Magnetic Press Transforms Planet of the Apes Into a Tabletop RPG

The Planet of the Apes franchise is 1 with a affluent past and sci-fi lore each its own, which makes it a earthy prime to beryllium adapted into a tabletop role-playing game. That's precisely what Magnetic Press aims to bash with The Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes.

IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of The Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes: Core Rulebook. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

The Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes consists of 3 volumes. Along with the aforementioned Core Rulebook, there's besides Planet of the Apes RPG: The Ansa Files Sourcebook and Planet of the Apes RPG: Into the Forbidden Zone. The erstwhile focuses connected iconic movie characters similar Caesar, Taylor, Zira, Hasslein, and Dr. Zaius. The second features a guided run that includes 2 representation posters, 64 notation cards, 7 preprinted quality sheets, a Game Master screen, punch-out representation markers and tokens, 12 dice, and a 96-page run escapade module.

The originative squad connected The Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes: Core Rulebook includes writers Andrew E.C. Gaska and E.L. Thomas and artists Runa I. Rosenberger, Chris Scalf, Shane Molina, and Chandra Free, portion Bill Sienkiewicz provided the screen art.

“As you play you tin go an intelligence Chimpanzee who seeks to amended apekind done subject and exploration. Choose an Orangutan statesape whose weapons are philosophical debate, governmental savvy, and the powerfulness of the Sacred Scrolls themselves. Perhaps a Gorilla worker is much your style—honor-bound to support Ape City and pb assertive expansions into caller territories. What else, if not an ape? Be a time-lost astronaut struggling to grasp a satellite gone insane. Become a mute tribal quality forced to scavenge for resources arsenic you are hunted by murderous gorillas connected horseback. The rules adjacent let you to play mutant survivors who usage the powerfulness of their minds to crook their enemies against each other,” said Magnetic Press Founder and Publisher Mike Kennedy successful a statement.

Kennedy continued, “Your adventures successful this satellite of madness volition instrumentality you to the ruins of a satellite destroyed—see what remains of the Statue of Liberty, the ostentatious Ape City, the foreboding Forbidden Zone, and the mysterious mutant undercity. It is simply a satellite defined by the stark contrasts of brutality and civility. Are you ape capable to grip the information astir the satellite you unrecorded successful oregon volition you suffer your caput to it?”

The Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes: Core Rulebook is priced astatine $49.99 and volition beryllium released connected February 3. You tin preorder a transcript connected Amazon.

For much connected the Apes franchise, find retired however to ticker the Planet of the Apes movies successful order.

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