The Terminator RPG Quickstart

Description

Terminator RPG Quickstart with Pre-Gen characters and scenario

The Terminator RPG Quickstart is a 52-page introduction to The Terminator RPG. It contains seven pre-made characters, the essential rules required to play the game, and a scenario for a GM and up to five players to enjoy, with the aim of introducing a group of players to the dark, frightening, and deceitful world of The Terminator.

Character Overview

In The Terminator RPG Quickstart, each player assumes the role of a Resistance Fighter. These ‘characters’ are the personas which represent the players as they play the game. This section of the Quickstart contains character generation rules, describing the different stats, skills, and traits each character has.

Director’s Note: The Terminator RPG contains a comprehensive list of all the Skills and Traits available for all characters.

Rules & Mechanics

The Terminator RPG features Nightfall Games’ S5S System, first seen in SLA Industries 2nd Edition. The S5S is a d10-based rules system that uses a pool of dice: one Success die, and five Skill dice per player. More skilled characters are most likely to succeed and “succeed big.”

The rules are tailored to The Terminator RPG setting meaning combat, survival, and investigation are easy to manage. In addition, vehicle combat, time travel, and computer hacking rules allow characters to take control of the conflict with unique skills and training. You’ll need all of this and more to take the fight across the timelines and survive.

Hope Points

Hope Points add a strong cinematic feel to The Terminator RPG. Given the cinematic heritage of the franchise, it’s only right that players are able to recreate those awe-inspiring moments that make for unforgettable action. These feats are made possible through a character’s Hope Points – a pool of available points that can be spent during the game session.

Two Steps Back – An introductory mission

Seven pre-generated characters are provided for this post-Judgement Day mission designed for 3-5 players.

Mission Briefing

Starting in a foxhole, under heavy fire, the characters need to fight their way to the wall of the Skynet compound and make their way inside. Once within, negotiating the deadly security measures designed to prevent access to the time displacement device, is likely to be extremely difficult. But somehow, at least one of the team has to make it back to the past. Victory or failure is entirely binary in this mission. Those who survive the waves of deadly attacks and pre-programmed automated responses must send themselves back to 1985. Once there, they must prevent Skynet’s next insidious assault on the survival of humanity.

This game is a licenced product from STUDIOCANAL and includes content from The Terminator movie and its associated Dark Horse comics.
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