RPG Inspirations
What is B-Movie inspirations? It is one part movie review and one part RPG game master idea seeds. Many of my ideas have come from cheesy movies that I somehow find time to watch. I decided to start writing theses ideas down in reviews geared towards RPG game masters like myself. In some ways, this is me watching these horrible movies and drawing the ideas from them, so you don’t have to.
- B-Movie Inspirations: Captain Clegg (1962) & Crescendo (1970)I have started watching a lot of old Hammer films lately – a collection of psychological horror as well as gothic horror films because I have always liked that style of movie. I did not realize that Hammer did so many outside of just the standard goth horror movies I remember. What I have learned …
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- 80s Cartoon Inspirations: Hi-Jackers, Slavers and GladiatorsThis is a straight forward Space Ghost episode where the kids get themselves captured by alien Lizard people. These Lizard people raid and hijack passenger ships to enslave the occupants for their own purposes. There is another episode that is similar called Hi-jackers where raiders lead by a helmeted bad guy Tansut on a flying …
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- 80s Cartoon Inspirations: Herculoids “Mutoids”The Premier episode of the Herculoids, we have some aliens – Mutoids – that use their shapeshifting ability to infiltrate the Herculoid’s world – Amzot – to set up a missile launching platform. Considering the era this show came out, I can understand the inspiration (Cuban missile crisis). What is weird is how they infiltrate …
- 80s Cartoon Inspirations: IntroI am planning on doing another article series based on three main 80s cartoons – Herculoids, Thundarr the Barbarian and Space Ghost – and draw adventure idea out of these episodes. Unlike my B-Movie series however, I am going to take an entire episode and expand it into a full adventure. Partially inspired by the …
- B-Movie Inspirations: The Eagle (2011) & Centurion (2010)There is this new trend on the various social media outlets that says men think about the Roman Empire almost on a daily basis. I probably represent this because I watch a lot of movies or shows set in that time period. One of my favorite shows of all time is Spartacus (2010). Sometime back, …
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- B-Movie Inspirations: At the Earth’s Core (1976)Actor Doug McClure and director Kevin Connor worked together in the 70s for some of my favorite B-Movies as a kid – The Land That Time Forgot (1974), At the Earth’s Core (1976), and The People That Time Forgot (1977) and Warlords of Atlantis (1978). A decided to re-watch At the Earth’s Core on TubiTV …
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- B-Movie Inspirations: World War 2 moviesSince I have been getting into Masters of the Air, I have also been watching some older WW2 movies. Here is a list of the movies I have watched so far. I am all over the place with the eras of these movies and I got a little out of each of them, so I …
- B-Movie Inspirations: Warlords of Atlantis (1978)Actor Doug McClure and director Kevin Connor worked together in the 70s for some of my favorite B-Movies as a kid – The Land That Time Forgot (1974), At the Earth’s Core (1976), and The People That Time Forgot (1977). I come to find out – there was one I missed! Warlords of Atlantis. You …
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- B-Movie Inspiration: Alien Invasion: S.U.M.1Alien Invasion: S.U.M.1 is a 2017 science fiction film written and directed by Christian Pasquariello and starring primarily Iwan Rheon, from Game of Thrones fame. He plays Private S.U.M.1 – a soldier living in a post-apocalyptic Earth after a (supposed) invasion by an alien weirdly called the Nonsuch. He like many soldiers before him, is …
- B-Movie Inspirations: Dustwalker (2019)I found this movie on Tubi TV and the poster for it had me with tentacles. I watched the subsequent trailer and I got even more interested despite the fact that it looks like a bad-SyFy movie made by Gravitas Ventures (just as much a red flag as Asylum Productions). The movie takes place in …
- B-Movie Inspirations: Mother/Android (2021)Mother/Android is a 2021 American post-apocalyptic science fiction film, written and directed by Mattson Tomlin. It stars’ Chloë Grace Moretz (who also did a similar post-apoc film, The Fifth Wave), and a bunch of other actors I have never heard of. The movie takes place in a world where AI androids – literal human looking androids – have somehow revolted and …
- B-Movie Inspirations: Def Con 4 (1985)Def-Con 4 is a 1985 post-apocalyptic film, portraying three astronauts who survive World War III aboard a space station and return to Earth to find greatly changed circumstances. The astronauts – Howe (Time Choate), Walker (John Walsch) and Jordan (Kate Lynch) – are aboard a secret weapons platform satellite orbiting earth, armed with several nuclear missile. WWIII starts and they …
- B-Movie Inspirations: The Blackout – Invasion Earth (2019)I found this movie on Tubi and watched the trailer. Despite it being a Russian movie, it did intrigue me. The Blackout is a 2019 Russian science fiction action thriller film. The film is about an event that suddenly plunges the entire world into darkness, rapidly destroying life on Earth except for a small area in Eastern …
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- B-Movie Inspirations: The Rift (1990)The Rift, also known as Endless Descent, is a 1990 film starring the venerable R. Lee Ermey (Full Metal Jacket). The story involves a submarine rescue that goes awry. It is one of many underwater-themed movies released around 1990, including The Abyss, Leviathan, DeepStar Six, The Evil Below, Hunt for Red October and Lords of the Deep. I found this going down …
- B-Movie Inspirations: Deus, The Dark Sphere (2022)Stumbled on this movie on Tubi. Saw that Claudia Black was in it (big fan!) and watched the trailer. It intrigued me. The style of the movie had a strong Alien crossed with 2001: Space Odyssey and I liked the dark tone. So I sat and watched it, not really thinking I would write about …
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- B-Movie Inspirations: Parasite (1982)There are certain movies I watch for this series that are not half bad, while others are truly terrible. Parasite is more the latter than the former only because it was so poorly executed and acted. It has a decent premise but lacked imagination and production in the execution of that premise. Parasite is a 1982 …
- B-Movie Inspirations: Legion (1998)B-Movie Inspirations is a series of articles I write where I watch really bad movies and draw RPG inspiration from them. Yet another little gem I found while browsing Youtube, this one caught my eye because of who was in it – Parker Stevenson, Terry Farrell, Corey Feldman, and Rick Springfield. Another notable is once …
- B-Movie Inspirations: The Bamboo Saucer (1968)B-Movie Inspirations is a series of articles I write where I watch really bad movies and draw RPG inspiration from them. I found this little gem while browsing Youtube. I love the fact that Youtube is posting a ton of old B movies. By the title, it sounded stupid but they had me at Saucer. …
- B-Movie Inspirations: Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969)B-Movie Inspirations is a series of articles I write where I watch really bad movies and draw RPG inspiration from them. “The European Space Exploration Council sends two astronauts to explore a planet similar to the Earth but located on the opposite side of the sun.” IMDB I found this movie on my various quasi-legal …
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- B-Movie Inspirations: Enigma (2009)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 …
- B-Movie Inspirations: DoorsB-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 …
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