Day 10 of #RPGaDay2024 and I was about to go on a side-rant to avoid this prompt: "RPG I'd Like to See on TV"
I've got to admit, I've been suffering from sci-fi/fantasy genre fatigue for awhile now, and if it's not all-out fatigue, the trolls badmouthing decent material coming out is turning me off from a lot of RPG concepts getting licensed.
I'm old enough that the Star Wars Special Editions were joyous, the prequels questionable, and I was really happy with the Lord of the Rings and Spider-Man on the big screen. I was pleasantly surprised when the DC Arrow-verse was a thing on the CW. I was happy with some well-placed Easter Eggs in the Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett, I'm looking for some continuity between TV and movies, and amusing Easter Eggs in stuff like Deadpool.
I was about to toss this prompt and use the alternative prompts: Steampunk and "Write a Bulletin Board Quest"
But then I got it, Spirit of '77 a fun spin of all the 70's TV programs.
Spirt of '77 is a Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA) game where players play characters straight out stereotypical 70's movies and TV. Cop procedurals, sci-fi, The Gong Show, even the Love Boat have been given the treatment, so it's an easy adjustment to create a series that jumps between the themes in the 70's It could use an ensemble cast that had distinct leading roles, but if they weren't leading roles in the episode, they would play distinctive minor characters, as they hop through Fantasy Island, or Evil Knievel's jump, or even Columbo. They could be self-aware that the same sets were being used over and over, with only a limited amount of money for stock footage from the 70's and not new recordings.
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