG inspiration from them. Welcome once again to B-Movie Inspirations where I go over a very bad movie and pull interesting RPG ideas out of them. This month we are looking at Star Quest 2 from 1996 (…
B-Movie Inspirations: Star Quest (1995)
B-Movie Inspirations is a series of articles I write where I watch really bad movies and draw RPG inspiration from them. Welcome back to another edition of B-Movie Inspirations. This time we are covering another sci-fi classic found on Tubi called Star Quest (also known as Terminal Voyage, 1995). I am pretty sure I have…
B-Movie Inspirations: Moonbase (1997)
Moonbase is a low budget sci-fi movie from 1997 that attempts to tell a good story despite it’s very low budget. It is obviously a direct to video movie that probably sat on more than one Blockbuster video shelf and was watched by many who were probably disappointed by the cerebral story. It is one of those dark future sci-fi movies born of the 1990s angst against corporate greed, environmentalism and greed.
B-Movie Inspiration: Dark Side of the Moon (1990)
B-Movie Inspiration is a series of articles I write where I watch really bad movies and draw RPG inspiration from them. Perusing my various streaming options, I stumbled on this gem of a B-movie from 1990 – The Dark Side of the Moon. No, this was not something inspired by the Pink Floyd album. This…
ALIENS: Undersea, only the fish can hear you scream
Because of my love for the Alien/Aliens movies, I made a valiant attempt to play the RPG released by Leading Edge Games. It was a HORRIBLE system. It was very deadly also. But we played it a couple of times and had some fun. These are some adventure ideas I put together for it, some I…